Ha! ... int Q1BSP_ClipDecal in FTEQW

[Baker]

There has always been the longstanding weirdness of decals sticking off the edge, maybe this could be applied to shadows somehow too.

[Baker]

Better illustration ... me slamming some rockets against a rotating brush model in both FTEGLQW (or software!) and DarkPlaces ...

FTEQW with the decal clipping ... nothing sticking off the brush



DarkPlaces ... the decals hang off the brush



If my memory is right, R00k has been long wanting something like this and Spike had the secret sauce in FTEQW

[Teiman]

But stainmaps can make something like that (on the bmodels too?) if all you want is a undetailed blob.

[Spike]

no, that is stainmaps.
yes, fte's stainmaps fade out.

clipped decals in fte are used only by defining a particle effect with 'type decal'. There are none built in that do this, and such particles must be static (although an emitting particle can spawn others that last only a frame).
q3's cgame can also use them.
the sw renderer has never supported the rendering of clipped decals.

sorry.

[Baker]

[r00k]

[Irritant]

[Sajt]

[jim]

[Baker]

Cool!

[Sajt]

I have noticed that they don't quite show up in the right spot on models. When shooting a grunt in the head, the decal might appear on his shoulder. LordHavoc has told me that this is a bug which needs to be fixed. Maybe this is why the new decal system isn't on by default yet.

[r00k]

[Sajt]

[qbism]

[Downsider]