Decals Problem

[Joker]

Hi there,

my decals are not working, for example bomb spot "A". I can see & place it in the editor, but when I run the Map it will not appear.
I was trying different maps, but the problem is always there

Any Idea?

[Duck]

hey man, i will do a tutorial for you on how to make decals work, via video tutorial. i will have it uploaded wednesday (which is tomorrow) and it should help ya

cheers!
Duck

[Joker]

WoW! Thanx for the fast help!

[Duck]

well i uploaded the video to google, but its processing, so it might have to wait until thursday, i am very sorry for the inconvenience if it doesnt upload, theres always photobucket and youtube ^_^


thanks
Duck

[Duck]

ok well the gods were merciful (sorta). I did get the video to upload and process, but the audio is kinda messed up, but you can understand what i am saying, and plus the video has a huge watermark on it, I used a different program to record, so...

I guess I will have to stick to Hypercam for now on (the program i used to record this is called CamStudio, it looked good when i recorded, just when i uploaded >.>)

but have fun, and sorry about the video
I hope it helps: video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4021026765439049522

Duck

[Joker]

First thanx for the awesome video!
okay, the quality is not really that cool but your explanation was a good help( well actually I have to listen to it a few more times, since english is not my mother language) but anyway...the key to success is there

Thanx and keep up the good work!

[Supplice]

Duck I'll still upload any of your videos to YouTube. Just send me em and Ill upload em, plus I have a Director's Account now so no pesky 10 minute limit..

[Duck]

ha well thanks man, but i already have an uploading program to google ^_^ and also, youtube has more people there, so yeah, that would become a great help in expanding my tutorials to help others

thanks
Duck

[Duck]

Joker said:

First thanx for the awesome video!
okay, the quality is not really that cool but your explanation was a good help( well actually I have to listen to it a few more times, since english is not my mother language) but anyway...the key to success is there

Thanx and keep up the good work!

yeah i apologize for the bad quality, i used a different recording program that i thought would make everything work better, but i will stick to Hypercam2 program

I hope you learned how to make decals work

and what country was you born in?

my regards,
Duck

[Joker]

Im from germany.

Here is the result of my try:

I selected the Decals tool.
Clicked on the Texture Browser.
Entered in the Filter: decals
Selected decals/decal_birdpoop01
Clicked on the ground.
The decal appears perfectly.
Fixed the position to the grid(grid set to 16)
Hit ALT+P and fixed all.
Compiled the map.
Startet game + map

And the decal is not shown up in the map :/

Did I miss something in the Video?

[Duck]

no you did everything right as far i am concern, i will try to find out what the problem is, once i find out (this might take a couple of days) and i will reply to this thread ASAP.

but you might want to reconsider this, is your map encolsed? if not your entities will leak and the decals wont work, that is one reason that they might not work correctly.

to find out if you are leaking in your map simply go to the toolbar, that has tools such as: File, Edit, Map, View etc, click on Map then Load pointfile, if it loads a pointfile (.lin format) then your map is leaking, to find where the leak is, its usually showed up in a red line, from the entity that leaked and where it is leaking to, but if you cant open or find a pointfile then your map isnt leaking.

and usually when you compile your map, it will say: "***LEAKED***" or something out of the ordinary, like your map cannot run the vvis.exe, or the vrad.exe program, then you either have too many primitives that are small or you are leaking out from the map.

and one more thing, the source sdk forums are a great help if i cant find out what to do ^_^!!

if you want to check out the forums this is the link: www.chatbear.com/board.plm?a=boardlisting&b=390&v=flatold&s=0

Duck