Attaching *models* onto *units*

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edit: with some help from jK i have it loading (and rendering!) the changed geometry. now for textures

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99% complete. only problem is that shadows are not casting properly (recieving fine), Spring seems to be reading the alpha channel on the textures as actually transparent. not 100% sure how to fix.



woohoo!

[smoth]

perhaps JK may be able to give insight on it?

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Shadows fixed, but another problem has popped up to do with the displaylists, gonna quickly swing off onto a parallel track, try and get something releasable before I fall into a black hole of buggy, poorly written code :D

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Fixed the screwyness, but no show/hide

So here it is :)

1)to activate the gadget for a unit, it will need a customparam in the unitdef "unitdraw" it can be any non-nil value

2)the names of the pieces to be drawn onto other models MUST be unique, be creative!

3)the pieces to be loaded need to be in the s3o of a valid unitdef, this means script and unitdef.lua (they can be rubbish values, but they have to be there)

4)the best (imo) way to organize the pieces is to group them into 'library' units, this will save on texture memory use, aswell as being much cleaner

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new version, should be 100% functional.

[knorke]

acuelly is 99%

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acuelly is 99%

rubbish it's some other funky lua you got running probably.

testmod works fine.

[knorke]

can you upload the tutorialgame with the draw stuff inserted?
to test if it is a mod or computer thing.

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Download this and it should work out of the box.

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getting some of the weird errors you reported last night knorke, no idea wtf is causing them

[knorke]

Download this and it should work out of the box.

this works.

just stupid guess, but could the problems be because not all textures have the same dimensions?

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nope, that aint it.

new screens :D i think i have all the bugs pretty much ironed out.


scoutcar on the right has wheels taken from something i found on my HDD, has a 512*256 texture! The brown tank is trying on the Angletank's turret for size.


The 'Trifighter' with the gun barrel from my 'Angletank' model

[smoth]

Is this just the texture attachment or actual piece attachment?

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You can keep your toys in the cot smoth.

The gadget grabs the geometry of a piece and the texture from a unit, and replaces the geometry of the piece(s) defined in the gadget config.

Still got work to do on the loading side (currently all the dLists are loaded at game-start which is quite seriously non-ideal) as well as setting up a debug mode and appropriate messages and a few other minor things.

[smoth]

still it is a lot further than you were thinking you'd get to a few days ago! Keep up the good work man, this is pretty cool.

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It's currently totally functional, will need to test with custom texture-based shaders (normalmaps) but the "x-ray highlight" widget works fine. I'm thinking I will need to manually add in support for normal maps, but it's hard to test as I have no normal-mapped units.

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I still feel the gadget needs a less 'general' name. Currently called "unit_draw.lua" not sure what else fits though

[smoth]

It's currently totally functional, will need to test with custom texture-based shaders (normalmaps) but the "x-ray highlight" widget works fine. I'm thinking I will need to manually add in support for normal maps, but it's hard to test as I have no normal-mapped units.

s44 has a few.

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woo!

on-demand loading of the displaylists is here! also added in a debug mode switch (only settable by changing a boolean in the gadget, i will consider making a "/changepiece debug" switch if its *really* wanted) and commented some of the code.

will clean up the mod file and release for testage later