Arrowed wall textures

[Phytotron]

Picking up from here:
http://forums3.armagetronad.net/viewtop ... 10#p212210

Anyway, not to hijack, but here's the same done with the textures cycle:

Digging the cycle_wheel and dir_wall. Share?

They're just the Photoshop "custom shape tool" with a transparent background. All kinds of super-easy possibilities for one to make his own textures using those.

Looks like I might've used a "glass button" style thing on the dir_wall; could also be layer style>blending options>bevel and emboss. There are a few ways to achieve that look; can't remember exactly. The screenshots were made with alpha blending enabled, which I find impractical for gameplay, but you'll still get a striped wall with it off.

***EDIT: I just noticed the tip of the front arrow is cut off. Doh. That's because the effect was applied after I put down the arrow, the tip of which I had touching the very edge. So that part of the effect got cut off. I'll redo it later and swap the file in this post.***

The 'radioactive' wheel is just plain stamped.

[Phytotron]

It occurred to me that's reminiscent of those "turn ahead!" arrows one sees on racetracks and in racing games, such as those seen here (scroll down a bit). So, I make something more like that, eh. This will only work with alpha blending enabled. Turned off, it'll just be flat color. I'll transpose this into a moviepack wall later.

The rim wall was stolen and quickly patched together from a GLTron Artpack, called "x-night," which can be found here: http://homepage.mac.com/nowall/

I'll go ahead and attach the floor, too, although looking at it I should've scaled down the size of the grain in the road. Oh well. Might not show much if it were, anyway. Floor settings used are:

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grid_size 3
floor_red .4
floor_green .4
floor_blue .3

[Phytotron]

This is fitting, methinks.

[sinewav]

The rim wall was stolen and quickly patched together from a GLTron Artpack, called "x-night,"...

I'm impressed with what you are able to do with those glTron textures, since the resolution is so low on them. "x-night" makes a much better artpack than moviepack having and alpha channel and such, but still a good feel for Arma.

[Phytotron]

Don't be impressed. The only reason it doesn't look so low-res is because the screenshots are from a distance. Closer-up they're all blurred out. Only thing I did was cut out a 1/4 section from the 'gltron_wall' image, then paste that on top of the 'skybox' image. I had to cut out the section because it's the textures folder, which only uses one wall repeated, obviously. If I do a conversion for a moviepack, then I'll divide the 'gltron_wall' into fourths, and put the skyboxes beneath them, where relevant. Each one is a little different depending on how the original was put together.

But, point is, I didn't do anything to make the resolution look better. It's just an optical delusion because of the distance. What's actually impressive, perhaps, is how good those artpacks can look in GLTron as compared to when they're used in AA.

[Phytotron]

Alright, so, I couldn't figure out how the hell I made that first arrow look the way it does, heh. So, I'll just leave it there. But in the process of trying to figure out what I did, I happened upon a couple others I thought looked pretty cool, so here they are:

[Phytotron]

Oh yeah, forgot about this. Here are all the walls in this thread transposed into usefulness for the moviepack file. They maintain the same names as the texture ones, so pay mind if and where necessary when filling these away.

[!TX!Ubunturocks]

That is some cool textures. It looks like you are really driving in a city!

[Reigel]

looks realy nice

[Cosmic Dolphin]

I want my own computer again, cause I would totally only play arma with this texture. Awesome. Wish I was that creative.

[Phytotron]

So, the other night I downloaded the remaining GLTron artpacks that I didn't already have, just for archiving purposes or whatever. I hadn't noticed before, but turns out that there are a few that have similar arrowed walls themselves:

- Spacetron
- Trondemonium
- Desert Night

...all of which can be found here: http://www.gltron.org/artpacks.php

They can be used in Arma simply by renaming to dir_wall.png, for either the default textures or moviepack. The dimensions are different in each case, but the game will stretch to compensate. Of course, that results in a visual distortion as well.

Or you can take them into an image editor and—do what you like, actually. As far as sizing, for the basic textures I think the height-to-width ratio ingame is 1:1 (e.g., 256X256). Seems that the ideal ratio for the Arma moviepack is 1:8 (e.g., 256hx32w). Use those dimensions and you won't get any distortion of the image. [Someone correct me if I'm wrong. This stuff isn't in the wiki, as it should be.]