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Re: Thoughts on the editor
Posted By: Loren Petrich <petrich@netcom.com>	Date: 10/28/99 10:57 p.m.
In Response To: Thoughts on the editor (Mark Levin) [Halo map editor] > Direct color map editing I doubt will make it in. I presume that you mean one giant texture-map image for the entire map, which is what Myth uses. ... So there are a few possibilities left: Either > Halo uses some more traditional form of tiled texture mapping, > or the color map is generated on the fly as a procedural > texture. > I don't think the latter is too likely as it would be very hard > to design an algorithm that make colors that is both realistic > and random, so I'm assuming here that the color map, whatever it > is, is static and editable by the user. John Carmack, in one of his .plans, has called tiled textures "a crappy form of image compression." However, I don't recall him discussing procedural textures. However, something like the effect of procedural textures can be done with multitexturing. One lays down multiple textures with different repeat lengths. One can even scrimp on texture bulk by using the same texture several times, but with differently-scaled texture coordinates for each rendering (in texture mapping, each vertex of the surface to be rendered is associated with some location in the texture image -- that's the texture coordinates). [cross-fading textures...] Interesting idea.

Message Index

Thoughts on the editor	Mark Levin	10/28/99 10:12 a.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Mage	10/28/99 3:57 p.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:06 a.m.
Re: !!!!Very nice... Bungie, I have an add on...	Mark Levin	10/29/99 12:34 a.m.
Sheesh...	Chris	10/28/99 4:58 p.m.
Don't get your panties in a wod	Gandalf	10/28/99 5:49 p.m.
Actually...	Mark Levin	10/28/99 5:52 p.m.
Re: Actually...	Island Four	10/28/99 7:58 p.m.
Re: Actually...	Frost	10/29/99 12:00 a.m.
Re: Actually...	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:14 a.m.
Re: Actually...	Giule	10/28/99 10:45 p.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Loren Petrich	10/28/99 10:57 p.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Loren Petrich	10/29/99 12:00 a.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Mark Levin	10/29/99 12:46 a.m.
Re: Thoughts on the editor	Traxus	10/29/99 8:19 a.m.