Keys anywhere?

[sparhawk]

Don't we have any keys? I was looking through the models, but I didn't find any. Would be great if we could get some keys are bundles of keys.

[greebo]

We have a few in darkmod/door_related, although there are no keyrings so far.

[sparhawk]

Yes, I found them. But there are only expensive ones. Would be great if somebody could make some rusty old ones, for cellars and such.

[Baddcog]

Mental note: rusty keys

[sparhawk]

The existing ones can do with some rusty skin, but I think we also should have some less ornate ones. In a peasant hut or tavern, you probably wont find such ornate keys, even if they are rusted.

[Springheel]

The 'ornateness' of those keys is entirely in the texture. It's just alpha-mapped detail. You could easily make plain skins for it without changing the model.

 

Of course, having a simple model that just uses generic metal textures would be handy as well.

[sparhawk]

The 'ornateness' of those keys is entirely in the texture. It's just alpha-mapped detail. You could easily make plain skins for it without changing the model.

Yeah, you are right. I forgot about it.

[PinkDot]

I just uploaded one key model which is plain and generic.

 

 

BTW, sparhawk - you were interested some time ago in that padlock being able to open and close for your lockpicking system. There are two separate pieces: padlock_square_base and padlock_square_lock, if you still need them.

[sparhawk]

AH! Cool! I already thought I had to build it out of brushes for testing. I'm going to take a look at this to see if it looks ok with the current lockpicking.

[Baddcog]

AH! Cool! I already thought I had to build it out of brushes for testing. I'm going to take a look at this to see if it looks ok with the current lockpicking.

 

 

That's the coolest thing about the editor I think, that things like this can actually be modeled and used. While probably not the best way to do alot of things it is just really cool.

 

The fancy keys I made might not do too well with a reskin. They each have a few skins and a rusty one could/probably should be made, but it should keep the same design. The outside shape of the key is VERY specific to that design and the inside is alpha mapped, I need to add shadow meshes too as the shadow currently looks like crap.

[Baddcog]

Adding shadows/fixing collision meshes for fancy keys.

 

Adding keys to .def file. I couldn't find entities anywhere, is everyone just adding props in editor?

 

So far I've got fancy and simple keys, 1 per model, skins can be picked in editor.

But they are just moveables right now, I suppose they should have inventory props? Currently they are in tdm_moveables.def

I'll try and add other keys but might as well know what props we want first.