Adding Stars

Clowneater · Post by **Clowneater** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 12:04 am

I'm making a nighttime map and I changed the sky to the sky I wanted, and now I want to add stars. To do that, could I just copy the Stars section from Coruscant's .sky file?

Also, a problem that has been persisting since I started (but I just ignored it) was that most of the textures I painted in Zeroedit just show up as hoth_main_1, even though I see different textures in ZE. Does that have to do with the texture layers and has anyone seen that problem before? Thanks.

I'm new to GT, by the way.

theultimat · Post by **theultimat** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 6:46 am

Welcome to GT, Clowneater!

1) I'm not sure about the sky file, but I think you could just paint them on in a texture editor (Gimp reccomemded).
2)No idea. I've had that problem before, but reversed. The textures show up as hoth1_main_01.tga, but ingame they are how they should be. Weird, eh.

Post by **RepSharpshooter** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 9:18 am

A good rule of thumb is to always look in places where it's been done before. You're right, just copy the star section from coruscant (or naboo, which is this one):

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[code]Stars()

	{

		RandomSeed(1);

		TwinkleFactor(0.5);

		TwinkleFrequency(0.1);

		Color(255, 255, 255, 255);

		XBOX()

		{

			NumStars(1000);

			BrightStarPercent(90.0);

			AlphaMin(15);

			ColorSaturation(0.5);

		}

		PC()

		{

			NumStars(8000);

			BrightStarPercent(70.0);

			AlphaMin(15);

			ColorSaturation(.75);

		}

		PS2()

		{

			NumStars(1000);

			StarTexture("fx_star");

			BrightStarPercent(10.0);

			AlphaMin(10);

			ColorSaturation(0.2);

		}[/code]

Goes right under the last DomeModel()

Clowneater wrote: Also, a problem that has been persisting since I started (but I just ignored it) was that most of the textures I painted in Zeroedit just show up as hoth_main_1, even though I see different textures in ZE. Does that have to do with the texture layers and has anyone seen that problem before? Thanks.

I don't know specifically, but make sure the textures munged (clean if you have to). If it looks correct in ZE I don't know what else would cause that ingame.

Clowneater · Post by **Clowneater** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:15 pm

I've made a few maps before, but I'm still pretty new to it. If I was to hit "Clean" in the Visual Munge, what exactly does it do? Does it delete everything I munged with this map before?

Clowneater · Post by **Clowneater** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 12:51 pm

I copied the code put up by RepSharpShooter right into my .sky file , and when I munged, the log stated a couple of errors. One said that the .sky file was missing a bracket, something I can fix, and one mentioned the .req, which I never touched. I wanted to see how it affected my map, and now there are no command posts in game and I can't spawn. Did the bracket affect that?
EDIT: I added in the brackets and both problems were fixed.

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