Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

[Sonosuke]

lol, I almost posted."he played flight simulators' the other day.

 

XD , i played a long time with inverted mouse (stick) too. Took me a few weeks to get rid of it, now i am glad have chaged to normal mode

[Baddcog]

 

 

@ Melan:

 

 

 

The doom textures don't have DarkMod material files. Our materials have a pass for ambient lights.

 

You can find the material file and copy it to a new file, something like melan.mtr and put it in darkmod/materials folder (add to mission zip). Add this to the material:

 
  // TDM Ambient Method Related
{
 blend add
 map  ---right here goes name of diffuse texture--
 red  global2
 green global3
 blue global4
}

 

 

[Melan]

Aha! Makes sense. I have already added a few textures of my own, so I've got the file ready, just got to update it.

[Kiln]

Possibly related to the above posts - Anyone have a way to make the "glowing" textures appear to emit light better? The obvious ones are the lit windows. I've shamelessly ripped-off the techniques from the training mission map, it's just not looking right for some reason. Even more so, I'm having trouble getting the hot spots on the logs from the bonfire log models to look like convincing dying embers (like a bonfire after the flames have died and all you have are the glowing coals) - You guys got any insider tricks?

[Baddcog]

I'd just place some small lights to cast light from the windows. Or you can use a light texture which makes it look like the light from the window is hitting the ground or a wall.

[baalak]

I've been following the A - Z Beginner Full guide thus far, and It's been invaluable. However, on the second page, I believe I've discovered an error. It tells me to "Press L to list entities," but the key necessary is J. Was this different in prior versions of DR, or was this merely a typo?

 

I considered editing it myself, but I was worried there was a reason it was like that, and I'd be seen as a vandal. I don't want anyone else to get confused about this like I did.

 

- Baalak called Ambient.

[Komag]

It's from a very old version, where J was for the Lights and L was for the Entities, so we switched it so L is for Lights because that's just way more intuitive (and so what if J is not intuitive for Entities, neither was L anyway!)

[Crispy]

I've fixed the page. Please don't hesitate to fix any mistakes you see on the wiki. Wikis work best when there are as many contributors as possible.

[baalak]

I'll join the wiki and modify it myself the next time I find an error. Thanks for fixing it for us.

 

I'm following the tutorial so far, and I just added the skybox and all that. Then I saved and went to play it. dmap won't work, though, because it says:

 

WARNING: file sound/tdm_sfx_impact.sndshd, line 425: sound 'small_metal_impact' previously defined at sound/tdm_sfx_impact.sndshd:77

 

I'm confused now. How did I break it?

 

- Baalak called Clumsy, Apparently.

[Sonosuke]

WARNING: file sound/tdm_sfx_impact.sndshd, line 425: sound 'small_metal_impact' previously defined at sound/tdm_sfx_impact.sndshd:77

 

I dont think thats the reason why it does not work, i always have that warning. Can you see another warning?

 

type in the console, condump filename.txt to get a textfile or scroll up with the mouse

Edited November 23, 2009 by Sonosuke

[SiyahParsomen]

is there a leak because of sky texture by chance? try to seal it.

[Sonosuke]

is there a leak because of sky texture by chance? try to seal it.

 

thought so too but if so, you should get a big LEAKED warning

[Baddcog]

Sky tex doesn't cause leaks. (possibly if the entire brush isn't sky tex - like caulk on one face).

[baalak]

Ok, I followed both instructions. I didn't find a leak, but I fiddled with the skybox and it's loading now. I was having trouble with it a moment ago, not being able to see any of the outdoor walls I made, or the skybox, despite having an ambient light, but putting a light outside seems to have fixed it. Strange.

 

I can't find the condump, though. Where are these files generated?

 

Baalak called Poorly Illuminated.

[SiyahParsomen]

Sky tex doesn't cause leaks. (possibly if the entire brush isn't sky tex - like caulk on one face).

 

it depends on how you used the sky texture. some sky textures causes a leak even on one face of brush. But if you mean portal_sky with using a skybox prefab, then it'll not be a trouble.

[Sonosuke]

I can't find the condump, though. Where are these files generated?

 

Edit:

Do you have a FM installed? Then it goes in the folder of that map (the one in the doom3 directory), if not you can find it in the "darkmod" folder.

 

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I have a question too, is it possible to disable the main ambiant light for only one room?

Edited November 23, 2009 by Sonosuke

[Fidcal]

Yes, but not simple:

 

http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Location_Settings

[Sonosuke]

oh....... well it looks possible... i may save it for my next map without a timelimit

Edited November 23, 2009 by Sonosuke

[baalak]

it depends on how you used the sky texture. some sky textures causes a leak even on one face of brush. But if you mean portal_sky with using a skybox prefab, then it'll not be a trouble.

That's exactly what I did, following the A - Z guide's instructions. Seems to be working now. I'll progress, and hopefully not run into any more problems.

 

Sonosuke, thanks. I found it, but at this point, it isn't necessary. I'll know for the future, though.

 

- Baalak called Celestial.

 

EDIT: I feel foolish with such a simple question, but I read through the relevant part of the wiki and I'm still confused. I have a door which I made using the create model create entity method described in the guide. I think it should be working, but when I frob it instead of rotating along the Z axis, it rotates on the Y axis, into the wall! It's rotate property is 0 150 0, so I don't think that should be its behavior. Is there a simple way to fix this? I could just remake the door, but I'd rather know in case I come across this problem again.

 

The door section of the wiki is very detailed, and I'm sure if I were a bit more experienced it would be quite clear to me. I'm still rather green, though, and its wall of helpful text seems awfully opaque.

Edited November 24, 2009 by baalak

[Sonosuke]

I think it should be working, but when I frob it instead of rotating along the Z axis, it rotates on the Y axis, into the wall! It's rotate property is 0 150 0, so I don't think that should be its behavior.

 

Sounds strange, i have made a new room now and tried out some ways to create a door but everything is working just fine. Did you play around with the propertys? like "origin" or something?

[Fidcal]

As I recall, model doors rotate around their own axes whereas brush doors use the world axes. So maybe you've found a model door oriented a different way (though I've never seen one.) Just try 150 0 0 and see if that fixes it. If not, try 0 0 150. You may also need a negative if it goes the wrong direction.

 

By default, every model door I've used, if placed in the normal vertical orientation of a typical door, rotates anti_clockwise in plan view, ie, looking down from above. And the value for that is 0 90 0 to turn 90 degrees.

 

If the above solves it, please let me know which model door you are using because I'm curious.

[Baddcog]

The standard doors (named like this, 3 sizes: door_96x48) should rotate 0 90 0 (I believe)

 

However some of the other doors were created by Dram, some entities may be brush based, so like Fidcal says they may have a different axis alignment.

[baalak]

I'm not one to look good fortune in the mouth. The door works correctly now. I'm not sure why.

 

I didn't alter its origin at all. I tried 150 0 0 with no change, and then went back to 0 150 0 and there was no change- I tested to be sure. I set it aside and worked on some other geometry, saved in a new file, and went to bed. This morning I dmapped and mapped into the new save, and to my surprise, it worked fine. I mapped into my prior save, and it's still wonky. I dunno what to say. It's a secret to everybody.

 

The door's model is model/darkmod/architecture/doors/door2.lwo

 

I opened the old map up and adjusted the rotate to 0 150 0 and it's still wonky. The latest map, though, has rotate at 0 150 0, so, I don't know what to say.

 

Works fine now. Problem solved?

 

- Baalak called Exceptionally Confused.

[Mortem Desino]

Usually for me, Its a matter of making sure "did I really hit save in DR"?

 

Also, whenever you make small non-geometry changes to a WIP or test map, restart it with the console "map" command. Spawnargs don't get updated automatically during runtime, you have to reload the mission to see the changes.

[bobrpggamer]

How do I add another key to the used_by property for locked doors.

 

Do i just put another in the text box like: [used_by] - [Key_01; Key_02] and so on, just separating them with a ; or something.

 

Thank You.