Spring RTS Engine

Hi!

I wanted to do a little joke unit to try out the s3o format a bit and for a short spoof movie but now I'm stuck. After solving the usual beginner problems I now don't know what's wrong:

My problem is that the unit itself is fine in Upspring but not ingame. That is the unit shows up (i.e. I have given it a radius and so on) but the UV mapping has gone mad...

Here a screen from Upspring:


And ingame:


I don't know what's causing this. Well maybe one thing: Do s3o models have to be "closed" (you know - the same thing you need to have proper stencil shadows)? Because one part isn't and right now that's the only flaw I can think of...

Thanks in advance!

Spring loads all non-dds textures upside down. Just convert it to dds, or flip it vertically.

Thanks - that's the detail I missed...

That is the most nonsensical UV map I think I have ever seen...

Nice duck, how many polys?

SwiftSpear wrote:That is the most nonsensical UV map I think I have ever seen...

I agree - this is something only an auto-algorithm would produce...

KingRaptor wrote:Nice duck, how many polys?

It's about 4000 I think. Now don't argue with poly efficency this is just a 5-10 minute basic mesh with some subdivision thrown at...

Lol - I once thought of a mod just with toys like this so maybe I'll somewhen do a serious approach on such a duck...

I did this after quitting googling for a good free model after ten minutes and only finding things like this:
http://www.the3dstudio.com/product_deta ... duct=22586
I mean seriously - 25$ ???
And that was one of the cheaper versions...

BTW:
As the pure yellow texture didn't look good ingame I invested another minute or two and now it looks like this:

It may have its video debut this evening so stay tuned...
Oh yeah and
BEWARE OF THE ALLMIGHTY RUBERDUCK!!!!

You should make an animal based mod

SEX !

/me waits for the map that looks like a bathtub, complete with the ring around the outside to build on, and floating rubber ducks...

Im waiting for a skunk artillery unit.

That duck would rock as a gaia unit, randomly wandering around the map...

LathanStanley wrote:/me waits for the map that looks like a bathtub, complete with the ring around the outside to build on, and floating rubber ducks...

Or a giant toilet with turds floating about...