Simple Questions/Answers - Page 70

On November 12 2011 01:30 IveReturned wrote:
Im having a problem lately.

Im using Xil tileset and I cant change( do anything) To the background.

On November 12 2011 02:36 IveReturned wrote:
Also, do you know how I can make tar?

On November 12 2011 04:49 Namrufus wrote:


you'll probably have to use water, mar-sara or zhakul water would be a good starting point. in order to get an opaque, smooth tarlike surface you can change the 'mesh roughness' and 'texture roughness parameters, as well as the "color falloff" parameter. recolorized lava doodads might also look good for tar bubbles.

On November 12 2011 05:52 IveReturned wrote:


I played around a little bit but, I couldnt manage to make something good out of it.

Can you help me doing that?


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still having the same problem.

This really looks awkward.

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On November 12 2011 07:15 Namrufus wrote:


So I actually recommend that you start out with shakuras water, it looks the best under most circumstances imo.

OK, so here we go... (note that it is hard to read the screenshots, but the locations on the menu are easy to see)

so here is normal Shakuras water, height lowered of course
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the first thing you'll want to do is to increase the color fallof parameter in the texture submenu
color falloff controls the "haziness" of the water. you should increse the haziness so you can see only a little beneath the water surface
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go to the basic submenu
next set the color of the water to a dark black (possibly a little red or green)
set tha alpha (transparancy) of the water surface a little higher (not too high as this will block out our nice color-fallof effect from before
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now, back to the texture submenu
the texture roughness and mesh roughness effect the waves on the surface of the water. mesh roughness actually effects the physical displacement of the surface of the water creating large smooth waves, while texture roughness only effects the strength of an animated bump map on the surface that creates a small ripple effect.
As this is supposed to be tar, you should decrease one or both of these to get the effect you want (but do not set both of them to zero at the same time, as the water will then look very unrealisticly flat.)
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as you modify the roughness, you may notice some weird reflection effects depending on what lighting you are using, if the reflections are too strong, you can enter the reflection submenu and reduce the specular scale parameter.

the reflection menu has a lot of other parameters that control things like the reflection and refraction of units and terrain in the water that can make the water look really cool in some situations, I don't know enough about the individual parameters to tell you to do anything though.

anyway, thats how I would do it, I hope that there isn't already a similar explaination like this elsewhere, then I would feel silly for writing all this :/

and also disregard what I said about recolored lava doodads: the lava splash doodad actually interferes with the water effects and none of the other lava doodads looked very convincing. That doesn't mean you can't use for example smoke or bone etc doodads to make the tar effect more realistic.

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also, a question of my own: is it possible to change the color of lava without doing weird this with the data editor, I think I remember seeing a map once with green lava in it.

On November 12 2011 23:45 Demagus wrote:
A quick question for those experienced with the Galaxy Editor (I apologise if it has been asked before, i couldn't find the answer though -.-).

How do you set a bridge (Doodad) to be passable for units walking UNDERNEATH it?



What I'm trying to do is to have units be able to go over the bridge (this works fine) as well as different units be able to walk under the bridge in the canyon (as you can see, I set the pathing). This, however, I was not able to do and the units simply clump up on the side of the Doodad, even though it looks as if there should be sufficient space for them to be able to simply walk under it.

Thx in advance for any helpful answers!