Feral Heart

I miss being a newbie! First time playing Feralheart i was a newbie. I loved discovering the maps and exploring new places, being clueless about things, asking questions, creating first time maps. I really miss the feeling of being new.

Now, i know everyplace, my maps arent as they used to be, i dont have that "excited" feeling anymore.

Does anyone else know what i mean? Does anyone else miss being a newbie on any other game?

Ask away people, any question will do I'll be sure to answer as soon as possible

Questions from CloudFish

Why Ingredient? Like cooking?

Answer:

Ingredient randomly came to me at school or at home. I looked at the back of a chocolate packet and said "Ingredient, ingredients. Ingredient....." I began to grow a love for that word, it wasn't long until my friends gave me that as a nickname. I'm pretty sure that was how it came to me, and what better place to use that word than FH? I wanted something uncommon, strange but unique in a way. Ingredient it was, it suited me and I was very happy with it.

I love cooking! I really love cooking cakes and stuff because I like to lick the bowl at the end. I can cook a really good chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce, don't mind me saying


Question from Barish

How do you feel about the four glittering stars below your name?

Answer:

Hmmm, I don't really pay attention to those stars most the time.

I do feel quite amazed though at how I've stayed active on Feralheart for over a year. How many things I've posted to earn those stars, I guess I could see those stars as achievements


Questions from SilentWolf91

Who is that guy in your avatar and signature? Why's he got knives and guns?

Answer:

That is Johnny from the comic book Johnny the Homicidal Maniac, there are only 7 books in the series. He uses knives rather than guns. He can be very emotional and tortures those who would laugh at him, push him around. There is swearing and violence in the comic so i wouldnt recommend reading it if you don't like that kind of stuff. It's still an awesome comic!


Question from Thierry

what game you like most?

Answer:

That is a difficult question. Feralheart is awesome but i do love those IT servers. Tough decision Dx I cant choose -.- Alright.... to be honest I would prefer IT over FH, mainly because there is more to do. I also love Minecraft and Assassins Creed


Questions from Raw

1. Do you love me!?
2. What do you like to do most on FH?

Answer:

Yes, of course i love you! You is my buddy! I probably like sitting on my mount and chatting in general or just chilling with my friends


Question from Nyx

do u like pie?

Answer:

To be honest, no. I dont really eat pie and i just dont like it very much at all.


Question from SilverTW

What's the one thing that makes Ingredient, you

Answer:

I'm not sure what are the right words to answer that... but I guess it would have to be my family and friends, without them I would be lost. I wouldn't be able to deal with anything in a positive way, they keep me going through my troubles and help me get back on my feet <3

Lol, I guess that's two things that make Ingredient ^^

The internet plan im using is limited and im almost over the limit. My parents arent going to buy anymore internet for a while since it gets used up too quickly and its very expensive. Were going through some money issues at the moment Dx I have no idea when ill be able to use the internet again, i rarely go to free wifi places.

So, i wish you all a farewell for now.

I just recently joined YouTube and i tried uploading a video, the thing is i searched it when it was done but its not there. I cant find it at all. The privacy setting is Public if that helps.

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.