Hello there people of Feralheart. In this tutorial i will be telling you some basic information on how to make your own waterfall texture.
First of all lets open up your special program to create your texture. Me? I use GIMP. Its free if your wanting to use it. What you can do is go to your "misc" folder (Your local disk drive (C:)>>Feralheart>>Media>>Objects>>misc) and open up the waterfall texture Feralheart provides (waterfall1.png) with the program you plan on using. Just remember to always have the image size 512 by 512.
Once opened you can start creating your unique waterfall texture. Change the colour, turn it pitch black whatever your happy with. Are you done yet? Good, lets carry on.
Here is my waterfall texture, i am happy with it so im going to save. Save it in the misc folder like the other waterfall texture. Lets change the name shall we. How about "waterfall2
.png" sound good? You
MUST remember to put the
.png at the end. Its very important.
Were not finished yet guys.
In the "misc" folder we have a "waterfall.material" file. Copy and paste it into the same folder and rename it to something of your sort. You need to open it that pasted .material file using Notepad. So right click the file and click Open or Open With. Then choose the option Notepad, if the option isnt there you need to hit "Browse" and find it. Though its most likely you wouldnt have to do that.
Ok have you done that? Good, lets open this file up. This is what you shall see.
material
WaterFallMat{
technique
{
pass
{
lighting off
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
scene_blend alpha_blend
depth_write off
texture_unit
{
texture
waterfall1.png scroll_anim 0 1
}
texture_unit
{
texture
waterfallMask1.png scroll_anim 0 0.7
colour_op modulate
}
}
}
}
This is the material name, typing that in will make the texture show. Since we have made our own lets call it something else. How about "MyFirstWaterfall" or like me just add a number at the end. Make sure you remember exactly what you called it.You type in the name of your image here. I called mine waterfall3.png so that is what i shall type in. Whatever you called yours type in remember to type the .png in too.You can leave this how it is since the image is already there. What this does is kind of creates the shape of the waterfall. If you typed in the image of your texture it just looks unusual. Just trust me and leave it how it is, your waterfall will look better.So lets change the code and now it will look like this.
material WaterFall3Mat
{
technique
{
pass
{
lighting off
cull_hardware none
cull_software none
scene_blend alpha_blend
depth_write off
texture_unit
{
texture waterfall3.png
scroll_anim 0 1
}
texture_unit
{
texture waterfallMask1.png
scroll_anim 0 0.7
colour_op modulate
}
}
}
}
Do you notice the differences in the code?
Ok now save it.
Dont click "Save As" just click the "Save" button. Now get ready for what you are about to witness.
You remember what your material is called, right? Look back into your .material file and find your material name in case you didnt remember it.
Now lets open Feralheart and go onto Object Maker. Go to the tab called Mesh, lets type in "Waterfall1.mesh" into the Mesh box and then click the Add New button. Theres Feralheart's waterfall, lets change that texture now. See in the Material box (underneath the Mesh box) it says "WaterFallMat" well lets change that to our material name. My waterfalls material name was WaterFall3Mat so that is what i shall change it too. Hit Enter on your keyboard and observe as the waterfall has a different texture.
Now this is the shape of the waterfall, if you changed that "waterfallMask1.png" in the material code to your texture image, you would see a difference. Im sure you would prefer it if you left the "waterfallMask1.png" there.
I hope you managed to get your texture to show successfully. Remember to save your waterfall so you can use it in your maps.
