In game sprays HL2

[GOoch]

To be honest i havent heard a lot of stuff about this, Only at the very start of the HL2 Media Circus when i (think) i remember some one stating that HL" sprays will be animated..That said.. Ive decided on a sort of spray animation thing, For the bunch of guys i hang around with on online games.

What im intending to do is what UNIVERSAL pictures have at the start of there films, You know were the world is spinning and the Universal logo sort of come round and follows the curvuture of the earth then dissapears..

This is what ive done so far. The Sphere is made the Logo is made i just want to skinn the Sphere with a world map skin and i need to animate it, The thing that i got stuck on last night was, I cant seem to get the logo to follow a certain path all i seem to be able to do is move the logo and it jumps about all over.!

Any help on this would be realy cool guys

i would post up what ive done so far but i dont have any hosteing.

 

[ray_MAN]

Cool. Sounds good. I wish I could help though. Animated sprays will be a mistake. Imagine the pr0n...

 

[GOoch]

Thats true
but were all grown up, Well most of us are hehehe..

Any whys ive found a sutable world pic and implemented it realy i just need help with rotating the logo.

 

[CrazyTalk]

Are you using keyframes to move the logo?

 

[GOoch]

Yea thats what i was trying to do CrazyTalk but because i was wanting to acctualy move the logo on a specific course, For example the logo has to stay on the exact line round the planet from start to finnish m8 and this i couldnt figer out.
Besides ive only used Key frames once and that was dooing one of the tutorials on max 5
the apple/kinfe/Bottle of wine tute and that didnd go exactley according to plan i hasen to ad

Yea this is realy a rough thing of what i want to acheive...!

 

[GOoch]

From: GOoch
Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2004 12:38 PM
To: Yahn Bernier
Subject: Animated Spray decals.?


Hey dude

Obviousley your a VERY BUISY PERSON right now

Just wondered if you could take time out and answer this qestion for me.!

In HL you had the ability to spray decals on the walls every were you went in game.
I was wondering what the situation was going to be with HL2 ?
to be honest im sure at the start of the HL2 hype last year it was mentioned they would be an Animated decal spray option.
Can you clarify this, And if it is the case can you mention sizes/ Limits/ ECT.?

Cheers for takeing time to read this and possibley answer this

GOoch..


His reply.....

Yes, the decals wiill be back. Right now they can be animated. We may make that a server tunable setting since they can be distracting.

Yahn

 

[random.hero]

ugg, i dont like the sound of animatable ones, i mean, it could be funny to have some kind of mezmerizing black and white spirals, to make your opponents have fits, but apart from that, i can see little use. also, they said before, that the sprays will be much easier to customize and to then apply ingame. hopefully, they might be a bit higher res, not these unidentifiable blobs of colour on the wall.

*edit* i just thought of another use, moving characters, which look very authentic, and so people shoot em, while you run up behind them and slit ther throats...personally, id stick with the spirals, but meh who cares.

 

[GOoch]

Good points random m8, I personaly wouldnt want to be held responsable for my fellow country men playing HL2/TF2 Multiplayer to fall about haveing fits and chokeing on there toungs after me applying one of my sprays on a wall.

Or maby that would be good fun hehehe... Anyways im looking forward to makeing them and waching what other blokes come up with

 

[random.hero]

thank you old chum. i was just giving my two pennies (cents for you americans) to the subject. i think itd be a bad idea as well, because it will detract from the realism, that is supposed to be so important and a key factor to this games success...philosophical eh . also, i hadnt heard that they were going to be animated, so that was cool...ish. besides, maybe we can show ours, and share the mezmerizing spiiiiiiiiraalllllsss :rolling: :x


...hehe :naughty: