beam?

[Johnny-Rico]

damn beams. i did a beam texture and a shader and when i put it on the map i just get all black and the light color at the bottom of the black and its solid and all how do i make the shader work?

[Leslie Judge]

You should post the current shader code here to let us see.

[Johnny-Rico]

i open it in notepad and this what i get

 

e:/lucasarts/star wars jk ii jedi outcast/gamedata/base/textures/prom/beam

{

surfaceparm nomarks

surfaceparm nonsolid

surfaceparm trans

q3map_nolightmap

{

map e:/lucasarts/star wars jk ii jedi outcast/gamedata/base/textures/prom/beam

blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE

}

}

[Obsidian-Jovani]

e:/lucasarts/star wars jk ii jedi outcast/gamedata/base/textures/prom/beam

 

Well first I don't think you need that whole line there.

Just put: textures/prom/beam

[wedge2211]

Obsidian is right. Change both lines where the full filename occurs to just read from "textures\" onward.

[Johnny-Rico]

thx guys its working but i got another problem now its solid i just put a no draw on the top of it do i need to put in some place else?

[Obsidian-Jovani]

You could try to texture the beam brush first with caulk_nonsolid then texture the surfaces with the beam texture. If that doesn't do it then something is missing from the shader code.

[Livingdeadjedi]

well first make sure your beam shader is non solid and that the no draw your using is the none solid one

[Johnny-Rico]

thx guys

[Fragmaster-B]

Originally posted by Obsidian-Jovani

You could try to texture the beam brush first with caulk_nonsolid then texture the surfaces with the beam texture. .

 

my question is why would you use a caulk_nonsolid?? instaed of a regular caulk??

[rgoer]

Originally posted by Fragmaster-B

my question is why would you use a caulk_nonsolid?? instaed of a regular caulk??

 

Because you can't walk through regular caulk. You know, when you import an .md3 model into your map, say, an AT-ST, you construct a phantom "shell" of brushes that you texture with caulk. You use regular caulk for these so you can walk on the AT-ST without passing right through it. Hope this answers your question.

[Shotokan]

You can also use clip to make the AT-ST "solid"

[wedge2211]

1) For md3 models, use CLIP not caulk.

 

2) For beams/water/glass/anything transluscent, use nodraw or nodraw_solid.

[Johnny-Rico]

my beam is still solid dont know why i just put no draw on the top do i need to put it in another place?

[rgoer]

Hey, you learn something every day. Why use CLIP instead of caulk for .md3 models? Do you go about it the same way (make a bunch of brushes that roughly approximate the form of your .md3), just use CLIP instead of caulk? What's the difference?