My voxels seems like a light bulb!!

kakrain

yeah, i know the turret is far from the body ill later set it to it i know how to do it but the colours, i dont know why they are so shine, when i draw a voxel i first draw it by normals and the i colour them, am i drawing wrong the normals, or maybe im painting wrong, what im doing wrong??

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Lt Albrecht · Posted: Sun May 17, 2009 5:29 pm Post subject:

use autonormals (ctrl+Alt+N).

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kakrain · Posted: Tue May 19, 2009 3:43 am Post subject: but, but!!!

Lt Albrecht wrote:

use autonormals (ctrl+Alt+N).

thanx 4 the help but if i dont like to use the autonormals, is there a way to draw it without the autonormals? bcuz it sometimes mess my voxel not always thought and well i followed your advice, i used autonormals and i drawed the camouflage again and it got better, but it is still shining Embarassed

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SaneDisruption · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 14 Feb 2007

it's that shiny because of the colors you are using on the palette. if you use darker colors it wont turn out as ridiculously bright. try and mess around with some of the other browns and yellows to see varied results.

Starkiller · Pyro Sniper **Joined**: 26 Nov 2008

You shouldn't post it here...

freedom fighter · General **Joined**: 14 May 2009

Shouldn't this be in Media Hut?(where's da download?)

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kakrain · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 1:51 am Post subject:

SaneDisruption wrote:

it's that shiny because of the colors you are using on the palette. if you use darker colors it wont turn out as ridiculously bright. try and mess around with some of the other browns and yellows to see varied results.

thank you sanedisruption, and mess around means, choosing others colors or changing them?? and by the way sorry 4 putting my post here, i didnt know where to put it but the next post ill post it in media hut

SaneDisruption · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 14 Feb 2007

yeah change the color of your voxel to other colors, the normals for RA2 really do ruin the look of most voxels unfortunately

Orac · Posted: Wed May 20, 2009 4:48 am Post subject:

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normals for RA2 really do ruin the look of most voxels

Which is why I prefer TS - except for the annoying limitations.
Just choose colours lower in the spectrum. That'll fix it about as far as can be done without custom, handpainted normals.

kakrain · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:05 am Post subject:

oh, ok thank you, another question?? i donno if i can post it here or make a new post, i see that i can draw my textures in paint but, when i put them to my voxel, the color changes, 4 example in paint i draw it in dark green and when i put it to my voxel it is only black, is there a way that i can do my textures better, i donno maybe a custom pallete for the vse or something

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Orac · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:36 am Post subject:

Whenever I fiddle around the texture/colour of my voxels I either use the editor itself, or save a texture and reopen it in the GIMP.
The colours always conform to the palette, so any colour not in VXLSE is unusable.
If you import a texture for the voxel then you may need to fix the colours, especially for remap (202 swaps with 22, 203 with 23, etc.)

I haven't personally looked into using custom palettes with VXLSE, but IIRC only SHPs can have alternative palettes (Don't quote me on this, I really don't know)

MT · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:47 am Post subject:

A crude way, but since you are using MSPaint and pixel editing anyways, it suits your present methods fine.

1. Take a screenshot by printscreen (there is a button on the keyboard for this) of the palette from VXLSEIII
2. Open up MSPaint (since that is what you are using), and paste it.
3. Crop it to just the palette's colours
4. Copy paste this palette into the texture BMP you are using for the VXL
5. Texture the voxel, but only use the same colors of the pasted palette (use the eye drop tool to get the colours)
6. After texturing, delete palette and crop the texture BMP back into the original, leaving nothing changed but colours.

This will reduce or stop the errors as the colours values will be exaclty the same of ones already on the palette.

NOTE: You will have to write down the original size of the texture BMP, so you can do step 6

kakrain · Posted: Sun May 24, 2009 1:54 am Post subject:

a really good idea, why i didnt thought about this before xDD thank you MT srry 4 bothering again

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SaneDisruption · Cyborg Cannon **Joined**: 14 Feb 2007

voxels can have custom palletes, it screws up the normal locations though, makes them look all funky (iirc makes them orange and blue and pink in most cases) you can fix this, i believe raminator knows how (dont quote me on this either) but i believe there is a little tutorial of it in the Derelict Soil forums... check if anyone's interested /end offtopic

PS: someone should probably make an actual tut on how to perform the pallete editing for voxels