now all we need is some way to make those wheels rotate and tilt
That woud be great, but there are two problems:
1. The shaows on the wheels are not real. It is only a texture. So t's impossible to make nice rotating wheels using this method of creating shadows.
2. The warzone's animation method is quite unusual.
But rotating whees are not important, as i see. Wheeled vehicles are fast and it's very difficult to see whether the wheels rotate or not.
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Not to steal your thunder, if you want, you could be a texturer on my project. My tech project will be finished by today or tomorrow and then I can get to work on making the light cannon. Having someone else do the models will certainly free up a lot of your time...and your textures will probably be better than what I had originally planned, which was to have someone else draw the textures on paper which I would then scan in and resize and refit (although that would have an interesting look to it, come to think...)
eikei wrote:
I'm going to continue creating new mdels and textures for wz. The only prblem is that I have not much time for it now and that's too bad >:(
Just curious did you create that viper body and wheel propulsion with pie slicer?and what is the size of the body/wheel texture?
tasks postponed until the trunk is relatively stable again.
eikei wrote:
Yas, I used PieSlicer to create the models. The size of textures is 256x256 for each model. PieSlicer cannot work with larger textures as you know.
yes, but you can multiply all texture coords by 4 after you're done with pie slicer, and it should immediately work with 1024x1024 textures.
eikei wrote:
I think 1024x1024 is too large for vehicles. But it would be good for buildings for exumple.
Yes that's right. I ve been thinking about this before and came t the conclusion that using a single texture file per model was the most logical and easy choice. Like you said, small models quite use 256*256 or even smaller textures and large models like buildings could use large ones. This way you also don't have to bother accidentally breaking other models textures. But as far as i know there's still a limit to the amount of texpages warzone can read. As long as that's not replaced, we can forget about making separate textures for each model.
i was just thinking of something, as far as i know, throughout the history of warfare, the hardware used was always marked with the flag,logo,... of the side that used it. Wouldn't it be nice if your white logo on the side of the wheels would be replaced by the project logo? It would've looked really bad in the old textures but with the improved resolution used by these models, it could look really great :p
edit: building on the previous: What if all factions in game could have their own textures? These would replace the kinda boring team colors. I m not sayingthey would have to be completely different for each faction but changing a logo and some colors would be nice
Hatsjoe wrote:
i was just thinking of something, as far as i know, throughout the history of warfare, the hardware used was always marked with the flag,logo,... of the side that used it. Wouldn't it be nice if your white logo on the side of the wheels would be replaced by the project logo? It would've looked really bad in the old textures but with the improved resolution used by these models, it could look really great :p
... i think that "white logo" is the project logo, and if so, i think it's a really damned stylish representation, so i'm personally in favor of keeping it exactly as it is, or leaving it to eikei's discretion.
Hatsjoe wrote:
edit: building on the previous: What if all factions in game could have their own textures? These would replace the kinda boring team colors. I m not sayingthey would have to be completely different for each faction but changing a logo and some colors would be nice
not tough to do, since you can do whatever you want with team colors -- i did just that for my (abandoned) world war 2 mod.
kage wrote:
... i think that "white logo" is the project logo, and if so, i think it's a really damned stylish representation, so i'm personally in favor of keeping it exactly as it is, or leaving it to eikei's discretion.
I first thought the same. hopefully eikei can confirm
kage wrote:
not tough to do, since you can do whatever you want with team colors -- i did just that for my (abandoned) world war 2 mod.
kage wrote:
yes, but you can multiply all texture coords by 4 after you're done with pie slicer, and it should immediately work with 1024x1024 textures.
No, need to modify any texture coordinates at all. All you need to do is swap out the 256x256 texture with one of your own size.
You do not need to modify anything about the PIE file as long as you keep the relative positions in your textures the same. So you only need to use a 256x256 texture with PIEslicer, just swap that in warzone with a 512x512 one for example. (Warzone automatically recalculates the texture coordinates to fit correctly.)
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i see... so if the pie asks for a 256 256 texpage, and the texpage is actually some multiple of two that's larger than that, warzone will automatically adjust texture coords as necessary? what if you have the pie ask for, say, a 512 512 texture? also, what's the largest supported texpage resolution atm?
In my new textures project, all textures are 1024*1024 with 32bit colors... I'm replacing the textures with extremelly real textures, then, you think the graphics are cool even if the zoom are maxed =]
Damn, these look good!