Tutorial bucket list by kimilil

kimilil

Posted 3 months ago2024-09-10 16:29:58 UTC

kimilil

List of tutorials that I want to write/have written, and the key points.

Describe power of 2, usage of resizer blocks, methods:
1. do work at power-of-2 scale of the final object
2. move/scale at po2 fractions

Describe how bodygroups are packed and how to calculate them for use as body kv
Describe how skins are NOT packed (only uses first one) and how to manually pack skin groups into the first texture group
Example model: scientist?

A way to have dead props of monsters without _dead variant (their models don't have death poses), and without messing with QC/SMD/CPP
env_sprite
- pros: can freeze animation at end of dying sequence
- cons: cannot set body/skin
monster_furniture
- pros: can set body/skin
- cons: sequences reset and needs scripted_sequence, needs to play death seq. in full plain just doesn't work without seq. events in the dying act-sequence
explore other options
explore a way to have gibbable corpses (func_breakable is too goofy tho)

Finding the best entities to have models. criteria and use cases:-
- props: can set body and skin
- corpses: can set body, skin, sequence, frame

Entities that exist and spawnable (particularly with monstermaker) but not listed in FGDs
test_effect, grenade, hornet, hvr_rocket, rpg_rocket, crossbow_bolt? (maybe there's a few more, needs testing)
→ Probably going to be a Vault entry only

Basic geometrical construction method to find center of rotation for any object-image (or initial/final) pair

Tutorial bucket list