3 Quick Questions

[mmax]

I just wanted to ask 3 quick questions about the Dark Mod before I get validated, sorry ahead of time for being so impatient.

 

1. Whenever I load up the mod, I get what looks like a shading error? Is this an installation problem, or just normal?

Here's a snapshot:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4739/22nh5.jpg

 

2. What units does the mod scale brushes and such, meters or feet?

 

3. I used to be a Dromeder and was working on a replica of my house with appropriate dimensions and stuff, until I upgraded my graphics card to where Dromed would no longer work. Is there a way to type in specific room dimensions and not just grid snapped brushes?

[New Horizon]

I just wanted to ask 3 quick questions about the Dark Mod before I get validated, sorry ahead of time for being so impatient.

 

1. Whenever I load up the mod, I get what looks like a shading error? Is this an installation problem, or just normal?

Here's a snapshot:

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4739/22nh5.jpg

 

2. What units does the mod scale brushes and such, meters or feet?

 

3. I used to be a Dromeder and was working on a replica of my house with appropriate dimensions and stuff, until I upgraded my graphics card to where Dromed would no longer work. Is there a way to type in specific room dimensions and not just grid snapped brushes?

 

 

Dark Radiant will normally give you some shading errors, but where did you download the mod? Only Dark Radiant is available to the public, the mod requires that you sign up as a beta mapper for access.

[Crispy]

I think mmax is slightly confused.

 

DarkRadiant is not the mod. It's just our customised level editor. The mod itself is not public yet.

[Komag]

Yeah I'm sure he just means Dark Radiant.

 

I haven't seen a place to put in numbers for brush dimensions, but it may be there and I just haven't seen it. If it's not, it would be a nice feature to request.

[greebo]

I haven't seen a place to put in numbers for brush dimensions, but it may be there and I just haven't seen it. If it's not, it would be a nice feature to request.

You mean to enter the brush dimensions by hand? This could be hard to do as brushes are sometimes complex-shaped. You can, however, choose "Show Size Info" somewhere in the view menu or in the preferences to display the current brush dimensions. This in combination with the grid should usually do the trick.

[Komag]

It wouldn't have to be that complex though. If the brush is odd shaped, it would just stretch it in the dimension requested.

[greebo]

Hm, I'm not sure if that is easily possible. isn't there an arbitrary number of possibilities how the brush should be stretched? Which face would be dragged in which direction? Or do you mean that it's stretched proportionally?

 

edit: Thinking about this, I believe it would be necessary to compute the winding vertices, apply the requested scaling to them, and then recalculate the face planes. Could be a bit complicated though.

[OrbWeaver]

The only realistic possibility I can see is a "Create cuboid brush with the following dimensions" option, but that wouldn't be much easier than just creating a default brush and dragging it to the desired size using the dimensions display.

[Komag]

You can see the dimensions when you are dragging the brush size? That's probably good enough I think

[greebo]

It's at View > Show > Show Size Info. Works for brushes and patches.