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#3857: ..

by mikshaw on 01/09/2005 17:51

1 cube is 32x32 pixels

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#3858: Re: Creating textures for cube?

by mitamanincave on 01/09/2005 18:28, refers to #3855

You don't need to use only square sized textures, rectangle shaped textures work well for "doors" and "windows". example: 128 pixels wide by 256 pixels high for doors, 128 pixels wide by 64 pixels high for windows.
If you want I can email you some plugins that work in "photoshop" and paintshop" that make textures easy to "tile" (fit together). It's only 283KB in size and fun to use.
You will also need to experiment with the contrast and brightness of textures or else they will be far too bright and washed out looking when you add lights in your map.

MitaMAN

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#3859: ..

by makkE on 01/09/2005 21:27

I prefer to tile by hand, those tools tend to be very destructive...

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#3860: Re: ..

by sinsky on 01/10/2005 00:17, refers to #3859

Destructive indeed, even by hand.. You deprive the pic of its own edges and it fights back :)

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#3861: Re: Creating textures for cube?

by tentus on 01/11/2005 02:44, refers to #3858

Ooh, i could use that, MitaMAN. Send it to me!

Note that texture must be a power- if they're a single pixel off (127x128) the whole wall, ceiling, or floor will be skewed in a funny way.

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#3862: Re: Creating textures for cube?

by mitaman at at other on 01/11/2005 18:37, refers to #3861

tentus,
no problem, i'll send it to you (zip file) tonite.
MitaMAN

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#3863: ripping out ENet: possible ?

by loki1985 on 01/12/2005 05:36

hi folks!

i tried ripping ENet completely out of the cube engine (with a pure singleplayer mod in mind)....

it is somewhat dirty, since ENet goes deep into the code. i already removed about 70%, but some sections are hard or even impossible to get rid of, like something in client.cpp....

so, my question: is it possible to get rid of ENet completely?

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#3864: ..

by Rick on 01/12/2005 15:19

I can't think of a reason why it should be that hard? All the messages that are sent are really for other clients, unlike games like half-life where the sender gets its own messages aswell. So for example in half-life you had to send a message for sound, you and all other clients would here it but in cube its just "play sound locally and send a message to other clients aswell.
Can you post the code where you think the problem is?

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#3865: Re: ripping out ENet: possible ?

by sinsky on 01/12/2005 15:39, refers to #3863

What you're doing is no good. I bet that won't stop you but from my perspective it's like cutting Cube's legs and putting it in a wheel-chair, hoping it'll do better in it. Well it won't.

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#3866: ..

by GodCells on 01/12/2005 19:39

I'm working on forked version of Cube called NuCube. It's a personnal project, so i dunno if i'll end with something, I didn't wanted to say it now, but I see many discutions about animated models and texturing... this is exactly what im doing.

To describe more precisely, I use the cube engine as a base but I try to add some new modules to improve the visual part of the engine. I'd like to add MD3 support and a texture shaders ala q3. Why q3, just because it's well documented and made its proofs. There're even editors for that. I dunno then if i'll add more stuff in it... if you have suggestions for the renderer you can tell me, i'll see what I can do.

Maybe soon, you will have a version of a new improved engine to make mod with. Maybe my code will be reusable in Sauerbraten, since im modifying the opengl module only and adding new modules... anyway Stay tuned.

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#3867: Re: ripping out ENet: possible ?

by loki1985 on 01/12/2005 19:39, refers to #3865

@sinsky: why? i really don't need Net code, so why leaving it in? why should i leave something inside the engine what will never get used in my mod?.....

anyway: i will post if i get really problems removing net code...

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#3868: Re: ripping out ENet: possible ?

by sinsky on 01/12/2005 21:18, refers to #3867

Network support and the coopedit mode are some of the best things Cube has to offer, don't cut 'em. At some point you may change your mind, and if that happens you'll waste even more time getting them back.

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#3869: Question about object in cube..

by FM4k on 01/12/2005 22:54

2 things: I'm kinda new to this but...1: Is there any way to create stackable objects or stack the stock ones, and 2, are there any ways to make ceiling-mounted objects?

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#3870: Re: ripping out ENet: possible ?

by Aardappel_ on 01/13/2005 02:09, refers to #3863

it should be very easy, as it can already work with just a local server, not using enet. But there's no gain to it either, other than an exe that is about 5kb smaller.

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#3871: ..

by loki1985 on 01/13/2005 14:07

@Aardappel_: ok. the original idea was to rip it out cause of executable size, but if it is really just 5 kb, i think i leave it as it is.... :)

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#3872: Absturz Updaten der Serverlist

by Hirnboy on 01/13/2005 17:04

Hi Leude,

ich wollte vorhin ne Runde cube online zocken! da ich letztens mir die neue version gesaugt hab, war natürlich die servers.cfg (heißt die so?) weg!
Also geh ich in cube rein, geh auf multiplayer und dann auf update serverlist from main server (oda so ähnlich) dann wart ich... und warte... im hintergrund dudelt noch die musik, aber sonst ist alles ruhig! mach einer stunde wartezeit hab ich cube dann beendet (rechtsklick schließen)! kann mir mal jmd helfen warum das so ist? und kann mir jmd vllt erzähln wie die servers.cfg (oda wie die heißt) aussieht?

THX!

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#3873: Re: Absturz Updaten der Serverlist

by eZ-lokirulez on 01/13/2005 18:19, refers to #3872

Please speak english!

Drop to #esl.cube on Quakenet (irc.quakenet.org) and anyone will help you out.

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#3874: hi everyone, help needed

by mustrix on 01/13/2005 19:04

hi, im kind of lost in this forum, ive never seen any like this :S, anyways, i need help, i won tp start using cube but i have no clue how to do that, what should i download ? how to set it up with vc++ and how does it works ? is there any tuts about it ? help need guys, cube looks great i really wanna use it :S

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#3875: Re: hi everyone, help needed

by Rick on 01/13/2005 21:30, refers to #3874

Forum is kinda 'different' indeed :P

You want to play cube? Download it here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/cube/cube_2004_05_22.tar.gz?download
then extract the file with something like winzip or winrar. Then just run cube.bat, which is in the cube main directory.

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#3876: ..

by tentus on 01/14/2005 02:42

As far as Tuts go, I'll translate a level over from my MOD to cube that can act as another tutorial level. in the meantime play cube101, which is a great intro.

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