Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 23 Jun 2012, 14:21
edit: with some help from jK i have it loading (and rendering!) the changed geometry. now for textures
woohoo!
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Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 14:14
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!
woohoo!
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 24 Jun 2012, 15:44
perhaps JK may be able to give insight on it?
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 25 Jun 2012, 08:27
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
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 07:34
Fixed the screwyness, but no show/hide 
So here it is :)
So here it is :)
Read me before downloading wrote: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
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 12:32
new version, should be 100% functional.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 12:47
acuelly is 99%
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 13:56
rubbishknorke wrote:acuelly is 99%
it's some other funky lua you got running probably.testmod works fine.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 14:10
can you upload the tutorialgame with the draw stuff inserted?
to test if it is a mod or computer thing.
to test if it is a mod or computer thing.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 26 Jun 2012, 21:14
Download this and it should work out of the box.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 27 Jun 2012, 13:03
getting some of the weird errors you reported last night knorke, no idea wtf is causing them 
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 13:55
this works.Pressure Line wrote:Download this and it should work out of the box.
just stupid guess, but could the problems be because not all textures have the same dimensions?
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 14:17
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
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
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 16:01
Is this just the texture attachment or actual piece attachment?
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 22:39
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.
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.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 28 Jun 2012, 23:29
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.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 00:05
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.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 01:44
I still feel the gadget needs a less 'general' name. Currently called "unit_draw.lua" not sure what else fits though 
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 03:16
s44 has a few.Pressure Line wrote: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.
Re: Attaching *models* onto *units*
Posted: 29 Jun 2012, 12:13
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
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