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Hey guys, guess who again :blush: .

Indeed I am having more trouble.

Just tonight I got some professional textures that look AMAZING into dark radiant. I followed all the steps for getting the texture and it shows up just fine. But...when I compile the map I get a flash of red saying can't find the texture and in game that section is completely black!

It looks so pretty in the editor! Is there some step I missed? All 3 files, displacment, spec, and the ed image are in textures folder along with materials folder pointing correctly to them(It shows in the editor with lighting just fine.) so why can't the editor find it?

Here is the cool image of the texture in action in radiant.

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Hey guys, guess who again :blush: .

Indeed I am having more trouble.

Just tonight I got some professional textures that look AMAZING into dark radiant. I followed all the steps for getting the texture and it shows up just fine. But...when I compile the map I get a flash of red saying can't find the texture and in game that section is completely black!

It looks so pretty in the editor! Is there some step I missed? All 3 files, displacment, spec, and the ed image are in textures folder along with materials folder pointing correctly to them(It shows in the editor with lighting just fine.) so why can't the editor find it?

Here is the cool image of the texture in action in radiant.

 

Nvm guys I actually got this fixed, whew it looks great =).

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Please post how you fixed it in case the information is of benefit for future beginning mappers. :)

 

I had to repaste everything, make sure the brackets where correct etc in the material shaders folder. Obviously some typo was messing it up.

 

By the way these texture I got bump up the immersion factor 5x. So much that now I have to get more of them because the texture's make our original ones look horrible(no offense to those who work on our textures). Seems I'm just gonna wind up buying the whole shebang.

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Be careful with the usage terms of those textures. Some licences don't allow you to redistribute the texture files, even if they're just one part of a larger work that you author.

 

Just out of curiosity, how high is the resolution on those textures?

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Many of the textures are generally uneven numbers on the textures but it is scaled down, most hit the 1024 range though. It's not really just the high rez, its the fact that they are studio textures already made for easy normal mapping that look photo realistic.

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I read my license, it says the textures are bound to me and I'm free to use them in any multimedia projects I please.

 

But I suppose that means others couldn't take them from those projects and use them in their own.

That would disallow Darkmod using them, even if they bought a license, since the whole point is others who didn't would still be using them in their own projects ... not that there was a debate on that.

 

But OTOH, it's nice that professional-level textures out there can get into individual projects to those that buy them and really raise the bar on quality. That's the plus side of the coin. They're really not that expensive and do make a good impression.

 

Is there a site like this for professional-grade models with a similar sort of license, I wonder.

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But I suppose that means others couldn't take them from those projects and use them in their own.

That would disallow Darkmod using them, even if they bought a license, since the whole point is others who didn't would still be using them in their own projects ... not that there was a debate on that.

 

Yes, but what if on your maps you put me as co author something? That would make it on some shaky ground but it would then be part of my projects. Or how about putting me on the Dark Mod team so I could claim that Dark Mod is my project etc...

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