[full_circle]

Hail fellow Deezirians (?),

I'm working on a pretty big name mod and we're stuck. Basically we have all our pretty looking units designed to be a specific color and we don't wanna mess them up with Housecolors getting in the way.

So, one of our guys came up with the idea of having some kind of ring on the floor around each unit to designate which team it's on.

"Great!", I thought until I realised that the Horde Bonus is just a TGA and thus I can't change it to be the Housecolor.

My question to all you wonderful people is... Can I create this "ring" on the floor around each unit without having to modify the current w3d files?

Any help much appreciated.

(P.S: If you think this is a bad idea, I don't care - I just need help achieving my goal, not your opinions on the concept of it)

[DarkSideDave]

I actually think its a great idea, makes it more realisitc than having housecolor bands on units, you don't really see the M1A2 tanks out there covered in floresant paint, do you?

Hmm, you wouldn't need to do it via the hoard-effect

Look at the code for the Chem Suit, that... to is a TGA, but if you made a TGA for each house, it may be possible that way

But I really think that modifying the W3Ds would be the best way to go... in terms of complexity

[Cedar]

it is possible but you may have to give each team a dummy W3D (what I mean by that is you create a simple W3D (big purple circle) of the radius you want and simply make that part of the Model (like the power plant kind of... except no upgrade ability)

[Ambershee]

Well, if each house had completely different units then it's entirely possible to give them different "chem-suit" targas. For houses with shared units, used copied ones instead with different details where need be - what else would you need to know ?

[full_circle]

ok, thanks for your input guys - looks like we'll have to change every single model to have this new "housecolor circle" around it.

I looked into your idea W3bDevil, but I can't figure out how to get the units to have a different TGA depending on their housecolor. Cheers anyway

[full_circle]

the trouble I found Ambershee, is this...

Say 2 players are both USA - how would you make both identical sides have a different TGA be displayed?

Apart from having a different team for each possibly combination of race/color e.g:
USA (Red), USA (Blue), GLA (Red), China (Blue).

[Ambershee]

Then perhaps the W3D technique is better, although if the ring was just part of the model and remappable perhaps? It would probably cause nasty clipping errors with the floor.

I don't understand the second point, you can't have two players playing as the same color anyway?

[DarkSideDave]

Originally Posted by full_circle

....I looked into your idea W3bDevil, but I can't figure ...

Spell my name right first, biatch

[smurfbizkit]

Blitz2 does something similar to what you are saying. We just add a flat square peice into the models, enable alpha and remap for it and have it draw from a default .dds.

Of course you could just try not using any sort of remap at all...I've been tempted to do that, since it really isn't all that useful in practice (for me anyways).