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Newcomers DBPro Corner / MATRIX - Gaps between tiles

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Scraggle
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 09:27
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Hi - I've just written my first matrix and it has worked pretty well. All the textures are in the right place and it looks how I had imagined it should.

However there is a small gap between every tile and I can't figure out why it's there or how to get rid of it.

Any help would be appriciated - Thanks
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spooky
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 13:21
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It is not a gap, it is part of an adjacent tile that has 'bled' into ajoining textures. It is the most annoying bug with matrix textures and I believe update 5 will have more control of this.

The only way at present to eliminate the lines, is to set the filter value to 1 in the SET MATRIX command BUT you will lose all the nice smoothing. At least it looks neater. Maybe once U5 comes out we can revert back to normal.

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Puffy
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 13:51
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o_O I don't have that bug...

EVERYONE LOVES THE PUFF!... =\
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cabbage
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 16:45
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Quote: "o_O I don't have that bug..."


Puffy, try making a texture where one half is light blue and the other half is bright pink. prepare matrix texture to divide it into 2 tiles then texture your matrix with the blue half.

Set your camera so that its close to the matrix and looking a long the matrix. You should see a hiddeous pink bleed through in the distance. Well, technically you shouldnt... but you do.

Thats the bleed through that Sonic is refering to. Its not always visible if the matrix tiles from the texture image have similar colours.

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Scraggle
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Posted: 14th Jul 2003 21:31
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It's nasty! And all the more annoying that I can't do a damn thing about it.
Oh well patch 5 maybe....

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Puffy
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Posted: 15th Jul 2003 12:38 Edited at: 15th Jul 2003 12:39
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o_O I'm sorry... I just don't have that bug... my matrix's go together perfectly...



In another version of the same program I have a bright blue matrix in the lakebed and another one on the river... I still don't have that problem... o_O What videocards do you guys have?...

EVERYONE LOVES THE PUFF!... =\
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Mine is a Gainward Geforce 4 Ti4600 Golden Sample

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Carlitos
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WOW, thats an incredibly realistic matrix you have there Puffy, nicely done, WOW.
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Baneblade
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Nice One Puffy! Any chance you could post the source files?
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JamesBlond
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Looks really cool, but is it really a matrix or an object?

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So I smiled and was happy, and things got worse...
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Puffy
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Posted: 16th Jul 2003 03:24
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Its a matrix... =\ Its my on going example... o_O for a techdemo... I just cant be bothered to upload any new pics... trust me... everyone will get the code when I release the techdemo...

EVERYONE LOVES THE PUFF!... =\
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It's my guess that Puffy isn't using a normal texture image with the Prepare Matrix texture command - where the bug is in DBP, but rather a colourmap image overlaid onto the matrix. Patch 5 has a new TRIM parameter which will cure this problem.

If you use one large single colour image for the textures and overlay it, then each texture Prepare Matrix Texture creates is so similar, the bug doesn't show up.



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HZence
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Puffy, stop showing off that's the 2nd time in two different posts I've seen you flashing the matrix around.

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LuciferX
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he,he,he

cool matrix

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Eric T
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Quote: "Puffy, stop showing off that's the 2nd time in two different posts I've seen you flashing the matrix around.

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but why not, cause every on loves the puffs heightmap.

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