Team Texturing...........

You mean tint the texture some color? Just change the color of the vertices of the polygon it''s on. As far as I know, you can''t brighten it (white is untinted), but if you just need to have it greenish or something, that should work.

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Ahha! I believe that your thinking of the Homeworld type team coloring thing? It was done by procedural textures. At least I think so . Basically, you have a base texture, with a one particular color declared 'paint over', and when you choose your team color, it will repaint all of _your_ textures with the new team color, coloring over all the 'paint over' parts. Although this might be a bit texture intensive. However, in Homeworld, notice that there are only 5 or 6 textures per race/team, so it doesn't eat that much memory.
What I did, I had multiple TextureLists, each unit had a 'owner' class, which had a textureList pointer, which was used to get the unit's textures. All the textures are superfically the same, apart from the 'paint over' bits.
With a bit of skill, you can have nice color schemes that change color depending on what team your're with
Oh yeah - I also meant to say, that you did all the repainting when you loaded up. Of course .

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Edited by - c++freak on October 1, 2000 9:22:34 PM

As our game supports upto 12 players (multiplayer) i cannot opt the method of overdrawing parts of the texture for each player.


How do i go about?I am using Direct3D.

Is it possible to change the palette (in high color modes) to achieve this?

thnx again,

Raptor

Methods:
1) 2-nd Texture ( like light-map , but for color use)
2) separate colored part of object and render it with material set to color
3) separate colored part of object and set it''s texture to somethink like "TEXTURE_TEAM" , then rendering , change this texture to some simple team texture.
exm:
if(texture == "TEXTURE_TEAM")
{
____if team == 1 then set texture="TEXTURE_TEAM1"
____...
____if team == 100 then set texture="TEXTURE_TEAM100"
}

I just got another idea:
1) have your textures with transparency for the paint over bits
2) Have a 2nd texture with multi-texturing and make that like, 2 by 2, so it would cover over the transparent bits. I don''t really know how to do this. Something like alpha_modulate or something? I haven''t really dabbled with multi-texturing.
That would work, with tiny mem. usage.

What do you think?


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Ahha! Not alpha modulate, but color modulation. Like the other guy said. Silly me
Like, having a second overlay on the texture.
Ah well, see ya later.

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