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Title: Organized texture motifs Post by: fromhell on December 20, 2009, 08:19:22 AM One of the main problems of OA is that the maps themes are often inconsistent especially for singleplayer, so if there were 'all new textures' i'd like it in a better name than evil_x or so.
File name ideas: floor1, floor2, trim1, trim2, etc. would make more sense than 'superduperfloorgratewithbloodonitit'ssupposedtobeafloor05bi.jpg" floor5_a, the _a would indicate it has an alpha channel (good for making the job of reducing textures easier) Folder ideas: oa_atlantic - greekish sea temples similar to those in Elite Force (yes that one) oa_gothic - oasago2, nuff said! oa_base - oa_dm3, nuff said! oa_asia - uhh, oa in asia oa_urban - even cities can be fun especially for buildings with heights, defrags and batmans oa_station - like oa_base but more gray, more lights, and more future and less abandoned and all for void levels Title: Re: Organized texture motifs Post by: Udi on December 20, 2009, 08:39:50 AM The SVN currently holds 2085 textures, I think a translation list could be written with the current names and with the desired names, then these changes could be written all over the files. I guess it's just a matter of scripting. Files can be renamed, shaders can be edited. Don't know if the maps should be recompiled, or the texturelump names can be edited to the rearranged version. Definitely a task after 0.8.5.
Title: Re: Organized texture motifs Post by: fromhell on December 20, 2009, 08:42:36 AM Agreed, I forgot about using .shaders to just subsitute these. I also forgot to mention how detail textures would be mandatory for all of them (except for the alpha ones)
Title: Re: Organized texture motifs Post by: hkn on December 21, 2009, 04:22:46 PM It a good idea to keep the folders with simplified names, im already using short names (concrete01,concrete02, metal_floor01,metal_floor_env0...) for the textures of the map that i'm modeling (coming soon in "maps" forum :D).
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