Billboard

Moderator · Oct 18, 2012

22:46, 18th Oct 2012
Kwaliti:

You could really add a plane with a dummy texture which people can replace and have custom billboard design.

EDIT: With that death animation, you'll need a decay animation as well.

EDIT 2: This is a doodad, you only need one decay animation called 'decay'.

EDIT 3: Alright, that's it.

Statharas · Oct 18, 2012

It's MEH. You should add a replaceable texture...

bisnar13 · Oct 18, 2012

Statharas said:
It's MEH. You should add a replaceable texture...

what do you mean? lol
a part of it that people could just change the texture then put their own textures?

bisnar13 · Oct 19, 2012

Update: Added portrait model (screenshot attached below)

InfernalTater · Oct 19, 2012

Bisnar13, add a Replacable Texture with an ID that nothing in-game uses, such as 100. Then, in the object editor, people can choose what texture wraps in place of the "replacable texture" without having to do any extra imports. You'll need to make sure the part using the replacable texture uses the whole texture. The easiest way to do that will just be to open any image in War3ModelEditor, a model will be created using the whole image as its texture. Then export that geoset, import it into your billboard model, and set it to use Replacable Texture ID 100 and make the material for it.

If you didn't quite understand, or need more detailed instructions, check my tutorial:

How to Use Replacable Textures

I made it for trees, but if you scroll down to the bottom you'll see some instructions on how to use it for replacable flat planes as well.

Talesman · Oct 19, 2012

yes ty for the model now i can add picture on that

bisnar13 · Oct 19, 2012

fixed now, I think..

one question: what will be the path of the texture?

edit: Added a better death animation

InfernalTater · Oct 19, 2012

bisnar13 said:
fixed now, I think..

one question: what will be the path of the texture?

edit: Added a better death animation

There will be no path, it will just be Replaceable ID. Then, you can in-game apply any texture you want to it without importing them or changing texture paths.

If you don't understand, check the trees in the object editor in World Editor, they use replaceable textures. If you still don't understand, check my tutorial that I linked above.

bisnar13 · Oct 20, 2012

Ohh, if its used as a doodad only right?

InfernalTater · Oct 20, 2012

bisnar13 said:
Ohh, if its used as a doodad only right?

Right, for destructible doodads. (If you want them to not be destroyable, and to have no pathing and not be selectable, you can change that, but it has to be the destructible class; environment, props, and such, don't seem to use replaceable textures properly, only destructible class.

bisnar13 · Oct 20, 2012

can you guys help me? I added a decay animation. but when I try it in-game, it would play the animation very fast, then kinda revive again then play it the normal way

(Its non looping)

P.S. it works fine in magos

EDIT: FIXED. Going to update soon.
EDIT: Updated, with a new decay animation

CivSavage · Oct 20, 2012

Thanks for the upload, this one will be extremely useful for me. Nice work.

bisnar13 · Oct 20, 2012

CivSavage said:
Thanks for the upload, this one will be extremely useful for me. Nice work.

You're welcome

InfernalTater · Oct 20, 2012

It looks good, and the replaceable texture will make it more useful.

People can now import little advertisement pictures and such and wrap them to the billboard individually for each billboard, without having to import new models. Since they'd just be advertisement decorations, such textures could be saved with a low resolution and low quality, with file sizes as low as 10 kb, and still look reasonably well on the sign.

I'm giving this a 4/5, it will be very useful for placing maps on it in any game, and for placing advertisements on in modern maps.

bisnar13 · Oct 20, 2012

TLI-Inferno said:
It looks good, and the replaceable texture will make it more useful.

People can now import little advertisement pictures and such and wrap them to the billboard individually for each billboard, without having to import new models. Since they'd just be advertisement decorations, such textures could be saved with a low resolution and low quality, with file sizes as low as 10 kb, and still look reasonably well on the sign.

I'm giving this a 4/5, it will be very useful for placing maps on it in any game, and for placing advertisements on in modern maps.

Thanks for rating

bisnar13 · Oct 21, 2012

Yey! Approved atlast

Gekigengar · Oct 21, 2012

5/5 using it as a wall on my map xD

doomhammer99 · Oct 23, 2012

Tnx Dude 4/5

Manuval · Oct 25, 2012

Nice and useful

5/5.

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