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Modding, Mission Design, and Coding => FS2 Open Coding - The Source Code Project (SCP) => Topic started by: Galemp on July 11, 2008, 08:10:14 am

Title: Diffuse-only texture replacement?
Post by: Galemp on July 11, 2008, 08:10:14 am

Some of the texture-replacement code implementations (nameplates, reskins) are really only replacing the diffuse map; that is, they represent a new paint scheme, and generally use the same glow, shine, and normal maps. I've been working on a load of reskins for the TAC 1, and the thought of having to include an identical glow, shine, and normal map for each of the 20 variations seems like a waste of space and memory.

Is it possible to fork the texture replacement function so that we have a new one that only swaps out the diffuse map?

Title: Re: Diffuse-only texture replacement?
Post by: DaBrain on July 11, 2008, 07:36:31 pm

Those things would be done within the material system.
Any other solution is more like a hack.

I guess we'll just have to wait a bit.

Title: Re: Diffuse-only texture replacement?
Post by: blowfish on July 12, 2008, 12:42:04 am

I have an idea of how it could be done pretty easily, though as DaBrain said, it is kind of a hack...