Creating an Outline ?

[Samoner]

Just wanted to ask if there is anyway to put an outline, like the one on the screen, on a warcraft 3 model ??? I know that the model on the picture is cell shaded and that Warcraft doesnt work with cell shading.
So what I want to know, is there any filtermode or suchthing to make just the "outline" working ingame ???

 

[gohan43]

i dont believe cell shading is supported with warcrafts system

 

[Samoner]

I know its not, but I just thought that I maybe can make the outline working... but at the moment i think the outline will also not work ingame =/

 

[pkw]

There is a way to make the outline, but it makes the model size to be big =.=

Copy and paste the whole mesh into another geoset.
Enlarge a little.
Change the texture of that enlarged mesh into Textures\Black32.blp

If you doesn't want to use this method, I think you should skin it =\

 

[Samoner]

but when i do this, wouldnt the whole model be black ? how do i make the second mesh invisible except the outline ?

 

[shamanyouranus]

pkw has the right idea, but you need to take it one step further.
You need to copy the whole thing, and paste it a little bigger. Then you need to flip the bigger mesh inside out, so that the material is on the inside instead of the outside. This will make it so you only see the black around the edges of the smaller mesh, like an outline. BAAM!

 

[Samoner]

Yeah thats the step I missed at pkws post ... I'll try it

thank you

 

[pkw]

oh dang lol. Forgot to said that =\

 

[Samoner]

Just tried it ... but I've got a problem. The only way I know, to flip a model inside out (in 3ds Max!!!) is to "Flip Normals" but how do I export this now ???
If I do it the normal way the model isn't flipped inside out ingame so its just black. Hope somebody can help =)

 

[SnaKy]

okay, so i've tried something, it works in Magos, have to test it ingame yet, but i believe it works

 

[Samoner]

in magos it works fine but it does not ingame

 

[SnaKy]

how about this? but it has some limitations as you can see, pic is from the game

 

[Samoner]

hmmm ^^ well, now it works ingame but not correctly. i remeber this bug from a model i've seen on wc3c.net ... they fixed the bug, but i dont know how to but of course i thank you for your time