Spring RTS Engine

Hi, its me, that crazy fool.

Now that the new unit format is out, with its flashy texture mapping, I was wondering if anyone actully knew how to use it? I dont have a clue what your ment to do or how it works, which is a problem seeing as you can use it for features to (which i intend to) and I cant get my stuff finshed till either I know how to do it myself, or someone that has more expriance in texturing moddels gives me a hand.

So, if you want to help in either way, please do!

aGorm

UV mapping texturing is very popular in the gaming industry. They've been using it in HL for ages. The NS (HL mod) forums are down, which is where I would normally go to find you a tutorial for UV mapping, but I'm sure either someone else knows where it can be found or can discribe the process themselfs... You might have some luck poking around the forums for any of the popular HL modeling sites, they should have relevent tutorials available.

Ahh, but from what i've read, its a little different in spring... Like you have to have certain programs and do funny exports and stuff... I'm intrested as to how you get the stuff into Spring as welkl as how the hell you actully do it!

aGorm

I would be very interested in seeing modelling/texturing tutorial(s) for the .3so format as well.

Same here. Pretty models coming out my ears.... no textures...

You might want to try some tutorials on Ultimate Unwrap 3D. Unfortunately this program is shareware, but it's very good at what it does.

http://www.unwrap3d.com/tutorials.aspx

The UV mapping process is the same as in any other game with UV texturemaps (Basically every game with textures). When I have finished my upspring 3D editor I post some extra info on what steps you actually have to perform to get from model editor data to spring s3o model.

I haven't had any success with texxing in UpSpring, I managed to get a few mapped s3os into Spring with the max plugin though

FLOZi wrote:I haven't had any success with texxing in UpSpring, I managed to get a few mapped s3os into Spring with the max plugin though

More then most of us. I'm still stuck in the "can't find the texture" stage.
Every object come out black (or blue if they arn't textured).

Its a tutorial from a different game... but it works all the same..

here's a linky

http://www.lancersreactor.com/t/forum/t ... ng&M=False


that should help

Wow... thier web adress is like 1 meg...

Zenka wrote:

FLOZi wrote:I haven't had any success with texxing in UpSpring, I managed to get a few mapped s3os into Spring with the max plugin though

More then most of us. I'm still stuck in the "can't find the texture" stage.
Every object come out black (or blue if they arn't textured).

Often hit that barrier myself; make sure your texture has a blank alpha layer.

Blank as in no alpha saved OR saved with an alpha that gives no transparency?

I am pretty sure I've drawn things in that channel as a test.

And where does this "can't find the texture" message appear? I don't remember seeing that.

i made a new mask, set its transparency to 100% and saved it to the alpha, seemed to work, though I can't figure out how to then edit the texture once its been saved like that.

I'll be saving a copy in a layered format for future editing. But psp will allow you to make a mask from source transparency so that is an option.