posted 05-08-2002 02:13 PM               

I was reading few weeks ago about people complaining about strpix 3.8 rev 1 not working (the picking rutine) in their machines, even psiko had that problem.

I recived that report long time ago when i was updating my opengl rutines, i resolved the problem at that time but seems that Strpix 3.8 rev 1 was compiled with that bugy version.

Anyway i recompiled the tool with my actual rutines and i sent psiko the tool, he say that now the problem was resolved and strpix 3.8 rev 2 is working Ok on his machine.

If you are one of those where strpix 3.8 rev 1 is not working (when you click the model nothing happen) that i suggest to try this fixed revision.
http://www.geocities.com/cyber_delphi/

Please note that if you are editing a static mesh (ornament) then clicking a face wil not work if the colisional yellow box is enabled.

Remember that your are ahotorized to download and host strpix3 in your web site if you want.

Good luck.

posted 05-08-2002 03:55 PM               

Nice one all tested ok for me.

Thanks
psxsaves (now back to editing...)

posted 05-08-2002 05:40 PM               

Anyhow, I imported some DXFs for some static objects... it seems that the "bounding feature" still corrups my wads SOMETIMES... I cannot tell when...

If I import the same DXF with strpix3.5 and then I fix the collision with strpix3.8-rev2 I get no problems.

It seems that this happens only SOMETIMES when I import then I apply the collision feature.

I know that I have to uncheck to not show the yellow box, both while importing either while texturing... I know even from where to choice the right objcets... but ccasionally, not always, it happens that the wad gets corrupted....

The second thing of just an hours ago, is that after I created three new objects (perfect in the wad, in the editor etc, etc) I imported them in my MAIN wad with trwest: no problem, no crash, but after this new importing of those objects, my cusotm Lara has a "strange" problem: I havent retouched her...

Two polygons goes to the INFINITE direction from Lara... One from the nech, another from a leg...

I guess those two poligons are from the skin joints meshes, but actually I removed them importing an empty DXF substituting the original meshes months ago...

posted 05-10-2002 07:15 AM               

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Originally posted by Lara's Soul:
But I have a question: Can you remind me how I add the shiny feature at a texture please?

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Copied from Turbo's site:

The Shine effect can be applied to a Face since version 3.8 rev 1+, this is a value from 0-31 in increasing shiny intensity, you first select the desired value and then each texture that you apply to a face will have this shiny intensity effect.

Before apply the shiny effect over mesh used for ornaments, you need to export the ornament to DXF and then import back from DXF (not any changes is needed), in this procces Strpix3 convert the ornament lights method to normals light method neccesary for the shiny effect or the game will crahs.

If the shiny effect is used over some skin_join meshes then the game will crash, most skinjoints not need to be shining really, but some really need to, so for be able to put the shining in these meshes then you can try this smart trick:

* Export the skinjoin mesh to DXF file and open it in a CAD program.
* Seems that all skinjoint faces are hard coded to be linked with others mesh and they can't be shining, so the solution is to put a NEW FACE in the place where you want to apply the effect later, so all originals skin_joint meshes remain untoched, and the newone will have the shiny effect.
* Before importing back the skinjoint mesh you will have to take note about the originals vertex value because you will need to REMAP the vertices after importing back the mesh.

Note: The above solution was not tested personaly for me.

Thank you very much to TOMO and TIJAY for testing and providing the info necessary for find how interpret correctly the shiny values and for providing the above skinjoint solution.