04-12-2012, 09:53 PM
slightly on/off topic ish here
it seems that many mappers are not following the texture naming rules...
map specific textures need to go in the maps sub texture group thing
I ... being a person who actually enjoys grabbing maps off the froum ... tossing them into the data dir ... and then evaluating them extensively often find my radiant textures list crammed overfull with those maps textures ... making it quite difficult to remember which textures were safe to use...
(note ... my digsyite map does this too ... but that is because I intend for the textures to be a texture set used in multiple maps when finished so thats a special case)
So it seems that the communication between the stickied forum thread on naming standards is not reach the mappers somehow ...
I also found it very difficult to figure out how to add custom textures at all ... cause there is nex to no documentation (and any existing documentation either skips a important step ... or is only a tiny blurb) I had to find most of my info from the irc ... which ... to be honest ... is not a guaranteed source of info
I suggest we make the wiki the center for all infos ...
Then we just point the players to the wiki and they can get all the infos that they need
the bzflag porject has a very very nice and informative wiki bzflag's wiki
we already have a wiki ... time to start using it
it seems that many mappers are not following the texture naming rules...
map specific textures need to go in the maps sub texture group thing
I ... being a person who actually enjoys grabbing maps off the froum ... tossing them into the data dir ... and then evaluating them extensively often find my radiant textures list crammed overfull with those maps textures ... making it quite difficult to remember which textures were safe to use...
(note ... my digsyite map does this too ... but that is because I intend for the textures to be a texture set used in multiple maps when finished so thats a special case)
So it seems that the communication between the stickied forum thread on naming standards is not reach the mappers somehow ...
I also found it very difficult to figure out how to add custom textures at all ... cause there is nex to no documentation (and any existing documentation either skips a important step ... or is only a tiny blurb) I had to find most of my info from the irc ... which ... to be honest ... is not a guaranteed source of info
I suggest we make the wiki the center for all infos ...
Then we just point the players to the wiki and they can get all the infos that they need
the bzflag porject has a very very nice and informative wiki bzflag's wiki
we already have a wiki ... time to start using it
