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[cw8]

I tried making a lightsaber, problem is the game can't support the glow, so it ended up looking like a pole.

Modifié par cw8, 08 décembre 2009 - 05:13 .

[TheGreenLion]

Aren't you a little short for a Storm Trooper?

[Looy]

cw8 wrote...

I tried making a lightsaber, problem is the game can't support the glow, so it ended up looking like a pole.

I wonder is you could create a custom rune that would give the glow. Or just a crust.

[Sarodin]

Looy wrote...

cw8 wrote...

I tried making a lightsaber, problem is the game can't support the glow, so it ended up looking like a pole.

I wonder is you could create a custom rune that would give the glow. Or just a crust.

I think that is how you would do it, why stop at items why not a total Dragon Age to STWKOTOR MOD

[cw8]

Looy wrote...

cw8 wrote...

I tried making a lightsaber, problem is the game can't support the glow, so it ended up looking like a pole.

I wonder is you could create a custom rune that would give the glow. Or just a crust.

You can't.
Even if you use Flaming Weapons spell or Frost Weapons spell in-game, the custom weapon will not light up. Don't know what must be done, yet. Even so if it does work, it'll look weird, coz the lightsaber's blade is pure white in the middle and only glows of colour at the edges. I can get the effect in the 3D software but I don't think there's a way to get it in-game.

[steelfire_dragon]

what about the ghost effect??

[FalloutBoy]

Give it an emissive map. If that is possible.

Modifié par FalloutBoy, 08 décembre 2009 - 11:28 .

[ladydesire]

TheGreenLion wrote...

Aren't you a little short for a Storm Trooper?

"Huh? Oh, the uniform"

[EJ42]

cw8 wrote...

Looy wrote...

cw8 wrote...

I tried making a lightsaber, problem is the game can't support the glow, so it ended up looking like a pole.

I wonder is you could create a custom rune that would give the glow. Or just a crust.

You can't.
Even if you use Flaming Weapons spell or Frost Weapons spell in-game, the custom weapon will not light up. Don't know what must be done, yet. Even so if it does work, it'll look weird, coz the lightsaber's blade is pure white in the middle and only glows of colour at the edges. I can get the effect in the 3D software but I don't think there's a way to get it in-game.

I'd be careful saying things like "You can't" or "impossible."

It may not be easy or obvious, but there very well may be a way.  The templar spirit in The Fade, during the Harrowing, has a glowing sword that comes close to what may be desired.  There are plenty of visual effects possibilities.  We just need to figure out how they all work.

[cw8]

EJ42 wrote...

It may not be easy or obvious, but there very well may be a way.  The templar spirit in The Fade, during the Harrowing, has a glowing sword that comes close to what may be desired.  There are plenty of visual effects possibilities.  We just need to figure out how they all work.

Cool, if someone figures it out, I'll be more than happy to know how to implement it. Programming and scripting are not my strong points however, I only do 3D modelling, so I still have to rely on people for the solution.

[ChewyGumball]

I believe he uses a different material that most models. There are a whole bunch of materials which you can extract from the erf, the comments are very cryptic most of the time but it might be possible to determine what they do if you look hard enough. Once you know what a material is used for, making an mao for it shouldn't be too tough.

[cw8]

This is my real lightsaber rendered in the 3D software.

It uses a basic diffuse map, a specular map, then a luminance map and a glow map and generated through the software itself.

Modifié par cw8, 09 décembre 2009 - 03:01 .

[steelfire_dragon]

sweet I'd download it if it was available....

[ITSSEXYTIME]

Wouldn't it just be easier to texture the blade model. that's all Kotor did really. (Might have even been a sprite rather than a 3d model of the blade)

It's not like the effect is hard to mimic in photoshop.

[cw8]

I don't know about using sprites. Yeah, I've done that effect to photos in photoshop too. Probably need a transparency map for the glow.Maybe if the blade is textured like how games render tree leaves and branches.

Modifié par cw8, 09 décembre 2009 - 06:56 .

[FalloutBoy]

Like I said, if you give it an emissive map, it will glow like that, just without the halo. I assume this is possible since it looks like that's how the dragon armor glows red.

[cw8]

FalloutBoy wrote...

Like I said, if you give it an emissive map, it will glow like that, just without the halo. I assume this is possible since it looks like that's how the dragon armor glows red.

So I just add the emissive sentence into the .mao file? Or do I need a seperate bitmap for emissive for the effect?

[FalloutBoy]

It would be a separate map. I'm not sure the format though so you'd have to experiment.

[steelfire_dragon]

I'd lioke to see Vissa Mar's outfit as a mage robe... and leather armor

[DarthParametric]

ITSSEXYTIME wrote...

Wouldn't it just be easier to texture the blade model. that's all Kotor did really. (Might have even been a sprite rather than a 3d model of the blade)

KOTOR used flat planes for their blades. Four of them, arranged in an asterisk pattern:



The planes get scaled to extend and retract the blade.

The textures are pretty simple, basically using an alpha to hide the unwanted parts of the planes:



(I'm using some old images here from my KOTOR modding - that pic is two blade textures side-by-side)

Modifié par DarthParametric, 09 décembre 2009 - 06:42 .

[cw8]

K, I've posted this in the other thread. The game supports Emissive. Check the differences:

Not exactly the lightsaber glow, but it's a start.

Modifié par cw8, 11 décembre 2009 - 06:49 .

[steelfire_dragon]

looks good



as for the glow, have you considered multiple shades of said color to acquire the glow?