Solid Textures and Liquids

[Team Xlink]

Solved.

[Downsider]

I don't think anyone knows what you're talking about?

Do you mean to have simple untextured colored walls, or something altogether different?

Assuming you're working with the PSP, you can color the vertexes and check against a cvar

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sceGuEnable(GU_TEXTURE_2D);

Where it says that right before you render world textures, do something like

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if (cl_textures_enabled) {
  sceGuEnable(GU_TEXTURE_2D);
} else {
  sceGuDisable(GU_TEXTURE_2D);
}

I'd hardly call it blisteringly difficult

Then you could assign each texture name a different solid color when the map is loaded, so you don't have to see either all single-colored polygons or flashing colors.

[Electro]

r_picmip 10

[r00k]

in DrawGLPoly in gl_surf.c,

change, or add a cvar to toggle..,

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		glTexCoord2f (v[3], v[4]);

with

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		glTexCoord2f (0, 0);

[Downsider]

r_picmip 10

r_picmip isn't a GLQuake default, and he's obviously making his own engine here, so he'll be asking a tutorial on that next if you tell him that

[mh]

OK.

I think you might be in a little over your head here. You've asked a lot of questions lately, some of them have been basic stuff and some have been major overhauls of the engine. I'm starting to think that you want to jump ahead to some advanced stuff when you don't seem to have the basic knowledge down yet.

My advice is to sit down with a blank file/empty project/whatever, get a good basic OpenGL tutorial (there are plenty on the web) and work with that. Get a triangle on the screen, texture it, light it, make it spin. Play with the various parameters and see what the effect is, then understand why that happened.

Then take a basic Quake build on Windows or Linux and make small modifications. Fix up some texturing bugs if that's your thing, or change the physics, sound or other code. Build up from there. 3D and game engine programming can be both incredibly easy and incredibly hard, and if you let the incredibly easy bits lure you in too far, you'll end up badly bitten when you come to the incredibly hard ones.

It's great to see the ambition coming out, but if you try to run before you can walk you'll end up with a release that's fairly badly botched and will probably need rewriting in 6 months time when you understand things better. Take it from someone who's been there - it's a humbling experience to be making all of your early mistakes in public.

All meant well.

[Team Xlink]

Thank you.

I found out what I was doing wrong.

It turns out the way I setup, I had made a mistake so it always returned false and not true.

[Electro]

Sorry, gl_picmip 10

It's already implemented in standard glquake. It simply forces what mip level to use.

[Downsider]

OK.

I think you might be in a little over your head here. You've asked a lot of questions lately, some of them have been basic stuff and some have been major overhauls of the engine. I'm starting to think that you want to jump ahead to some advanced stuff when you don't seem to have the basic knowledge down yet.

My advice is to sit down with a blank file/empty project/whatever, get a good basic OpenGL tutorial (there are plenty on the web) and work with that. Get a triangle on the screen, texture it, light it, make it spin. Play with the various parameters and see what the effect is, then understand why that happened.

Then take a basic Quake build on Windows or Linux and make small modifications. Fix up some texturing bugs if that's your thing, or change the physics, sound or other code. Build up from there. 3D and game engine programming can be both incredibly easy and incredibly hard, and if you let the incredibly easy bits lure you in too far, you'll end up badly bitten when you come to the incredibly hard ones.

It's great to see the ambition coming out, but if you try to run before you can walk you'll end up with a release that's fairly badly botched and will probably need rewriting in 6 months time when you understand things better. Take it from someone who's been there - it's a humbling experience to be making all of your early mistakes in public.

All meant well.

Bawhawhawhaw I've been saying (or at least thinking) this for a while. Then again, I act like a douchebag all the time so it's great that somebody else picks up the slack.

[metlslime]

See, i disagree....

building an opengl game project from scratch is a lot of work and you won't get any gratificaition for a while. And even when you finally do, it's something pointless like spinning green triangles.

using the quake engine as a base and adding features that you are actually excited about, gives three benefits:

1. the results are meaningful to you

2. you're starting with a fully-functional base, which lets you do very small changes and see instant results

3. you have a working model to study and learn from

[Downsider]

See, i disagree....

building an opengl game project from scratch is a lot of work and you won't get any gratificaition for a while. And even when you finally do, it's something pointless like spinning green triangles.

using the quake engine as a base and adding features that you are actually excited about, gives three benefits:

1. the results are meaningful to you

2. you're starting with a fully-functional base, which lets you do very small changes and see instant results

3. you have a working model to study and learn from

But:

1) You have no understanding of anything you did.

2) You think you're far better than you actually are.

3) You can't sell your shit.

4) Because of 1 & 2, you'll try porting to another platform and fail.

5) You're a tutorial whore.

[MauveBib]

Whatever private agenda you have, keep it to PMs and not in the forum.

[Electro]

Disgusting behavior Downsider.

[Downsider]

I think you've misunderstood?

I wasn't talking about XLink, I was talking about people who do this in general. You, by yourself, have done the assumption that You're a tutorial whore. was directed toward XLink.

[Supa]

What difference does it make? Personal attacks have no place here.