qer_trans in DarkRadiant

[shadowscrawl]

the qer_trans parameter was absent for from gtkradiant for a while but it has been added back and is working beautifully

 

my reasons for needing this are beyond the scope of this topic but I am curious now that it is working in GTKRadiant again. Is there any plan to reimplement it in DarkRadiant? Or even better yet could someone point me in the right direction to getting it working myself? I'm learning C++ and I certainly would welcome a challenge to cut my teeth on but I have to be honest I don't even know where to begin with this one.

 

Even better still, Greebo I would really like to get in to contact with you about something I have been working on that is directly related to this inquiry. Is there anyway we could get in to contact by maybe private message?

[greebo]

the qer_trans parameter was absent for from gtkradiant for a while but it has been added back and is working beautifully

 

my reasons for needing this are beyond the scope of this topic but I am curious now that it is working in GTKRadiant again. Is there any plan to reimplement it in DarkRadiant?

There is the "translucent" global shader keyword, is this the same you're referring to? I seem to recall that qer_trans is specific to Quake 3?

 

Since the keyword is unknown to Doom 3 (or maybe Quake 4), there is little chance this will be a priority, DarkRadiant is aimed to be specialised for The Dark Mod. That said, I know that XreaL is using DarkRadiant too, and by developing custom plugins it might be possible to get DarkRadiant understand that keyword.

 

Or even better yet could someone point me in the right direction to getting it working myself? I'm learning C++ and I certainly would welcome a challenge to cut my teeth on but I have to be honest I don't even know where to begin with this one.

The source is open, but I guess you already know that. DarkRadiant's renderer is rather complex so this might not be the best place to get started if you just began writing C++ - but then again I don't know if there exists anything that is easy in that codebase, so you might as well start with the renderer.

 

Btw, the translucent keyword was not working in 1.6.1, iirc, support for translucent materials has been added only recently in SVN.

 

Even better still, Greebo I would really like to get in to contact with you about something I have been working on that is directly related to this inquiry. Is there anyway we could get in to contact by maybe private message?

Sure, either here or through the messenger, if you don't want to post it publically.

 

edit: I noticed that the www.qeradiant.com domain is no longer available, and I can't even reach zerowing.idsoftware.com to check out the GtkRadiant SVN logs. Is this a temporary situation or where are the GtkRadiant sources hosted now?

[shadowscrawl]

terribly sorry for the long delay i lost my computer to a power surge and havent been online much since am not sure about the zerowing repo outage but i did want to comment that i have personally gotten the qer_trans parameter working with doom 3 by simply creating a mod and adding the keyword to the tool shaders and in the map editor (gtkradiant that is it still doesnt seem to work in darkradiant even with my modded shaders which is actually what brought me here to begin with)) it works beautifully

 

this may not be very useful in doom 3 as it currently stnds but with the eminent open sourcing of the engine it could be a nice thing to have working later on

 

just a thought

 

also slightly off topic but since i have your attention i have been trying to figure out and cant seem to find the info anywhere

 

what version of gtk is radiant using?

Edited November 11, 2011 by shadowscrawl

[greebo]

GTK+ 2. The actual version depends on your Linux distro, the Windows build is stuck with 2.16.2.

[shadowscrawl]

ah i see thank you for your help