New Tag: Fire Cubemap Bitmap (CUBEMAP!!!)

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:48 pm

this has never been done before... a new cubemap bitmap tag... if u dont know what this is, it's the bitmap that reflects or "mirrors" off a material.

if antone could get an ingame pic of this I would appreciate it...

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 8:51 pm

here's a preview pic of it

ThabounceR · Post by **ThabounceR** » Tue Aug 31, 2004 11:26 pm

nice, and i would do it but i have no idea how

#n3`Paul · Post by **#n3`Paul** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 4:15 am

u know u did it wrong right?
its all supposed to fit.

but im sure u knew that

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:08 am

um.. no paul... open a cubemap .tif file. as you can see markers or borders appear separating each bitmap. they are blue which means it will either come out as multiple mipmaps or a cubemap. it comes out a cubemap because if u were to fold it on each border or marker, it would become a cube. thus creates a cubemap...

#n3`Paul · Post by **#n3`Paul** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:45 am

just forming a cube isnt enough, the texture has to FIT all around, and u just got 1 picture 6 times.

they all have to link up to eachother, maybe not in Halo, not sure about it, but Halo isnt the only game i mod u know.

anyway, YOU know ur right, and thats what its all about right?
go be proud of it now. yeees, thats a good boy

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:47 am

tell me ifu compile urs.. does come out a cubemap bitmap tag? no i doesnt.. i've tried that..

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:43 am

lol i have no idea otherwise i'd contribute

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 10:48 am

anwyaz paul.. u cant really complane when i works.. here are some pics of this cubemap applied to a ghost...

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:14 am

uh-oh it fits

sry paul...u know i'm usually on ur side, but ace is right this time it seems

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 11:24 am

it's beautiful isnt it? that fire ghost? hahahaha!!! CUBEMAPS ARE AWSOME!!!!

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 5:37 pm

Banshee, stop acting like what you do is innovative. People have made cubemaps before (including myself), but we just don't release everything we do... And you did do it very wrong. It does not compile as a bitmap, but you have to switch a bunch of things up for it to work. The ghost is only reflecting one bitmap, but that is all that is included in the cubemap, because you just rotated the texture.

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:12 pm

lol so enlighten us

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:13 pm

Being the lazy person I am, I will direct you to a tut mattp001 made, it's called how to skin things the ghetto way or something, it got me started.

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:14 pm

i've seen it...but i dont remember anythin on cubemaps, but ill check it out, thanks

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:20 pm

where's a good place i can learn UVW unwrap in 3ds?

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 6:59 pm

discreet.com has tuts and tut links on there, check it out, worth a shot

TheMissingLink117 · Post by **TheMissingLink117** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 7:40 pm

I just looked closer, and you can see the edges of the bitmaps on the ghost. You should really try and make this the proper way.

Captain_Lag · Post by **Captain_Lag** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:07 pm

wait, what exactly does a cubemap do? is it a skin or what? b/c the shee has a skin and a cubemap and the ghost here looks like it was skinned

Banshee Ace 2 · Post by **Banshee Ace 2** » Wed Sep 01, 2004 8:22 pm