pictures and posters on walls

(eRRoLfLyNN) #1

hallo, it’s me again :slight_smile:

i have a small building that i want to put some pictures and posters on the wall. I am just making a fun map to take to a LAN party with the VPL guys, and I wanted to make a VPL hall of fame type thing.

Is it just a matter of making the texture and applying it to a brush. In this case does the texture HAVE to be a square? Or should it be a shader?

I haven’t experimented with it yet, and I am at work now. Was just wondering if anybody had a quick answer so I can start it when i get home.

Thanks for reading! :smiley:

(MuffinMan) #2

well it depends on your texture, you can do a version of the background texture with your picture on it, if it is square you can set it on a single brush-face anyway or you write a decal shader for it and make the background an alpha channel like the little oil lakes for example, then you can simply put them over the existing texture

(Loffy) #3

Hi!
Just a quick reply: I think this has been discussed. Search the forum. I suggest using the search words “custom textures”. Keep on mapping!
// Loffy (on his way home, from work - IT’S FRIDAY!)

(badong) #4

textures don’t have to be square. But their dimensions HAVE to be powers of two(like 128x256).
To put posters on the wall you have several choices. The easiest way to do it is just to draw another thin brush on top of your wall in whatever size you want the poster to be and then apply the poster texture to it. Then press S to open the surface inspector and press Fit to make the texture fit the brush. This method however may cause Z-fighting if especially if the poster is visible from a long distance or if the brush is too thin. But if the room is small , you should be fine.
Another way to do it is to do write a decal shader. This is basically just a shader with the keyword polygonoffset in it. It can be as short as two lines if you want…just polygonoffset and then implicitMap ….
The decal has the benefit that it wont cause any Z-fighting, and if you want you can “sink�your poster brush in your wall brush so that their surfaces are on the same plane, and both textures(wall and poster) will still be visible.
Or you can split your wall to form a poster brush, or do one of the methods suggested by the previous posts…whatever is easier for you.

I’m not sure what you mean here but let me just say that unless you want to go with the decal method, you don’t have to write a shader.