Quake Animated-REFLECTING-OVERLOAD

[nahuel]

Hi ATTACUE,
should I still release a copy from the progs.dat with "Lightning" only?
Seven made one for you and I dont know if you are still interested...?

Regard [email protected]

hello webangel, are you using a very small texture in dds format for the lightbeam model? i suggest you use iqm model !! i am using iqm and dds textures for lightbeam models (and other props) and there are very optimized to the job in darkplaces
please watch this
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pSEyqFIdwk]deadmorning - YouTube[/ame]
there are a really ammount of models and polys with channel alpha , everything with dds and iqm format

[Seven]

Hello Nahuel,

I am sure you still remember the time where you, webangel and all other involved people developed this lightbeam.
As you know, the performance impact is the most critical thing about it.
The visual is already really good.

So, if your "new way" for creating these kind of things will help the performance issue, it is exactly what we all need

Please contact webangel and sit together with her at one table to discuss it
I am very excited what the outcome will be.

Best of luck,
Seven

[webangel]

Hello Nahuel,
I have problems converting a mdl to iqm because the mdl has no bones.
This is the error message i get:

ERROR: IQM output is only supported for skeletal models!

Is there a trick or a tool for converting non-skeletal models?
I�m using Noesis for this....

Thanks!

@Seven
This was a great time

[nahuel]

Hello Nahuel,
I have problems converting a mdl to iqm because the mdl has no bones.
This is the error message i get:

ERROR: IQM output is only supported for skeletal models!

Is there a trick or a tool for converting non-skeletal models?
I�m using Noesis for this....

Thanks!

@Seven
This was a great time

well , i am using milkshape 3d and i will decompile the model and add bones and a nice shader to the work i will upload it today !

[webangel]

i will upload it today !

Great!

[nahuel]

hellow [email protected] please check my optimized beam light, i changed the model , the textures and the shaders, the key is not use advanced shaders (i believe) just add two effects = doublesided and fullbright, i added the effects via ent map , also i included editor of lights to qc seven 6 code, because edit lights is very ugly with commands in dead morning we edit lights with this easy editor very fast. I added some advanced stuff; now you can edit cubemaps (pressing u) and angles (toggle origin or angles edition with alt) if you want to acces to the editor press f7, if you want to save the lights pres "p"
mybeam.rar
Please do not use "item_luz" for cubemaps, are really not optimized!! to the work just use the editor of lights with two lights - one with cubemap and another with low value of radius and hight value ambient-
you can see how it works this combination here


In the zip i put an old rtlights file, please use this update
is very important for the correct work!!
start.rtlights


PS = i am using the cubemaps from this mod "animated reflecting overload"

[gdiddy62]

nahuel,
Can you please check your link for the start.rtlights file I can't get it to download. I was able to download the beam file.
Thanks

[nahuel]

nahuel,
Can you please check your link for the start.rtlights file I can't get it to download.
Thanks

use this
https://www.dropbox.com/s/oos933z0sf...start.rtlights

[webangel]

Wow, Thank you Nahuel,
I have to try this out right now!
From what I can see so far there are almost no FPS problems anymore....

[gdiddy62]

nahuel,
Thanks for the new link, but all I get is the option to download an html document? Perhaps your file name is off??

[MadGypsy]

ERROR: IQM output is only supported for skeletal models!

Couldn't you just add one bone? Just something to clear the error.

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Those images look amazing nahuel, awesome job!

[Poisonheadcrab]

I get the reflecting textures but for some reason I'm not getting the sweet lava haze effect or the portal fog.

[talisa]

@poison
those effects are not included in the ent-files that come with the overload mod. you would have to copy and paste them yourself out of different ent-files

if you want the lava-haze, ive posted ent-files which contain those here:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...tml#post129831


and the portal fog i dun recall where to find ent-files which contain those.
but i think seven included ent-files which have that effect with the smc: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod...mpilation.html

[Poisonheadcrab]

@poison
those effects are not included in the ent-files that come with the overload mod. you would have to copy and paste them yourself out of different ent-files

if you want the lava-haze, ive posted ent-files which contain those here:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...tml#post129831


and the portal fog i dun recall where to find ent-files which contain those.
but i think seven included ent-files which have that effect with the smc: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod...mpilation.html

Oh ok, thanks. The haze isn't as powerful as it looks in the pics but it still looks nice.

[talisa]

to adjust the intensity of the haze, edit the start_effectinfo.txt in your maps folder, and find the blocks like these:

effect testhardentrance	   //  test rising lava haze in hard entrance
countabsolute 0.1
type smoke
color 0x6f0f00 0xe3974f  
tex 0 7 //48 55
size 2 4
alpha 50 80 7
sizeincrease 3.2
originoffset 0 10 0
originjitter 160 200 0
velocityjitter 4 5 2
velocitymultiplier 0.01
gravity -0.004
bounce 1

to increase the intensity of the haze, you'll be wanting to adjust the countabsolute line. higher values result in heavier haze.

more intense haze also means higher impact on performance, to much haze can seriously kill your framerate.
as it is right now it already has quite an impact on performance