Epic GTA2 Map Editor (0.6.6602) Beta

[Sektor]

Very cool. You seem to be working faster than the OpenGBH team.

[B-$hep]

T.M do you know how the car lights are "turned on"?
Another sprite for that or just palette manipulation?

I have seen cop car lights in sty but not the others, haven't looked so good anyway, they are so small.

Sektor: I think that BlackPhoenix rewrites hes code too often, the project will be never finished like that, just like OpenGTA project died. Author just dropped, he was too busy.

[Gustavob]

car lights are just a delta like the car damage. It's automatically flipped on the other side of the car when you turn the engine on and, obviously, the lights

[Pyro]

Speaking of lights and stuff, I wonder if you could show emergency vehicles lights to flash? The command for it is...

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SET_CAR_EMERG_LIGHTS (carname , ON)

This code is just ignored on any vehicle that doesn't have emergency lights.

Speaking of lights, where is the actual light colour for the emergency vehicles stored? Not the headlights/brake lights on the deltas, but the actual lights for it? Always wondered this... are they actual light sources but attached to vehicle? Something else? Of course, all of this would just be eye candy more than anything

[Gustavob]

These are also deltas

[T.M.]

Speaking of lights and stuff, I wonder if you could show emergency vehicles lights to flash?

Yeah, i could, but i think its not important at this phase. not to mention i would need to use yet another 16megs gfx card texture memory (no.. i havent optimized texture pages, it always uses 2048x2048 page ). also doing this need me to finish new map rendering system (atm updating a portion of a map will take lots of time and doing it in real time wont work).

Speaking of lights, where is the actual light colour for the emergency vehicles stored? Not the headlights/brake lights on the deltas, but the actual lights for it? Always wondered this... are they actual light sources but attached to vehicle? Something else? Of course, all of this would just be eye candy more than anything

Its probably hardcoded, i havent seen any information about emerg light colors anywhere in the docs. Yeah, they are actual light sources, just like any light in the map.

[Cuban-Pete]

Speaking of lights and stuff, I wonder if you could show emergency vehicles lights to flash?

Yeah, i could, but i think its not important at this phase. not to mention i would need to use yet another 16megs gfx card texture memory (no.. i havent optimized texture pages, it always uses 2048x2048 page ). also doing this need me to finish new map rendering system (atm updating a portion of a map will take lots of time and doing it in real time wont work).

2048x2048 is not always supported by old gfx cards. it something to do with opengl 2. but i'm not sure and I guess you already knew this

[T.M.]

Yeah, but if you dont support 2048x2048, you probably have so crappy gfx card it wont be able to render the editor anyways.

[Cuban-Pete]

Here is an attempt at a nice loading image. If you want something else, please tell me.

loading_blue_cube_01.gif (17.72 KiB) Viewed 26898 times

In the zip I put the gif in hight quality png. perhaps better for opengl.

loading_blue_cube_01.zip

collection of png files

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///edit. ah crap. there is an artifact in it. some weird lines. if you like this loading image. i will fix it.

[T.M.]

Unfortunately i cannot display animations in the loading screen It would require me to do some weird magic multithreading shizzle that i have no clue how to do it and i doubt it would be a good idea; I dont like too heavy loading screens anyways, one image is good for me.

I was hoping if you could make the Loading text more stylish... some cool lines etc... what ever you think looks cool

[Cuban-Pete]

First attempt...

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//edit: after second look/check I think the font is not so good. the a en o look too much the same...
also the style does not fit the gta2 style so much...

[T.M.]

hmm yeah the font is weird... need to be less comic sans ms if you got what i mean

focus more on font, its basically all i need with some cooler coloring/texture etc.. doesnt have to be any icon next to it etc.

[Cuban-Pete]

hmm yeah the font is weird... need to be less comic sans ms if you got what i mean

focus more on font, its basically all i need with some cooler coloring/texture etc.. doesnt have to be any icon next to it etc.

I like this one a lot:

loading_texture_style.png (9.13 KiB) Viewed 26877 times

basic:

loading_gta2_text.png (7.5 KiB) Viewed 26877 times

[T.M.]

No no no.. not images in the font texture.

The font should have pattern texture; the first image had it right, but the font was bad and the color could be fixed to brighter / more contrast, maybe edged font or something. and added some more visible patterns (not too visible, more like shading) in the font so it doesnt look like it was just made with 1 color like the current loading screen font.

[Cuban-Pete]

just simple like so?

loading_basic2.png (8.11 KiB) Viewed 26868 times

[T.M.]

Nevermind, i'll see what i can do

[Cuban-Pete]

You're welcome...

[T.M.]

No offense, but i asked you to do it because i needed something better than just few clicks in some program to choose font type and color, i can do those myself too. And if it continues like this, this thread would get filled with "one pixel adjustment requests" about the picture you made.

Dont take it personal also, i just installed Win7 and im pretty tired of fighting on how things look; so i make it myself then.

[Cuban-Pete]

No offense, but i asked you to do it because i needed something better than just few clicks in some program to choose font type and color, i can do those myself too. And if it continues like this, this thread would get filled with "one pixel adjustment requests" about the picture you made.

Dont take it personal also, i just installed Win7 and im pretty tired of fighting on how things look; so i make it myself then.

It was more than some clicks. I don't have Photoshop so it's all custom made with inkscape or crappy bump-map projection in Gimp that took 30 min to get right.

You weren't very precise with what you wanted either... anyway personally I think you should keep the "Loading..." text pretty basic and add a nice icon. Something like that is easier to read and understand.

I'm curious what you will make.

[Pyro]

Keep it simple - it's not like the loading bar/graphic will be on screen for very long anyway, unless you have a crappy PC

You could simply animate the dots after the word loading so it goes like "." then ".." and finally "..." and repeats... simple and lets you know it's doing something!