im having trouble getting the eruption vfx to show up in game, it crashes the game every time i cast the spell at the ground, all the others are fine n ill submit them tomorrow
January 2013 Custom Content Challenge: Spells and Spellcrafting
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The Amethyst Dragon
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#102
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 09:33
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Finally got around to thinking of something to make for this month.
It's a jar filled with water and eyeballs. The eyeballs slowly spin in the jar, as if something is slowly stirring it around (making one revolution in 40 seconds).
To get things working right, I currently have it as two placeables so that I can get both shininess on the jar's top and transparency for the glass and water. Both just get the same positions so it looks like one.
BTW, anybody else end up with placeables that should be reflective instead ending up partially transparent when set to static?
It's a jar filled with water and eyeballs. The eyeballs slowly spin in the jar, as if something is slowly stirring it around (making one revolution in 40 seconds).
To get things working right, I currently have it as two placeables so that I can get both shininess on the jar's top and transparency for the glass and water. Both just get the same positions so it looks like one.
BTW, anybody else end up with placeables that should be reflective instead ending up partially transparent when set to static?
Modifié par The Amethyst Dragon, 29 janvier 2013 - 09:36 .
#103
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 02:31
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Those eyeballs remind me of a scene from the movie Stardust.
Nice work, TAD.
Nice work, TAD.
#105
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 04:45
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@henesua - Agreed. I love that movie.
@Amethyst Dragon - I ran across this one too. Here's how it works, IIRC:
If you have your placeable set to something other than static, then the 2DA "Reflection" column is what the engine is going to pay attention to. And you just get that one reflection map.
If the placeable is set to static, then it's going to ignore what's in that "Reflection" column in placeables.2da and expect you to provide a TXI-based envmap, with the line "envmaptexture (texture)" in the TXI. You can apply multiple reflection maps this way, to separate objects in the same model, using separate textures to hook into different TXI envmap calls.
So the bottom line is if you want a placeable with a reflection (envmap) to work as both static and non-static, you include the line for the reflection in the placeables.2da (to cover it when non-static) AND include a TXI with the "envmaptexture (texture)" to make the effect when it's static. The static option is kind of a PITA because as soon as you include that TXI, every time that texture is used in anything, it's going to be used with that envmap.
IIRC that's how it goes.
@Amethyst Dragon - I ran across this one too. Here's how it works, IIRC:
If you have your placeable set to something other than static, then the 2DA "Reflection" column is what the engine is going to pay attention to. And you just get that one reflection map.
If the placeable is set to static, then it's going to ignore what's in that "Reflection" column in placeables.2da and expect you to provide a TXI-based envmap, with the line "envmaptexture (texture)" in the TXI. You can apply multiple reflection maps this way, to separate objects in the same model, using separate textures to hook into different TXI envmap calls.
So the bottom line is if you want a placeable with a reflection (envmap) to work as both static and non-static, you include the line for the reflection in the placeables.2da (to cover it when non-static) AND include a TXI with the "envmaptexture (texture)" to make the effect when it's static. The static option is kind of a PITA because as soon as you include that TXI, every time that texture is used in anything, it's going to be used with that envmap.
IIRC that's how it goes.
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#106
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 04:52
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Interesting, OTR. Thanks for explaining. I have long wondered why some of Ben Harrison's alchemy placeables "lose the glass" when placed as static.
#107
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 05:03
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You're welcome!
I want to take an extra opportunity to nervously underscore that this is mostly from memory and my description may leave out some other important considerations. Like other TXI commands that might/should go along with an envmaptexture TXI command, such as "alphamean" and/or whether the difference between static/nonstatic behavior could also (possibly) be related to model structure. Like, maybe having the geometry attached to an a-node makes a difference in the behavior.
I want to take an extra opportunity to nervously underscore that this is mostly from memory and my description may leave out some other important considerations. Like other TXI commands that might/should go along with an envmaptexture TXI command, such as "alphamean" and/or whether the difference between static/nonstatic behavior could also (possibly) be related to model structure. Like, maybe having the geometry attached to an a-node makes a difference in the behavior.
#108
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 05:10
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<dropping a couple...>
...and like how sometimes the interior geometry just vanishes :-P
If I could solve *that* problem, I'd be a happy wizard!
The glass bowl is envmapped with a reduced alpha/opacity, so I get both transparency & reflection. And a dimensional light-warp that swallows the interior geometry... sometimes.
<...dirty coppers>
...and like how sometimes the interior geometry just vanishes :-P
If I could solve *that* problem, I'd be a happy wizard!
The glass bowl is envmapped with a reduced alpha/opacity, so I get both transparency & reflection. And a dimensional light-warp that swallows the interior geometry... sometimes.
<...dirty coppers>
#109
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 05:26
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IIRC, these are two different models- the homunculus and the bowl, right? And the bowl is a placeable and the homunculus is a creature appearance, correct? Is your homunculus set as classification "Character", re: Omnibus "Light reflecting bug"?
#110
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 06:18
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The jar started with four copper supports going down the sides of the jar and crossing underneath. When that was set to static, it showed up through the transparent glass and water, but when not static the supports vanished when viewed through the jar. I opted to remove the supports and put the jar right to the bottom, leaving only the top, since it bugged me to have the supports vanish when panning around the jar.
I tried setting the glass/water jar to static, but the eyeballs stopped moving.
Ah, compromise...
Looking at this more in-game, I may just get rid of the reflectiveness on the jar's lid and play around some more with what parts are static, which aren't, and what goes in which part of the combined model. I've still got a few more days to mess around with it.
Might even make a few more jars with just colored and/or glowing liquids in them. Hmmm...I wonder how well transparency and self-illumination play together...
I tried setting the glass/water jar to static, but the eyeballs stopped moving.
Ah, compromise...Looking at this more in-game, I may just get rid of the reflectiveness on the jar's lid and play around some more with what parts are static, which aren't, and what goes in which part of the combined model. I've still got a few more days to mess around with it.
Might even make a few more jars with just colored and/or glowing liquids in them. Hmmm...I wonder how well transparency and self-illumination play together...
#111
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 06:21
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<slipping...>
The Hom is type "character". She has no shadows set.
Early on (before elaborating the geometry of the bottle) the Hom was visible from much greater angles (both radial and azimuth). It seems that the more I worked on the geomtry (the rim and lid, actually) the narrower the band of visibility for the creature inside.
She is still visible inside in the toolset, it is only in the game that she vanishes.
I also tried the suggestion of manually shifting the transparent nodes to the end of the Bottle model. The bottle now crashes the toolset/game :-P
<...backwards>
The Hom is type "character". She has no shadows set.
Early on (before elaborating the geometry of the bottle) the Hom was visible from much greater angles (both radial and azimuth). It seems that the more I worked on the geomtry (the rim and lid, actually) the narrower the band of visibility for the creature inside.
She is still visible inside in the toolset, it is only in the game that she vanishes.
I also tried the suggestion of manually shifting the transparent nodes to the end of the Bottle model. The bottle now crashes the toolset/game :-P
<...backwards>
#112
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 06:23
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<grinning...>
The fluid texture and the runes (seen through the bottle) both have self-illum in the top pic above :-)
Edit: There's also a lightsource illuminating the face of the Hom (attached to the Hom head)...
<...brightly>
The fluid texture and the runes (seen through the bottle) both have self-illum in the top pic above :-)
Edit: There's also a lightsource illuminating the face of the Hom (attached to the Hom head)...
<...brightly>
Modifié par Rolo Kipp, 29 janvier 2013 - 07:31 .
#113
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 07:07
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<waving his hands in the air...>
Got it!
Thank you, OTR!
The trick is to make the placeable "Tile" type ;-)
Reflection and transparency and showing the things inside from all angles.
Yes! *pumps fist*
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Got it!
Thank you, OTR!
The trick is to make the placeable "Tile" type ;-)
Reflection and transparency and showing the things inside from all angles.
Yes! *pumps fist*
<...like he don't care>
#114
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 08:23
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Tile type you say? Most interesting.
* AD heads back into gmax... *
* AD heads back into gmax... *
#116
Posté 29 janvier 2013 - 08:52
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@Rolo & Amethyst Dragon - You guys might want to try Effect classification instead and see if it gets you where you need to. Don't have a link handy but Adam Miller once reported that some number of placeables set as Tile caused problems. Tile and Effect render slightly different ways though, so it may not visually do the same thing you're looking for.
The discussion spawned a YouTube video on the subject of placeables with envmaps, static vs non-static. It also demonstrates how the "Reflection" column in placeables.2da will override even existing TXIs:
The discussion spawned a YouTube video on the subject of placeables with envmaps, static vs non-static. It also demonstrates how the "Reflection" column in placeables.2da will override even existing TXIs:
#117
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 04:11
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submitting the other 3 spells, not submitting eruption since i cant fix it
#118
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 05:52
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Wow. Quite the adventure in frustration today.
I went into gmax, opened up my pretty much functional model with the animated eyeballs, changed the type to Tile, and exported. Simple enough. Closed up the model and dropped the exported one into my testing hak.
Wouldn't you know it, all my eyeballs looked like raisins in-game. Reopened my model in gmax, and the export as a tile hadinappropriate term messed up practically everything in the model.
Changed the model base back to Character type. Dropped everything else but the animation dummy. Remade the jar, the water, the copper parts, and all the eyeballs. Exported, tested in game...same damn thing.
Erased every copy of the model I had (they were all variations on the same mess-up). Closed down gmax and the listener completely. Restarted from scratch.
Eventually, I re-figured out how I had gotten both the water and glass to show at the same time (water and glass both tranparent, but glass is "inside out" so it only renders on the far side), and finished the jar of eyeballs. Then I quickly made a 2nd jar, this one with no top, filled with glowing, smoking green fluid.
These are not set as type Tile.
There is some very minor misalignment when overlapping the two parts of each jar, but it's only visible from certain angles while zoomed in very close to the jars. I'll live with it.
I went into gmax, opened up my pretty much functional model with the animated eyeballs, changed the type to Tile, and exported. Simple enough. Closed up the model and dropped the exported one into my testing hak.
Wouldn't you know it, all my eyeballs looked like raisins in-game. Reopened my model in gmax, and the export as a tile had
Changed the model base back to Character type. Dropped everything else but the animation dummy. Remade the jar, the water, the copper parts, and all the eyeballs. Exported, tested in game...same damn thing.
Erased every copy of the model I had (they were all variations on the same mess-up). Closed down gmax and the listener completely. Restarted from scratch.
Eventually, I re-figured out how I had gotten both the water and glass to show at the same time (water and glass both tranparent, but glass is "inside out" so it only renders on the far side), and finished the jar of eyeballs. Then I quickly made a 2nd jar, this one with no top, filled with glowing, smoking green fluid.
These are not set as type Tile.
There is some very minor misalignment when overlapping the two parts of each jar, but it's only visible from certain angles while zoomed in very close to the jars. I'll live with it.
#119
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 01:47
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The Amethyst Dragon wrote...
Wow. Quite the adventure in frustration today.
I went into gmax, opened up my pretty much functional model with the animated eyeballs, changed the type to Tile, and exported. Simple enough. Closed up the model and dropped the exported one into my testing hak.
I found during my work creating tilemagic placeables that I could change type to Tile or Character in notepad. I am unaware of any bad side effects of making the change this way, and admittedly the assets that I was working with had started out as the Tile type. Nevertheless I had experimented with both options a number of times and noticed no problems. These tests were with many placeables (not VFX as is typical with tilemagic) of the Tile type, both including the aabb node and without.
So anyway, might be worth a try. Rather than expoting from gmax you might be able to open up the MDL in notepad and change the classification.
#120
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 02:09
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I don't know about anybody else but I think the mk 2 version looks even better than the mk 1.
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#121
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 03:09
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Yup, I did do that after I remade the model (changing to Tile in notepad). Ended up not looking right in-game.
The new version was what I was going to change the original one to anyway, just wish I didn't have to do so much work to get there.
The new version was what I was going to change the original one to anyway, just wish I didn't have to do so much work to get there.
#122
Posté 30 janvier 2013 - 04:05
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Good to know. Thanks Guinea pigging this one. 
#123
Posté 31 janvier 2013 - 04:29
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<putting lots of little holes...>
84 friendly familiars to ride your shoulder and mutter in your ear...
A pandemonium of parrots
A cloud of bats
A murder of crows
An unkindness of ravens <*excuse* me?>
A screech of gulls
A cast of falcons
And a haunt of spirits
I'll be sending them as soon as I scribble some vague nonsense about how to use them :-P
<...in a left over tasmanian devil shipping box>
84 friendly familiars to ride your shoulder and mutter in your ear...
A pandemonium of parrots
A cloud of bats
A murder of crows
An unkindness of ravens <*excuse* me?>
A screech of gulls
A cast of falcons
And a haunt of spirits
I'll be sending them as soon as I scribble some vague nonsense about how to use them :-P
<...in a left over tasmanian devil shipping box>
#125
Posté 31 janvier 2013 - 06:35
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Miracles do happen. I was struggling to come up with enough (both in numbers and variety) for my submission. So much so that I doubted I would get it in on time. Then today it just came together. So I have just now sent it in. Phew!
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