One of the most
complained about aspects of editing Quake 3 is the
lack of glass textures for creating windows.
Till now, it has been a pain but this tutorial will
give you the shaders, images and the know how to go
out and create 3 types of Glass's textures in your
map and probably set you on a good start to creating
your own by experimentation.
I created these shaders myself for my mod, Prisoners
of War.
Download the textures and shaders here
1.
Directions:
Download the
glasstut.zip file and unzip the following files to
the following directories:
plainglass.tga --->
baseq3/textures/glass/
darkglass.tga --->
baseq3/textures/glass/
blueglass.tga ----> baseq3/textures/glass/
glass.shader
---->baseq3/textures/scripts/
After this is
complete, edit the "shaderlist.txt" file
in baseq3/textures/scripts/ and put the word
"glass" in the bottom line. This
tells QER that you have a new shader file it can
use. Now restart QER and notice how you have a
new GLASS listing in the textures menu.
2. Applying
Glass Texture
a. Create a square brush as you normally would
in QER.
b. Shift-Click to select brush, then go into
the COMMON texture group and apply the texture
"No Draw" to all faces of the brush.
c. Ctrl-Shift to select the brush FACE that
you want to put the glass on, then go to the GLASS
texture group and load them. Hit "T"
to bring up the textures display. The
textures that have the white highlight are the
shaders that you must use. Pick one.
d. Congrats, you should now see a brush with
one of the glass textures applied to it.
Use Q3Build to
compile your map as you normally would, and you will
have glass in your level now.
3. Few
Warnings:
-If the files in the zip are not installed to the
correct directory as stated in step 1, you will not
get these to work.
-If you want to edit these shaders, I HIGHLY
recommend that you just create a dumby shader at the
bottom of the list and try experimenting. That
way you wont screw up your good shaders.
-If a friend tries to play the maps with the glass I
created here, you must make sure that the PK3 file
your map is installed in also has the glass.shader
and the 3 .tga textures in it as well as placed in
the appropriate directory or they will not work.
Glass Shader
Decriptions :
1.
Plainglass Shader:
This shader is just a darkish transparent texture
that works well as a plain window. If you use
the pink "no draw" textures, it will be
solid. If you use the "no draw/non
solid" textures, it will be glass that is not
solid and can be shot and walked through.
textures/glass/plainglass
{
surfaceparm nolightmap
surfaceparm nonsolid
cull twosided
{
map textures/glass/plainglass.tga
tcGen environment
blendfunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
}
}
2. Blueglass
Shader:
The Blueglass shader is a modification of another
shader in Quake 3. I use it the most in my
maps because it has a nice "shine" to it.
I've also giving it a bit of a swirling affect that
you can see if you look at it for a while.
textures/glass/blueglass
{
surfaceparm nolightmap
surfaceparm nonsolid
cull twosided
{
map textures/glass/blueglass.tga
tcGen environment
tcMod turb 0 0.01 0 0.01
tcmod scroll .0 .0
blendfunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
}
}
3. Darkglass
Shader:
This is one is a really cool shader. It has a
chrome like effect as you move around and look at
it.
textures/glass/darkglass
{
qer_trans .5
surfaceparm trans
surfaceparm solid
cull disable
{
map textures/effects/tinfx.tga
tcgen environment
blendfunc gl_one gl_one
rgbGen identity
}
{
map $lightmap
blendFunc gl_dst_color gl_zero
rgbgen identity
}
}
Louie "KnightBK"
Doulias
Project Manager/Designer
Black Knight Productions
http://www.og-world.com/bkp/
