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eloc12
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i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 12:02 am

I don't understand why this is happening. I hope someone here can help. Everything was working great but a few days ago when i compiled it the level was weird. Parts of it were soild black and textures where appearing where i applied other textures. i would be very grateful to anyone who can help.

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by Humpty » Fri Nov 05, 2010 6:04 am

G'day, Not sure if this is of any assistance, I'm not a pro.

Black: sounds like some form of leak, make sure your sealed up correctly in the editor.

Wrong Texture: I had this issue, make sure your textures are the right size, I believe they have to be 8bit palleted and the issue that I had was the name of the texture, the names were too long or had characters that they shouldn't. To correct this I now use short names and NO special characters, example: DoorBrown01.BMP FloorWood01 FloorWood02 TileKitchen (except I used lower case and no upper case I left that in so you could see what I did.
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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by Jay » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:34 am

Textures: Need to be square and have a size the power of two (2^x, like 128,256,512), format can be either 8bit palleted, or 24bit. 32bit TGAs are also allowed (no other types of tgas). It does not matter to the engine in which format you give the textures, they are all converted into an internal format (so you cannot save texture memory by palleting them to reduce the size to 8bit). Also, like Humpty wrote, the names need to be short and have differences in the first 12 characters or so - "Wood1" vs "Wood2" would work, "woodcolorredlaminat0000001" vs "woodcolorredlaminat0000002" probably not.
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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:25 pm

Thanks guys. Ill try that and see what happens. :D

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Fri Nov 05, 2010 7:42 pm

I got the textures to do right but the level still has huge dark parts all over it. I checked to see if it ws just the level i was making by playing the rftechv1 level and it was like that to.

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Sat Nov 06, 2010 9:04 pm

I've been working on it for like 6 hours and i can't find whats causing the big black spots everywhere.

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by Humpty » Sat Nov 06, 2010 11:18 pm

Again I don't know, if rftechv1 does the same it must be your PC or some configuration. Would you mind uploading your level and texture pack? (at least the level) and I can check it here and see what happens. I've had no issues, not even with leaks yet, so my suggestions was based on thought alone. At least if we give the level a try you will know it is / isn't the level.

Edit: Also providing some system specs my also help some members who what they are talking about find an issue.
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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Sun Nov 07, 2010 5:02 am

it wont let me... it keeps saying the file extension is not allowed

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by Humpty » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:09 am

See if you can find somewhere to host it.

Possibly if it isn't in breach of any rules change the extension and upload, just advise what to change it back to.
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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by eloc12 » Sun Nov 07, 2010 11:07 pm

Guys, I figured it out... I had changed the video setup and forgot I did. It was causing blck parts to appear everywhere. lol. :lol:

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Re: i cold use some help.

Post by Humpty » Mon Nov 08, 2010 5:40 am

sweeeet
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