[no] Decals On Flats?

Xtife · Post by **Xtife** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 16:03

Heyas

could we see decals on floors and ceilings in the near future?
kinda weird to have um on textures and not on flats

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Sun Nov 06, 2005 16:23

The decal code can't handle it. It had to be completely rewritten so it won't happen any time soon - if ever.

Xtife · Post by **Xtife** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 0:28

bah

well, wouldnt randy have to rewrite the decal code while he was updating to floating point?

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Mon Nov 07, 2005 0:51

You have no idea what a mess it is to maintain flat decals. Walls are simple because they are regular polygons. Sectors are a completely different matter.

Xtife · Post by **Xtife** » Wed Nov 09, 2005 17:13

doh, no wonder randy never did it :p
guess it wouldnt be worth it

Gendo · Post by **Gendo** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 17:34

sorry to bump an old topic, in the first place. i noticed that in build engine ports decals on floors and ceilings are possible (e.g. Eduke)...
can this help any way? http://wiki.eduke32.com/stuff/source_code/

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 17:41

Build engine != Doom engine.

Gendo · Post by **Gendo** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 18:16

i do realize that, but i hoped for some similarities in rendering (e.g. no true 3d, different way of drawing walls and flats, etc)...

Post by **Rachael** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 18:22

As Graf said, they're completely different engines. The build engine was created to compete against Doom, to give Apogee a foothold in the shooter genre. As a result, despite the many similarities, they are two completely different engines because one has never used code from the other.

Many things that work in one will work in the other, but it takes a lot of effort to port them over. If you're willing to invest the time to do that, I'm sure it will work out. ^^ But otherwise, I really would not hold my breath for anything.

Gendo · Post by **Gendo** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 18:43

alright, then it'll be a long wait for new decal code rewrite. sorry, i was pretty ignorant about these issues, i thought these engines (modern ports of them, so to say) use similar code since they're both hardware opengl rendering software, these days... in my personal opinion it's an important issue, especially considering levels with heavy fire exchange that end up looking rather weird with dirty walls and absolutely clean polished floors

Logan MTM · Post by **Logan MTM** » Sat Jul 25, 2009 19:10

A_CheckFloor + SpawnItemEx >> Model + Mass 99999 = Decal on the Floor.

A_CheckCeiling + SpawnItemEx >> Model + A_ChangeFlag("SPAWNCEILING",1) = Decal on the Ceiling.

I'll try it in the pratice! should work.

dark-slayer-201 · Post by **dark-slayer-201** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 7:11

try doing that just before an edge, it will hang over.

Post by **Rachael** » Sun Jul 26, 2009 13:39

/facepalm

This topic has been bumped enough already.

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