Newbie DarkRadiant Questions

[Serpentine]

eep yeah, I was off by 1

 

But I still think that using _color is far easier(blend types make it a bit tricky), I've also never got shaderParm3 to work correctly for fading in/out on most fogs, while at least the _color method applies to all of the working samples I found. As soon as shaderParm3 is used, the fog is then rendered with full opacity, which is extremely annoying :/

 

Oh, shaderParm3 use also results in water etc rendering after it, which isn't ideal for lots of scenes.

[Fidcal]

I suspect shaderParm3 has a minimum distance around 200 so maybe that is the problem? It certainly works to control opacity distance. _color only affects the color. But since the whole effect is simply to 'paint surfaces' then I guess a darker color will give the effect of less transparency. But a shaderParm3 of say 1200 will still mean total opacity at distance 1200 (and degrees in between) no matter what the color.

[Shadowhide]

how to write new soundshader ? where to put it ?

how make AI cant interact with the door ?

[Shadowhide]

anyone ?

[Fidcal]

Sound shaders are plain text files. They must be suffixed .snd and put in sound folder.

 

Basic info here: http://www.iddevnet.com/doom3/sounds.php

 

Darkmod sounds are in zip files named tdm_sound_xxx.pk4 and can be extracted with a zip program so you can examine existing ones.

 

AI door management is here... http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php?title=Doors#AI_Door_management

[Shadowhide]

thanks Fidcal

door problem is done

as for sound shader :

i do it correct ?

housekey

{

minDistance 1

maxDistance 1

volume 10

sound/winterharvest/housekey.ogg

}

[Shadowhide]

yes,it works,thanks

Edited July 10, 2011 by Shadowhide

[Springheel]

maxDistance 1

 

If you do that the sound won't be heard more than 1 unit away.

 

For reference, AI footsteps go 30 units.

 

Also, don't use positive volume values. That just makes the sound omnidirectional.

[Shadowhide]

housekey

{

minDistance 1

maxDistance 20

volume -10

sound/winterharvest/housekey.ogg

}

thats will be better?

Edited July 10, 2011 by Shadowhide

[Mortem Desino]

set volume to -1. No sense making the OGGs quieter.

[Fidcal]

The distance values are metres btw. All values can be overwritten in the speaker entity too so the shader values are just for defaults. I think 0 (zero) is full volume so all negatives just subtract from it.

[Shadowhide]

i cant make a text briefing

i created briefing.xd in xdata folder and set it up that way :

maps/winterharvest/mission_briefing

{

"num_pages": "1"

 

"page1_body" :

{

"bla bla"

""

"bla bla"

}

 

but parchment still empty

 

 

nevermind,fixed

Edited July 14, 2011 by Shadowhide

[Shadowhide]

carpets is patches with carpet texture lying on stone floor and converted to func_static,but they do stone floor sounds instead of carpet

 

how to fix it ?

Edited July 16, 2011 by Shadowhide

[AluminumHaste]

carpets is patches with carpet texture lying on stone floor and converted to func_static,but they do stone floor sounds instead of carpet

 

how to fix it ?

 

That's weird, that should work. Is the func_static set to non solid? Check the properties in DarkRadiant.

[Fidcal]

One solution is to place a shallow textures/common/tdm_nodrawsolid_carpet brush on top. It can penetrate down but just make it slightly higher than the surface of the carpet.

[Mortem Desino]

Is the carpet patch lying perfectly flush on the floor or is it hovering slightly above?

 

If the carpet patch is flush with the floor, then the code's surface detection trace gets confused (and will prefer the worldspawn brush).

[Shadowhide]

its above to avoid z-fighting

i'l put on carpet tdm_nodrawsolid_carpet brush,and its ok now

[AluminumHaste]

Is the carpet patch lying perfectly flush on the floor or is it hovering slightly above?

 

If the carpet patch is flush with the floor, then the code's surface detection trace gets confused (and will prefer the worldspawn brush).

 

Oh yeah I forgot about that.

@ SH some authors have created carpets that aren't just flat planes but instead are above the ground by less than 1 unit and the carpet has sides.

[Shadowhide]

good idea

Edited July 17, 2011 by Shadowhide

[Melan]

Is it possible to have negative light? I would like an area of the map to be darker than the rest, and if it could be done with a simple technique...

[nbohr1more]

The Dynamic Ambient light can be set via the Location Settings to have a lower value.... So yes. You would need to set all the RGB values very low...

 

Actually it is possible to use a BlendLight to make a negative light as well but it can't be seen in the editor. (Lots of trial and error...)

 

 

http://www.doom3worl...pic.php?t=12256

Edited July 20, 2011 by nbohr1more

[Mortem Desino]

Go to DR, and create a light using the texture lights/shadows/shadow_circle01. They're "blend blend" lights I made for simulated soft shadows.

 

Edit: Now that I think about it, You're probably better off using no (or very low value) ambient_world. And then hand-place ambient lights with the lights/ambientlight2 texture.

 

Edit2: Dang. Don't eliminate the ambient_world. I forgot about the different ambient rendering that was put in TDM, for better performance on 486 machines.

[Melan]

Thank you. I will have to try that tomorrow.

[jaxa]

Is it possible to have randomized readable contents?

 

Prior art: SimCity 2000 newspaper

[Serpentine]

llamas, everywhere.

 

Also, no it's not something that can be done at runtime at the moment, however you could generate some beforehand using templates to write the xdata?