Fish demonstration thread!

[Eiii]

I made this thread (instead of just sticking it in the freedom one) because I have some questions of my own.

Below is the fish demonstration map. To one end of the river is how I want the fish to look. All the rest of the 'fish' (aka red metal rectangles) show how I'd like them to behave.

But, for whatever reason, I can't get a func_rotating to use a transparent texture. Anyone have any clue how to, if it's even possible?

[DrRickDaglessMD]

I don't think you can use alpha'd (textures with an alpha value used for transparency) textures on entities, especially those that move.

Could you post the map as a BSP, i hate loading up the editor and that to look at these things.

Cheers,

Dagless

[Eiii]

There should be a BSP in there. Let me check.

...yep. fish.zip/pball/maps/fish.bsp.

[DrRickDaglessMD]

sorry, im a gimp. Should pay more attention next time!

- Dagless

edit: ahahaha the textured fish makes me giggle like a japanese schoolgirl.

it's a real shame we can't animate the texture-fish, although   it may be possible in specific circumstances to get a good effect going using rscripts, etc...

[jitspoe]

I don't think I ever applied the fix for moving transparent surfaces.  I've seen it fixed in other q2 engines, though.

[Eiii]

Would it be too much trouble?
Seems like you could just copy it from other engines.