Grid Wall (moviepack)

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:26 pm

I just wanted to know if its possible to make the grid walls longer. I watched the light cycle sequence and did a snapshot of as much of the grid walls as poss which is quite long...Currently there are only 4 grid wall texture png's. Can someone tell me where the config file is to adjust them if possible. I'm running armagetron v3.0 at the mo....Cheers in advance

....Attached also is a pic of the grid wall I assembled from the Tron film...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sat Mar 10, 2007 9:51 pm

You can stretch the texture more. The first moviepack download at http://armagetron.sourceforge.net/old/addons.html should be a good example. I'm not sure if it can be lined up properly.

Website · Post by **Z-Man** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 10:00 am

The number of 4 textures is hardcoded. To stretch, use MOVIEPACK_RIM_WALL_STRETCH_X resp. _Y, and just use higher resolution textures.

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:12 pm

Thats a great help. I have now stretched the 4 pngs in the config to fit all my textures..They look a bit fuzzier but they are all there...Dont know how to make them more defined though...

Jonathan · Post by **Jonathan** » Sun Mar 11, 2007 9:36 pm

Textures are scaled to the nearest power of two, which can result in some quality loss. Use power-of-two images for the best results. They may still be a rectangle and not necessarily a square. Powers of two include 1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024 and 2048.
GPUs tend to have texture size limits. Mine seems to be 2048 for 2D textures, some older hardware might be limited to 1024 or less.
Mipmapping can make things blurry if textures are deformed when mapped to the framebuffer, i.e. the texture shouldn't need aspect ratio adjustment to look good. You can change it a bit to make it less blurry from certain directions but blurrier from others.

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:03 am

Little too technical for me that but the response from you guys has been helpful and very welcome....Heres my 4 png's that I have done and they are axactly from the movie as best as I can do anyway....

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:04 am

Heres d aswell....

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:41 am

Oh and here is the config I use to stretch the wall to fit perfect all around......

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MOVIEPACK_RIM_WALL_STRETCH_X 354

MOVIEPACK_RIM_WALL_STRETCH_Y 250

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Mon Mar 12, 2007 1:47 am

Forget to add this too.....Arena size -1....

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:09 am

I've updated my Grid wall, so if anyone wants to use them feel free. I have now made them much higher res now. Here are the configs...

MOVIEPACK_RIM_WALL_STRETCH_X 500

MOVIEPACK_RIM_WALL_STRETCH_Y 50

ARENA SIZE 0

Enjoy!!......

davey07 · Post by **davey07** » Tue Mar 13, 2007 1:11 am

And here is d....Ta Ta for now...