Re: [bos-dev] map & scripts

[Francois Beerten <francois.beerten@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ron Gow wrote:
> > We'll do with the Wiki. I'll send you and xanax in a private mail the 
> > password and explanations on how to do it.
>
> Ok ... er, you didn't send it yet, did you?  (just wondering, in case 
> my spam filters killed it)
I sent the email today.

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> Ah, ok.  Good to know.  I haven't yet finalized my toolchain for maps, 
> so I'll keep that in mind when I'm putting things together.   I'll 
> have to 'reverse engineer' my patches though, because the pngs are all 
> I have right now.  I almost never use .xcf format due to the larger 
> filesizes.
You made that superb terrain completely in Gimp ?  That's incredible. 
You have to teach us your magic tricks.

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> > It would be wonderful if we could add new map in this release. No 
> > need to get out of the way.
> Do you have a timeframe for the release?   (i.e. time to get the plant 
> units done?)   And another source question there, I create the plants 
> in Wings3d, but export to Povray.  So "files needed to modify" and 
> "files needed to render" are two different things.  Would you need the 
> Wings file, the Pov file, or both?
> Thnx.
When we're ready :)

Wow, you use Wings3d too. It's the only 3d program, I ever managed to 
use, but I'm a total 3D noob too.

Do you modify the exported povray files or do you render them directly ?


Feb.