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DarkBASIC Professional Discussion / Object's appearence

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SageTech
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Posted: 18th Jun 2005 15:17
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Hi,

Lately ive expierenced a problem with objects looking really shabby. I cant really explain what i mean by shabby but the picture can. Im not sure why this is but no matter what the object is moddeled in the kinda broken up look always apears. Any help is much aprcieted.

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Scorpyo
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Posted: 18th Jun 2005 17:07
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judging by the looks i see 3 possible problems:

1) UV texturing, looks like planar mapping, placed vertical, which makes the stretchy look of the texture especially visible at the objects base. Try box or face mapping instead.

2) visually broken polys due to usage of double layer materials in the modeler, the opposite faces are so close that they mess up the rendering, creating void cracks or mixes.

3) near camera range value too high, polygons close to each other don 't render well (as in above case) and get mixed up, try small real numbers like 0.1

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Dom
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Posted: 18th Jun 2005 18:20
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Yeah that looks like the polygons on the bottom of the model are too close to the ones facing the camera so DarkBASIC cannot decide which one to render first so it kinda messes up


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SageTech
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Posted: 20th Jun 2005 10:43
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odly enough, increasing the near value helps, thanks.

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Yes you're right, i forgot it works the other way round: the farer or smaller you go the higher near camera value you need to avoid messy cracks.
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Keaz
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Posted: 21st Jun 2005 04:40
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Speaking of UV mapping do you know of a free/lowcost UV mapping utility for *.x models

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lithium unwrap (lith unwrap) google it

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HEy, what kinda game is that? Sim City clone? Looks interesting

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http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&t=53320&b=8&p=2

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Thx, but the lithunwrap link is broke.

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Um... there is no link to lithunwrap as far as i can see...only the one to 'Mayor'

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