Patch texture warping

Post by **Foo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 9:41 pm

Any way of avoiding silly texture misalignment like this?

The patch is as it appears, a simple trapezoid.

This confounds me. I've been using patches to align textures where brushes can't provide the accuracy I need, but goofing like this makes it largely useless.

Adding more patch points along the height of it only multiplies the problem at each point ;(

Don't get me wrong... it's oddly beautiful. But it's not the result i was seeking

Post by **Foo** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 10:15 pm

As a sacrifice to the editing gods, I offer the following painfully-obtained information:

To sync a func_rotating with an item rotation, the correct speed key is 175.78

The possibilities are... well, limited. But pretty cool.

Post by **wviperw** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 11:19 pm

175.78

175.78... isn't that common knowledge by now?

:P

Post by **Kaz** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:28 am

Try pulling out the middle vertex to further tesselate the patch, and play around with it from there.

Post by **Foo** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:34 am

Kaz wrote:Try pulling out the middle vertex to further tesselate the patch, and play around with it from there.

You're some kind of fucking prodigy or something. Works perfectly if I mash up the central vertex like so:

You king :icon14:

Post by **Kaz** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 1:51 am

Too kind, laddie :P

Post by **Silicone_Milk** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:15 am

ah yet another wonderful thread to add to my bookmarks.

Kudos guys!

Post by **obsidian** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 3:49 am

IIRC, you can also collapse some of those control points, so you have a 2x2 patch. Make sure drill patch points down is turned on.

Post by **Fjoggs** » Thu Apr 13, 2006 10:10 am

wviperw wrote:
175.78
175.78... isn't that common knowledge by now?

:P