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This does indeed look odd. I have no good ideas about how to fix it though. |
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Just a note that this seems to apply with all ambient_world lights. |
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Sotha has found that some fonts do not exhibit this problem with the new "Enhanced" Ambient: http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/12367-v104-bug-thread/#entry249341 |
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It may be possible to correct this behavior by adding the additive Ambient stage to the Material Definition of the "GuiSurf" Decal rather than trying to find the Font material definition itself (which does not appear to exist... fonts appear to be a blend operation in the renderDef or windowDef ). Forecolor: https://modwiki.xnet.fi/Forecolor_(GUI_item_property) |
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I can't find any material definition called GuiSurf. There is a line in some decal shaders that says: guiSurf entity No idea what that means though. |
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Sorry, that's what I meant. Any material with "GuiSurf entity" in the definition will act as a "GUI Surface". I believe that these decal materials will need the additive ambient stage. Though, adding this may lighten the characters so the "Forecolor" opacity in the GUI declaration may need to be tweaked. |
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The decals I found with that spawnarg were related to D3 weapons. What ones would be relevant to readables? |
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This article has an example decal texture material with guisurf entity as a property... The example material does NOT have the ambient method stage. http://modetwo.net/darkmod/wiki/index.php?title=Text_Decals_for_Signs_etc. I will look at the prefab listed in the article: prefabs/readables/sign_text_decals/sign_text_carleton.pfb unless someone else can review it before I get a chance. Also... check "textures/common/entitygui" for the enhanced ambient stage as that appears to be the advised readable "GUI" texture: http://modetwo.net/darkmod/wiki/index.php?title=Readables |
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Inside tdm_textures_base01.pk4: Line 303 from tdm_decals_signs.mtr // Fidcal - a non-solid entity gui for use with text signs etc. textures/darkmod/decals/signs/decal_gui { qer_editorimage textures/editor/entityGui.tga DECAL_MACRO noShadows nonsolid noimpact discrete guiSurf entity } As you can see, the new Ambient Method is not present... I haven't seen an override for Doom 3's "textures/common/entitygui" yet in the materials but I will keep digging... Inside pak000.pk4 invisible.mtr // when gui surfaces are placed on an entity to allow them to be // interactive, use this surface for the view screen and place // a "gui" key containing the gui file, like "guis/mainmenu.gui" // on the entity textures/common/entityGui { qer_editorimage textures/editor/entityGui.tga discrete playerclip guiSurf entity } |
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Hmm, returning to this bug with new thoughts. This section in ui/SimpleWindow.cpp void idSimpleWindow::Redraw(float x, float y) { if (!visible) { return; } does a boolean check for visibility and completely stops rendering if it fails. If the "visible" parameter is affected by light interactions then this would explain the behavior. |
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Another possibility. ui/DeviceContext.cpp void idDeviceContext::DrawMaterialRect( float x, float y, float w, float h, float size, const idMaterial *mat, const idVec4 &color) { if ( color.w == 0.0f ) { return; } Edit: Removing all the black check conditionals does not cure this. |
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I disabled a few more "is this black" conditionals in the ui code but the behavior persists. Edit: Hmm. I think I missed this one: int idDeviceContext::DrawText(float x, float y, float scale, idVec4 color, const char *text, float adjust, int limit, int style, int cursor) { int len, count; idVec4 newColor; const glyphInfo_t *glyph; float useScale; SetFontByScale(scale); useScale = scale * useFont->glyphScale; count = 0; if ( text && color.w != 0.0f ) { Edit 2: I did miss it but removing it did not fix the issue... |
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New proposed design. A dedicated light interaction shader for the simple ambient instead of using texture brightening http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18982-tdm-206/page-3#entry412812 |
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Src Rev 7206 (Needs 7207 to build the tools binary). |
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Nine years, huh? |
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LOL. The simple ambient system predates the GPL Doom 3 release. Who knew it would take changing the entire render order of GUI's to fix this one. |
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