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Any tips for billboards
Tottel Offline
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#11
RE: Any tips for billboards

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. Smile
04-03-2011, 01:17 PM
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#12
RE: Any tips for billboards

(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. Smile

Tried, but I can't replicate it without directly copying it.

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04-03-2011, 10:00 PM
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#13
RE: Any tips for billboards

Yeah, they have like twenty billboards but they're all grouped together. You can't see anything >_>
04-03-2011, 11:12 PM
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RE: Any tips for billboards

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.

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04-04-2011, 09:57 AM
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RE: Any tips for billboards

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 Sad

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!

04-04-2011, 11:22 PM
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RE: Any tips for billboards

(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 Sad

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.

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04-04-2011, 11:25 PM
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#17
RE: Any tips for billboards

Anyone other tips for them?

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04-10-2011, 04:40 AM
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#18
RE: Any tips for billboards

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.
04-10-2011, 04:56 AM
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RE: Any tips for billboards

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.

04-10-2011, 11:46 AM
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