Meshed arches?

[Chrysaor]

Hey i'm a noob with 3d engines, but how did q3 get those perfect curves? just curious

i mean i was thinking, couldn't u do that for UT? just make a mesh that covers the top part of the arch. You could apply any skin to it and change the draw scale and it could be perfectly round...wouldn't that be cool?

 

[Deathwing]

That's a special feature of the Q3 engine. There are no truly curved brushes in the Unreal engine.

I don't know much about the editor though and I don't know about the mesh or anything. Some UT maps (DM-Brutality][ is one) have what pass as arches, so it's not impossible to at least make it look ok.

 

[QUALTHWAR]

the rounder it gets, the polyer it gets

 

[Deathwing]

That's the only problem, yes.

 

[bobtheking]

Those curves in Q3 aren't true curves, they are just like ut curves, but with lots of polys to make it seem curvy. The engine probably has special code to accelerate the rendering of those polys or something. I don't think true curves even exist except maybe the newest cards with some funky rendering code

 

[Akuma]

its not worth bothering with meshes for architecture, it lights too badly

 

[MrFawn]

and sometimes the skin look ass

 

[Cactus]

try not... do or do not.... there is no try

 

[Ulukai]

Yoda speek

So certain are you?

 

[Chrysaor]

hehe, i was just curious if any one had tried it. I didn't think about the lighting, i can see how that would be a problem.

 

[Skorch]

Yes, but there is a mesh pillar in the game, although using them for archetecture is not a good idea, they could have thrown in some dish antennaes toilets computers and such...

 

[FireSlash]

Q3A has support for round surfaces. basically, it can make any angle (if turned on for that mesh/brush) rounded if the angle of the ajoined vertices (creating angle A) is greater than X degrees.

hence, if m/A > X then round. i believe its rendered with 2d meshes but i wont say for sure. its possible to setup a curved masked actor, but that would be work...

 

[Chrysaor]

work i don't wanna do anyway

would be nice tho. maybe i will....just to see how it looks

 

[FireSlash]

the only problem you will have with a 2d piece, is looking straight up at it... no way to fix that one.