Detail Sprites

[Plague]

Dear Esher(spelling?) seems to use tons of them.

Maybe you need to work on their density for optimal performance?

[ballsofsteel]

Well done on the tutorial...

[MayheM]

I think the issue I was having with the frame drop could be fixed by using a fade distance controller so that the sprites are not rendered past a certain distance. I added one into the map, but I can not for the life of me remember the entity name. I am going to mess around with the density a bit and see if I can get the look I want without such a huge performance hit.

[Terr]

Was it the min/maxpropscreenwidth settings on the worldspawn entity? (Not clickable anywhere in the 2d or 3d views, same place you set the skybox texture.)

[MayheM]

Dont thing so. Ill check when I get home...

[Kosire]

env_detail_controller i believe?

[MayheM]

env_detail_controller i believe?

DING DING DING DING!!! winna winna chicken dinna! Yeah env_detail_controller is what i used.

[Jangalomph]

My detail sprites still have the stupid white line above them, some spawn half crooked and in the ground :|

[MayheM]

The white line you jsut need to make a better alpha channel. You can also make the grass or whatever your detail is with multiple layers and add a motion blur in several directions. So...

This...


Turns into this...


Then your alpha will no longer have the white ring around it and it will look SEXY! As of the have spawn crap, it sounds like you need to adjust the positioning of the sprites.

[wood250]

Mayhem thats great, is there anyway you can take a screenshot in game so I can see what this looks like?
would be really appreciated.

[MayheM]

HA, well to be honest I never used it so I have never seen it in game. I just know this method helps eliminate the white halo around sprites. But yeah, I had all these grand plans of making really complex and detailed sprites, but ended up with simple grass. I do like this one though, and it took FOREVER to strip the background away. I will give it a try though and post a screenshot tomorrow.

[Jangalomph]

there iz no halo. Its a white line above the grass -_-... on the top of the sprite.

[Watercycle]

Here's a nice tidbit for others.

Currently this will crash and burn in source sdk running half life 2 as the source engine?

The issue i finally found out to be a sub - regioning bug on the material via vbsp (it attempts to use detail.vbsp vs your custom one ect ect...), nothing can be done about it, we should all cry and just optimize for 1 sprite =p

[Watercycle]

FFS ORIENTATION WAS SPELLED WRONG IN TUTORIAL FOR 1 XD, maybe intentional? i'd assume it'd be commented out if so

[Kubata]

Running into some issues, hope you guys can help out. Went through the tutorial and even through the comments and can't find anything I've done wrong - basically the sprites are being created right under the surface of the displacement.



Here's the detail part:

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wsmrdetail
   
   {
      density 500
      
      Group1
      {
         alpha 0
      }
 
      Group2
      {
         alpha 1
 
         Shrub1
         {
            sprite "0 0 128 205 512"
            spritesize "0.5 1 16 32"
            spriterandomscale .2
            spriteorentation 2
            amount .1
            sway 0
            maxangle 95
         }
         Shrub2
         {
            sprite "128 0 182 205 512"
            spritesize "0.5 .8 16 32"
            spriterandomscale .15
            spriteorentation 2
            amount .3
            sway 0
            maxangle 95
         }
         Shrub3
         {
            sprite "310 0 202 205 512"
            spritesize "0.5 1 16 32"
            spriterandomscale .15
            spriteorentation 2
            amount .1
            sway 0
            maxangle 95
         }
         Grass1
         {
            sprite "0 208 243 310 512"
            spritesize "0.5 1 128 64"
            spriterandomscale .15
            spriteorentation 2
            amount .5
            sway 0
            maxangle 95
         Grass2
         {
            sprite "243 208 265 310 512"
            spritesize "0.5 .9 128 64"
            spriterandomscale .15
            spriteorentation 2
            amount .5
            sway 0
            maxangle 95
         }
      }
   }
}