Spring RTS Engine

That guy must look hilarious out in public doing that...

Alright, I lol'd...

SpikedHelmet wrote:What's a colormap?

S3o files have 2 textures:

Texture one covers :
Alpha: team color
RGB channels: main texture

Texture two covers:
Green channel: reflections
Red channel: Glow map
Alpha channel: alpha(but be carefull, only people witg unit reflections on can see these)

I can explain in monkey detail (as it was explained to me just a week ago) how to do it in Photoshop, bother me on MSN sometime.

Tank texture looks good; but I'd agree with Argh regarding contrast bits and the need to put some dirt/grit on

I use PSP. Also, I don't do the textures. Well, I do the art part, and Flozi takes it and does all of that crap to it.

M4A3 w/ 76mm; Sherman on Crack.

Three down, two to go! Then like 57 derivative vehicles...

SpikedHelmet wrote:I use PSP. Also, I don't do the textures. Well, I do the art part, and Flozi takes it and does all of that crap to it.

Textures are part of the artwork, for your information.

What I mean to say, is that I make a .png of the skin. Then Flozi takes it and actually turns it into a proper skin with the different layers and all of that bullcrap.

If you learn how to do teamcolour, you can do really cool things, ie:

http://www.onebob.co.uk/darren/screens/gen1.jpg
(Energy generator for SWS by aGorm)

You could make things like those bright patches on the tank look a lot more integrated with the skin (by looking gritty, etc). Not that the tank looks bad, it's just worth mastering.

I'd make the area the alpha channel covers on the texture either solid black or at least grayscale. Some random noise on the alpha channel can help and outlines on the texture in general.

Instead of solid team color you could apply the texture to the alpha channel so details don't get totally lost.

POORLY LIT TANKS ARE POORLY LIT!!!

can we have pics on a map with more light mayhaps?? those things look like they are rolling out at sunset..

I don't know what's wrong with you people. I can see the things perfecty fine. However I shall humour you:



Is that good enough?

As for teamcolous: NO! I refuse to learn how to do them!