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I'm not sure if this is doable, but, I have some stairs that I want to use patches on for the carpet.

I tried individual patches and bending them for each stair, but getting the textures to line up is impossible.

So making a single large patch and manually placing the verts works, but is slow and tedious.

Is there a way to increment the patch programatically?

For example, here's the patch:

 

// primitive 70
{
patchDef3
{
"textures/darkmod/carpet/runners/geometric02_red_HD"
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)
}
}
}

 

This is what it looks in the editor:

584709019_Screenshot(7).thumb.png.af7a88ad7aa41b27bb9608a31b9d417c.png

 

So I use the Append 2 columns to the end, and then do that again. This give me 4 more columns to use to go down the next step.
So step 1 would be to append 2 columns to the end:

IkSASg3.png

Then do it again:

rnYBnhb.png

Then move the last 3 to form the curve:

Dw1avI7.png

Then rinse and repeat for the down slope then back again.

Is there a way to tell patch creation to follow brushes?

I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

Posted

This would seem like a case for the recently implemented tool for merging patches - do 1 step manually, clone it down the staircase and merge them all.

Those are a lot of tris, though, especially for such small corners.

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Posted

Looks great in game though.

WXQf8YP.jpg

 

I'll try the merge patches, forgot about that. Would be nice though to select some geometry like the stairs, then just press a Mark Carpet button :P

 

 

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I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

Posted

Sort of related, but I wish we had a simple stair tool to work with. Building stairs is incredible tedious even without carpet!

Im not sure how it would work, potentially drawing a brush in DR and hitting "convert to stairs" and you punch in the height and  direction? Maybe a "build with patches" feature as well?

Ignore the brushes that descend all the way to the floor. (Unless its possible to have it do that as well)

Capture3.thumb.JPG.36b0ef86da5d2d54a12879606fe77149.JPG

With a stair "thickness" setting could get designs like this:

height = 12
thickness = 4

Capture2.thumb.JPG.35f38a8210379a05f0288ae76a9f157f.JPG

Bonus feature if you could pick a nodraw surface that auto built around itCapture4.thumb.JPG.6a3af77cac46d92255a133e09f9a6a02.JPG
 

Anyhow, something to consider if anyone is up for it. Would save some time on the mapping end of things for sure. 

Posted
23 minutes ago, kingsal said:

Sort of related, but I wish we had a simple stair tool to work with. Building stairs is incredible tedious even without carpet!

Hm, yes. Drawing out a brush and then cutting it up into N steps with a defined height might be something that is feasable for a machine. Maybe it could even be done with a Python script, I think DR has all the functions available in the scripting API. It can only be a basic scenario that's covered by the code, I assume that any machine-generated result will never be something one can be happy with immediately.

Posted
21 hours ago, greebo said:

Hm, yes. Drawing out a brush and then cutting it up into N steps with a defined height might be something that is feasable for a machine. Maybe it could even be done with a Python script, I think DR has all the functions available in the scripting API. It can only be a basic scenario that's covered by the code, I assume that any machine-generated result will never be something one can be happy with immediately.

This sounds like something I could knock out in an evening or two using a Python script.  I've got no decent blocks of free time at the moment, but if nobody beats me to it I'll give it a go sometime.

I've also been thinking of a script that would work something like the blender "array" modifier for easy duplication+offset of your selection, optionally combining the result.  That might make the carpet placement a little faster once you drew one step's worth.

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Posted
1 hour ago, jonri said:

This sounds like something I could knock out in an evening or two using a Python script.  I've got no decent blocks of free time at the moment, but if nobody beats me to it I'll give it a go sometime.

That'd be awesome!

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