Getting sued *is* a legality and you can't talk about using others ideas without invoking Copyright = legalities. And talking of getting sued, in this context that would likely happen if the individual chose to ignore a take-down request, which is a more pressing and immediate concerns for modders (...

To be clear, I'm not a lawyer (although i could ask one or two :)) It is absolutely legal to use samples of music to a certain time limit. I dont know the exact seconds though. The other thing is that youre work is not commercial, you are not earning any money out of it. There are NO provisions in ...

Also forgot, as you're using Blender download the reference pack to solve your scaling/size issues -http://www.katsbits.com/tools/#reference

You know... you could have asked this on KatsBits

The should both work, I've not extensively tested them in 2.76 though (using both in 2.70 ATM because that's got a working *.map exporter).

As for the grid - http://www.katsbits.com/tutorials/blend ... hp#mapgrid

Just popping in to say thanks for setting that up obsidian makes it easier to point people to one place.

Not tried this yet but reading through the docs it appears individual objects have to be tagged one way or the other for proper export? Wouldn't it be more efficient to assume all objects in a Scenes are part of a map so objects get treated as *.map data unless otherwise tagged? In other words a mes...

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If you follow the instructions summary mentioned previously and ONLY pull the TOP vertex down you end up with a dome (half a sphere). Not entirely sure how you ended up with a flat pancake from that. And no it doesn't create the "illusion" of a planet, it creates a three-dimensional object...

You said a "sphere" not a circle (flat plane). If you want the latter you literally just need to use a flat patch mesh or thin-ish brush volume (which needs nodraw on all other faces) and apply an alpha'd 'planet' image as the texture - it not really that much different from making and usi...

You don't need any example files as it's pretty simple to do; 1) Draw a cube. 2) from "Curve" select "Cone". 3) press "V" and drag top-most point down ("Esc" or "V" to exit). 4) duplicate ("Space") and re-position. 5) texture (may need &quo...

Hmm, why Blender, I have used it in the past years ago for Ocean animation. But I wouldn't really know how to create much a landscape in it. It really depends on what you're trying to achieve, the simplest terrain is just a subdivided flat plane that has a few hills pulled from it. But that can als...

Kat, I think that the article is not enough. The author took some graphic editor (Corel Photo Paint x5 released in 2010), which desaturates normalmaps badly, and proclaimed that only nJob (or something like this) convert normalmaps correctly. As I can see (and you - in my screenshots) Paint.NET doe...

Kat, you can make your manual how to do it correctly and (or) show us (in comparison) advantages/disadvantages of both our methods. As I can see, Paint.NET desaturates bluish normalmaps correctly enough, without losing detalisation. Inverting colors allows to make illusion of correct relief. It's e...

V1979 wrote:Kat, I am satisfied with my results. See screenshots or just repeat my steps.

Will do... when wanting to know how NOT to do it

@V1979: don't convert normal maps using desaturation, that results in incorrectly interpreted grey-scale tonal values in the bump/height maps - light-blue is not synonymous with light-grey.

You're over complicating what you're trying to do. When you look at the default scene in Blender you see a single cube. To Blender that is an empty shell, an object with 6 surfaces. To *us* however, that same object represents a solid volume. This means that when you're modelling you're doing so usi...

When you do relatively complex shapes like you show above with your beveled cube, you're relying on the scripts ability to properly convert a plane into a volume, it does that by extruding surfaces backwards - it's this extrusion process that causes corrupt brush volumes (try it on that tiny corned ...

They pulled the exporter from 2.71 because they thought on-one was using it so that last working version is in 2.70 (so 2.71 thru to the latest version don't have it - I don't know if it will ever return). Depending on the exporter for *.map you *can* work the way your describe (using 'blender sized...

Thank you... that works for export to Q3A .map... is there a import .map also available? Installing above Exporter: For those interested, the above exporter needs to be unpacked into: Blender\<version number>\scripts\addons\ creating the io_scene_map folder there. Launch Blender, then under File me...

I've got them but would rather get them to sock so he can put them back up. Not especially comfortable in principle just making them available because I can (ooo principles!)

obsidian wrote:So.... are all you guys gonna make some maps or what?

Some of us never stopped *cough*

dONKEY wrote:Have sent messages to peeps

... and the peeps did receive-eth the message from the lord-eth and they did come-eth out of the land-eth

Hullo *waves*.

*waves at the guys* @ Bacon: unfortunately there isn't a quick way to condense materials the way you're wanting in Blender; selection is material based because textures can be assigned to more than one material. It might be possible to edit your source file, change the material/texture assignments t...

700 materials?! Unfortunately that won't work, it's one material per (geom) Object for idtech, otherwise when you load the mesh, the one material/texture that is used will be applied to everything. You could combine the images into a single texture sheet but that depends on what you're doing and how...

Well done guys!