Map Decals - Page 3

sessus · 04-08-2008 , 00:30 Re: Map Decals

Gently: I was merely describing what I was experiencing, not lying; however, you were right, it was a compression issue. Plugin runs without any problems otherwise.

Btw: Your compression efficiency my be related to the simplicity of your decal. I cannot get my 1.33Mb decal compressed below ~400kb.

DontWannaName · 04-08-2008 , 01:53 Re: Map Decals

I tried using my decal as spray in the server but it came out blank. I fail at this stuff.

Gently · 04-08-2008 , 02:45 Re: Map Decals

are you using anime decals. if not your bz2 could use a tweak. my decal "simple" i dont understand....?

all in fun,... post it if you want. ill squish it for you...

Gently · 04-08-2008 , 02:51 Re: Map Decals

i am into a idea right now. tell me what you guys think. a texture can be anim but a "spray" is very limited. anyone know the max limits of a anim decal or texture...i saw a german guy who made an hour and a half anim movie that was like 64kb with sound and everything....

dontwannaname...post it here ill be glad to help whoever i can. mui importantae to check the vmt for file structure and the decal must be a power of 2 i.e 2x4 128x256 or stay simple at 512x512 with a decalscale at.25 ...

Extreme_One · 04-08-2008 , 03:52 Re: Map Decals

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Originally Posted by Gently

...or stay simple at 512x512 with a decalscale at.25 ...

Or to acheive a similar level of detail with a smaller filesize you can make your decal 256x256 and decalscale 0.50

berni · 04-08-2008 , 05:35 Re: Map Decals

Thanks to Gently for clearing this up

DontWannaName · 04-08-2008 , 18:59 Re: Map Decals

Here is the VTF and VMT. Its kinda small but I would like it as big as possible which I tried.

Extreme_One · 04-08-2008 , 19:12 Re: Map Decals

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Originally Posted by DontWannaName

Here is the VTF and VMT. Its kinda small but I would like it as big as possible which I tried.

I'm getting an error with your VTF file : Explorer crashes every time I try to view it.

If I try to open in in Photoshop I get the attached error.

This has never happened with any VTF file I've dealt with in the past.
I have a plugin to handle VTF thumbnails in Explorer and a Photoshop plugin to handle the VTF file format.

Better option is to post your source and let someone recreate the VTF from that.

DontWannaName · 04-08-2008 , 19:28 Re: Map Decals

Did you update to the latest VTF version. I used VTF 4.0 instead of 2.0

Extreme_One · 04-08-2008 , 19:35 Re: Map Decals

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Originally Posted by DontWannaName

Did you update to the latest VTF version. I used VTF 4.0 instead of 2.0

OK ty I have updated my PS plugin

I'm pretty sure that you can't use a spray that's larger than roughly 90kb.

I can see no reason see why your decal won't work with this plugin if you edit the VMT file accordingly.