[NEW] EGP Thread

[Rybec]

I found quite a few tilesets for the newer games, but I'm not spending a year separating every 32x32 piece out of a 256x11872 file.

http://tilemage.50webs.com/
"a year" just became "seconds".

[N00bDud3]

It still isn't the original sprites. Anyway, it'll still take a while to convert every single one to .vtf, unless you have another program or script to create a .vtf for a bunch of files at once.

[Rybec]

VTFEdit supports batch processing.

[N00bDud3]

Didn't know that. What's a good .vmt to use with textures for EGP?

[Rybec]

Just make sure the shader is Unlitgeneric

[N00bDud3]

Ok sweet. Now time to grab the pieces that I want from the tileset I found, and convert them to .vtf!!

[BenBob]

Guys, guys, hold on y'all. Instead of creating 64 seperate files, learn how to draw square polygons with custom UV coordinates, that way you can display any 1 of 64 tiles from a tilesheet of 8x8 tiles.

I've tried and proved this method (draw the polygons with egpPoly(), it just takes an array of 4 vec4s each representing a corner of the square). It's a little bit harder to code and maintain but it requires:
1) Less effort in terms of creating textures (which is already more complex than it needs to be.)
2) Less overhead (1 texture instead of 64 or even more, a 16x16 tilesheet would have 256 tiles on it)
3) People won't complain about having to download 1 texture file just to see what you've made. They will complain about having to download 64, 128, 256, etc.

[Rybec]

Good point. Then, you just need a way of keeping track of where your desired sprite is in the sprite-grid, and multiply that grid coord by 16 or 32, depending on the size of the tiles, to get your UV coords.

Totally forgot about custom UV-coords on polys, I haven't used them yet.

[N00bDud3]

I didn't even know about that... Now I just need to organize my pieces into 1 easily usable sheet.

[goluch]

See first post ppl!