Dt_OpelBlitz

[Detoeni]

Iv fixed all the bits and the new verson of the file is up here:

http://www.planetwolfenstein.com/detoeni/models.htm

The opel blitz can now be used as a misc_model(shader-swap instructions in read_me), it size and facing have also been fixed, and it looks much better when vertex lit.

A usefull idea that got to me just after I uploaded the new file(im off on holiday tomorrow, so no time to add it to the read_me)

I don’t know if you are familiar with the .skin files we can use in radiant
but they really work well and they’re pretty easy to use! All you need to
do is create a file in notepad with the name of a model section and the
texture you want to apply on it like
“cab01,models/mapobjects/dt_opelblitz/dt_oblitz_body_gr”. Then in radiant
you just specify the skin file to use, compile, and voila!
The neat thing about this is that you won’t need to have a different model
for each set of textures. Just use the same one with a different skin file.
That would also make it much easier for those who want to change the texture
“like me” without having to edit the model or overwrite the original texture
with their own!

Body parts:
cab
cab01
glass
glass01
Object04
Object05

box parts:
boxback
boxback01

tailgate:
Object04
Object05

tank:
tank
tank01

front wheel:
ft
Object01
Object04

back wheel:
wto
Object02
Object03

[Malverik]

'afraid the wheels are still misoriented :-\

no biggie, anyway you still need to set the angle for the wheels on the right side!

[_UBC_McNite]

I still love your trucks… they look real great in my map.

As i was trying some fog in the map i ran into trouble with the windows of them again though, most probably because they are made with shaders that have more n 1 blend stage. Is there any way to get the windows as a simple grey with no blend stages? I know they wont look shiny then but with the blend stages they look white from a great distance and wont get covered by the fog.

[Detoeni]

Just remap it to:

models/mapobjects/dt_oblitz/dt_oblitz_glass_flat
{
	qer_editorimage models/mapobjects/dt_oblitz/dt_oblitz_glass.tga
	surfaceparm nomarks
	implicitMap models/mapobjects/dt_oblitz/dt_oblitz_glass.tga
}

[_UBC_McNite]

Regarding my question about the tris I just made a quick test in a small boxmap and found out that there are:

without truck 1639 verts /1022 tris
with truck 4472 verts /3848 tris

Truck consisted of: body, box, 2 fw, 2 bw
of the tris I m counting the 2nd number

This gives me roughly: 2.800 verts and 2.800 tris just for the simple version of the truck

Does this meet your values?

[Detoeni]

The same model set up in max

verts 2758
tris 2644