Hi xpAdmin, hi everybody !

it seems that (cloth) textures are rendered 4 times.
probably front/back rendering for front cloth face, front/back rendering for back face.

it quite ennoying because 1 single line can be viewed 4 times depending on angle,
and now I also understand why transparency is (a lot) less transparent when rendering.

is there a way to avoid that : filemaker config, changing .dat declaration file ?

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forum management question:
do you prefer, one topic for each question I ask (I have alreday created 3-4 topics for my questions about modding and it's not finished)
Or do you prefer one "general modding questions" / "laissemoire modding questions & problems" ?

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nice

I'm working with GIMP and when trying to make a new texture for Monica's bra I used opacity settings of 25% and 35% for the fill-tool to achieve semi-transparent cloth.

I have problems with bump maps.

I probably missed some magic trick..

@laissemoirire

Please feel free to use this topic for more questions.

Alpha channel in cloth texture:
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In the wiki example files for the cloth you will see a shader for the panty, that is also transparent.

The thickness for the cloth (the times it is rendered) can be set in the shader like this:



A thickness of 1 renders it 2 times etc.

This allows for transparent cloth objects.

Also setting the alpha_shadow to true allows for transparent objects to have a shadow.


Bump mapping:
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Make sure you save a heightmap texture to an image format with 1 channel. So not a .jpg greyscale rgb, but a 1 channel greyscale.

If the bumpmap has 3 channels it is presumed to be a normal map instead of an heightmap. This is also allowed, but then you have to create the normal map yourself.

Also you can set additional bump settings in the shader:



N.b.
In Maya a bumpmap is always a heightmap (also when it is 3 channels).

Hope this helps.

Indeed, at first, my bumpmap was rgb gray colored.

but I changed it to grayscale and nothing changed BECAUSE what I see just now, it's still 24bits color depth !! what the !!! GRRRRRRrrr
(gimp I hate you when you do that !)


I see no AA_panty1, in hypershade nor body.ini
I'll try to redownload the tutorial resource pack.

but with your comment I should be able to advance.

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Question with bumpmap :
how do I "attach" my bumpfile to my object ? It's done automatically by filemaker when I attach a bumpmap file to my object in maya ?
I say that because there's no link (outside of maya) between

and this

in another thread you talked about path
I tried many things and nothing worked...
I really don't get it



maya ? looking in a pack ? where outside maya do I have to use .ma files ?
the only line found is here
in filemaker start.ini file. which says : I feed you with this file.




OK no problem this is what I want..


what does that mean ? what .ma file path ? where ?
I tried to put a # for my texture path in maya but it don't want to keep it.



what are those path with a # in it ? Oo
at runtime we want the game to look in "./plugin/dress/cloth1.jpg" not int "pack/pack_abducted/#plugin/dress/cloth1.jpg" (and I still don't understand what this # is

please

@laissemoirire

If you still have issues using the bumpmap then please send the files you use to:
admin(AT)xmoonproductions(DOT)com
so I can take a look at that.

I have created a wiki example for creating cloth plugins and especially on how to use cloth textures outside the packs.
You can find it here.

If you still have questions after reading the cloth plugin wiki, post them here.

N.b.
The bra looks sharp!!

new wiki page secret bonus page ! \o/



no It works, thanks.

ok, great, wiki read, should be fine when I'll be at home this evening.

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Question ! (yes sorry, lot of a questions, it's because I'm interested and I'm anticipating my next move)

- I want to create multiple textures for my bra. (because it's the best bra ever ) or I want others capable of creating textures.
and of course, I want a multiple choice ingame.


first option is to create a different plugin for each texture, but I'm the only one that can do that (I have the maya sources to create each "different" plugin with filemaker)

second one is the actual question :
- is it possible to configure the plugin to specify a texture (and bump) path in _plugin.ini (create X copies of the plugin and specify texture path. no need to filemaker each textures)

in case this is not possible, I'll probably release a standard object to use directly in a pack. textures can be colored or changed at runtime. the only problem is for
bumpmap, is it possible to change it with the current script system ?

dungeon pack (setting_ref.dat)