im working on some 3d assets, futuristics here a little preview (wip)

That looks interesting,something different .

Dave

Excellent. Is this a billboard?

It look like a large structure from the texture of the bricks.

Whenever I see "sci-fi" in a thread title, I'm tempted to take a look. That billboard is deliciously luminescent!

Looking forward to seeing what else you make

i created everything in Photoshop for the textures and the 3D model is done with 3ds max its a bilboard,
now i would like to do an animated texture for the screen it is possible with GG?
i need to animate that with lots of textures i mean more than 100 rendered frames animation for the screen, i dont know if GG is limited with the number of frames.

You can animate it, but not in the way that you think. You can't just use animated render textures. You would need to create a sprite sheet and use one of the sprite shaders.

how can i create a spritesheet for GG ?
this is something so basic, why GG can' just handle rendered frames like an animation?
it is possible to use a video of animated frames instead?

You take each individual texture, then lay them out in a grid, so for example if you have 16 textures you would place them in four rows of four on the same image, then set that as the texture in the fpe, then set the shader to whatever the x16 sprite shader is called.

Here's an example of an explosion done as a sprite sheet:


The drawback of this is unless you want a giant texture then each of your little images on the grid will be tiny, so the result will be fairly low resolution, it's only really that good for small props and low rez animated sprites.

But no, apart from sprite sheets like this, gameguru can't do animated or video textures, it can barely handle playing a video on screen let alone on a model on screen.

this is the last version for this prop.
how can i make a video texture?

here its my render inside GG, how can i make the screen to be very bright?
at the moment it doesnt look like a led screen, and also transparency doesn't work.

Hi Imothep,

you have to set the alpha in your DDS and have the Transparency = ? I have mine set to 5 I have attached my glass.dds so you can see the alpha is dark in my texture if I increase it I lose transparency.

so in your FPE have
Transparency = 5
and see if that helps

I think I have alpha set to 125 was a long time ago when I did it I need to work on it a bit more

still working on assets, now im adding columns, floor parts, and started working on windows and walls.

i tried to make the object transparents, in 3ds max i have two objects, the wall and the window, who are attached, they both have differents textures, i need to know how to make the glass of my windo, be transparent, in 3ds max it works if i put my texture in the opacity.

when i export to X inside gg when i import the x object it looks clean textures are in jpg.
when i export the model from gg to my user entity it works, but i have jpg files, instead of DDS files.
so why we need dds files for textures?

in this picture you can see, normally the windows and the screen has to be transparent.

JPG files are highly compressed and can have artefacts DDS is a DirectX texture file and is designed for game engines (PNG can be used) I am no expert but you can find more information in this thread https://forum.game-guru.com/thread/210176

Also if you are using JPG files I don't think they support transparency in fact I am positive they don't

Transparency Modes for the FPE are

0 - first-phase no alpha
1 - first-phase with alpha masking
2 and 3 - second-phase which overlaps solid geometry
4 - alpha test (only render beyond 0x000000CF alpha values)
5 - water line object (seperates depth sort automatically)
6 - combination of 3 and 4 (second phase render with alpha blend AND alpha test, used for fading LOD leaves)
7 - very early draw phase no alpha


Transparency must be in the Alpha channel of the _D texture either PNG or DDS I have had success with transparency in a PNG texture I usually only use 5 in my FPE's