Is it just me or...

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 23:37

Does GZDoom support glowing textures?

I was playing this and noticed the water is glowing blue.

Post by **Enjay** » Mon Mar 06, 2006 23:42

Right conclusion: wrong reason.

GZdoom does support glowing textures (kind of) it's an in development feature. It looks really cool unless you have a sloped wall that is affected by the glow then it messes up. A real shame because it looks great.

However (and I thought the same thing until I checked) this wad uses dynamic lights to create the effect.

Oh, and I know you're bound to want to know, so here's what Graf said about Glowing flats some time ago:

Regarding the glowing flats effect.

yes, that effect is supported. Just add a GLOWDEFS lump which lists all the flats that are supposed to be glowing. Please note that this doesn't work properly with slopes yet! Plus I'd like to improve it so you can explicitly set the color per flat as opposed to using the normalized average.

Code:

Flats
{
LAVA1
LAVA2
LAVA3
LAVA4
NUKAGE1
NUKAGE2
NUKAGE3
BLOOD1
BLOOD2
BLOOD3
}

You have to specify it in MAPINFO. I didn't want to make it global for all maps. Please note that currently it doesn't work for sectors with slopes which is why I haven't officially documented it. It's really just some unfinished development garbage from an attempt to get the Doom64TC levels to work.

If you don't mind creating an incompatibility with ZDoom just add

GLOWDEFS "GLOWDEFS" to the defaultmap section.

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:03

Thanks...

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:17

Can't get it to work. :/ Help, please.

MAPINFO:

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defaultmap
GLOWDEFS "GLOWDEFS"

GLOWDEFS:

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Flats 
{ 
LAVA1 
LAVA2 
LAVA3 
LAVA4 
NUKAGE1 
NUKAGE2 
NUKAGE3 
BLOOD1 
BLOOD2 
BLOOD3 
}

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:18

And in case someone wonders why there's some strance HOM effect, that's because this WAD uses stacked sectors improperly.

justin023 · Post by **justin023** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:20

Glowing Flats? I have to use this. Something GZDoom really needs is dynamic lights attached to textures. Doomsday already has this and it looks sweet.

Post by **Graf Zahl** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:21

[quote="Nash"]Can't get it to work. :/ Help, please.

MAPINFO:

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defaultmap
GLOWDEFS "GLOWDEFS"

defaultmap only affects levels coming after the definition. It won't affect any of the default map definitions.

YouTube · Post by **Nash** » Tue Mar 07, 2006 0:25

I copy and pasted the entire DOOM II MAPINFO after my defaultmap section.

Still doesn't work.

EDIT: Oh, I was constantly checking MAP02 for the effect. Water isn't supposed to glow though. Yeah it works for the other flats; thanks.