hank morgan

To demonstrate here are two screen shots of the same map file. The second bright one is using the material files with the animations set. The other using my old non animated material files.

Okay I solved my problem with entitygui and animated textures by putting a backing texture to the model with entitygui. Now I've noticed an other issue. Light has no effect on the animated texture. Again this is my current material definition textures\shock\shock_006 { description "stone" qer_editorimage textures\shock\shock_1006_0000.tga bumpmap _flat diffusemap textures\shock\shock_1006_0000.tga specularmap _black { blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_0000.tga } { if ((time * 5) % 4 == 0) blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 1 == 0) blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_pc01_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 2 == 0) blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_pc02_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 3 == 0) blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_pc03_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 4 == 0) blend GL_SRC_ALPHA, GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA map textures\shock\shock_1006_pc04_0000.tga } }

I'm having a bit of trouble with using animated textures and displaying models with entitygui at the same time. The above picture shows a standard TDM texture on the left, a custom texture that cycles through a series of animation frames and in the middle what should be a square model textured with entitygui in front of the two textures. My custom texture is defined as follows. textures\shock\shock_000 { description "stone" qer_editorimage textures\shock\shock_1000_0000.tga bumpmap _flat diffusemap textures\shock\shock_1000_0000.tga specularmap _black { if (parm11 > 0) blend add map textures\shock\shock_1000_0000.tga } { if ((time * 5) % 4 == 0) map textures\shock\shock_1000_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 1 == 0) map textures\shock\shock_1000_pc01_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 2 == 0) map textures\shock\shock_1000_pc02_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 3 == 0) map textures\shock\shock_1000_pc03_0000.tga } { if ((time * 4) % 4 == 0) map textures\shock\shock_1000_pc04_0000.tga } } Adding more blend keywords to various parts of the file will allow me to see the texture and the entitygui at the same time but at the cost of the textures rapidly getting brighter and darker as the animation cycles. I've tried blend add, filter and none. Any thoughts. I'm guessing I'm missing something silly here?

Just popping in to drop off a video of a level in action http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6hf-M9o4vc Major update since I last posted in here is that I have rudimentary support for the Source Engine now. Here's a level running in Dark Messiah. Source engine support is just a fun side project. I'm still working primarily with TDM.

Still working away on this. Summertime keeps me from updating much but I've fixed most of the annoying bits of texture scaling and I'm in the process of replacing the DarkMod placeholder art I'd been using with art files from the originals. I also have a quasi-working implementation of the Bullfrog puzzle from UW1 as well as fixing some old mistakes and just general catching up on the UW aspects. Under the hood the only really interesting things I've done is write a tool for repacking compressed UW2 and SS1 level/save files into an uncompressed format that the original games can load and a way of identifying continous regions of rooms together for (eventually) automap purposes. Apart from the main github project I've added a secondary project for all the shader/particle/xdata/audio definitions that I've created for this tool at https://github.com/hankmorgan/UnderworldExporterAssets Heres a couple of shots from level 7 of Underworld.

Latest updates. Apart from some minor bug fixes and data file research I've fixed the long standing issues where textures on sloped surfaces were not aligning correctly. I've implemented the text signage (although I've skipped the individual implementing fonts so far), I've added transparent gratings and I've replaced all the wooden placeholder doors with animated guis using the original art that are linked to a fast sliding door and a frame for frobbing.. There are issues with z-orders when I use GUIs for that and it's more of a silly thing than a really practical solution (20 year old graphics for fecks sake) but I like using the retro art since it's easier to spot mistakes that way.

How do I trigger a script when I use a key to unlock a door? I've already tried used_action_script.

So apart from the TDM wiki what are the recommended information sources on modding D3? Basically I'm looking to read up a bit more on entity editing, guis and the like.

Here's that video I promised.

A full on Shock Mod would be a massive undertaking. Way beyond my capabilities. I'm lucky that I have something that I can study, copy and replicate but I'm going to hit a steep learning curve soon with regards to actual game system modding. I can see why Looking Glass were happy to cut back on different systems like conversations and rpg stats between Underworld and System Shock.

I haven't forgotten that this exists. Things turned out busier than I thought they would be but I'm starting to think about where I'm at with the tool and what I want to implement next. I'm leaning towards finally getting wall text(as opposed to wall signs) working but I want to decide what would be a better way to implement them. Do I take the existing art and make fonts which I can then use in XData files or should I just implement the list of possible text strings as wall decals. I'm also hoping to record a video in the near future just to show it working in motion and point out what does and doesn't work to my satisfaction.

No updates. I have an important work project thats keeping me busy until mid to late march so I decided to take a short holiday from the project for the duration of that. Looking forward to picking things back up then.

No. Procedurally generated based on the shade values for the original tiles. It's a bit inefficent at the moment since I don't merge continous areas of light together as one but everything you see is automatically generated. I can barely use a map editor to save my life. My approach to the tool is that it will eventually it will do all the work of extracting assets, building material files, sound shaders, gui files etc so I won't be put in a position where I'm distributing copyrighted material apart from maybe a dmapped .map file and stuff that I can say is original work.

I'm not an american so that's out of the question. I really should make another video though.

Some screenshots. Pay no mind to the wooden doors.

Weird. That was one of the first things I had tried and it didn't work. Just tried it again and it did. Thanks.

How do I call a script when I frob a ragdoll? Normally for buttons I just target a "target_callscriptfunction" but setting a target on a ragdoll doesn't appear to do anything.

How you you change the clipmodel of a model at runtime? I'm currently experimenting with the $entity.setModel script command and it appears as though it doesn't change the collision mesh from that of the original object.

How do you control the brightness of a light via script?

I've been trying to set up a remote security camera view in a gui. Based on guides I've read online I've set up a simple gui as follows windowDef Desktop { rect 0,0,640,480 nocursor 1 windowdef panel { rect 0,0,640,480 visible 1 background "textures/cameraView1"; } } On my map I have a func_cameraview and I've added the cameraTarget spawnarg to my cameraview and pointed it to my viewscreen model (I've also tried setting that the other way around) All I get in game is a black screen on my gui. The camview will activate and switch views when I activate it via script but the gui will not work for me. The first problem I can see is that can't seem to find the cameraview1 texture in my installation. Is it included with TDM or is it a Doom 3 only material? Other guides mention other camera related materials that I can't see any of them in the list of textures.

I've just uploaded a packaged version of the level at https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=6045.msg66135#msg66135 if anyone wants to try it out.

It's a bit of a throw back to how it works in Underworld. In Underworld you have different texture sizes for floor and wall textures so at the time it was an easy cheat to get it working without hardcoding values. I was more concerned with having the right texture in the right location rather than the correcly aligned texture but as I see more complex shapes and want to polish things up I have to implement a better solution Thanks. I'd seen that same page as well in my research and I'm starting to wrap my head around the problem. I think I just need to read up on the math behind it all once I get a block of time for it. It's not a pressing problem and certainly not one without a solution though so I'm not worried at this early stage.

I was experimenting with something like that lately. This is a section of a material shader file that cycles through each texture in turn. { if ( ( time * 5 ) % 4 == 0 ) map textures\frame1.tga } { if ( ( time * 5 ) % 4 == 1 ) map textures\frame2.tga } { if ( ( time * 5 ) % 4 == 2 ) map textures\frame3.tga } { if ( ( time * 5 ) % 4 == 3 ) map textures\frame4.tga } { if ( ( time * 5 ) % 4 == 4 ) map textures\frame5.tga } Time is an builtin value. So it's if (time * number of frames) % (Number of frames -1) = Frame No then display that frame.

Just dropping off a screen-shot which also serves as an example of a question I wanted to ask. One of the first things you'll see is the way the sloped surfaces are all misaligned. Now when I did the texturing for the vertical walls in the tool I cheated a bit in two ways: 1. I have a config file for scaling each texture and 2. since I knew the textures would be aligned in steps of 1/8th portions(8 "steps" being the height of a non repeated texture) depending on how high up they are so I just set the vertical offset param by that fraction and it just works. Now I had assumed that I could do something similar with sloped surfaces but I can't quite seem to get it to work. I'm able to work out the scaling value from the ratio of a sloped hypotenuse to a flat surface (it's based on a tilemap so everything has fixed dimensions) but not the offset value. What I want to achieve for those sloped textures is for each tile to consist of a 1x1 aligned none repeating texture. I think I need to start doing some calculations based on matrix transformations on the normal of the plane. That's great and all except I don't really understand what that means yet. Anyone know of a primer on this stuff so I can wrap my head around it a bit? Most googling on the subject of the texture parameters just tells me what I already know about the meaning of the values (scale, offset etc) but not how to calculate them for a given surface at a particular position. I also think there is a related issue with the orientation of the surfaces depending on which way the slope is orientated. I've also looked at the DR code for this stuff but again I think I need to understand the base math behind all this.

Yeah. I've done experiments with moving between levels using the endlevel trigger and I was able to use cvars passed between levels to support multiple entry points using teleports but I was never able to get inventory to stick and of course everything resets when I return to the previous level but then again I'd never used the atdm:campaigninfo entity so that might explain that.