[Models] Surfaceskin help required

[Liberation]

Hi all.

I'll get to the point, I have a space ship model that has 35 different skins to go onto the model, the model itself has 35 groups (just under the limit) however have hit a bit of brick wall with Gzdoom.

Basically Surface skin seems to be only able to do 32 groups/surfaces, leaving me 3 short of the prize.

Is there any work around to this? I'm not really clued up on UV maps so not sure if I could combine the textures etc,

As you can see from the capital ship, group 32/33 had to be commented out of the decorate file and of course it slaps the most blatant incorrect texture going to fill the model.

[ramon.dexter]

As you can see from the capital ship,

Thats not a capital ship. Thats a star destroyer, to be correct. Dont use a name such a "capital ship" when speaking about star destroyer

[Shadelight]

As you can see from the capital ship,

Thats not a capital ship. Thats a star destroyer, to be correct. Dont use a name such a "capital ship" when speaking about star destroyer

This is off-topic, but for your information it is definitely a capital ship.

[R4L]

You could split the last three parts into a separate model, and define it in MODELDEF as the second part to the first model. The actor will be a multi-model actor and you can have all the skins showing.

[Liberation]

You could split the last three parts into a separate model, and define it in MODELDEF as the second part to the first model. The actor will be a multi-model actor and you can have all the skins showing.

Thank you very much, that is working a treat and also is allowing me to leave more detail on the models. I did see multi model actors in the wiki, however it didn't twig!

As you can see from the capital ship,

Thats not a capital ship. Thats a star destroyer, to be correct. Dont use a name such a "capital ship" when speaking about star destroyer

This is off-topic, but for your information it is definitely a capital ship.

Technically your both correct

[R4L]

The wiki lists it as an example in MODELDEF.

[WARCHILD_89]

before going into star wars models too heavily, check this out: viewtopic.php?f=37&t=57378

[Collegia Titanica]

Newsflash, there are no hard limits, (((They))) lied to you, your model size (tris) can be much larger than you think.


Next, I thought we went over this, you DON'T USE the shitty skindef ... what you need is to make sure that the mesh's material (model part) has the same name as the texture that is supposed to cover it. It's that simple really.

MATERIAL NAME=TEXTURE NAME, put the md3 and the textures in one folder and reference that in MoDeLdef

[R4L]

Newsflash, there are no hard limits, (((They))) lied to you, your model size (tris) can be much larger than you think.


Next, I thought we went over this, you DON'T USE the shitty skindef ... what you need is to make sure that the mesh's material (model part) has the same name as the texture that is supposed to cover it. It's that simple really.

MATERIAL NAME=TEXTURE NAME, put the md3 and the textures in one folder and reference that in MoDeLdef

Was that really necessary?

Don't tell him not to use SurfaceSkin when he's already been using it, and using it the CORRECT way might I add. It's still a totally viable method to texture models. Using filename paths on the materials works too.

Also, there may not be HARD limits, but really, you probably shouldn't use too many high poly models. The engine will seriously bog down. GZDoom (IIRC) does NOT unload models after they've been rendered.

[Graf Zahl]

GZDoom (IIRC) does NOT unload models after they've been rendered.

Models are being cached per level. Because that's the normal duration you need them for.
As for getting 'bogged down', it will depend on the system. If you got modern graphics hardware it will have power to burn, but beware to try it on something older and weaker. The models really can murder frame rate on any system that's GPU limited.

[R4L]

GZDoom (IIRC) does NOT unload models after they've been rendered.

Models are being cached per level. Because that's the normal duration you need them for.
As for getting 'bogged down', it will depend on the system. If you got modern graphics hardware it will have power to burn, but beware to try it on something older and weaker. The models really can murder frame rate on any system that's GPU limited.

Ah, I see. Thanks for the clarification. So if the models are high poly count, it should tax the machine more correct?