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How to buiild a decal?

by Graham Evans · in Torque Game Engine · 03/05/2006 (8:15 pm) · 6 replies

Greetings all.

I feel really silly asking this, but how do you build a decal. :(

I have PSP10 and have tried making a transparent image with text on it, but all I get is a white rectangle. The delivered texture works fine.

I know this should be easy, but I am not an artist and am still playing with this layers and stuff having never used them before.

Sorry for such a dumb question, but hopefully I will only ask the really dumb ones once:)

Regards to all

Graham Evans
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Torque Owner AllynMcelrath
#1
03/05/2006 (8:31 pm)
Make sure you save as a PNG24 (save for web), and make sure the decal data block points to the correct location of the file.

Torque Owner John Kabus (BobTheCBuilder)
#2
03/06/2006 (5:35 am)
Hmm, if it's only displaying a white rectangle it sounds like Torque can't find the texture.

Can you post your decal datablock? It could be something simple like the texture is in the wrong path or, if you're using the '~' to define you mod path, Torque is interpreting it differently than you're expecting.

Torque 3D Owner Graham Evans
#3
03/06/2006 (4:04 pm)
Greetings all :)

Thanks for the advice, I checked both and then it hit me.... this is a texture and needs to be in a power of 2 mode.

As soon as I resized from 300 x 100 to 256 x 64 everything worked great.

Sorry to have troubled you on such a simple solution and thanks for the advice:)

Regards

Graham

Torque 3D Owner Graham Evans
#4
03/06/2006 (4:24 pm)
Heres a sample of my first decal using the decal projector... sad I know :)

i39.photobucket.com/albums/e169/Moria15/decals.jpg
Thanks again all:)

Regards

Graham

Torque Owner John Kabus (BobTheCBuilder)
#5
03/07/2006 (6:37 am)
Cool!

No problem at all. :)

-John

Torque Owner AllynMcelrath
#6
03/07/2006 (7:25 am)
Neet =)