placing beacon model in map

by **1138** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 7:54 pm

Hi guys,

doing a simple mod, need help.

Remember the mission in JKA where you help wedge place beacons on the tabana station,

need to know how to make something similar to placing the beacons.

1) placing the red transparent object
2) when the beacon is placed, you have the beacon animation deploying

by **mrwonko** » Fri Aug 24, 2012 9:18 pm

I'm not sure how it's done in that map, but in general you can use q3map2's _remap key on a misc_model to get a transparency effect. It work's like this, if I remember correctly:

_remap
*;my_red/transparent_shader

As key/value, respectively. Then you could target that misc_model to a func_usable to make it toggleable.

Playing the animation is done with a script. You could use a func_usable (so you can turn it on) with a model2 key, which causes an animatable model to be displayed at the origin of the entity (i.e. you need an origin brush as part of your func_usable).

by **1138** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 1:13 am

can you explain abit more on how to use _remap key?

my knowledge and understanding abt using shaders really sucks. =)

by **mrwonko** » Sat Aug 25, 2012 11:42 am

In the properties of a misc_model, you can enter the key _remap and the value *;shader, where shader is the path of a shader/texture, to replace any texture on the model with that one. Radiant will even preview it, so it's fairly simple.

by **1138** » Wed Sep 12, 2012 11:41 pm

hi mrwonko,

I dont get it

is it like this:

ex:
D:\Program Files\LucasArts\Star Wars Jedi Knight Jedi Academy\GameData\Base\textures\cairn
(since u mentioned shader or texture rite?)

key: _remap
value: ;cairn/lock01lock

Abit confused here

by **mrwonko** » Thu Sep 13, 2012 12:27 am

Almost. You need the textures/ part as well, so:

key: _remap
value: ;textures/cairn/lock01lock