Forgotten Chronicles - Mod in Developement

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 10 Jun 2006, 15:12

I wonder if it's at all possible to make a program that would allow skinning models with the "spraypaint" approach, just spray color over the model, slap 'decals' on it, and save the resulting texturemap. If you think it's impossible, look at Street Legal Redline, the garage there is a very good example of spraypaint model texturing. You just literally select a brush, a color, and just paint anything you like anywhere. Plus you can make custom decals that aren't simply added as an overlay to the model, but instead are directly applied to the texture.
This wouldn't take away the need to UVmap the model yourself, nor would it completely replace the common "create-a-texture-and-fit-the-map-to-it" way of skinning, because certain things would be more difficult to achieve that way, like accurately placing small details.
I'm pretty sure it's very possible to make an app like this for Spring, because even the BlitzBasic environment has a simple model-painting example in the samples section.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 10 Jun 2006, 15:25

yea, that would be awesome instead of all the other stuff, much faster and easier, and small details depends cuz you shouldn't be too close to your units in game, or you will lose

Rusher · Post by **Rusher** » 10 Jun 2006, 18:13

I think you still missed this

Have the turret sit upon a visible hull bulge of some kind, it's currently sunk between the tracks, so it doesn't look like it can turn.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 10 Jun 2006, 21:29

The angle just wasn't good, hehe

Here's a pic, You couldn't see dah bulge thing

I might make it leveled, with 2 cannons on each level mebbe, I dunno, have to try it out

lol take that goblins, I reduced the polies back to 600, hahahah

krogothe · Post by **krogothe** » 11 Jun 2006, 00:22

Looking better and better, way to go

all the small cannons (triple cannons and nipples) can have 3 sides with zero loss of detail. ingame no one will zoom that far in. Also the main turret is too round and tall, real tanks have them longer in lenght and shorter in height.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 11 Jun 2006, 00:34

please, crop your shots.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 11 Jun 2006, 04:04

Crop, whazzat lol?

krogothe, sure I guess, hehe I already have one that is MUCH more changed than that one

Oh and those are gatlings, not triple cannons

And eventually, in the mod there will be triple cannons, heheh

Ahhh, those spikes might serve something other than being goblins, heheheh

TheRegisteredOne · Post by **TheRegisteredOne** » 11 Jun 2006, 16:11

I suggest putting some sleeves on those barrels :)

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 11 Jun 2006, 17:58

uhhh, this tank is obsolete, if I was on the good computer I would show you what it looks like.

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 12 Jun 2006, 06:17

Snipawolf wrote:uhhh, this tank is obsolete, if I was on the good computer I would show you what it looks like.

Well hurry up and get on it.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 12 Jun 2006, 18:09

Sure can

Several changes were made, the tank can move his main turret about at
90 degrees or so

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 16 Jun 2006, 06:44

HAHAHAHA, I made a "cute" "little" tank, for lvl 1 of course, and comparison to the thing I got the idea from

Oh and only 357 polies

Only a few differences and, how do I cut the pictures bottom off?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 16 Jun 2006, 06:49

that is called cropping

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 16 Jun 2006, 06:51

Yes, but how do i do it?

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 16 Jun 2006, 06:59

Well, you know. I don't mind helping you guys but come on. It is not that hard for you. Google for it. You guys have to start thinking for yourselves.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 16 Jun 2006, 07:00

Sure, google is the great answer to everything

Oh and on an edit: Things i find are talking about cutting cells off and stuff lol

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 16 Jun 2006, 07:09

try "cropping an image"

Das Bruce · Post by **Das Bruce** » 16 Jun 2006, 08:24

Inset, extrude, cut, bridge.

Sean Mirrsen · Post by **Sean Mirrsen** » 16 Jun 2006, 09:28

Wow, I actually found a freeware program that allows to do what I wanted. It's called Tattoo, written (surprisingly) in Blitz Basic (see I told you BB has that functionality!), and can be found here. It's not exactly a great tool, because it's rather unstable, slow and glitchy sometimes, but it does allow to paint your model with whatever you need. A professional tool of the same kind - Deep Paint 3D - costs around 350$, so Tattoo is the best thing you can get for free. ...legally that is.

edit: Deep Paint 3D is actually a lot more useful... and faster and less buggy to boot. And it can also paint in bump, alpha and shinyness layers at once, and even render the results right away. :D If it didn't cost so much it would be a good tool.

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 16 Jun 2006, 16:24

Sweet! I can load my 3d models into this! This is a great find, good job!

Spring RTS Engine

Forgotten Chronicles - Mod in Developement

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