Interesting article on 3d decals without creating new mesh.

[Mizu Kitsune]

This is an interesting and simple article by Francis Woodhouse, former valve employee during the time of half-life and half-life moder. http://www.gamedev.net/reference/progra ... /3ddecals/ he has his own site http://www.downwithnumbers.com his valve email doesnt work anymore and most of his work at valve has been removed from valves site and servers.

[Lee_Stricklin]

That's freaking cool. So basically it places a mesh wherever a shot is fired and makes the surface above it transparent?

[Mizu Kitsune]

yea. its pretty neat. i would love to see this in nex.

[Sven]

cool idea! 3D decals would make the nexuiz levels more real destructable, or?

[Lee_Stricklin]

cool idea! 3D decals would make the nexuiz levels more real destructable, or?

Correction: It would make it appear to be destructible.

How would this be implemented? Would somebody make a set of weapon-specific meshes and then proceed to texture them and have them coded in? Wouldn't there need to be ones made for corners, seems, and stuff like that too?

[Sven]

then i dont think there is a specific needed for corners...what overlaps would be abscised (sry for my english xD)

[Blµb]

and once you bombed a complete wall you'll try running through and hit ... well... an invisiable wall

[Sven]

what is about making 2 kinds of wall : 1 will be desructable(i dint mean the existing func_breakable) with going trough and one becomes 'invisible'

[Mizu Kitsune]

so making one wall into a func_clientillusionary and one invisible?

implementaion would be easy as it is a simple algorithm and the meshes would be easy to make, you can even use the existing decals to make the meshes with an image to mesh program.

[Sven]

i meant you just use 1 wall not 2 same shaped at the same place 1 which a 'true' demolition (you can go though the hole in the wall) and 1 with a visible destruction (you onla see but not can go trough the hole...)