ground surrounding buildings

ohooli · Post by **ohooli** » 29 Apr 2007, 08:15

buildings should have cement or metal or whatever from around them, to add a more industrial look to the game.

AF · Post by AF » 29 Apr 2007, 08:28

We already have ground decals on buildings, this is a mod issue not an engine issue. It doesnt always look as good as you'd think though

ohooli · Post by **ohooli** » 29 Apr 2007, 08:32

alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

AF · Post by AF » 29 Apr 2007, 08:42

there're things like that in BA under factories.

1v0ry_k1ng · Post by **1v0ry_k1ng** » 29 Apr 2007, 11:13

ohooli wrote:alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

the only cool thing about it was the glowing wires when buildings were adjacent, otherwise it looked damn awful

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 29 Apr 2007, 12:32

ohooli wrote:alright, someone move this topic then. but what about in supreme commander, it had all that gray shit around the buildings, it looked real cool.

http://cs.selu.edu/~ssmith/BB/download.php?id=1181
ground decals.

Zpock · Post by **Zpock** » 29 Apr 2007, 13:51

How do you do it then?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 29 Apr 2007, 14:16

Tags in the FBI. Read the changelog.

smoth · Post by **smoth** » 29 Apr 2007, 14:16

Ground decals, they have been in gundam since I think 1.0.

BUT rather then make you dig in the wiki or gundam:

UseBuildingGroundDecal=1;
BuildingGroundDecalType=fstor.tga;
BuildingGroundDecalSizeX=4;
BuildingGroundDecalSizeY=4;
BuildingGroundDecalDecaySpeed=0.01;

the grouddecal image goees in the unittextures folder.

have fun

CRAB BATTLE!

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 29 Apr 2007, 15:21

For anyone wondering, the Decay Speed is how fast it disappears after the unit dies.

Fanger · Post by **Fanger** » 29 Apr 2007, 19:52

O RLY...

U SHURE?

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 Apr 2007, 21:49

So alpha gets reduced by 0.01 every frame?

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 29 Apr 2007, 22:56

I doubt it's per frame, in Gundam ground decals stay for quite some time.

rattle · Post by **rattle** » 29 Apr 2007, 23:06

Hmm... then it might be decay each 32 frames. Do they stay about 2 minutes in gundam?

zwzsg · Post by **zwzsg** » 29 Apr 2007, 23:58

By default, the number of ground decal is set to 0.

You have to go to the folder where you installed Spring, run settings.exe, then pull up the "Ground decals" slider. Btw:

Dear Devs, would you be as kind as to make it so the next Spring installer set that max ground decal bar a bit up? Many unsuspecting newbies have missed that awesome future, simply because it defaults to zero. Yes, for the few to non-existents people who really consciouly set that bar to zero, there would be the very minor annoyance having to put it back to null once after running the new Spring installer. But that is really nothing compared to the myriads of noobs who ignored the very existence of that feature and will suddenly be dazzled by that greatness of the ground decals. Pretty please?

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 30 Apr 2007, 01:49

Also major note: Ground decals DO NOT rotate with the building i.e. they always face south.

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 30 Apr 2007, 06:22

Isn't that on the large list of things to be changed eventually?

Sorry, someone called Crab Battle, and I was compelled.

j5mello · Post by **j5mello** » 30 Apr 2007, 16:35

are you talking about zwzsg's or my commment neddie?

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ground surrounding buildings

ground surrounding buildings