Remaking backgrounds...

Post by **ace123** » Fri May 02, 2003 11:50 pm

I quickly made a batch file that renames files matching the pattern of the argument passed in to have a .bmp extension, in case the above perl script does not work (it is supposedly for Unix only).

W2K and WXP(?):

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for %%i in (%1) do rename "%%i" "%%~n%i.bmp"

Unfortunately, this simple thing is "enhanced" syntax in w2k, so might not work on older windoze. For <w2k systems, it will instead add a ".bmp" to the end of the complete filename.

W95, WME, W98, etc.:

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for %%i in (%1) do rename "%%i" "%%i.bmp"

Just make a batch file and paste that in.
Then run "mybatch.bat *.jpg" to convert all jpg file extensions to bmp.

Hope this helps

enlightenment · Post by **enlightenment** » Sat May 03, 2003 12:50 am

ace123 wrote:
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for %%i in (%1) do rename "%%i" "%%i.bmp"
Just make a batch file and paste that in.

Why go to all that trouble when rename accepts wildcards direclty?

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ren *.jpg *.bmp

Post by **hurleybird** » Sun May 18, 2003 1:40 am

To the above... DOPE, i should use command prompt more often

thanks for the enlightenment

I dont know how my mind works... but for some reason after the first 16 sets were completed i procrastenated for 3 weeks before finishing the last four,

Anyway, heres the (probably) final thing from me. 20 sets, 120 textures, .JPG's renamed as .BMB, @ 6.5 Megs (yay!) This set is ready and waiting to be added to CVS (lets get that activity up again). EVERY old background is now replaced with a new one.

http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/finaltextures.zip

Enjoy!

scheherazade · Post by **scheherazade** » Sun May 18, 2003 9:05 am

thank you, you're da bomb

-scheherazade

Post by **hellcatv** » Sun May 18, 2003 7:43 pm

w00t hurley
your comms are already in the CVS data and your flares and many many backgrounds are sitting in my queue...
I'll put 'em all in before release *G*

Post by **hurleybird** » Mon May 19, 2003 12:31 am

OOPS... Sorry. Just realized a mistake. The new textures i posted only had 102 textures and still had the sphere maps. Obviously, something went wrong along the way...

Anyway, the new FINAL version with 120 textures (7.5MB) is now available here. http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/finaltextures.zip

Sorry for the inconveinance.

Enjoy!

PS, hellcat. I see that the new comms are now in CVS, but dont they need a new factions.xml to work? i would make one myself but all knowledge of how to was lost on the old forum i beleive.

Post by **hellcatv** » Mon May 19, 2003 1:37 am

arrgh I just committed these other ones you gave me...
anyhow

hey themore the merrier

I hacked VS to make the "default" ones work fine unless you wanted to specify something more precise (like these dudes talk DIFFERENTLY to these other dudes)

for instance maybe the Aera have special ugly words for the rlaan that they don't share with the humons

Post by **hurleybird** » Mon May 19, 2003 1:54 am

Sounds like a lot of work... If we ever get the ability to play as Area, or Rlaan etc. then it should be added though. Sorry for the huss... luckily 90% of the stuff is the same.

Post by **hellcatv** » Mon May 19, 2003 1:57 am

well I'm not doiung any more work

just waiting for it to upload...so all is good

ok back to finals-study

gettin' ready to graduate here lol but I gotta pass ma' finals

Darkmage · Post by **Darkmage** » Tue May 20, 2003 4:35 am

They HAVE to be 1024x1024, otherwise they won't wrap properly, I found an online tutorial about cub maps and backgrouds, the width AND height of the map has to be the same as the width of the screen rez, so at 1024x768 res the maps MUST be 1024x1024 othewise you get distortion. 512x512 is a bad idea, unless you're running vegatrike at 512xsome weird rez

Post by **hurleybird** » Tue May 20, 2003 5:50 am

previous textures were 256x256 the only two things which really matter for appearing right in VS is that both Width and height are the same value, and multiples of two. So 515x512, 256x256, 1024x1024, 1048x2048 etc. all work.

Darkmage · Post by **Darkmage** » Tue May 20, 2003 6:51 am

in all previous images that were 256x256 or 512x512, i could notice distortion on the images, on 1024x1024images I have been unable to noticedistortion... EVEN with images flowing from one tile onto another.

lazyhurleybird · Post by **lazyhurleybird** » Tue May 20, 2003 9:52 pm

the previous 256x256 textrures were flawed and distorted by human error, they were not perfect cube maps. The 515x512 images are good for the most part... but the .jpg compression seems to distort some areas (mainly when a dark color turns into black). the current 512 images i am working on improving. Im also considering using .png compression. Will .jp2 compression work? it offers lossless quality but is still fairly small.

Post by **hellcatv** » Tue May 20, 2003 10:34 pm

I think jp2 is a bit too patent-laden for use...

we're prolly going to have to stick to png

Post by **dandandaman** » Wed May 21, 2003 7:45 am

hellcatv wrote:I think jp2 is a bit too patent-laden for use...

we're prolly going to have to stick to png

yeah....although there are other opensource alternatives like the one used in:

http://djvu.sourceforge.net/

problem is...I have no idea of how legal this or any other thing offering something "similar to jpeg2000 is" :-/

Dan.a

pontiac · Post by **pontiac** » Wed May 21, 2003 4:33 pm

I think we should stay with png.

Also i was wondering if a SVG-implemention would be helpful.
It's also free and text based (W3C-SVG, samples).
But i think this would be a bunch of work to implement (parsing/rendering/etc..)
But especially for menu design it would be very cool.

Just my 2c

Pontiac

Shrike · Post by **Shrike** » Wed Jun 04, 2003 10:35 pm

hurleybird wrote:OOPS... Sorry. Just realized a mistake. The new textures i posted only had 102 textures and still had the sphere maps. Obviously, something went wrong along the way... :?

Anyway, the new FINAL version with 120 textures (7.5MB) is now available here. http://vegastrike.sourceforge.net/finaltextures.zip

Okay, just downloaded these, and did a fresh install of 0.3.1 and replaced all of the original background textures by renaming the original dir to backgrounds.old and creating a new backgrounds dir and unpacking this file into it.

Started a new game, and the background is solid white...

Post by **hurleybird** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:19 am

what system are you in? what background is assigned to that system? What kind of graphics card are you running? If there is not enough video memory available then textures will begin not to render and will appear as white.

Shrike · Post by **Shrike** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:27 am

hurleybird wrote:what system are you in?

Enigma.

what background is assigned to that system?

Dunno.

What kind of graphics card are you running? If there is not enough video memory available then textures will begin not to render and will appear as white.

64m GF3. (Actually, the box also has a 64m GF2 PCI in it for dual-head. I've got a 9" svga hooked up to it at 800x600 for console stuff.)

Post by **hurleybird** » Thu Jun 05, 2003 12:40 am

should work. you have enough vid mem. Enigma uses blue_galaxy1, which i just double checked to make sure its named right. Only suggestion is to make sure you backgrounds dir is in the right place, and make sure that blue_galaxy1 is in there.

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