I found this on an old backup cd. It's something I was working on before I set aside jk level editing for other projects.

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[This message has been edited by Simblimke (edited February 06, 2004).]

[This message has been edited by Simblimke (edited February 06, 2004).]

Fun! What is it? Poisonouss gas that rises up the mountains? Some green gue of a pond?

/Edward

Nice sky.

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"Häb Pfrässe, süsch chlepfts!" - The coolest language in the world (besides Cherokee)

I like the rounded edges...

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The future is here, and all bets are off.

The underwater valley is cool. You sure like thing lights, eh?

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Dreams from a dreamer from afar to a Fardreamer.

Looks good.

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<landfish> FastGamerr > Satan

It's greencued.mat--oddly, it looks good as a transparent water texture in this level. Because of the way transparency works in Jk how nice a water texture will end up looking depends mostly on what you can see underneath it.

Question: I wonder if anyone reading this has some expertise in the area of transparency. I'm aware that tranparency info is stored in the colormap for software mode. Where exactly is the same info stored for accellerated mode? Can it be located? (searching old threads for info now)

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[This message has been edited by Simblimke (edited February 07, 2004).]

I doubt it. Accel. mode (aka 16-bit) renders the picture using the RGB values, and in Software (8-bit), there one NEEDS the pallette index. Now, I think in 8-bit why it's so slow at translucent surfaces, is because it calculates what pallette index would suit the new color best. I don't think the extra layer of pallettes are used. I know a few old ATARI games (OK, so I have them...) where they only use 16 colors (4-bits) and they very quickly swap between different pallettes to make it look like more. In an old flipper game called Star Ball, it has 3 different pallettes for 3 different levels. . . ... . .......
Greate... I've been babling again... Oh well...
There are some good things about the 8-bit mode. You can fool people. Example:
1. You can make like a specularity effect by clashing 2 different CMPs.
2. In the dark, you see leaves. In the light, there's a picture of a GOD.

/Edward

Thanks for the info. I tested and found out that you can change the colormap index of a color seen through another color for 8 bit mode, but the same result wont be seen in software mode.

I can make greencued (a one color mat) appear more opaque, which I would like to do--but only in 8bit mode. Ironic as 16b mode is supposed to be more flexible.

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Very good for jk.

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