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Lightning on a local model #55014 09/15/05 15:10 09/15/05 15:10
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16 R RcSepp OP Newbie
RcSepp OP Newbie R Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16	Hi everyone I'm making a first-person-shooter game and in all first-person-shooters you need a weapon hanging around like a panel on the screen. The easyest way to show this weapon is to make a runtime created entity. The problem is: There are no lightning effects on such an entity. Tell me one modern shooter with no lightning-effects on the weapon. So: Is there a way to add a bit of lightning or brightness effects to a runtime created entity through shader materials? Please help. I can't sell a game without those effects. greetings RcSepp

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: RcSepp] #55015 09/15/05 15:20 09/15/05 15:20
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 401 Germany, Bonn VampireLord Senior Member
VampireLord Senior Member Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 401 Germany, Bonn	An easier solution to this is create a model via ent_create and have it attached to say the player hand... This behaves like a normal model then Greetings "Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds, toward heaven; that is by letter written with their quills." - Leonardo da Vinci Wer mir eine e-mail schicken will ersetze ANTISPAM durch @ If you want to send me an email replace ANTISPAM by @

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: VampireLord] #55016 09/15/05 15:31 09/15/05 15:31
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16 R RcSepp OP Newbie
RcSepp OP Newbie R Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16	the local player weapon (seen by the player) is more detailed than the normal one (seen by other players in a multiplayergame) attaching the local weapon to the hand means that the local weapon = the normal weapon and: how can I protect the program from in the wall sticking local weapons than?

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: RcSepp] #55017 09/15/05 15:55 09/15/05 15:55
Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 401 Germany, Bonn VampireLord Senior Member
VampireLord Senior Member Joined: Dec 2003 Posts: 401 Germany, Bonn	question 1: use lod at extreme stages "Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds, toward heaven; that is by letter written with their quills." - Leonardo da Vinci Wer mir eine e-mail schicken will ersetze ANTISPAM durch @ If you want to send me an email replace ANTISPAM by @

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: VampireLord] #55018 09/15/05 18:35 09/15/05 18:35
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 54 I iWaNtToKnOw Junior Member
iWaNtToKnOw Junior Member I Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 54	try this in the multi-player shooter: create the detailed "View" weapon with ent_createlocal and then the Player weapon with ent_create. doing this, you create a weapon that only belongs to your computer and a weapon that all player see. Tell Me, iWaNtToKnOw!

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: RcSepp] #55019 09/15/05 19:09 09/15/05 19:09
Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 295 OptimuS Member
OptimuS Member Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 295	In AUM there is a script that checks how bright is where your model is(the player) like for hiding in the shadows , use this with setting brightness of the weapon maby ?

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: RcSepp] #55020 09/15/05 22:27 09/15/05 22:27
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,900 Bielefeld, Germany Pappenheimer Senior Expert
Pappenheimer Senior Expert Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,900 Bielefeld, Germany	Maybe the advanced ffp tutorial in the wiki helps. http://www.puppenheim.org/ http://www.wuerfels-welt.de Old Game Tutorial: http://www.puppenheim.org/MITutorial.zip Free Game Editor: http://puppenheim.org/AlienalsWeihnachtsmann.zip http://www.puppenheim.org/blender_starting_main_settings.txt

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: Pappenheimer] #55021 09/15/05 22:33 09/15/05 22:33
Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,214 Austin, Texas Josh_Arldt Senior Developer
Josh_Arldt Senior Developer Joined: Sep 2004 Posts: 1,214 Austin, Texas	Quote: Maybe the advanced ffp tutorial in the wiki helps. I don't think so in this case. Something he could maybe try doing is passing the players lighting to his weapon. This thread seems like it belongs in either the scripting forum or the multiplayer forum and should be moved. humansandbag@hotmail.com Sabbath Software

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: Josh_Arldt] #55022 09/16/05 12:42 09/16/05 12:42
Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,900 Bielefeld, Germany Pappenheimer Senior Expert
Pappenheimer Senior Expert Joined: Sep 2003 Posts: 5,900 Bielefeld, Germany	Quote: Quote: Maybe the advanced ffp tutorial in the wiki helps. I don't think so in this case. Something he could maybe try doing is passing the players lighting to his weapon. This thread seems like it belongs in either the scripting forum or the multiplayer forum and should be moved. What I refer to is the shadow of plants on the weapon in FarCry. I think, they are shifting a second texture with the help of a shader or an ffp to simulate the shadow. The advanced ffp tutorial in the wiki shows exactly this: how to shift a second texture. To get the information, wether there is shadow and from which plant it is, you might trace from the wepon to the sun. It is the only entity on the client that would do this operation, so it might not hurt. http://www.puppenheim.org/ http://www.wuerfels-welt.de Old Game Tutorial: http://www.puppenheim.org/MITutorial.zip Free Game Editor: http://puppenheim.org/AlienalsWeihnachtsmann.zip http://www.puppenheim.org/blender_starting_main_settings.txt

Re: Lightning on a local model [Re: OptimuS] #55023 09/16/05 16:16 09/16/05 16:16
Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16 R RcSepp OP Newbie
RcSepp OP Newbie R Joined: Jun 2005 Posts: 16	Quote: In AUM there is a script that checks how bright is where your model is(the player) like for hiding in the shadows , use this with setting brightness of the weapon maby ? THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO HERE I just hadn't found the right syntax until now, but it works as you said. For all, who have the same problem. Here is the code: vec_set (temp, my.x); temp.z -= 1000; c_trace(my.x,temp,ignore_me + ignore_passable + scan_texture); local_weapon.red = tex_light; local_weapon.green = tex_light; local_weapon.blue = tex_light;

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