New Texture: Splat!

[jitspoe]

I'll take some in-game shots once I get it blending correctly.  I'm going to make the splats client side ents, so ppl can select how long they want them to stay on the walls and stuff like that.  It'll cut down on lag a bit too!

[jitspoe]

In-game shots!

Captured is acting up, so I don't know if that came through OK...

[Razor]

They look awsome, this is coming along great!  I can't wait for your release jit.

Now, since the splats are client side that won't affect lag for an hpb would it?

[jitspoe]

They won't affect network lag, that is correct.

I'm still working on the blending of them... It's probably not possible to do what I want without using special opengl extentions for newer cards .  The problem with them currently is if I shoot red paint at a blue barrel, it ends up being black.  I also don't have a way of fading them out slowly.

The alternative would be to make the splat image with an alpha channel, but then there would be the issues of the "black splats" like we currently have sometimes.

I'll figure something out. :\

[Razor]

So the colors actually mix and make some other color?  Does that happen with all colors.  You said a red splat on blue creates black.  What about red on yellow or blue on yellow.  Do they also come out black?

[jitspoe]

Yeah, unfortunately with earth tone colors, everything is shades of red and green mixed (ie, red/brown/green/yellow).  There is very little blue in any of the textures, so blue splats just tend to darken everything.  I wish there was a way to simply blend with the luminosity of the surrounding colors.  Well, I think there might be with some of the extended blendfuncs, but those won't work with older vid cards.