Chrome

[behind_you]

chrome effect is most notable in half life. i don't know how to describe it to those who don't know what it is. is it possible in quake? ie in dp, have a texture names model.mdl_chrome.tga?

doesn't seem too hard to implement. i could be wrong tho

[leileilol]

the method to pull this off is to use a shader. like say you had a MD3 with a surface "shinyshinyshiny" with a texture path "models/imsoshiny.tga" there, you'd have a shader file in scripts/ with this in it:

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models/imsoshiny
{
      {
         map models/imsoshiny.tga
         tcGen environment
         rgbGen lightDiffuse
       }
}


tcGen environment is the magic maker here.

This advice applies to Darkplaces and FTEQW as well as id tech3 and qfusion

[behind_you]

sweet. simple and effective. thanks!


ps. congrats on ur 1800th post!

[Baker]

Qrack had an effect you can turn on with a cvar called gl_shiny. Not really much different than the mirror effect in Kurok (which wasn't actually a mirror). I think both implementations were from a likely lost tutorial at quaksrc.org (that was posted in the tutorial section of the forum, which was not the same as the "Old Tutorials" section).

Didn't affect models, just the map. Being Q1, the feature works on hardcoded texture names being affected by the feature and likewise uses a hardcoded texture as the material.

[Spike]

that qrack feature would be more effective if it used the glossmaps provided by many texture packs.

[r00k]

true. its simple environment mapping, I haven't played with it in years...

(that was posted in the tutorial section of the forum, which was not the same as the "Old Tutorials" section)

Qrack is like a bar of soap made from old bars of soap...