octa... hecta... tile problems

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:01 am

ok more testing i tried a box 20 x 20 with a 2 pixil black outline(white center) i stretched it properly for floor_a and made Floor_b a 20 x 20 filled with blue

its obvius that the 2 large dark lines are where the ends got stretched out (the stretched black box) and the blue only adds the coloring (no lines) we may have to rethink what exactly we are doing

edit- me thinks i have an idea

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:10 am

I got it check it out after i stretched out floor_a horizontally i added a couple vertical lines the result of just modifing floor_a the picture speeakes for itself
ok now i added a diagonal line to show it off

Post by **Lucifer** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:12 am

You playing on a bowling scorecard?

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:22 am

Very nice Your_mom

Btw I recognise the shading from the two "big" lines, if you want to remove them just delete the line that's causing them (usually vertical lines in floor_a or horisontal lines in floor_b) it's just a stretch effect as I'm sure you already know.

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 3:34 am

Lucifer wrote:You playing on a bowling scorecard?

Yes, yes i am lol

ok heres some pics pretty self explanatory

*dual texture has only has details on A( B is a transparent image)

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 6:24 am

floor 177 x 148
floor_a 14800 x 148
floor_b 177 x 14800

the floors off because of either
A> floor_a should be 17700 x 148(the test one wasnt because i wasnt sure if it needed to be a perfect square)
B> when i tiled(copy paste repeat) these by hands a single pixil would throw it off(anyone know any easy way to tile(probly not called this) in gimp?)
C> some other reason i didnt predict

either way heres a pic looks pretty cool even though its messed up

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 7:04 am

hey that's pretty close hmm what did you do? why didn't it all just become extremely elongated like before?

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:12 am

here i'm posting floor, floor_a, floor_b.you can see exactly what i did and mabey fix it to work right.

edit im pretty sure part A of my last post is the problem although b is likely to also be a problem if after fixing a it still doesnt line up correctly

edit 2 - floor_a with the correct width

Post by **dlh** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:36 am

There is a slight alignment issue. I threw into photoshop, and defined floor_a and floor_b as patterns. I then tiled them, and this is what came out.

Edit: Two layers, the top layer has 50% opacity. I will try to fix the alignment problem.

Edit 2 OT: Aren't pngs great? 1480px by 1480px, 75 KB.

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:45 am

nemo try the floor_a i just posted

Post by **dlh** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 9:51 am

Same problem

Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:05 am

Your_mom wrote: B> when i tiled(copy paste repeat) these by hands a single pixil would throw it off(anyone know any easy way to tile(probly not called this) in gimp?)

pretty obvius i must have overlapped a pixil or 2 looks unnoticable at first but gets worse as it goes on. at least we know what the problem is.

edit yeah it's pretty obvius looking at it now since the error was on the horizontal axis the problem is in floor_a. Take a look at the floor_a i posted. After about the fourth hexagon you can see visually how that line is smaller and how it starts to repeat(*reread the quote), the tiny line is an error i made.

edit2- added punctuation etc so its more understandable

Post by **dlh** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 10:27 am

I made a test, and it came out misaligned. I am 100% sure this is pixel perfect. Now I am going to try a square image (X by X), because this hectagon is not.

Edit: If the horizontal picture you will notice the shape looks like its slanted. Its not. Thats just an after effect of rasterizing the vector.

Edit2: I used the wrong sizes, so I've taken down the images

Post by **dlh** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 12:00 pm

My conclusioin. 14800px by 148px is too large of a texture.

I was working in photoshop with it and my hd went from 3 gigs free to 30 MB free. I need more RAM + HD space.

n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Mar 18, 2005 5:40 pm

I'll give it a try (just woke up, slumbering in front of the computer before I drag myself out in the real world) because I have the space etc. to do it (I've made 4096x4096 textures with multiple layers (and run them in armagetron), not that it does anybody any good lol so it shouldn't be a problem) so well yes I'll try it when I wake up for real in like nine hours