Game Development Community

Layered textures on DTS

by Greg Gardinier · in Torque Game Engine · 03/04/2006 (2:32 pm) · 5 replies

I have a large DTS model. It has a tiling texture on it right now, but I would really like to break it up with another texture layered ontop of it.

Does anyone know of a reasource or method to do this?

Last I heard this wasn't somthing that was supported by TGE but I thought I would just double check.
NextNext Thread
PrevPrevious Thread
More from Torque Game Engine


Torque 3D Owner Peter Simard
Default Studio Name
#1
03/04/2006 (2:34 pm)
Http://www.garagegames.com/index.php?sec=mg&mod=resource&page=view&qid=9694

Torque Owner Paul /*Wedge*/ DElia
#2
03/04/2006 (3:46 pm)
I think what he means is have a texture on top of the tiled one to make it look less repetitive. You can have multiple textures on an object and could cover certain parts of the mesh with alternate versions of the texture to break it up some. You could probably also copy and slightly raise areas of the mesh with alphaed textures overlayed to add details or some such. I know this is done a lot in environment modelling, but I don't know what you're making here, so I'm not sure if that's what your looking for.

Torque Owner Brian -Cybore- Smith
Hostile Ai
#3
03/04/2006 (4:01 pm)
Perhaps "decals" would help you with what you want to do.

Torque Owner Adrian Tysoe
#4
03/04/2006 (4:24 pm)
Whats needed is more than 1UV and masking supported in the DTS format. Something like what Greg want's was achieved by a coder by messing around with the alpha blendmodes in the GL renderer:

s93153354.onlinehome.us/screenshot_007-00003.jpg

the blue tile used UV1 and is tiles 2x2, the scaffold is on UV2 and face mapped whithPNG alpha through which you can see the blue tile texture. So it is possible but woudl require some modification to DTS and the renderer to achieve it.

Torque Owner Greg Gardinier
#5
03/04/2006 (6:58 pm)
Wow, I wish I could use that...lol

You say this "was achieved by a coder..." any chance I could contact this person? I could REALLY use this, and if somone is willing to trade some art for the code or just toss it my way if they have it laying around that would be great...