Jump to content
The Dark Mod Forums

Newbie DarkRadiant Questions


demagogue

Recommended Posts

Oh, nice! Thank you. I'll do those, too. I see some other filter options not assigned a hotkey yet, so will experiment.

I wonder if there's a Backface Culling option? I don't see one after trying all the filters. It's a handy feature in Maya's viewport when trying to work on something inside a room or when an area is blocked by building walls and such. Screenshot from the interwebz (backface culling enabled on right side):

image.png.0e1fe75dd4bbe19ad2ea91de4759d605.png

In DR, I remember wishing I didn't have to always be inside my rooms with the cam to see all the objects inside, etc. Otherwise, you only see this when outside your rooms:

image.png.42fb54154ea2a04808a828ebc6a86ddc.png

PS: Ohhh, I'm so glad I just found a camera option to disable far-clip plane! Having far-clip plane enabled and no backface culling before was a bit claustrophobic and cumbersome trying to navigate from room to room. I used to sometimes have to truck my viewport cam down a hallway so I wouldn't lose track of where I was :D

image.png.89fb14e535ef49212b9d59b75e8f71b4.png

So nice to be able to see all my rooms at once (please don't make fun of the low quantity of them) ;)

image.png.44cecb5bf0a1ca87316aea9a827fe134.png

 

Edited by Darkness_Falls
Link to comment
Share on other sites

@Darkness_Falls
What you can do is to texture void-facing surfaces with textures/common/caulk and enable the filter for caulk. This lets you choose what rooms you want to peer into from the void.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

9 hours ago, Darkness_Falls said:

In DR, I remember wishing I didn't have to always be inside my rooms with the cam to see all the objects inside, etc

That's what I meant when I wrote about looking into the map from the outside. And having a filter for both caulk and portal_sky and using those materials only for outside facing sides will basically serve the purpose. There is a modifier+mousekey combo to copy a material to another surface. So you can fastly copy one caulk surface onto other surfaces and, if the filter is enabled, can let the surfaces disappear by that way.

  • Like 1

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 4/2/2021 at 11:08 PM, Darkness_Falls said:

In DR, I remember wishing I didn't have to always be inside my rooms with the cam to see all the objects inside, etc. Otherwise, you only see this when outside your rooms:

An alternative way is to use Layers. You can select something and then right-click -> move to layer (the layer has to be already created). Then in the layer window you can disable that layer and then everything under that layer disappears.

Here is some more info about this: https://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Layers

Edited by datiswous
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Question: Is it possible to have a pool of water, with under it stained glass, with under that a light source in such a way that you can look through the water and see the stained glass behind it lighted by the light source. I tried this, but I can only see the light behind the water, not the stained glass.

As an example I have this upside-down view (test):

topview.jpg.9f347a417813f7a92867b0b7fd6dfcb5.jpg

The texture is applied on both sides, so I should be able to see it at the bottom.

But if I look through the bottom viewpoint I look through it without seeing the glass surface.

If I add a stone texture instead, I see a stone texture behind the water.

bottomview.jpg.0f270a2460823ac2172e9154cde3c64b.jpg

Spoiler

The actual reason I had this pool of water placed upside down is to see if the water would fall down. I have no previous experience in how this works in game engines.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Does it work if you have a small layer of air between the glass and the water?

  • Like 1

What do you see when you turn out the light? I can't tell you but I know that it's mine.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

@datiswous I guess this has to do with rendering order. First of all are solid surfaces are rendered. Everything that is more complex, because it is translucent for example, gets rendered afterwards. I barely remember that the water shader uses the currentRender image as base for its calculation, that is the image containing the solid stuff rendered. The translucent window texture is not part of that image, so it gets ignored and does therefore not been rendered.

Question: You wrote that you want the window/glass material to be light up by the light behind it. So you don't really want the actual lamp to be visible, but more the effect of light shining through the glass. Is that correct? In that case, your setup in unneccessary complex. Instead of a translucent window texture you can make an additively blend texture. There are lit window textures where you can check how this is done.

  • Like 1

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 hours ago, demagogue said:

Does it work if you have a small layer of air between the glass and the water?

I will try this out.

 

2 hours ago, Obsttorte said:

Question: You wrote that you want the window/glass material to be light up by the light behind it. So you don't really want the actual lamp to be visible, but more the effect of light shining through the glass. Is that correct? In that case, your setup in unneccessary complex. Instead of a translucent window texture you can make an additively blend texture. There are lit window textures where you can check how this is done.

I basically wanted to test this, to see how this works and what does not work. By better understanding what is possible and how, it is easier to implement in a proper way later. I will try the lit window texture and see how that looks.

Although a lit window texture doesn't give shadows. But it's probably better to let this slide for now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

It sounds like you need the additive lit window texture to give the appearance of a glowing window, and an upward-pointing light to provide the actual light which shines into the room (including its shadows).

Remember that this is a game engine not a ray-tracer, and certain physical-based effects that would happen in the real world need to be simulated by hand. Translucent materials in this engine just allow you to see through them, they do not provide full light transmission, caustics or any other effects that a raytracer might simulate.

  • Like 3
Link to comment
Share on other sites

7 hours ago, OrbWeaver said:

It sounds like you need the additive lit window texture to give the appearance of a glowing window, and an upward-pointing light to provide the actual light which shines into the room (including its shadows).

Remember that this is a game engine not a ray-tracer, and certain physical-based effects that would happen in the real world need to be simulated by hand. Translucent materials in this engine just allow you to see through them, they do not provide full light transmission, caustics or any other effects that a raytracer might simulate.

Nuff said. :)

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter

Link to comment
Share on other sites

19 hours ago, demagogue said:

Does it work if you have a small layer of air between the glass and the water?

No that doesn't make it work.

10 hours ago, OrbWeaver said:

It sounds like you need the additive lit window texture to give the appearance of a glowing window, and an upward-pointing light to provide the actual light which shines into the room (including its shadows).

Yeah this works. Thanks for the help everyone.

 

 

Edited by datiswous
  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I've tried to build in I18N support into my FM by running the perl script on it and putting all strings into a 'strings\fm\english.lang' file.  I did this several weeks ago and it seemed to work fine.  However we since changed all the readables and I wanted to run it again before release.

But now when I run it I get this:

c:\dm\I18N>perl I18N.pl --english hareinthesnare_v0.6-beta.pk4
I18N.pl v0.19 - The Dark Mod Fan Mission translation helper.

Cannot read 'strings/english.lang': No such file or directory at I18N.pl line 1084.

My .pk4 has a 'strings/fms/english.lang' file as mentioned - not sure why it's doing this?

Also, the other thing I was never quite clear on is how this works for the readables.  For things like inventory names, the entity will have something like '#str_20018'  for the inv_name spawnarg, but I couldn't see anything like that for readables (or did I just miss it somehow)?

Anyways, the way it is now I've got everything in english.lang and I can create the separate .pk4 for I18N, but it's missing the readables text (and there are quite a lot of readables in this FM).  I'm not sure what I should do with this next to make sure I18N is fully supported?

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

and also, we're pretty much ready to release this FM.  However the wiki says to PM people in this list to get it on the official servers, but it's just a missing page.  Do I instead just upload to wherever and post that in the release thread, and someone will add it later?

Link to comment
Share on other sites

I added that link to the wiki a while ago, and I see that you are correct, the page is now missing. I couldn't find an equivalent replacement thread to link to. Assuming your FM has had some beta testing, you could ask a beta tester to release it, or maybe @Dragofer or @nbohr1more can help.

Long term, it would be good if TDM had a more formal and maintained way to know who to contact for FM release... there is an @admin contact, but is that the right way to go, given there are many types of admin (forum, db, wiki, FM release, source, art assets) ?

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

2 hours ago, Geep said:

Long term, it would be good if TDM had a more formal and maintained way to know who to contact for FM release... there is an @admin contact, but is that the right way to go, given there are many types of admin (forum, db, wiki, FM release, source, art assets) ?

Like a website form on the site. A forum topic only for submission requests that the Admins who usually upload missions all track would also work probably. A request topic for Wiki edits is maybe also an idea. I'm actually missing a whole forum/website/wiki feedback section.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

When I use several emitters for the particle tdm_ceiling_dust.prt, they all start with a big dust cloud in the first stage, then few particles in the second stage and then it repeats.

As they all start at the same time, it looks very unnatural.

Is there a way to do a time offset or a length variation for func_smoke and func_emitter over the entity spawnarg, without defining a prt-entry for every entity?

I only found shaderparm5, time and speed in the wiki and forum, but none of those seem to have any effect.
If there is a spawnarg, would it affect both parts of the definition (see below: dust2 and dust2bits) or do I somehow have to specify it in an array style way?

particle tdm_ceiling_dust { 
	{
		count 				63
		material 			textures/particles/dust2
		time 				3.200
		cycles 				2.000
		timeOffset 			0.000
		bunching 			1.000
		distribution 		sphere 32.000 32.000 32.000 0.000
		direction 			outward 15.000
		orientation 		view
		speed 				"0.000"
		size 				"8.000" to "16.000"
		aspect 				"1.000"
		rotation 			"0.000"
		randomDistribution 	1
		boundsExpansion 	0.000
		fadeIn 				0.750
		fadeOut 			0.600
		fadeIndex 			0.000
		color 				1.000 1.000 1.000 1.000
		fadeColor 			0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
		offset 				0.000 0.000 0.000
		gravity 			world 6.000
	}
	{
		count 				8
		material 			textures/particles/dust2bits
		time 				6.000
		cycles 				0.500
		timeOffset 			0.000
		bunching 			0.950
		distribution 		sphere 32.000 32.000 0.000 0.000
		direction 			outward 0.000
		orientation 		view
		speed 				"0.000"
		size 				"8.000" to "10.000"
		aspect 				"1.000"
		rotation 			"0.000"
		randomDistribution 	1
		boundsExpansion 	0.000
		fadeIn 				0.000
		fadeOut 			0.150
		fadeIndex 			0.000
		color 				0.690 0.690 0.690 1.000
		fadeColor 			0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000
		offset 				0.000 0.000 0.000
		gravity 			world 6.000
	}
}

 

Edited by OGDA
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Anybody know why my .pk4 stays a zipped folder after I rename it with the right extension? 

I guess I should note this is my first time packaging a mission on my new PC, maybe there's an Administrator setting somewhere I'm unaware of?

Trying to push out a new beta ver and this is stopping me in my tracks, oh the humanity! 

Edited by Jedi_Wannabe

As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!"

My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day

Link to comment
Share on other sites

4 minutes ago, nbohr1more said:

Post a link.

It sounds like you have an alternate zip format or your folder setup is wrong somewhere.

Here's what I've got: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eDeam61rAMkdT1Ylya9BhmBviXBbREuI/view?usp=sharing

As my father used to say, "A grenade a day, keeps the enemy at bay!"

My one FM so far: Paying the Bills: 0 - Moving Day

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Just now, datiswous said:

I think this setting usually does more harm than good.

That's the thing, there is no Good aside from maybe it looks better? The problem is also, it's for ANY file of KNOWN type. So if you have a .bat file that you've set to open by default with say notepad, you won't see the extension anymore. Now, if you download a file that's a virus, you have NO idea what kind of file it is if it's a known type. That's pretty freaking important.

  • Like 1

I always assumed I'd taste like boot leather.

 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

This was already in Win Xp maybe before that.. (maybe it came from MS Bob)

I think virusses or Trojans have actually used this feature in the past.

 

Edit:

This is a quote under one of the video's from Springheel:

Quote

I had the same problem. I found it's the darkmod.txt file extension. My file was darkmod.txt but for the other FMs, it's just "darkmod" without the .txt. Remove the redundant extension and it should work. Even if it doesn't, you can still access your map anyway (I did,) you just need to type more: dmap workshop/man1 and map workshop/man1 rather than just dmap man1 and map man1.

I think this is probably the same issue, but this guy didn't learn the cause and he's not alone probably.

Edited by datiswous
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Join the conversation

You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.

Guest
Reply to this topic...

×   Pasted as rich text.   Paste as plain text instead

  Only 75 emoji are allowed.

×   Your link has been automatically embedded.   Display as a link instead

×   Your previous content has been restored.   Clear editor

×   You cannot paste images directly. Upload or insert images from URL.


  • Recent Status Updates

    • Petike the Taffer  »  DeTeEff

      I've updated the articles for your FMs and your author category at the wiki. Your newer nickname (DeTeEff) now comes first, and the one in parentheses is your older nickname (Fieldmedic). Just to avoid confusing people who played your FMs years ago and remember your older nickname. I've added a wiki article for your latest FM, Who Watches the Watcher?, as part of my current updating efforts. Unless I overlooked something, you have five different FMs so far.
      · 0 replies
    • Petike the Taffer

      I've finally managed to log in to The Dark Mod Wiki. I'm back in the saddle and before the holidays start in full, I'll be adding a few new FM articles and doing other updates. Written in Stone is already done.
      · 4 replies
    • nbohr1more

      TDM 15th Anniversary Contest is now active! Please declare your participation: https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/22413-the-dark-mod-15th-anniversary-contest-entry-thread/
       
      · 0 replies
    • JackFarmer

      @TheUnbeholden
      You cannot receive PMs. Could you please be so kind and check your mailbox if it is full (or maybe you switched off the function)?
      · 1 reply
    • OrbWeaver

      I like the new frob highlight but it would nice if it was less "flickery" while moving over objects (especially barred metal doors).
      · 4 replies
×
×
  • Create New...