ladder help

kwazy · Post by **kwazy** » Wed Feb 21, 2007 7:53 pm

hey hows it goin.

I made a ladder for a simple box map to see if it would work. and it apparently did so yeah...but i can see right through it. is there a code that stops that from happening?

kwazy · Post by **kwazy** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:06 pm

im always ignored omg...

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:23 pm

What you did wrong was make the ladder part of you wall, thats bad. The bitmap for the ladder is made where it's see through between the bars. You must create a separate plane a few units away from the wall to put the bitmap on, like it's leaning aginist the wall. Oh, and it must be two sided so it doesn't get a open edge error. If you don't know what i'm talking about look in the HEK tutorial.

kwazy · Post by **kwazy** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 6:43 am

if its a 2 sided plane then im just gonna make a box

llamaboy772 · Post by **llamaboy772** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 4:53 pm

kwazy wrote:if its a 2 sided plane then im just gonna make a box

What? If you meen a box for the ladder thats wrong, you must either make it so it isn't see though or a two sided plane.

kwazy · Post by **kwazy** » Sun Feb 25, 2007 9:08 pm

ok, thx for the help

martynball · Post by **martynball** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:29 am

if u dont want to go through that stuff then open up the ladder bitmap in Photoshop and go into the alpha channels and click on Alpha 1 then color the black part in white (i think its in the Alpha 1, i dont know if there is a alpha channel in there.) if there is no alpha channel then just click on RGB in the chanels and then change the blakc color to something else.

TomClancey · Post by **TomClancey** » Mon Feb 26, 2007 1:11 pm

If he did that, then everytime he used the texture, the ladder wouldn't be clear where the rungs aren't which isn't a good idea. So just do what llamaboy said, which is a much easier and efficent method. And much more reliasitic because the ladder is attached to the wall.

martynball · Post by **martynball** » Wed Feb 28, 2007 11:25 am

yeah lol. that was a bad idea. i was rushin that post though cuz i was at school and the bell was about 2 go.