TDM Beginners Contest

[Sir Taffsalot]

If anyone is really offended by Shadowhides comments then you just have yourself to blame. Whenever I read one of his silly posts I just roll my eyes and move on to the next post. Lifes too short to worry about such irrelevent things. I see we have nearly a page of people argueing with Shadowhide. I'm sure he's very happy with all the attention he's getting. So can people just ignore his posts in this thread? This thread is supposed to be for beginners to share ideas and veterans to to offer encouragement. Can we keep it that way please?

 

@SeriousToni: Do you want me to add your friend to the list of particpants?

[SeriousToni]

Sir Taffsalot, I guess he registers himself on the forum and then he'll sure say hello and tell us his nick name so that you then can add him to the list

[Shadowhide]

If anyone is really offended by Shadowhides comments then you just have yourself to blame. Whenever I read one of his silly posts I just roll my eyes and move on to the next post. Lifes too short to worry about such irrelevent things. I see we have nearly a page of people argueing with Shadowhide. I'm sure he's very happy with all the attention he's getting. So can people just ignore his posts in this thread? This thread is supposed to be for beginners to share ideas and veterans to to offer encouragement. Can we keep it that way please?

 

arguments please

why my post should be ignored ? its old fashioned fascism

i didnt said anything wrong,its just your fanboism and fake intelligence

Edited December 18, 2011 by Shadowhide

[SeriousToni]

Short question:

Should I make patches for arch ways func_static or can I leave them as worldspawn?

[Sir Taffsalot]

I always turn my archways into func_statics so there's less to render. You can always turn them back into worldspawn if you want to re-adjust them later.

[Shadowhide]

make arches func_static,but leave walls as worldspawn

[SeriousToni]

Okay thanks you two

[Shadowhide]

convert to fucn_static everything that doesn't sealing visportals and the void

and dont forget to monsterclip your func_static's

Edited December 18, 2011 by Shadowhide

[jysk]

@SeriousToni: Do you want me to add your friend to the list of particpants?

 

You can add me.

[SeriousToni]

There he is! Now let's rule this forum!

 

[Melan]

Welcome, jysk!

[Sotha]

Welcome indeed. The participant count is starting to look really nice.

[Baddcog]

Welcome jysk

 

 

convert to fucn_static everything that doesn't sealing visportals and the void

and dont forget to monsterclip your func_static's

 

Sometimes you get better performance if you don't convert everything. Sometimes you need those extra brushes to cut the geometry into smaller tris so not as many lights hit them.

 

func_staticing will save some tris, maybe small performance gain.

 

Minimizing how many lights hit tris can be a large performance gain.

 

It's a situation by situaion deal. If your performance is bad use r_showlights 1. If you have a lot of white tris, they are the ones that need split more. (teal too)

[Sir Taffsalot]

Welcome to the forums jysk. I've added you to the list of particpants in the first post. Best of luck!

[SeriousToni]

I created a few new textures, but I don't know where to put them exactly:

 

Should I put them in the standard directories (e.g. textures/stone/mytexture) or is it legitim to put them in

textures/serioustoni/mytextures?

 

I created a new .mtr file as well.

 

 

EDIT: And can I find out, when I get "SHADER NOT FOUND" in the Media Browser, which part is exactly missing? (right click > show material info; doesn't help) Because it works for some textures and for some not, though I can't find the error.

Edited December 20, 2011 by SeriousToni

[Bikerdude]

Welcome, jysk!

Welcome indeed.

Welcome jysk

Welcome to the forums jysk.

 

I 5th that sentiment

[jysk]

Thanks for that warm welcome. o;

[SeriousToni]

Could someone please look over this? I made some fabric textures and some wood textures. The fabrics work good but the wood ones are allways "shader not found". I don't see why.

 

http://min.us/mRSwvXIHd

[Bikerdude]

I'm home in a few hours, so I will take a look at then for you.

[Xcen]

WARNING: JPEG library error: Progressive JPEGs not supported, use regular JPEG instead[shaders] Unable to load texture: textures/darkmod/wood/wood_planks1_ed

WARNING: JPEG library error: Progressive JPEGs not supported, use regular JPEG instead[shaders] Unable to load texture: textures/darkmod/wood/wood_planks2_ed

WARNING: JPEG library error: Progressive JPEGs not supported, use regular JPEG instead[shaders] Unable to load texture: textures/darkmod/wood/wood_planks3_ed

[Bikerdude]

Ah, the above wood textures are these your own..? if so you need to change them to regular jpeg's, what it means my progressive is the compression/quality used.

[SeriousToni]

Thank you Xcen, for looking over this (thank you too for you offer Bikerdude). Where can I find this error lines myself? Did you dmap?

[Bikerdude]

Ok, found the issue - it was as you found yourself, DR didnt like the jpeg format you had used.

 

I just opened up in paint.net and re-saved them and bob's yer uncle.

 

-download

[SeriousToni]

That is strange somehow. I didn't change the jpg compression.. hm whatever, but

 

where can I find out such an error?

[Xcen]

Press 'o' to open the console in DR.

Edited December 20, 2011 by Xcen