Change decal color? Created 18 years ago2005-10-05 21:49:13 UTC by TheDigitalNomad

Hey, guys. Obviously, I'm new here, but I'm not terribly new to mapping. I'm just wondering if you guys have an answer for a question I have.

Is it possible to change what color a decal comes up as, in game? I'm just using plain ol' "{TARGET" decal, which I believe is sort of reddish, or orange (I don't remember which), but I would like to make it dark red either way. Hammer has no obvious means to do that, so I'm wondering if it's possible at all.

Any help or information is appreciated.

I'm guessing you'd have to edit the decal in a Image program.

I'd like to not be using any custom textures for this project... So there's no way to change the color that plain black and white decals appear as? I guess that's all dictated in the coding... Oh well.

I'm guessing that it is the last color in the palette of the decal that determines it's actual color, much like the transparent color of other images. But maybe i'm wrong. I never checked.

Aye, last color in the palette determines the decal's color. You'll have to open it in Wally or something and change the color. Then, save it as a new wad and just -wadinclude that one. Shouldn't be tooooo difficult if you really want the color changed.

Ah ha. Ok, I guess that works. Thanks a lot, guys.

way without custom textures.
make a brush with texture "red" cover the target.
then make the brush into a func_wall
set render mode to texture
set render amount to something like 175

To include a wad just add a -wadinclude "wadname.wad" parameter to the bsp program. (or was is the csg : not sure but probebly the bsp)

P.s- You don't have to add the .wad extention but they did it with the zhlt.wad so I do it too!

he said he didn`t won`t custom texture

He has to have it if he wants a diffrent color! :

could do it my way. so it has a red tint(so the bits already red will be darker red)

Better to use costum textures! What if you want the decal to be on a solid brush?

people whon`t notice a 1 unit clear red brush from the standerd shooting range distance

Nice but will shoot the r_speeds sky high. Use a costom texture it's better and it will only take 1kb if you use only that one!

how does one "window" type thing do that? mayby a little but not that bad

i think he didnt want any custom wads. with wadinclude they are included in the .bsp. end of story

The only problem with this that I can see is that all of the decals are in decals.wad, and the only thing that differentiates the decals from the transparent textures is the wad file that they're in! So, I'm not sure if you can do custom decals. Maybe try it with a custom wad, see what happens.

that might just be for the same reason all the xen texturesare in xeno.wad.

To killer1102: Who says this is going to be at shooting range distance? It's actually going to be on the floor.

I'm going to try the wadinclude method, and see if I can add custom decals that way. I'll post my results, if anyone's interested.

The only problem with this that I can see is that all of the decals are in decals.wad, and the only thing that differentiates the decals from the transparent textures is the wad file that they're in! So, I'm not sure if you can do custom decals. Maybe try it with a custom wad, see what happens.

Nope. Tried it. No matter what I did my custom decal didn't show, even when I put it in decals.wad.

there might be some sort of text file that lists them all

It's on the CSG commandline to clarify

Text file listing what? Decals should show in different wads - look at They Hunger's files.