Re: [hlcoders] Particle colors?

[Cortex]

Hello,   To set the solor of a Triapi particle, use the Color4f function. You can set the three color ( 0.0 -> 1.0, so, to get a yellow, you can set 255/255.0, 255/255.0, 0/255.0 = 1.0, 1.0, 0.0 ). Besides, you can set the alpha value ( forth argument ).   Be careful with the color ! The TriApi color isn't active on Permedia 2 GPU ! And on my GeForce 3, the color appears sometimes, and if I walk around the particle, color disappears :( So, I made a colored sprite !     -------------------------------------------------------- Cortex HL Albator coder & mapper www.hlalbator.fr.st -------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: James Williams To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 12:57 AM Subject: RE: [hlcoders] Particle colors? > What is the trick to setting a particle's color? I've tried using > the sample > Particles() test code in the entity.cpp file (cl_dll stuff) and resetting > the the rgb values to white (255,255,255) but all I get is a dirty grey > color. I tried setting it to yellow (255,255,0) but all I get is a dirty > grey color. The red color in the sample code comes out a dirty > reddish grey. > What gives? How do you get a bright white or yellow particle? I'm also > curious what the story is with the color being packed in a short. > Last time > I looked, 24 bits of RGB won't fit into a short. IIRC, it uses an indexed pallette, like blood colors use. I'm not sure what indices correspond to which RGB values, though. Anyone else have this info? -James "Corvidae" Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Administrator, Wavelength Forums (http://www.planethalflife.com/wavelength) Co-Leader / Coder, Underhive (http://www.underhive.com)