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Newcomers DBPro Corner / Background 'leaks' into my .x map

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Bauhaus
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I made a simple room in 3DWS and then imported it in DBPro, but the blue backdrop leaks into the map. When Im far away from a wall, almost the whole wall is blue, but when I get closer to that wall the blue backdrop gets smaller until it disappears in the corners of the room. Anyone know what could cause this ?
(I put the files in attachment.)

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BMacZero
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 01:00 Edited at: 6th Dec 2008 01:01
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Sounds like the camera is clipping the wall because it's too far away. You can either scale everything down, try experimenting with SET CAMERA CLIP, and/or use COLOR BACKDROP to make the background a color less noticeable than the blue.

SET CAMERA CLIP will be the best solution, and you should use COLOR BACKDROP as well just in case.

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Bauhaus
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There isnt a 'set camera clip' command available, but I tried 'set camera range' and that works. Unfortunately the blue backdrop is still visible on an object that uses tranceparency... I changed the flag value for 'set object transparency' from 2 to 4 and the backdrop is gone now but the texture looks ugly and is only visible at close range.
Any suggestions how to solve this ?
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Jane Doe
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Posted: 6th Dec 2008 06:54
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I think what bmaczero meant to suggest was SET CAMERA RANGE.

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Yeah, that's the one. Gotta remember to type these things in to the editor before I post them.

For the transparent sections, you should probably just make a skysphere - an inside-out sphere with a sky texture on it - and place it around the whole model. Either that or use COLOR BACKDROP to change the blue to something that would fit better.

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But using color backdrop or a skybox, I would lose the transparency...so basically it isnt possible to use a texture with transparency on an object ??
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Your attachment is almost useless - there's a bit of code in there that may be runnable with the addition of a DBA file from sparkys, there's no model, no screenshots, nothing.

Perhaps you might produce a runnable piece of code + media, a good explanation of what is wrong and what you want to see, then we can get right on it.

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Woops, forgot to include the .X file.
Uploaded it again, this time I also included a screenshot.

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Quote: "There isnt a 'set camera clip' command available, but I tried 'set camera range' and that works."


Actually, there is a SET CAMERA CLIP command. It's used to set a camera clipping plane which is usually used to integrate the images from multiple cameras.

SET CAMERA CLIP CameraNumber, On/Off, PositionX, PositionY, PositionZ, NormalX, NormalY, NormalZ

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Try setting your object transparency type to either 4 or 6 - they each seem to do the job.

You'll also need to play around with the texture on the grid-walkways. The 'blue' you'll see there is being caused by the fading between no-alpha and full-alpha. I tried disabling mipmapping of textures on the object to remove this, but it looks worse that way. Unfortunately, there's no limb-specific command for that - something I'll need to look into for my plug-ins.

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Quote: "Actually, there is a SET CAMERA CLIP command. It's used to set a camera clipping plane which is usually used to integrate the images from multiple cameras."

Well, my DBPro doesnt recognize it...perhaps its only available in newer versions.

Quote: "Try setting your object transparency type to either 4 or 6 - they each seem to do the job."

Allready tried that, but texture looks ugly and is only visible at close range.
Anyway, will try to figure out a way to solve it.

Thanks for the replies, folks.
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