Plus points if i can make a dot and/or flare where the beam hits.

Ribbons are probably not what i want since they need to be tied to some object to work.

EDIT : So , disreguard this stupid post . it imported fine in a different t3d instance . however: I still dont get it , this case I have  put all of the materials  , like 28 of them , and images , into a folder , then the 8 different shapes which share these materials into 8 sub-folders within it with their shape asset amd tscript . the first six shapes are fine though I edited the shape , image and material files due to fact that i havent exactly optimized my import process . anyhow , the last 2 shapes will not import . the GODS hate me , I guess . TY

Just the other day i installed openshot and discovered the magic of video editing, i would like to combine that success with my achivements in t3d.

What is the status of video capture subsystem in t3d and has as anyone used it before to make videos?

Right now id be pretty happy if you could just take videos, but i think there is lots of potential for video making and im curious how far i can take it.

Share any suggestions or ideas on the matter, t3d makes for great visual technology, if anyone ever used it as such tell me about it.

1. its Big 750,000 verts

2. 200 objects

3 200 mats

this story begins with the model , as is , being superlative , IMHO , I was so happy

its like Torque3D must have no limitations . and as is as a scenery object , i'll call it . its great .

So , then I wanted some collisions m and I wanted the shape editor to whippem up (help me choose a emoj ).

1. issue 1 i cant spell good . and my vision is so that the documentation is ...

but I attack at the shape and collision editor for this :

as there are many objects , I browse the list in the collision editor and choose one , say STREETS for ex:

creates a lovely convex hulls as the street IS a few separate rectaggles .then I need one for the sidewalk or rooftops , or any one of the 200 objects that comprises the shape , right ?

2 . this presents me with the message box containg the message text which is as follows or similar :

"the will overwrite the the other one that you just made" . and thats exactly what it did .

So i made a couple of pics of this in action .

a random  bldg made of 2 obsjects the facade and windows ; the pics will clear up any ankst .

the windows 001 obj raised up for viewing purpose . and the convex hulls are already created as you can see .

for clarification , the wireframe function is engaged .

and this is the other part sort of the facade/bldgStruct stuff thing .

its wire .

Ok thats a lot isnt it? alright you have a great day SIR! and aprecite ya .

thank you so much for your very generous time . and have a superb day M8s.

being that thats sorta vague . the normal map spreads across everything , not just in the area that should be painted 

Is also like ask where to find any info on how to use/set up the "texture settings"  . thank you so very much and just you have yourself a beauty of an ol' day :)

I hope there is some way to shift hue, the original red alert had it and it was mad fun to mess with, i need something similar in my remake, all those colors made it stand out.

This is probably one of those stupid questions that can be answered real quick with a search, but im not good with that and its better to ask so you are sure.

anyway , It concerns the dark line seen at the horizon . These Pics show that it is the ambient scale color .

Im not offering a suggestion on fixing it , just noting it is the ambient color in the scattersky object .

and now the editor is on and the navmesh is in the screen , this doesn't happen with the navmesh off-screen while in edit mode .

So , when I import a model which shares a material which is already in the folder it re-imports the material . no huge deal , just a wee bit messy and I just delete the unneeded material and image files and it seems to work fine . So , is there a way Im supposed to just bypass the second import and unnecessary image and material asset files ? hope this makes since Thank You .

So , Ill just add that the hill is like ,  very steep , vertical , 90 degreeish. TY

OPENGL: GL_INVALID_OPERATION error generated. No active program.

Any ideas  how to fix this ?

I decided that the white coming from the terrain material is too intense and wet looking .

I created the composite with materialize but for the quick adjustment Ill use GIMP

I open the composite map in GIMP to adjust the green(roughness) and blue(metalic) channels

using GIMP just select ' channels: in the layers window , you can see it in the image below

This image shows the green channel is selected and isolated . I used brightness/contrast to raise the brightness of this green(roughness) channel , raising the roughness which appears softer . did basically the same with the blue(metalness) but instead I darkened the color of the blue channel , lowering the metalness , again causing a softening effect . in the image here is the adjusted material .

the previous and next images are with a sun elevation 20

some other sun angles looking forward and behind .

next 2 are 40

next 2 at 80

sun elevation 150 over a hill

well , just coll I think . have a nicey :)

this is a copy and pasted defaultTree which works great in 3.9

fyi , a couple buildings from free3d , a couple AfricaSavanna bushes , some older t3d terrain tiles , some freePBR terrain tiles (cant see them well) , and , Im making the aptera in blender 2.79

* Skins with 4x3 matrices allowing for around ~70 active bones in DX9

* Allows for 4 or more bones per vertex (limited by how many attributes you can pack into a shader)

* Up to 255 addressable bones per mesh (subject to API limits)

* Can fallback to software skinning.

There's currently a problem with mixing rigid and skinned meshes (really need to use separate or offsetted buffers here), and also a weird issue with the first person weapon model. Hopefully should get these issues fixed soon ready for a PR.

Using the image from the documenation:

I'm using Gimp to create the textures, Trenchbroom and Constructor to create the levels, and finally TGE 1.4 for the game!

the scene without the volumetric fog .

the scene with the volumetric fog . I used the volumetric fog because of the nice resulting fog height compared to the atmosheric height setting .

a closer look at the fire/smoke particles against the volumetric fog

a closer look at the larger smoke particle against the volumetric fog

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