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| Author | Topic: Can't extract 3d textures without a valid plate (7 messages, Page 1 of 1) | ||||
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 rododoonceagain Joined: Dec 21, 2014 
Left Halo because life |
Posted: Jan 24, 2015 05:35 PM
Msg. 1 of 7
I was trying to put ingame a different 3d bitmap for the energy shield (something more electric-looking, like the shielding of the seraph from Halo Reach), but whenever I try to compile it, Tool gives me this error. Have someone ever toyed with 3D bitmaps? And what does this error mean?
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Super Flanker Joined: Oct 5, 2012 
The length of your life depends on my aim. |
Posted: Jan 25, 2015 06:35 AM
Msg. 2 of 7
Your not supposed to use 3d bitmaps as a particle bitmaps
Use sprites instead. Edited by SS Flanker on Jan 25, 2015 at 06:35 AM |
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rododoonceagain Joined: Dec 21, 2014
Left Halo because life |
Posted: Jan 25, 2015 12:31 PM
Msg. 3 of 7
Quote: --- Original message by: SS Flanker Your not supposed to use 3d bitmaps as a particle bitmaps Use sprites instead. Edited by SS Flanker on Jan 25, 2015 at 06:35 AM Sprites...? To make a shield that envelopes the shape of a character...? Sounds way too tricky for my taste. |
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rododoonceagain Joined: Dec 21, 2014
Left Halo because life |
Posted: Jan 26, 2015 02:16 PM
Msg. 4 of 7
Quote: --- Original message by: sparky Make a shader_model tag for it; apply some values to the animation section of that tag. EDIT: Oh, I just realized what you are saying. Try just duplicating and modifying the cyborg energy shield shader transparent plasma tag. (I think that's what it is.) Edited by sparky on Jan 25, 2015 at 09:57 PM It's not. I am not talking about the shader that uses such bitmap, I am talking about the bitmap itself; namely, characters\elite\bitmaps\elite shield noise.bitmap I tried to extract it, look at it and compile a new one, but tool says that it can't extract 3D textures without a valid plate, and I honestly don't know what does it mean. Edited by rododoonceagain on Jan 26, 2015 at 02:18 PM |
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altis94 Joined: Oct 5, 2012 
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Posted: Jan 27, 2015 07:53 AM
Msg. 5 of 7
I think you need to add a blue background and put each part of the bitmap below like this
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Spartan314 Joined: Aug 21, 2010 
Former biped rigger & FP animator |
Posted: Jan 27, 2015 11:46 PM
Msg. 6 of 7
Especially if they're sprites. 1x1 blue border around the images worked for me.
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Super Flanker Joined: Oct 5, 2012
The length of your life depends on my aim. |
Posted: Jan 28, 2015 07:04 AM
Msg. 7 of 7
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