mattf|stealthcoder

I don't have a bunch of pictures for this plan (they are coming) but I do have something cool to show you:


That is the BraveTree WarSparrow in .3ds format with working collision and transparency! Those were my goals for the first release of the .3ds resource so I am going to package it up today or tomorrow and post it =)

I've been working on getting the player to cast shadows onto the q3 interiors. I have met both success and failure. I was able to get my fxCollisionObject to receive shadows with minimal effort:


I quickly started to implement the same for Quake3Bsp...didn't go so well. I spent a frustrating couple of hours last night trying to figure out why no shadow was showing up until I realized that I was "indoors" where the sun couldn't reach the player! Doh! I corrected for this and loaded up a complex level...my framrate was hideous *and* most Quake 3 levels have an external collision box at the bounds which "hides" the sun. Fortunately, I have a plan for this since this is something I needed to deal with anyway so that you can walk in and out of the interior. I have some ideas on speeding up the players shadow casting onto the interior but I need to work through them a bit first.

Fun stuff =)