[REQ] Ship icons (gray)

[SteelViking]

Nice work TDW. Now you should replace all the different icon .dds files with the same one.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by SteelViking

Nice work TDW. Now you should replace all the different icon .dds files with the same one.

doesn't work like that. The symbols for the ships are drawn using the .shp files. The coloring for them is done with a pixel shader.

[Seeadler]

Objects on the map like ship icons, location names, mission areas etc. are shapes (one or more 2D models in a *.shp file).

A shape file can include a texture or not. If it has a texture, the texture colors are rendered by a pixel shader on the 2D shape model.

a simple SH5 shape file:

1 
arrowbody.dds
4
0.0 0.954569 0.0
-16.3476 1.51965 0.0
-16.3476 -1.51577 0.0
0.0 -0.951302 0.0
0.9995 0.813524 0.5
0.082804 0.999501 0.5
0.0828592 0.000499517 0.5
0.9995 0.186274 0.5
2
0 1 2
0 2 3

line 1: 1 = shape use texture 0 = shape has no texture
line 2: texture name
line 3: 4 = vertex count
line 4-7: vertices for object
line 8-11: vertices for texture coordinates
line 12: 2 = triangle count
line 13-14: Indices of vertices forming a triangle

[reaper7]

Originally Posted by Seeadler

Objects on the map like ship icons, location names, mission areas etc. are shapes (one or more 2D models in a *.shp file).

A shape file can include a texture or not. If it has a texture, the texture colors are rendered by a pixel shader on the 2D shape model.

a simple SH5 shape file:

1 
arrowbody.dds
4
0.0 0.954569 0.0
-16.3476 1.51965 0.0
-16.3476 -1.51577 0.0
0.0 -0.951302 0.0
0.9995 0.813524 0.5
0.082804 0.999501 0.5
0.0828592 0.000499517 0.5
0.9995 0.186274 0.5
2
0 1 2
0 2 3

line 1: 1 = shape use texture 0 = shape has no texture
line 2: texture name
line 3: 4 = vertex count
line 4-7: vertices for object
line 8-11: vertices for texture coordinates
line 12: 2 = triangle count
line 13-14: Indices of vertices forming a triangle

Look forward to your shape program. I tried following your shape tutorial from before with no luck.

[TheDarkWraith]

Originally Posted by Seeadler

A shape file can include a texture or not. If it has a texture, the texture colors are rendered by a pixel shader on the 2D shape model.

even without a texture the color for it is rendered with the color value passed to the pixel shader. I edited the pixel shader used for 2D map shapes and overrode that color value passed and used black to make all the contacts one color (0,0,0, colorpassed alpha)

[Seeadler]

Originally Posted by reaper7

Look forward to your shape program. I tried following your shape tutorial from before with no luck.

It takes some little time because the shape program contains currently some dll's which I did for one of my clients and I can not release them (licensing reasons). I created the shape viewer quickly with these dll's because I needed a tool to effectively convert many of the map location names to an editable format. Now I just have to remove the customer-specific functions from the dll's.