drake power-ups HD

[talisa]

dun' be touchin mah loot, ya maggot!

gem3 is done

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also, i noticed when testing in-game the animations of the diamond-shaped gems werent correct, especially of the one which doesnt rotate.
when i checked the model in noesis and then looked in blender, i noticed that for unknown reason blender saw twice the amount frames then there really were.
and i had replicated the doubled frames blender saw, which resulted in stuff like this in-game:



so i went and fixed the gem so the frames are correct


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[Sza]

everythings look great but you need envmaps for the glass thing and the diamond.

[talisa]

you must mean cubemaps.
and yes i do intend to include them with the gems.

but for some reason i cant get cubemaps to work when a model also uses skin-files

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if someone knows why i cant seem to get cubemaps to work for my items which also include skin-files, that would be great

just have a look at my quartz-flask for example, i included cube-maps with those but for whatever reason they dun wanna work.
while on the version for nsoe which doesnt include skin-files the cubemap works fine, and the way of adding cubemap is the exact same

[Sza]

Cubemap and Envmap are the same things, but both are using little bit different looking textures. Cubemap is used most with maps not models. I will try to help you. I will ask my programmer/3d modeller, may be he will know how to do this. Personally i think you need to make a new mtr.

[talisa]

just started on gem2, the emerald-cut one



used pictures of real gems of this type as reference for the shape of it just like i did with the other gems

[talisa]

update: just UV-mapped the gem

[talisa]

christmas comes early this year... more shinies for everyone! (just to bad they aint real, right?)

gem2, the emerald-cut one is done too

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[talisa]

@sza
if you or that person you said you'd contact happens to be able to figure out why my cubemaps dont work
on the models which i also added skin-files for, let me know what i did wrong in what i did and how to fix it.

and i will update my pk3s with fixed version, and will add cubemaps to my gems

[JDSTONE]

the gems look good i like how transparent they look. if you could make them even more transparent that would be cool even the bigger ones. keep up the good work. even google is giving you props

[IronWarfare]

Yesterday I've tested the gems, even if they look very good, one of them is bugged, and alternate its color between yellow and red. Tried on map nsoe6

[Sza]

@Talisa Yo i am already working on it.

Update: I think i have found something! Its exactly what iv sayd. You need to write new material. Material creation for DP | QuakeWiki Inside3d Forums &bull; View topic - dp_reflectcube and envmap I think you can find the same in the DP manual.

Make a text data with (for example) .mtr at the end. Is a material not a shader!

For example

Lightmapped material with reflection cubemap and dpmeshcollisions

textures/texturepackname/texturename 
{
 dpreflectcube textures/texturepackname/reflect1
 dpmeshcollisions
 {
   map $lightmap
   rgbGen identity
   tcGen lightmap
 }
 {
   map textures/texturepackname/texturename
   rgbGen identity
   blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
 }

}

or

textures/tech_metal
{
   qer_editorimage textures/tech_metal.jpg
   {
      map textures/tech_metal.jpg
      blendfunc blend
   }
   dpreflectcube cubemaps/chip/chip
   {
      map $lightmap
      blendfunc add
   }
}

Here u can see a small example ChipQuake Metal Cube on Vimeo

I want to know if it works if yes the effect will looking be bad ass.

[MadGypsy]

@JD [screenshot] - I noticed that the other day. I meant to say something about it and forgot. I guess that sums up how to get your name on Google. Just post a whole lot from a thread you created. At least, that's my best guess. That's what I was doing when my name was there and that's what she is doing now.

Then again, maybe Solecord put it there. I honestly don't understand or have knowledge about that little portion of a search result. This is all a guess.

[JDSTONE]

I think is kinda cool the way it works however it dose. its like marquee and if your kicking ass your name just ends up there. way off topic but "jdstoner" use to be some neo natze when you googled the name now its just covered in quake pics! my name may never be on the quake marquee. but all the other jdstoners hate speech is now drowned out by my love for quake!

-sorry talisa way off topic me and mg needed a little bonding time hope you dont get pissed off we did it at your table

now back to drake...
how are the new nikes coming along?...

[talisa]

@Sza
what you wrote up in that second block is actually pretty much what was in my shader-files now...

it also has been pointed out in another thread by spike before that the 'lightmap' and 'blendfunc' functions both do NOT work on objects but only on brushes

why does your shader use two separate lightmap passes on a surface that doesn't even support lightmaps? :s
also, 'rgbGen identity' means you'll get fullbright model lighting with no bsp-based lighting at all.
'depthFunc equal' is also dodgy as hell.

so those are completely pointless to add. however i did have a look at your second block and noticed the use of the addition of 'qer_editorimage' function, which my shader didnt have.

tried adding that function to my shader, and...

now the cubemaps work, with this function added

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@ironwarfare
thats not bugged, this is normal behaviour of the Nsoe gems.
just try playing without my HD models and you'll see the original gems do this too sometimes

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@JD and gypsy
huzzah for being a search-result on google
kinda fun to see. but meh, in the end nobody cares

@JD
i personally think the transparency is good now. to much and the gems will look to glass-like and they'll look fake.
real gems are also only slightly transparent and not as transparent like glass


i also havent really worked on anything new yet. i did start on the Nsoe chest but something went wrong during modelling and i threw the little i had away

i did play around a bit with HD replacement textures for maps and fixed up some for unforgiven! did nearly all textures for the start-map of unforgiven
but ill get back on that another time, after im done with models i intend to mebbe start on making a HD-textures replacement-pack for unforgiven and wicked both

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anyway, since i found what i need to change about my shader to make the cubemaps work,
ill be fixing my shader-files for flasks, and will be adding cubemaps to all of the gems

[talisa]

just updated all gems, the coins, and the flasks both to include reflect-maps now that thanx to Sza's post i figured out how to make reflect work when combined with skin-files!

also changed to a different cubemap which is more fitting, one made in a medieval-map instead of a base-map


find links to updated versions in first post of thread

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EDIT: also updated the pics of gems and coins with new ones.
still pics cant really do such an effect justice, but even on pics its quite noticable