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FPSC Classic Models and Media / Decal creation help

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wizardious
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 04:00 Edited at: 31st Dec 2009 04:06
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I can't seem to get this fireworks decal to work I put the .bmp and the .fpe in the entity/generic/decal folder and the sound .wav file in the sounds/atmos folder, and it seems like everything is in order, but no fireworks.Scratching my head. If anyone with more experience with decals would take a look at the files, I sure would appreciate it.
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xplosys
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 04:25
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You should have a folder in the "gamecore\decals" folder named "blue fireworks" with the two files - decal.dds and decalspec.txt

This folder is called by the fpe file on this line:
decal0 = blue fireworks

Look at the other decals and you'll see the pattern.

Brian.

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wizardious
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 04:36
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cool xplosys, I totally missed that, duh
I will check it out and see if I can get it to work.
Thabks for the help!
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 04:39
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<grabs notebook> <writes down Xplosys explanation>

Same question, answer received. Thanks Brian.

Cheers

Mike

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wizardious
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 05:04
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okay
I created a decalspec text document, and converted the 64 by 64 .bmp image to .dds with Dxtbmp, and added them to a gamecore/decals/blue fireworks folder. Well. now at least I can see something, but all is a get is a bunch of blurry blue flashes on a flat plane. Any thoughts? (why me?)
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xplosys
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 05:14
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Quote: "and converted the 64 by 64 .bmp image to .dds"


I'm confused. Your "decal.dds" (and it should be named just like that, it's the folder that gets the decals name) should be the actual decal image, not a 64x64 thumbnail.

It should be a 512x512 or 1024x1024 image, made up of 16 smaller images (4x4) of the decal images. If all you see is blur, it's perhaps because your tiny image is being stretched to the size of a decal.

Brian.

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wizardious
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 05:38 Edited at: 31st Dec 2009 05:41
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So...
I converted the .dds to 1024 by 1024,voila! a clear image of the fireworks, however, it is still on a black plane. I thought...alpha! so using Dxtbmp I created an alpha channel (black). That got rid of the plane but now it looks like a cartoon fireworks. Here is a screenshot of what I have so far.
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xplosys
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Posted: 31st Dec 2009 05:55 Edited at: 31st Dec 2009 05:57
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Well look at it this way. All you have to do now is fix the image.

It looks like you need to clean the image. Whatever program you used to remove the background left a good bit of it on there and stretching a 64x64 image to 1024x1024 is going to make it grainy.

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