Change dif's textures etc in runtime...

#1 I think it's possible but you'll have to religt the building after the change has been applied. (anyone correct me if I'm wrong here). I would rather do it with a decal, though.

Oh and if you used your approach, then you would need a seperate texture (or handle) for each wall section. That's not very effective. Because if you change one texture, you will change them all if they are applied on multiple sections.

#2

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I think it's possible but you'll have to religt the building after the change has been applied. (anyone correct me if I'm wrong here). I would rather do it with a decal, though.

It's impossible to change interiors whithout relight scene ?
i mean... it's some technique to "past" that...

#3 I think you need to look at the decal manager. . .there is a resource on putting bullet hole decals on surfaces, including interiors. . .look into how it was achomplished

#4

Quote:Oh and if you used your approach, then you would need a seperate texture (or handle) for each wall section.

Nah, you'd just need to point the surfaces at a new texture. I don't think the idea is to go into the previously used texture and draw on it.

I might be remembering wrong, but I don't think you need to relight either, since the textures don't impact the lighting. (Unless you've patched in radiosity.)

Decals are another way to go, certainly, but plenty of games get good results out of switching textures when an explosion goes off, especially during some kind of scripted sequence.

#5 About the decals, is it possible to apply them on DIFs during level creation (Mission Editor) and not through script? Then later during runtime you can manipulate or replace them.

Nick