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Personally I think this is the worst idea ever. The Reason forums has LOADS of info and knowledge, built up through years and years. I'm really sad to see it go away, and I can't understand why they've made this decision. https://www.propellerheads.se/forum/showthread.php?p=1579099#poststop

I have a material with a scrolling texture. I have a particle effect. At present the texture scrolls across all the particles in unison but I need to offset the texture randomly on a per particle basis. I thought shaderparms would be the solution here but it appears they are only applicable on a per entity basis. I tried looking through the source code to be sure but I don't see anything specific to particles that would help. This experiment also happens to use a vertex/fragment program. I bring this up because if shaderparms are not an option perhaps there is some vertex or fragment properties I can use to derive a static value unique to each particle?

So how do you fade one texture into another? Say grass into dirt, like on the edge of a dirt track. On my map, I have a driveway for carts etc, and it needs some cart tracks (patches) and grass humps (patches) and textures blending the two together. Is there a way to do this that is also clipped? Thx Neon

I assume thus must have been discussed before, what was the outcome? Is it as simple as saving in a better or other file format, that wont have any adverse effects? The DDS folder uncompressed sits at 1GB and the Textures folder is at 1.9GB and the models folder Im guessing at around 500mb.

This tutorial is for an "advanced technique" but is easy (and useful) enough for any mapper to try. One of the frustrations that mappers run into with decals is that you can only create one decal per surface. This means that if you have a wall with a door in it, you can't make a single decal for the whole wall, but rather need to settle for three separate, smaller decals (one per surface). In working on my most recent map, I figured out a method to get around this so that you can get a single decal texture across multiple surfaces. This means you can, for instance, create a wall with a hole in it and apply a single decal texture to it seamlessly: Here's how to set it up. First, create your wall and punch a hole in it. Next, select all three/four surfaces surrounding the hole and make decal patches for them. Next comes the important part. Create a brush the exact same size as the surface you want to apply the decal texture to (i.e. the size of the wall before you popped a hole into it) and place it exactly in front of the wall. Next select the surface of the brush and apply the decal texture to it (yes, you can apply decal textures to brushes). Then fit the decal 1x1 onto the brush. What you'll end up with is a big transparent brush with your decal painted across it. Then, just copy/paste from this large brush onto each one of the decal patches you made earlier. What will happen is that a piece of the texture from the brush will be applied to each decal patch such that the pieces mirror the whole texture seamlessly and you end up with a single texture fitting snugly around your door. Just delete the brush when you finish copy/pasting and you're all done. And there you have it. You can also use this strategy of copying a texture from a single brush onto multiple patches for other creative purposes too, such as smoothly wrapping a single decal across two brushes and a bevel: Hope this is helpful for you mapping endeavors!

Hi, i supose that the collision texture work like a invisible wall. My question is if this especial texture have some property to do damage whe on contact with it. Thanks JG

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Can someone remind me if we have a ewiki entry on how to do this..? I am looking to make a bklue version of our glass texture. - textures/darkmod/glass/clear ta.

Here you go, these are the sites I hit up when I'm looking for particular textures. Animax (best of the bunch) Imageafter Amazing Textures Famous Paintings Cambridge 200 Botanical Textures Mayang's Textures Ben Cloward Textures and Tutorials Cornice Moulding 3D Excellence 3Dtronic Textures Bradbury Victorian Wallpapers Waverly Wallpapers and Home Decor Lemog 3D Afflict Textures (meh, not the greatest. But there are a couple of good ones here) Image Stock Megatex Travis Price Gallery Pixelperfect (can be slow, but good) Diwesign Texture Warehouse Stockvault Edit: Added August 23rd Landmark Metalcoat

I raised a tracker to fix texture darkmod/sfx/black_matt but want to check with mappers first because it's been used in loads of maps. The description of black_matt is: //matt black - there are already blacks but cannot get _black nor bc_black to reference as diffusemap Whoever set up black_matt didn't quite know how to achieve the right effect. It's not really matt black. The tga image is rgb 1,1,1 instead of 0,0,0 so it reflects some diffuse light (I assume they tried a 0,0,0 image and found it didn't work), plus It's light-interacting so it has default specularity. It can look distinctly grey if you put a light right next to it and look at it from an oblique angle. Really it should have been set up to be opaque but not be light-interacting at all. A 0,0,0 filter blend instead of a diffuse map, combined with the forceOpaque keyword, would probably be right. I used this texture in a map that I was working on before getting into TDM coding, for the bottom of wells, and to block holes in walls where rods poke through etc, where I wanted to make shallow holes appear to be deeper than the player could see while sealing the visleaf. I'm not sure how others have used it though. I did an existing map check and it's been used lots. Should we change it to be properly black?