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Animated Textures on dif

by Sebastiao P. de Almeida · in Artist Corner · 09/30/2003 (1:42 pm) · 8 replies

Hello,
I was wondering about this, is there anyway to put an animated texture on a dif file? Using either hammer or quark.
Thanks in advance for any help.
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Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#1
09/30/2003 (4:32 pm)
Nope. =/
Well.. .flashing lights, but I don't think that counts. ;-)

-Eric

Torque Owner J. Donavan Stanley
#2
10/01/2003 (2:16 am)
Couldn't the render to texture patch work for this?

Torque Owner Mz
#3
10/01/2003 (5:58 am)
@Donavan: Probably, but that seems like overkill.

Can .dif files use ifl? If not, it would probably be better to add support for those if you're just changing textures.

Torque Owner Dylan Sale
#4
10/01/2003 (6:17 am)
I think someone made a quake style shader system that let you animate textures, ala quake 3. Move them, scale them, etc.

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#5
10/01/2003 (10:13 am)
Dylan, that would be Mark M. ;-)

Torque Owner Mz
#6
10/01/2003 (12:39 pm)
That was me, wasn't it?

I should finish cleaning up the parser and post that some time.

Torque 3D Owner Eric Forhan
#7
10/01/2003 (1:42 pm)
Is it pretty close to completion? Does it have all the fun Q3 style shader toys? Would you rather forget you ever spent so much time on it? ;-)

Torque Owner Mz
#8
10/01/2003 (1:53 pm)
It's pretty close to completion, yeah. Some of the vertex manipulations are left to do and the parser could use a re-write, but apart from that it works (And it only costs about 1 FPS for the added flexibility.)

I'm a little disenchanted with the approach, though. I'd rather go with something more hardware friendly - Quake3 shaders were mostly done in software, and it shows.

When I pick it back up again, I'm not sure if I'd add more features to the Quake3 stuff or chuck it out the window and do something cgFX based.