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yertari
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 Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:19 pm Post subject: Texture window request |
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I have over 500 textures that i need to put in a cateogry, but it just cannot be done - because firstly, i cannot select all the textures at once, and the texture window above to put them into cannot be resized.
Now.. you might say make smaller categories, but it would mean, that i would have hundreds of sub categories and i dont want to do this.
Can you help?
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 3:30 pm Post subject: |
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At first, I would still recommend making smaller categories. Surely having 500 textures would not have to result into hunderds of sub categories. Only a few dozen if you do this in a clever way.
But... we're alway open for alternative ways to handle textures/materials. Suggestions anyone?
I'm not sure what the problem is with the texture window not being able to be resized. Can you elaborate? |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:16 pm Post subject: |
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Well, i cannot make the scene materials window bigger - so i cant add say more than 20 textures to it. Surely it would be better for these windows to be allowed to resize.
In fact wouldnt it be much easier, to simply insert all the textures you want into the TEXTURES directory, and for these to show up when you load DeleD, so i do not need to make categories from within DeleD, but i can create my own categories in the TEXTURE folder, and these be auto loaded.
Please do this!
I have a situation now, where i have 50 textures, but i cant resize the window bigger to add them too
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Daaark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:37 pm Post subject: |
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//TextureLoad.cpp
//Place this .exe file in your texture folder and run the program
//it will scan all the texture file names and create a
//dmf file with all the textures loaded into it that you
//can load up and use as is
#include <string>
#include <iostream>
#include <fstream>
#include <direct.h>
#include <io.h>
#include <conio.h>
using namespace std;
int main(void)
{
char input[256];
char sub[256];
char cat[256];
char searchstring [ ] = "*.*";
cout << "DMF Texture Load\n\n";
enterfilename:
cout << "Enter the name of the DMF File to be created.\n";
cout << "Name: (eg test.dmf) -> "; cin.getline(input,256);
if (strstr(input,".dmf") == NULL)
{
cout << "\n\nERROR: You must have '.dmf' at the end of your filename...\n\n";
goto enterfilename;
}
//get the current working directory name
_getcwd(sub,sizeof(sub));
int k;
for (k = strlen(sub); k > 0; --k)
{
if (sub[k] == '\\') break;
}
sprintf(cat,&sub[k+1]);
cout << "Category: " << cat << endl;
//count all the files in the areas subfolder
int files = 0;
intptr_t handle;
_finddata_t filedata;
handle = _findfirst(searchstring,&filedata);
if (handle == -1)
{
cout << "Error: No texture files found.\n\n";
cout << "\n\nGoodbye!\nPress a key to quit\n\n"; _getch();
_findclose(handle);
return false;
}
do
{
if (strstr(filedata.name,".bmp") == NULL &&
strstr(filedata.name,".jpg") == NULL &&
strstr(filedata.name,".tga") == NULL)
{
continue;
}
else ++files;
} while (_findnext(handle,&filedata) != -1);
_findclose(handle);
//allocate filenames
string* texs = NULL;
texs = new string[files];
if (texs == NULL)
{
cout << "Error: Out of Memory.\n\n";
cout << "\n\nGoodbye!\nPress a key to quit\n\n"; _getch();
return false;
}
int i = 0;
handle = _findfirst(searchstring,&filedata);
do
{
if (strstr(filedata.name,".bmp") == NULL &&
strstr(filedata.name,".jpg") == NULL &&
strstr(filedata.name,".tga") == NULL)
{
continue;
}
texs[i] = filedata.name;
cout << "Found texture " << texs[i] << "\n";
++i;
if (i >= files) break;
} while (_findnext(handle,&filedata) != -1);
_findclose(handle);
//write out a DMF file
fstream dmf;
dmf.open(input,fstream::out|fstream::trunc);
if (!dmf.is_open())
{
cout << "Error: Could not create file.\n";
cout << "\n\nGoodbye!\nPress a key to quit\n\n"; _getch();
return false;
}
dmf << "DeleD Map File;\n";
dmf << "Version 1.1;\n";
dmf << "no-name-yet;00FFFFFF;75;\n";
dmf << files << ";\n";
for (int j = 0; j < files; ++j)
{
dmf << j << ";"; // id
dmf << "auto_mat_" << j << ";"; // name
dmf << "auto_mat" << ";"; // category
dmf << "0" << ";"; // reserved
dmf << "1" << ";"; // layers
dmf << "0" << ","; // layer type
dmf << cat << "\\" << texs[j] << ","; // layer filename
dmf << "1" << ";\n"; // layer blend op
}
dmf << "0;\n"; // <-- No Objects
dmf << "0;\n"; // <-- No Lights
dmf.close();
cout << "\n\nGoodbye!\nPress a key to quit\n\n"; _getch();
return true;
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Here you go. I read this post and coded this up. Compile it, and place it in your textures subfolder eg: Deled\textures\Yertari... it will add all the bmp, tga, and jpg files it finds into a blank DMF File. Move this file into the Deled maps folder, then you can load this new file up and have all your textures...
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:02 pm Post subject: |
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| Anonymous wrote: |
Well, i cannot make the scene materials window bigger - so i cant add say more than 20 textures to it. Surely it would be better for these windows to be allowed to resize.
In fact wouldnt it be much easier, to simply insert all the textures you want into the TEXTURES directory, and for these to show up when you load DeleD, so i do not need to make categories from within DeleD, but i can create my own categories in the TEXTURE folder, and these be auto loaded. |
We'll definately look into the resizing problem, thanks for mentioning!
Simply inserting all textures is not really an option, I think, because it would drain resources fast. Each texture has to be loaded into graphics memory for the 3D view and be used for GUI elements like the Material picker. Can you imagine the amount of memory having to be available if you want 500+ textures to load properly? That's one of the reasons we invented categories - to limit the textures needed in scenes. Another big advantage, imho, is that this makes the artist think about what exactly he would like to do. And, finally, having your textures conviniently stored in a clever categorized system, makes finding them back again much easier.
Feel free to try VD's code, should be a good stress-test. Keep in mind, 500+ textures might run well on your system, but might crash out on someone elses. |
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Daaark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:22 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeroen wrote: |
| Feel free to try VD's code, should be a good stress-test. Keep in mind, 500+ textures might run well on your system, but might crash out on someone elses. |
Depends on the size of these textures. My old VTM level editor used to load up some 300-600 (256x256 and below) textures at a time. Was never a problem on my old 32mb TNT 2.
Also, the unused textures from the working set are usually stripped when exporting .dmf to the target file.
Also, there's a "bug" in my above dmf creator in that it doesn't load the default Deled textures such as 'system' and the rest. You can easily add these back after loading your file up. The only category will be 'auto_mat' with all your textures in there.
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Vampyre_Dark wrote: |
| Jeroen wrote: |
| Feel free to try VD's code, should be a good stress-test. Keep in mind, 500+ textures might run well on your system, but might crash out on someone elses. |
Depends on the size of these textures. My old VTM level editor used to load up some 300-600 (256x256 and below) textures at a time. Was never a problem on my old 32mb TNT 2. |
Agreed. But nowadays texture-sizes are increasing. Ok, so memory-size is growing too. Nevertheless, I think it is generally not a good idea to have 500+ available, even with a category system installed. However, implementing some sort of "Add all..." method isn't hard and the user can try and see for himself how many textures load up fine in his situation. Added to our TODO list!
We really need to sit down and sort our TODO list based on priority. 248 items and counting... |
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Daaark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 6:58 pm Post subject: |
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| Jeroen wrote: |
| But nowadays texture-sizes are increasing. |
For whom? The average DeleD user? That's kind of on a user by user basis. In any given scene you can easy eat through a few hundred textures quicker than you would believe. Especially if you want professional looking results.
You need variation. If you just want to do a small medieval outdoor village, you can use up 20+ textures just for the different variations of the curves in the dirt road / grass.
Every type of brick for all the houses will have 2 or 3 small variations. Either to break up the pattern, or to have lower, middle and upper parts.
Then you have lots of small textures for the insides of window frames, and little surfaces like that.
It goes really quick.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:04 pm Post subject: |
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Guys... i will carry on singing the praises of the DeleD community, both members and staff - where else would you get someone code something like that for a fellow member
I salute you!
Thankyou kindly for all this great support - im gonna try that code now
Cheers
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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| Vampyre_Dark wrote: |
For whom? The average DeleD user? That's kind of on a user by user basis. In any given scene you can easy eat through a few hundred textures quicker than you would believe. Especially if you want professional looking results.
You need variation. If you just want to do a small medieval outdoor village, you can use up 20+ textures just for the different variations of the curves in the dirt road / grass.
Every type of brick for all the houses will have 2 or 3 small variations. Either to break up the pattern, or to have lower, middle and upper parts.
Then you have lots of small textures for the insides of window frames, and little surfaces like that.
It goes really quick. |
I understand that perfectly. But that's still no reason to just dump all the textures you have into a program. We're talking about 500+ here but one could also easily add 10.000+ textures, just because it's easy to do so. Ok, so we're going to allow that in DeleD but that doesn't mean it's a good idea, imho. You need variation. You need it in a categorized way. You need to think about what you want + need before you start modelling.
Oh well, I guess we could discuss this until we're both old and grey. It's already added to the TODO list anyway.  |
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Daaark
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:45 pm Post subject: |
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What idiot would load 10,000 textures. Add this feature: If anyone does that, send a fine for 50,00$ out to the printer.
I'm not arguing for or against any features here. Just arguing against what I perceived to be a "20 textures should be enough for a scene" argument.
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Jeroen
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 7:54 pm Post subject: |
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| Vampyre_Dark wrote: |
What idiot would load 10,000 textures. Add this feature: If anyone does that, send a fine for 50,00$ out to the printer.
I'm not arguing for or against any features here. Just arguing against what I perceived to be a "20 textures should be enough for a scene" argument. |
Haha, I can see why you would misunderstand me. But indeed, that's not what I meant. I just meant this: if we allow 10.000 textures to be added to DeleD, some idiot (and probably more than one) will stand up and try it. That same idiot will then come to our forums complaining DeleD hung up on him and demanding a new solution from us. Thrust me, it happens. 
Nevertheless, Yertari would not do that as he knows what he's doing. And it's still a handy feature to have, if you know what you're doing. So here you go.  |
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CMe
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| Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2006 8:37 pm Post subject: |
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| Regarding the material editor. Are the "thumbnail" images being loaded using the full resolution or as a reduced set ie. mipmapped. This would reduce memory usage considerably if this isn't the case. A similar solution could be made for the 3D editor window too. Use lower resolution maps if memory consumption gets too big. Just a thought. |
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Daaark
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| Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:34 am Post subject: |
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Dammit - 
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