Finally started (again)

[Sonosuke]

Hi, thanks for your help back then. After my... false start... with T3ed i thoght i leave mapping to the community but after some time i realised that i really want to build some maps. So i tried Dark Radiant as you told me... and again i ask myself, why dont i listen to the people how know what they are talking about?

 

Right now i am working with Thiefs Den assets and Fidicals Tutorial, at the same time, i am working with Saint Lucia assets for my own little map so i can use what i have learned.

 

So here bes my question:

I am on page 3 of the tut. now, right there:

"The yard feels much more open now but maybe retexture the house walls to be different to the yard walls? Or the other way round? Your preference"

but the walls that lead from the big room to the yard are still the same. So is it ok if i chage to a smaller grid and cut the walls with clipper tool into 2 so i can texture each side different?

 

Another thing, it seems chaging the briefing text in Saint Lucia works a bit different then in Thiefs Den, what textfile do i have to change?

 

With Thiefs Den assets, DR said that it could not find the prefab folder but it works with SL so thats not a big problem.

 

A funny thing is, i made a "Pool" but the water texture Fidical recommendet does not exist so i took anoter but the water surface shows me now the DM background from the start

Edited June 28, 2009 by Sonosuke

[Fidcal]

Nice to hear you're mapping again Sonosuke.

 

Not sure I understand what you're asking about the yard walls texturing. The house would normally be one stonework whereas the outer walls of the yard might be different. Mmm... that is a bit odd how I put that in the tutorial about changing the house wall. I mean you could rexture the yard walls to be different to the house or *all* the house walls inside and out to be different to the yard. If you mean you want to clad the outer wall then yes, you can use clipper to split the wall but this would be unusual and a special style and not needed here. I recommend you just retexture the yard walls to be different or the entire house walls. They can of course both be the same instead.

 

The Saint Lucia briefing is custom made for it so I'm not sure you can easily put your own in there as easily as for Den. What do you plan to do with your map? If you want it just for learning then you might put your briefing text in a readable in the inventory same as Sam's message for now. I think you have to run it from the console anyway so you wouldn't see the briefing anyway. In a few months when the main Dark Mod resources are available you can set up a proper briefing if you want.

 

You can still navigate (browse) to and use the prefabs folder in Dark Radiant - it's just no visible by default because Dark Radiant looks in the game folder to begin with. Maybe it shouldn't; maybe it should always look in the darkmod folder.

 

Try different water textures. I think the one used in Saint Lucia is something like water_source/water_green.

[Sonosuke]

Hi /bow Fidcal, thanks for having some time for me

 

Yeah after re-reading i know why you dont understand that. The problem was that there is only one wall leading from the big room to the yard, so if i paint one room and after that the next room, this wall is textured again. So i cant paint both rooms without one wall having the wrong texture. After some trying i found out that i can (Ctrl/Shift) texture each side different so no problem anymore.

 

 

Thats ok. I will have some good experience til' Dark Mod is completed, so i can start my own map right away (well i hope so).

 

 

Still cant find it but its not important.

 

 

Thanks for you answers, i hope i can finish at least the rest of the Tut alone

Edited July 2, 2009 by Sonosuke

[Fidcal]

Feel free to keep asking for help.