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MikeS

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Posted: 26th Nov 2004 07:03

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Ahh, thank you Nicholas. My problems are solved with the diffusion of colors.

Van, I also took a little bit from your snippet and applied it to my landscape, and it looks all the more sharper.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2004 10:25

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Quote: "when I apply a dark texture to the landscape, it's practically black.
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I had the same problem.

I thought for vert color to work, the object had to have light.

Quote: "Note that there were rumblings from the TGC camp about a built in DBPro lightmapper - I think FPSC is using it already"

If so, d/l PE Explorer and browse the DLL's in the latest patch. See if any new commands come up.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2004 10:47

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You don't have to have lighting when setting up the vert colors. At least, I don't since I'm assigning the colors manually when the matrix is created.

If you leave lighting on, and then do something like

set object specular 1,rgb(0,0,0)

your texture should show up perfectly.

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Posted: 26th Nov 2004 11:12

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I should correct myself. By default, lighting is on ,on all objects when first created or imported. So I cannot be for sure what would happen if I were to disable all lighting on an object before it was created, and applied vert colors(Since like I said, I apply them manually).

Anyways...

Here's another screenie(changed terrain to green) of my terrain. This time it's a render inside of Truespace 6.6.

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Interestingly enough, it held its color and vert colors which is a good sign. The bad(or maybe good?), is that it's impossible for me to change the color of the model inside Truespace. I could apply effects like bumpmapping to the object, change the color of the terrain, yet it'd still render out as green(with whatever effects I apply).

So at least I know the save mesh command holds the important information now.

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Posted: 29th Nov 2004 03:38

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Still playing around with my terrain. Blend mapping, detail mapping, etc. didn't work, although that's old news.

Just thought that I'd like to point out that mip-mapping is definitly better when set on (At least in this scenario). I got nearly twice the framerate, and the terrain looks so much smoother.

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Posted: 30th Nov 2004 07:20

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I still need to figure out how to make a huge landscape with very hq textures on it. There is an example in the codebase with memblock matrix. That one looks pretty awesome.

Btw, VanB, maybe you know;

You know the game DeltaForce eh?
The 'grass' on the landscape is 3D so you can lay in it. (Cant explain it better). Is there a way to make something like the deltaforce terrains in DBP ?

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