What I thought would have rocked for a level in the old mainframe was the Light-Cyce chase by Recognizers and Tanks like in the movie.

I really like the PDA level... That was really cool.

I wished the Light-Cycle races in first person view showed inside the cockpit and you could span left and right using the mouse. Playing it in FP mode is hard... but really cool... I love the feeling of really being there.

As far as the appearance of the servers is concerned...it's been 20 years! That's like decades, even centuries, for the programs. Does our world look the same as it did last century? No! Should theirs? No!


Just my two cents.

I guess it was powered down if anything else. Meaning it would had tohave been turned off via power switch. The only thing that had me concerned was when you went into it. If the machine has been powered down without any power running in the IC it would be hard moving around. Granted its a game and some how the IC came back to life here. We're not going to statranting and raving abot the quantum physics about this. When we played the game and overclocked the CPU in there. Besides its jut a good game to play.

Tabulator Wrote:But it's been in sleep mode, hasn't it? Anyway, what we saw was all in the main MCP server, in the game, isn't it just Flynn and Alan's project server? The emails all talked about storing their programs in there.

Euphemizm Wrote:ANy tutorials on Tron map making or modding out there?

Yup.
http://www.tron-sector.com/forums/default.aspx?do=top&id=306342

harpo989 Wrote:Hey Redrain... I had a question or two about the textures- Namely how I could texture something to glow (or make certain parts of a texture glow). Just wondering how the game handles that feature...

Hmm, how can I explain the "short" version?

There are two aspects to making a texture glow. First, each brush's lighting properties can be individually adjusted. That way, you can make one brush "reflect" the light differently than the rest, and make it stand out. (i.e. Make it brighter.) You click on the LightControl button in a brush's properties, and mess around with those settings.

But the other part of it, is the properties of the texture itself. If you right click on any texture in DEdit and choose Texture Properties, you'll see a box called Full Brights that you can check on. If you check that box, the texture will look really bright in the game.

So a combination of those two, is what makes a texture look like it's glowing.

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Hmm, talk about totally changing the direction of a dredged up old thread . . . one that brings back some bad memories. Heh. Anyway.

harpo989 Wrote:Okay, cool, thanks. the other thing I wondered was about making/importing my own user-created textures. Is this really complicated or no?

Importing a texture is easy, but using it in your finished map is a bit more tricky.

Just convert the texture you want to use, to an Uncompressed Targa file (.TGA), then right click any texture in the left pane in DEdit and choose Import TGA Files. DEdit will convert the .TGA to the .DTX format that the game uses. Now you can apply that texture to brushes. I won't get into Alpha Masks and stuff like that, though.

The tricky part is later, when you want to distribute your map. You have to include your custom texture(s), and you have to recreate the proper folder structure inside the .REZ file. I'd suggest getting WinRez LT and opening the custom maps that people have made. Especially the DSO maps from Xistence. He used a very organized, smart folder structure for his maps' textures and such. I've done the same with my maps. That way when maps get merged into "map packs", you don't end up getting confused about what textures belong to which maps. That's the headache I ran into when I made map packs for Boxhat and PGB. Once they got mashed together, trying to separate them again is almost impossible.