Johannes' box

[Johannes Burock]

 

and now a question, i know ive seen the ans but cant find it anymore:

 

how can i change the lightcolor of a precreated entity - candle-...which property i have to add? (in the light insp. i cant change anything)

or is this only possible for light ent which are a light on its own?

 

Thanks

Edited March 6, 2011 by Johannes Burock

[Tels]

 

Very cool and props to place the windows correctly into the "fächer" between the beams! (The only change I'd make is to make the vertical beams *slighly* thinner than the horizontal ones, but that is nitpicking

 

and now a question, i know ive seen the ans but cant find it anymore:

 

how can i change the lightcolor of a precreated entity - candle-...which property i have to add? (in the light insp. i cant change anything)

or is this only possible for light ent which are a light on its own?

 

Thanks

 

Possible with "set spawnargname ON attachementpointname" "value":

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Combined_light_entities#Setting_spawnargs

[Johannes Burock]

Very cool and props to place the windows correctly into the "fächer" between the beams! (The only change I'd make is to make the vertical beams *slighly* thinner than the horizontal ones, but that is nitpicking

 

 

right, missed to fix that for this beam... done that...on the other pic the beems are thinner how you could see...

[Bikerdude]

first i want to show u that its also going on inside:

Joha, as usual your work is stunning

[Darkman]

Johannes, you are totally nuts!!!

 

I'll go ape when i see all those pictures!

 

Amazing, really amazin... I only hope that the massive usage of brushes/patches will not hold the mission too small (as there is - as far as i know - a limit in entity/worldspawn-count) or kill the playability due to the hunger for hardware...

 

Anyway, go on please!

Edited March 8, 2011 by Darkman

[Johannes Burock]

after some days of testing how to make textures on my own and some days of doing nothing:

 

here two sreens and another two + a question

 

 

 

 

[Johannes Burock]

 

 

 

and there is the prob on the second screen:

 

every time i have the wooden ornament tex on a brush it doesnt cast any shadows...i also tryed to set the noshadows prop. to 0 to specify that it should cast shadows but that doesnt help...

[Bikerdude]

that library looks awesome Jo, versy organic and lived in...

 

as to the shadows thats weird - I think that must be a bug with TDM itself..

[Flanders]

I don't think the problem is with the ornament texture but with the texture that's on top of the beam carrying the ornament texture. You probably used rough_wood_brown_ns for it or another rough_wood that ends with ns. Ns stands for no shadows, try a regular one.

 

And the pics look great.

[Baddcog]

--ninja'ed--

 

I didn't make that tex so I'm not sure. It obviously has NoShadows in the mtr file. So we need to fix that.

 

However, it's possible that there is a Shadow casting AND noshadows version (I made a lot of duplicates that I ended with _ns for no shadow[metals and woods mainly]. They were just to be used with models that have a low poly shadow mesh).

 

So first check to see it there are two of that texture listed, if so try the other. If not let us know and someone can fix that for a future update. (I don't know of any models that use it, so it should probably just be a shadow casting material).

[Tudor]

My computer begs for mercy just looking at the detail in this map, but god damn, I will play through it!

[Bikerdude]

You probably used rough_wood_brown_ns for it or another rough_wood that ends with ns.

I didn't think it was as simple as noshadow, but now that I think about it, thats actly what it is. Jo the beam under the 'pegs' has a wood texture that has _ns on the end of it which as Flanders said is 'noshadows'

[Melan]

What are _ns textures for, anyway? Is there any reason to include them?

[Johannes Burock]

ok, thanks for the help, the _ns "problem", i never realised that there are some tex in two ways in the list...and like Melan i dont see a reason for the _ns ones...but nevermind it runs (with shadows) now

[Springheel]

What are _ns textures for, anyway? Is there any reason to include them?

 

They are used in models that have shadowmeshes, primarily.

[nbohr1more]

You can also make a worldspawn brush "pseudo shadow-mesh" (with any shadowed texture) inside a more ornate worldspawn object that has noshadows (ns) texture on it.

[Baddcog]

 

 

However, it's possible that there is a Shadow casting AND noshadows version (I made a lot of duplicates that I ended with _ns for no shadow[metals and woods mainly]. They were just to be used with models that have a low poly shadow mesh).

 

So first check to see it there are two of that texture listed, if so try the other. If not let us know and someone can fix that for a future update. (I don't know of any models that use it, so it should probably just be a shadow casting material).

 

I guess I didn't explain it clearly the first time as several people asked WHY afterwards

[STiFU]

here two sreens and another two + a question

 

Hehe, I see my girlfriend's bathroom tiles on the floor... ;-)

[Johannes Burock]

Hehe, I see my girlfriend's bathroom tiles on the floor... ;-)

 

no worries i wasnt there is this tex from u?

Edited March 17, 2011 by Johannes Burock

[STiFU]

It is...

[Darkman]

My computer begs for mercy just looking at the detail in this map, but god damn, I will play through it!

 

Yeah... Pray - NOW!!!

[Johannes Burock]

after playing around for first test for th burial grounds (without bloodraven ^^ for the insiders) here the first try:

 

http://modetwo.net/d...post__p__252225

it is an old overgrown one.

 

and a big question:

 

want to create an ghost light which is flying a patrolway...

 

i have a light and a (not the best) func_emitter.

 

ive never done such things here before...so how to combine them and bring em on a patrol way ?

Edited March 25, 2011 by Johannes Burock

[7upMan]

One word: IMPRESSIVE!

[Darkman]

say johannes, are all those pics that you posted in this thread taken from the same map?

 

i'm wondering how you handle the brush/patch/entity-limits - ever single m² seems to contain hundreds of them

 

 

 

ah, by the way, your screenshots become more and more frustrating... every time i look at them, i feel forced to select my own current map and hit the delete-button...

Edited March 27, 2011 by Darkman

[Johannes Burock]

say johannes, are all those pics that you posted in this thread taken from the same map?

 

i'm wondering how you handle the brush/patch/entity-limits - ever single m² seems to contain hundreds of them

 

 

 

ah, by the way, your screenshots become more and more frustrating... every time i look at them, i feel forced to select my own current map and hit the delete-button...

 

yes, all from the same map.

 

 

@ all: help to the ghost lights?