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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => The Modding Workshop => Topic started by: Slasher on April 19, 2004, 09:38:37 pm

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Slasher on April 19, 2004, 09:38:37 pm

Could someone point me to a good tutorial on how to apply glowpoints to ships?  Right now I'm doing it through trial and error, typing in some random coordinates then adjusting accordingly.  It takes forever, and when I get in game sometimes (always) it looks awful.  I'm hoping there's an easier way.  Please?  :nod:

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: StratComm on April 19, 2004, 10:19:11 pm

Nope, no easier way.  The latest iterations of PCS should show the glowpoint positions in the preview, but the only way to get them precisely where you want them is heavy tweaking.

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Slasher on April 20, 2004, 12:47:48 am

Ow, yikes.  Thanks for the reply, anyways.  

Okay then, is there at least a readme or help file for PCS?  I'm still not clear on some of this stuff.

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Black Wolf on April 20, 2004, 01:37:29 am

I'm kind of stabbing in the dark here, but what about the old "position something else (ike a firepoint) in Modelview, and import the coordinates in to PCS"?

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Mav on April 20, 2004, 02:08:47 am

Uuh... I never found out what this glowpoint stuff does actually do - could someone please explain it to me?

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Bobboau on April 20, 2004, 02:10:41 am

makes a bitmap (like thruster glows) render somewere

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: kasperl on April 20, 2004, 03:48:34 am

for once, the wiki won't save us:
http://dynamic4.gamespy.com/~freespace/fsdoc/index.php/Ship%20Changes

i wouldn't mind if someone made an entry though.......

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: karajorma on April 20, 2004, 04:08:06 am

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Originally posted by Slasher
Okay then, is there at least a readme or help file for PCS?  I'm still not clear on some of this stuff.

Bob's PCS Tutorial (http://freespace.volitionwatch.com/blackwater/fstut/fstut_index01.htm) is precisely what you need but VW is down at the moment. Hopefully they'll be back up soon.

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: ShadowPuppet on April 26, 2004, 09:04:46 am

go here....

http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php/topic,23075.0.html

I had a need to find the PCS help and guide stuff, but since Volitionwatch is down it was out of reach!

Bobboau kindly zipped up the whole thing and uploaded it where I could get it. Look for hios post right down at the bottom of that thread...it should still be available.

If it isn't...let me know and I can mail you a copy :D

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Taristin on April 26, 2004, 09:07:14 am

VW is up again.

Title: How do you do glowpoints?
Post by: Slasher on April 26, 2004, 12:17:32 pm

Hey, thanks! :) This should really help.