Texture colours dont appear as they should

[FCP]

The problem is exaclty what is says on the tin - texture colours seem to be broken and very dark - i.e it displays light blue for white and dark (blood) red for orange and red. I am guessing its a pallette issue - but how to fix it? Btw textures were created in MSPAINT if thats an issue....

[jorrit]

The problem is exaclty what is says on the tin - texture colours seem to be broken and very dark - i.e it displays light blue for white and dark (blood) red for orange and red. I am guessing its a pallette issue - but how to fix it? Btw textures were created in MSPAINT if thats an issue....

How are you using the texture? Note that lighting also affects how a texture looks. Did you add lights to your scene? Otherwise you get just ambient which is very dark.

Greetings,

[FCP]

This is the ligth I am using:

<light name="sun">
<center x="500000" y="866030" z="0" />
<radius>0</radius>
<color red="0.85903" green="0.80995" blue="0.70420" />
<influenceradius>10000000</influenceradius>
<attenuation>realistic</attenuation>
</light>

It should be powerfull enough to light up the whole level, no?

The texture itself:
<texture name="arrow">
<file>arrow.png</file>
</texture>

The material:
<material name="sqr">
<texture>arrow</texture>
</material>

And then its later called during mesh creation.
Is anything wrong with that?

[jorrit]

This is the ligth I am using:

<light name="sun">
<center x="500000" y="866030" z="0" />
<radius>0</radius>
<color red="0.85903" green="0.80995" blue="0.70420" />
<influenceradius>10000000</influenceradius>
<attenuation>realistic</attenuation>
</light>

It should be powerfull enough to light up the whole level, no?

The texture itself:
<texture name="arrow">
<file>arrow.png</file>
</texture>

The material:
<material name="sqr">
<texture>arrow</texture>
</material>

And then its later called during mesh creation.
Is anything wrong with that?

Ok, now I need to see how you create the object.

Greetings,

[FCP]

Mesh is created as following:
<meshobj name="Square">
  <plugin>crystalspace.mesh.loader.thing</plugin>
 
 
  <params>
      <v x="0" y="-4.5" z="0" />
    <v x="0" y="-4.5" z="10" />   
   
    <v x="0" y="-4.5" z="0" />
    <v x="-10" y="-4.5" z="10" />
   
    <v x="-10" y="-4.5" z="0" />
    <v x="-10" y="-4.5" z="10" />
   
    <v x="-10" y="-4.5" z="0" />
    <v x="-10" y="-4.5" z="10" />

    <material>sqr</material>
   
    <p name="up">
      <v>3</v> <v>7</v> <v>6</v> <v>2</v>
   
    </p>
     <p name="north">
      <v>1</v> <v>5</v> <v>7</v> <v>3</v>
     </p>
        <p name="east">
            <v>5</v> <v>4</v> <v>6</v> <v>7</v>
        </p>
        <p name="south">
            <v>4</v> <v>0</v> <v>2</v> <v>6</v>
        </p>
        <p name="west">
            <v>0</v> <v>1</v> <v>3</v> <v>2</v>
        </p>
    <p name="down">
      <v>0</v> <v>4</v> <v>5</v> <v>1</v>
    </p>
   
  </params>
 </meshobj>

[jorrit]

So all this is in one world file? Did you relight the level to calculate the lightmaps?

Greetings,

[FCP]

Yep all that in one worldfile and the -relight command doesnt produce any obvious changes.

Could it have something to do with shader definition?

[jorrit]

Yep all that in one worldfile and the -relight command doesnt produce any obvious changes.

Could it have something to do with shader definition?

Are you using shaders?

Anyway, can you show me a screenshot of what you're seeing? That will help find out what is actually wrong.

Greetings,

[FCP]

http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie/~fanboy/

arrow is the texture and the screenshot is what I am seeing.

The mesh is just a flat square.

[jorrit]

Can you try by using 'radius' instead of influenceradius for the light?
Also try other attenuations.

Greetings,

[FCP]

The change of influenceradius to radius failled to do anything, what other attenuation settings are there?

[jorrit]

The change of influenceradius to radius failled to do anything, what other attenuation settings are there?

inverse, none, and just removing the line as such. Anyway if you fail to fix this then please give me the entire world file so I can try it out myself.

Greetings,

[FCP]

Ok the file (exp2) is on my webspace.

Thanks for helping out btw, I have a demo to show tomorrow.... (lukily all apart this minor bug is working properly though).

[FCP]

All the texture files are there btw, let me know if I forgot something.

[jorrit]

Ah you should have told me you are using std_rloop_shadowed! That changes a great deal. Anyway I can't really test this here as that isn't working on my computer here so I have to wait until tomorrow.

Greetings,