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Editing ground poly for seasonal and day/night variations problem...

Gridley

Gridley

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Howdy experts!

I've hit a snag. I have a textured ground poly in gmax. I want both seasonal and night textures. I'm just trying to get the day/night winter texture to show up for now, and I'm using the day of year variable to set winter to days 0-65.

The original asm texture list code was this:
Code: 
texture_riff_start_BunkerHillMemorialTurf	label	word
    db  'T','E','X','T'   
    dd  texture_riff_end_BunkerHillMemorialTurf - $ - 4  
    TEXTURE_LIST_BEGIN
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING    , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND.BMP"	; 0
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE2_NIGHT      , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND_LM.BMP"	; 1
    TEXTURE_LIST_END
    BGL_RETURN
texture_riff_end_BunkerHillMemorialTurf label word

Following along with Arno's seasonal textures tutorial post, I've added in my winter day and night textures:
Code: 
texture_riff_start_BunkerHillMemorialTurf	label	word
    db  'T','E','X','T'   
    dd  texture_riff_end_BunkerHillMemorialTurf - $ - 4  
    TEXTURE_LIST_BEGIN
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING    , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND.BMP"		; 0
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE2_NIGHT      , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND_LM.BMP" 		; 1
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE_BUILDING    , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND_WI.BMP"		; 2
    TEXTURE_DEF TEXTURE2_NIGHT      , <255,255,255,255>, 97.002412, "BHMGROUND_WI_LM.BMP"	; 3
    TEXTURE_LIST_END
    BGL_RETURN
texture_riff_end_BunkerHillMemorialTurf label word

The problem starts here - having a night map, the original texture assignment reads as follows, with the light map entered as the second parameter of the texture list:
Code: 
MATERIAL 0,0 ; <255,255,255,255> BHMGROUND.BMP;BHMGROUND_LM.BMP;;

Here's what I've edited to, but only the summer day/night textures are showing, winter changes to a plain white surface, indicating that the IF is working, just not the texture definition:

Code: 
    IFIN1 tex_01, 038Ah, 0, 65
    MATERIAL 2,0 ; <255,255,255,255> BHMGROUND_WI.BMP;BHMGROUND_WI_LM.BMP;;
    JUMP tex_continue
    tex_01 label word
    MATERIAL 0,0 ; <255,255,255,255> BHMGROUND.BMP;BHMGROUND_LM.BMP;;
    tex_continue label word

Can someone tell where I've gone wrong? Thanks in advance for your time!

Best,
sg
 
Hi,

Try Material 0,2 instead of Material 0,0. You have now increased the material count, not the texture count.
 
Thanks for that correction, Arno. However in making the change I now seem to only get the summer texture regardless of date...I'll dig some more. I think I've missed something obvious...
 
Hi,

I looked through your code again and all the jumps etc look correct. Did you check the obvious things like the different textures being in your texture folder? :)
 
Working!

So the first thing I did was open the mdl file after compiling in the new MDLTweaker2 alpha - only two textures listed. Not sure why. The code looked fine, as you stated. So I deleted everything.

Recompiled from GMax, fresh edit of the ASM with the noted typo corrected, and all seems to be working great! DAY/NIGHT in summer and winter.

Thanks a ton, Arno!
 
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