Aidhus Newbie Media Questions

Aidhus · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:25 am Post subject: Aidhus Newbie Media Questions

Hello, It's me again in another newbie questions thread but this time it'll be all about media or assets used in RA2/YR so let's begin!

1.Voxels has advantages like moving in slopes, the voxel itselt tilts on its own depending on the slopes its moving on, How about SHP? Do it need to render a tilted SHP for it to use in slopes?

2.How can i or do i need to set a remapable colors for SHPs?

more to come...

Thanks in advance guys!

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Orac · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:38 am Post subject:

1. There is no way to have shps tilt.

2. Remap is the bar of red colours in the left hand side of the palette, when viewed in SHP Buildier.

Aidhus · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 1:49 am Post subject:

For 1, without having SHP tanks tilting in slopes, wouldn't that look so odd?

3.How does glow effects look like in-game? Any screenshot? And how can i do so in 3Ds Max

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Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

1. Well thats why you use Voxels if you want Units to tilt around. SHP Vehicles are mostly kept to Walkers,units that float or units that stay in flat terrain like water (I.E: Titan & Wolverine in Tiberian Sun, Terror Drone,Dolphin & Giant Squid in RA2)

3. Use Alphalights... it can simulate glowing effects.

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Aidhus · Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 10:38 pm Post subject:

4.If I would like to make a shp tank with a turret, should that turret be a voxel or a shp too?

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Sir Shockwave · Cyborg Firebomber **Joined**: 06 Sep 2011

Aidhus wrote:

4.If I would like to make a shp tank with a turret, should that turret be a voxel or a shp too?

4) Both methods have been used (see GDI Titan and a few other mechs here on PPM), so it's just a matter of picking which one sounds easiest to you.

Atomic_Noodles · Defense Minister **Joined**: 05 Oct 2011

SHP Turrets have to have 32 frames also.

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:09 am Post subject:

5.How can i make a custom UNITEM/Scheme palette?

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Gangster · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 6:34 am Post subject:

With OS Palette Editor. Also you can convert 8-bit PCX\PNG bitmaps to PAL with XCC Mixer

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:13 am Post subject:

Do i reaplce the original UNITEM palette or i can totally make my own palette?

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:20 am Post subject:

Ares and NPatch supports custom palettes except on voxel and turreted SHP vehicles. (in case of building voxel turrets, the vpl is shared).

Refer to their documentation for further info.

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:23 am Post subject:

Then, its a waste of time making a custom palette for a voxel Sad

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:39 am Post subject:

Well, I made it, but on the other way... I simply said that everything which can be custompaletted got RA2 unittem and voxels were given a new palette.

Tho there are some bugs with this way like voxels still have to share the palette, it'll break disguises (because they also use unittem) and vpl needs a lot of tweaking on the long run.

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:50 am Post subject:

How did you do so? I really need to use custom scheme palettes

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Gangster · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:58 am Post subject:

you can add requred colours to unittem instead of bunch of pink ones. There is a place for two new gradients. But you will have to fix vpl anyway.

voxel.vpl is in you localmd.mix, where all voxels are.

VPL Editor:
http://www.ppmsite.com/forum/download.php?id=41514

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:01 am Post subject:

What and where is the VPL file?

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Graion Dilach · Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 10:53 am Post subject:

Read Gangster's edit.

Also, note you can't move remap and nonglowing slots.

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Aidhus · Posted: Tue Oct 30, 2012 12:24 am Post subject:

6.How can i animate body parts of a voxel? The parts should be separate voxels right?, and animated in HVA. How to do it in HVA?

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