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RE: Any tips for billboards - Tottel - 04-03-2011
Open some official maps in the map editor and see how the devs did it.
I dare to say they did a very neat job, so use it as reference.
RE: Any tips for billboards - Shev - 04-03-2011
(04-03-2011, 01:17 PM)Tottel Wrote: Open some official maps in the map editor and see how the devs did it.
I dare to say they did a very neat job, so use it as reference.
Tried, but I can't replicate it without directly copying it.
RE: Any tips for billboards - Austums - 04-03-2011
Yeah, they have like twenty billboards but they're all grouped together. You can't see anything >_>
RE: Any tips for billboards - Shev - 04-04-2011
I think I've had some success by making extremely dim ones (.1-.2) and basically spamming them on a fixed axis at different angles and matching them up to where the light actually goes.
RE: Any tips for billboards - palistov - 04-04-2011
If the billboards are compounds in official maps, you cannot export them as an .expobj file; when you import a compound, it won't work
So break down the compound and export them all as an object. Once you import them, either delete all but one so you can work with it, or re-create the compound, and orient that with your window! Good luck!
RE: Any tips for billboards - Shev - 04-04-2011
(04-04-2011, 11:22 PM)palistov Wrote: If the billboards are compounds in official maps, you cannot export them as an .expobj file; when you import a compound, it won't work
So break down the compound and export them all as an object. Once you import them, either delete all but one so you can work with it, or re-create the compound, and orient that with your window! Good luck!
My goal is to figure out how to do billboards well without having to copy exactly from frictional games. I mean that's kinda lame tbh.
RE: Any tips for billboards - Shev - 04-10-2011
Anyone other tips for them?
RE: Any tips for billboards - MrBigzy - 04-10-2011
I dont think there's really much else to it. Just treat them like rays of light and put a bunch in, some at slightly different angles.
RE: Any tips for billboards - Tanshaydar - 04-10-2011
Well, what I did is, placing all of them with all kind of settings and see how they react.
Now I know which one and settings to pick for specific purposes.