krylon@Posted: Sun Aug 20, 2006 5:25 am Post subject: helmet skins seperate?: i'm reskinning marine_helmet. so far the body skins all work properly; the helmets are giving me trouble. i tried a skin like this...

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skin custom/characters/marine_dpm_mp {

models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_dpm_mp
models/characters/sarge2/helmet models/characters/sarge2/helmet_mp
}

with a corresponding .mtr...

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models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_dpm_mp
{
//noselfShadow
   unsmoothedTangents
   flesh
   forceOverlays
   clamp
   collision

{ // burning corpse effect
   if parm7       // only when dead
   // make a burned away alpha test for the normal skin
   blend gl_zero, gl_one       // don't draw anything

   map models/monsters/spectre/dis2.tga // replace this with a monster-specific texture
   alphaTest 0.05 + 1.7 * (time - parm7)
}

renderbump -size 1024 1024 -trace 0.07 -colorMap -aa 2 models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_local.tga models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_hi.lwo
   forceoverlays
diffusemap    models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_dpm_mp.tga
   bumpmap       addnormals(models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_local.tga, heightmap(models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_h.tga, 5 ) )
specularmap    models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_s.tga
}

and the separate .mtr for the helmet...

Code:

models/characters/sarge2/helmet_mp
{
noselfShadow
unsmoothedTangents
collision
forceOverlays
clamp
metal

renderbump -size 512 512 -aa 2 models/characters/sarge2/helmet_local.tga models/characters/sarge2/helmet_hi.lwo

{ // burning corpse effect
   if parm7       // only when dead
   // make a burned away alpha test for the normal skin
   blend gl_zero, gl_one       // don't draw anything

   map models/monsters/spectre/dis2.tga // replace this with a monster-specific texture
   alphaTest 0.05 + 1.7 * (time - parm7)
}

{
   blend diffusemap
   map models/characters/sarge2/helmet_mp.tga
   //alphaTest parm6
}

      bumpmap       models/characters/sarge2/helmet_local.tga
specularmap    models/characters/sarge2/helmet_mp_s.tga
}

and my .def for the default marine:

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model npc_marine_helmet {
inherit                   npc_marine

anim stand                models/md5/chars/stand.md5anim
anim talk_primary             models/md5/chars/stand_talk.md5anim
anim talk_secondary1             models/md5/chars/stand_talk.md5anim
anim talk_secondary2             models/md5/chars/stand_talk.md5anim

}

entityDef npc_marine_helmet {
"inherit"                "npc_base"
"model"                   "npc_marine_helmet"

"def_head"                "head_marine_helmet"

"copy_joint_world eyecontrol" ""

"head_joint"                "Shoulders"
"talk_no_turn"                "1"
"talktime"                ".5"
"talkradius"                "384"


"head_focus_rate"             "0.1"

}

is something wrong with the def i made? the marine's def_head in npcs.def is head_marine_helmet, right? right, but the material def for the marine's helmet is actually models/characters/sarge2/helmet i think. i changed helmet.tga in this folder and the helmets changed. i need skins for different helmets though, not a different default texture. do the marines actually use sarge2/w_helmet as the material? i thought i tried this, but i may have missed something.. i'm tired. am i missing something else entirely? i thought about making seperate def_heads for the different skins i was making, but this seemed tedious. if that's the way to go however, i'll do it i guess. maybe it's the skin file? ideas? i'm getting confused. it's too late at night for this many files to depend on each other.

Code:

skin custom/characters/marine_dpm_mp {

models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine models/characters/male_npc/marine/marine_dpm_mp
models/characters/sarge2/helmet models/characters/sarge2/helmet_mp
}

with a corresponding .mtr...

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and the separate .mtr for the helmet...

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and my .def for the default marine:

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