Reply With QuoteNope.Originally Posted by Bikerdude
LOL, Im not a dromeder, I was just curious to know if it could be done and after your explaination I now know why people dont. Btw, does dromed take advantage of multiple cpu cores or even use the gfx card when rendering btw..?
Nope.
Yep, brushes. Judging from previous posts in this thread, that might need to change. I should spend some time getting more familiar with anim8tor.
Having picked up the baton again having last shown screenies about three years ago I thought I'd do an update.
I'm painfully well aware that there's lots of niggly problems if you look hard enough (no prizes though)! Never mind, I just wanted to show them to someone other than my partner and daughter. Oh, and there's lots of AI and object placement and scripting to do yet.
If you can come away with it , I would leave them for now... you can allways change them if needed....( if miss dromed is acting up because of them...)
nice looking casalor!!!
I found both tips when searching. A third was to move the room brush with id 0 to solid and replace it with a new one. For me it helped to rebuild the pathfinding database, but I also rebuilt the other databases to be safe... and then I shutdown my computer and let it rest for a whileI checked out the "offending" room brush, but I couldn't find anything wrong with it, so I left it alone, and the error was gone already anyway.
casalor: nice. I recognize some scenes from before. Especially like the ruined chapel area with the haunts.
Frequency modulation.
That looks promising. Good work, LarryG!
I've done something similar.I found both tips when searching. A third was to move the room brush with id 0 to solid and replace it with a new one. For me it helped to rebuild the pathfinding database, but I also rebuilt the other databases to be safe... and then I shutdown my computer and let it rest for a while
- moved the brush way away into solid space
- replaced it in the 'world'
- ran build room database,
- ran AI database
- go back to run pathfinding database
Always seems to work for me. Then again, I could have been exceptionally lucky.
Btw, Thanks Nightshifter and Phantom.
Great, Larry! I assume the display is an animated sine wave or something similar?
I assume that when Garrett makes a sound it affects the waveformIt could be used as a lock mechanism: To open the safe, Garrett must create the correct waveform by dropping a crate and jump at the same time
Anyway, it looks good and gritty.
Yep. With the freqency gradually increased and then decreased again so that it is interesting to look at. Only 6 frames, but it looks pretty good.
Cool, but why not more frames? With model tweqs you're limited to 6, but with animated textures you're not. Also, in case you didn't know, you can control the speed of the animation using the Renderer > Texture Anim Data property.
I thought animated textures were limited to something like 10 frames, no?
Could be, but water, for example, is not so I assumed object textures would enjoy the same benefits as terrain textures. I'm probably wrong, though. But 10 is still better than 6.
It looked good, and I got tired.
How do you do that with a brush? This is not an object, but a texture applied to a solid brush.
Add it to the texture itself in the Texture hierarchy.
20 frames. 10 if the textures are 256x256.
The sine animation would look better if the wave spread out from the center instead of just ping-ponging from the side.
Couldn't that be overcome by using smaller textures and then using DDFix's high resolution texture support to replace those textures?
It would. I agree. But that's the sample video that I found. You gotta admit it looks different, expanding and contracting from the side that way. Since I have up to 10 frames (not counting the "off" frame, right?) I may try to find a different video sample to work with.
Ah! I would never have thought of that.
If memory serves, you can set specific texture animations to "bounce" mode (or something like that), which would be ideal for the animation you've created. I've never tested it though.
It's something I've been thinking about. Would kill two birds with one stone, regarding the crashes in SS2 with SHEMP applied. The thought of redoing all those animations though.... arghhh....
Even tweening and a doubled framerate would look better.
Of course, someone would have to update all the texture mappings again to reflect the smaller textures size.
Damn it, I will have to go on vacation tomorrow, which means no DromEd for a whole week
I think this is worth to be mentioned hereDamn it, I will have to go on vacation tomorrow, which means no DromEd for a whole week
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