[vyper]

Er... wow.

[Solatar]

Could we make one of these?

[HotSnoJ]

those lights are textures not glows!

[Turnsky]

yeah, so?

look, if you want Real glowy bits on vessels wait 'till pixel shaders are part of the open source (which may not be anytime soon)

[phreak]

we're probably going to to vertex/pixel shaders once we get T&L started and finished.

It would help with pixel shaders if i actually had a card that supported them

[Bobboau]

well this method should work on any card

[Turnsky]

well, these give the illusion of lights and glows, and that's good enough at the moment..

Hmmm, is bumpmapping covered under t&l?

[Setekh]

This'll look really good in missions where ambient lighting's been taken out. Excellent work, Bob.

[Bobboau]

I made another map pack wich in conjunction with the other one brings nearly every LOD0 texture a glow map with the exeception of cargo pods and a few odds and ends, feel free to make those as I think I'm done makeing the maps

[Alikchi]

Wow, this is getting places. I really want to play around with this.

[Nico]

Originally posted by Analazon
not only can this be used for freaky shivans, but it also could be used (in the future probably) for making cap ship lights look bright...

meh, I've done light maps for about all the OTT ships already ( well, you can ALWAYS find a little light somewhere )

[Bobboau]

keep in mind these are not exactly light maps, you need them to be the color you want as well,
doing a multiplication between the texture and the light map will likely give you what you want.

[Ryx]

Excellent!!!

[Nico]

Originally posted by Bobboau
keep in mind these are not exactly light maps, you need them to be the color you want as well,
doing a multiplication between the texture and the light map will likely give you what you want.

yeh, I know, your description was precise enough
I play with saturation and lighting, plus some color area selection, to have what I want.
But I'd really like to test those maps ( damn debug file )

[Bobboau]

you can test them just color them and save them as "sorce_texture_name"-glow, I'd realy like to  see some other peoples stuff with this,

oh, and I have sort of got my hands on a bug that will cause a lot of crashing

hope to get it fixed soon

[Nico]

nah, the debug exe crashes on me after about one hundred errors ( it counts all the tbl anotations as errors ).

[Bobboau]

what errors are you getting?  "stuff int string" and "hits left < 0.0f" errors seem to be popular

and if you're getting an "assert bitmap.handel  ==  bitmap number" or something like that, I'm working on it

[Nico]

dunno, I have lots of tbls errors I never had before, for exemple:

Warning: weapons.tbl(1114):
Error: Required token = [#End] or [$Name:], found [$Impact Explosion Radius:   10.0].

File:D:\Games\projects\freespace2_public\fs2_open\code\Parse\PARSELO.CPP
Line: 329

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    required_string_either()    parse_weaponstbl()    weapon_init()    game_init()    WinMainSub()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e5eb69()
------------------------------------------------------------------


or:

Warning: Unable to find WEAPON_LIST_TYPE string "Heavy Flak" in stuff_int_list

Many possible sources for this error.  Get a programmer!

File:D:\Games\projects\freespace2_public\fs2_open\code\Parse\PARSELO.CPP
Line: 1453

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    parse_ship()    parse_shiptbl()    ship_init()    game_init()    WinMainSub()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e5eb69()
------------------------------------------------------------------

there's litterally dozens and dozens of errors like that

it can't go farther than this one it seems :

Assert: sip->secondary_bank_weapons >= 0
File: D:\Games\projects\freespace2_public\fs2_open\code\Ship\Ship.cpp
Line: 1460

Call stack:
------------------------------------------------------------------
    parse_shiptbl()    ship_init()    game_init()    WinMainSub()    WinMain()    WinMainCRTStartup()    kernel32.dll 77e5eb69()
------------------------------------------------------------------

can't copy/paste the debug spew window, but it's a summary of the other errors.

[Bobboau]

first one sounds like you have a weapon with an "$Impact Explosion Radius:" that does not have a "$Impact Explosion:" before it... somewere

did you remove the Heavy Flak from you're weapons table, if so then you forgot to remove it from a ship in you're table... somewere

the last one means a ship is given no default secondary weapons (or it can't find the ones you're given it) if you get any "Warning: Unable to find WEAPON_LIST_TYPE string ..." the weapon it mentions is the weapon it can't find in you're table, you may have misspelled something or you removed a weapon from you're weapon table,
and again this is on a ship... somewere

I had changed the error mesages to be a little less vauge but I lost the changes when I first switched over to the SCP, I think I will refix them now.

[IceFire]

Venom...is this the OTT tables?  Shrike left tones of stuff that the debug code doesn't like when I got his clean tables from him...and OTT tables were based ontop of it...so there are those errors.

Non-debug works fine.

BTW: My FPS drops about 5-10 when using this EXE.  Its slower and noticeably so.  Anyone else?

PIII 733
GeForce 2 GTS (32mb)
384mb SDRAM