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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Foxer on December 29, 2003, 05:57:38 pm

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Foxer on December 29, 2003, 05:57:38 pm

Hello.

How can I enable the Bobboau's cell-shading mode?
-cell in cmdline doesn't help and Launcher says it requires some extra arts. Is that arts aviable to download?

I think cell-shading is a nice idea. For fun FS a little ;)...

05/12 build, 3.5.6c MediaVP and Launcher 3.3
pIII500
320 RAM
GF4 MX 64 MB
winXP

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Bobboau on December 29, 2003, 07:42:53 pm

it doesn't work in THL mode, thats the first thing,
second, you will need (I beleve the name is) cell.pcx, this file should be a Nx1 sized immage with dark blocs to the right and lighter to the left

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Foxer on December 30, 2003, 03:17:33 am

How to get cell.pcx? From where?

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Bobboau on December 30, 2003, 05:21:43 am

ugh, you culd make it, would only take about four seconds
ust an immage than is of a certan width, say 16 pixels, and only one pixel tall, make solid blocks of color bout 4 pixels wide rangeing from very dark grey to white (from left to right),
like this
DDDDMMMMLLLLWWWW
D=dark, M=medium, L=light, W=white
just put that into a simple (8 bit, 256 color, or paletised (all the same thing)) PCX file, doesn't MSpaint save as PCX?, hell if you use the -tgajpg (or whatever) comand line you can probly use a jpg or tga (though that would be quite a waist).

or you know it might be in the media VP.

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Foxer on December 30, 2003, 08:22:53 am

I'm depressed. I maked this graphic cell.pcx 16x1 8 bit, 256 colors PCX and copy it to /maps/ directory, shut off -htl parametr and turn on -cell. Nothing happened... simply there was no-lighting effect ship models like in original FS2 with no any cell effect :(.

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Bobboau on December 30, 2003, 10:34:06 am

ah, my mistake, cellmap.pcx, that should do it

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Foxer on December 30, 2003, 11:06:11 am

Unfortunately nothing :(. Sorry for truble Bobboau... It is like I post last: I got no-effect ships (like in original FS2), there isn't any highlights... just nothing on my ships.

Screen (http://foxer.pl/freespace/no_cell.jpg)

Maybe I used bad build (05/12) or cell mode is not active on D3D 8 mode?!

EDIT: Here (http://foxer.pl/freespace/cellmap.pcx) is my cellmap.pcx :nervous:

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Foxer on December 30, 2003, 12:26:16 pm

Victory!! Finally its on :D. My cellmap.pcx was NOT on 256 colors. I don't know how this is happen. It's ok now, look:

Screen (http://foxer.pl/freespace/cell_on.jpg)

Cell-shading is a beginning to the FreeSpace Cartoon :)... so is there any really simple FS2 textures for ships? For this cell-shading? Like your hecate (http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/cell03.jpg)? If there isn't maybe I do some simples that they will be like cartoons. It's fun :rolleyes: ;) I'm just curious.

Thanks for help again!

EDIT: Another n00b problem: How to enable 3d Shockwaves and skyboxes in 05/12? ;)

Title: Cell-shading
Post by: Bobboau on December 30, 2003, 09:42:41 pm

for 3d shockwaves all you need is the shockwave model, look around for shockwave.pof.

an all the cell textures I made were put up somewere, don't remember were though, but you are in luck as the search tool wwas recently fixed