textures

[Anthony]

how do you texture things useing notepad or any text editor

[clarahobbs]

That would probably involve a mesh, a material, and a matref. I don't know much about this, so here is a page on the subject:

http://my.bzflag.org/w/Editing_by_Hand

Hope the spelling in this page isn't too bad (I've made it a bit better)

[SkillDude]

tonywolfe21, a good place to start is to check out mesh boxes and mesh pyramids. That's how I first learned to texture things. I doubt you want to learn how meshes and texturecoords work for now.

http://my.bzflag.org/w/Meshbox
http://my.bzflag.org/w/Meshpyr

[slon02]

Just so you know, if your server is running on a version later than 2.0.9, you can apply a matref directly to a box or pyramid, without needing to make meshboxes or meshpyramids.
example:

box
position x y z
size x y z
rotation x
matref material_name_here
end

[Gears of War]

like this...

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material
name whatever
addtexture (the texture u want here)
end

box
name texture
position 0 0 0
rotation 0
size 10 10 10
matref (name of the material above, in this case "whatever")
end

[Anthony]

where should the file be placed or does it matter

[blast]

During development, it can just be in your data directory.

Before you release it or run it publicly, you'll need to have it placed on the BZFlag Image Submission System. Then you would specify a full URL to the image file.

[Anthony]

i keep getting this error

C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.10\ocean view.bzw: warning (line 148): unknown object
parameter "rotation" - skipping
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
couldn't find reference material: oldwood.png
C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.10\ocean view.bzw: warning (line 149): unknown object
parameter "matref" - skipping

and
C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.10\ocean view.bzw: warning (line 148): unknown object
parameter "rotation" - skipping
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
couldn't find reference material: oldwood
C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.10\ocean view.bzw: warning (line 149): unknown object
parameter "matref" - skipping

[Gears of War]

are u sure that u have oldwood material in the right location? (my computer/c drive/program files/bzflag2.0.10/data)

[slon02]

you also need to have the material before the matref

[Anthony]

like this

box
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation x
oldwood.PNG matref
end

[knoxcorner]

No, i do belive it would be

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box 
position -21.0 237.0 10.0 
size 50.0 90.0 10.0 
rotation 0 
matref oldwood
end

Just as long as its in
C:\Program Files\BZFlag2.0.10rc3\data
But its not, look in that folder, put the name of it after matref in the object without .png

[Anthony]

what about this
meshbox
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation 0
matref oldwood
end

[slon02]

Yes, that would work

meshbox
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation 0
matref oldwood
end

I was talking about the material itself being before the box, as in:

material
name oldwood
addtexture oldwood
end

meshbox
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation 0
matref oldwood
end

[Anthony]

I was talking about the material itself being before the box, as in:

material
name oldwood
addtexture oldwood
end

meshbox
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation 0
matref oldwood
end

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that worked

[^nightmare^]

I was talking about the material itself being before the box, as in:

material
name oldwood
addtexture oldwood
end

meshbox
position -21.0 237.0 10.0
size 50.0 90.0 10.0
rotation 0
matref oldwood
end

that worked[/quote]

Just a little hint with the textures...
If you have a perfect box (ex 50x50x10), then the textures on top or bottom wont stretch to one big blur.