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Kale
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 20:50 Edited at: 2nd May 2003 21:13
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Got bored this week so i started a tech demo to show off some nice gfx and stuff, this is as far as i've got:



just terrain stuff for now. I keep running into loads of bugs and its made me mad, created a model in gmax, exported it as MD3, converted to 3DS in Milkshape, used Lithium unwrapper to skin it with quick texture, loaded it into my DB project and it worked fine! opened up the quick texture in Photoshop and added detail, pressed save and then quit, now my DB project crashes each time i compile!!! grrr... so i'll get back to it sometime, maybe after a bug fix or 2.

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Kale
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 20:50 Edited at: 2nd May 2003 21:14
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xtom
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 21:38
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Looks excellent. How do terrains compare to matrices? From your screenshots terrain graphics look sweet.
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hexGEAR
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 22:03
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wow man, i thought that was made using matrices, i was afraid i still had a lot to learn. How professional does that look! i gues the only problem with using that over a regular matrix would be that you cannot take advantage over the many matrix commands, especially get matrix height although you could make an invisible matrix with roughly the same shape and position and use that for calculations while using this for looks

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Kale
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 22:26
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sorry (my misuse of words) when i said terrain stuff done, i meant i have just done terrain stuff using matrix's not the terrain commands! (there no-way near finished yet)

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Kale
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Posted: 9th Jan 2003 22:43
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using the Terrain 'commands' lol.... :


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Matto
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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 02:34
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heh, the matrices are looking very sweet, I am sorry I can't say the same for the Terrain ones lol.

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Redmotion
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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 19:41
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Kale,
Looking great! Just curious: is the mapping just one LARGE map or a number of them (fading from dark to light?)
What is "quick texture"? is just a way of painting a large bitmap directly onto the matrix?
Try saving the map as a different type of file in Photoshop. TGA might work. Or a different compression standard for the JPG????

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Kangaroo2
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Posted: 21st Jan 2003 21:26
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Great textures, cool sky

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indi
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Posted: 23rd Jan 2003 08:38
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great visuals in those mountains

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Kale
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Posted: 25th Jan 2003 21:24
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The terrain is just one large image tiled on to the matrix. Im looking in to matrix normals to give it nice shadowing on the hills The reference to a quick texture is just a simple low resolution image mapped to the 3d models im gonna put in, just as temporary textures, before i spend more time creating them properly in photoshop.

I have found some great ways of using grayscale terrain maps to aid in 'terraforming' and drawing textures for the matrix. I can't wait until the actual terrain commands are debugged, a LOD'ed terrain would provide a great boost in frames per second.

example of a 'quick texture'


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Epidemicz
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Kale:
Christ those screen shots look sweet... Are you going to give us an .exe?

Another thing....I'm a little confused on how you made the ground; is it a model, matrix or...? If it is a matrix, what did you use to mold it? Or did you say you made it in g-max? In that case it couldn't be a matrix.... -> I'm confused heh.

Nevertheless, that is great work man.

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Kale
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Posted: 26th Jan 2003 04:20
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The ground is a matrix, 'terraformed' using a grayscale image and a custom heightmap function. After Patch v4 is upon us i will continue dev on this project and post a *.exe

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Eddie Gordo
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Posted: 26th Jan 2003 04:48
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Great Pics, Very Jibba

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Posted: 26th Jan 2003 05:55
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Good God those are sexy...errrrr ROCK ON!

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