Miscellaneous: Velious Helmets Mega-thread

[Sage Truthbearer]

Bugs:

• Remove tinting on all SS/Kael custom helmets.
• Fix the clipping issues especially Erudite hoods and Human female hair sticking out of helmets.
• Fix the transparency on visor for Erudite female custom helmet
• Custom helmets are not displaying in character selection panel

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by Sage Truthbearer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bugs:

• Remove tinting on all SS/Kael custom helmets.

This is fixed, pending update.

Originally Posted by Sage Truthbearer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Bugs:

• Fix the transparency on visor for Erudite female custom helmet

This might be complicated. I have made threads in the past discussing partially transparent objects being rendered incorrectly. If someone can find the relevant .bmp, (erfhe maybe?), I will do some tests on it.

[Sage Truthbearer]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

This is fixed, pending update.



This might be complicated. I have made threads in the past discussing partially transparent objects being rendered incorrectly. If someone can find the relevant .bmp, (erfhe maybe?), I will do some tests on it.

Awesome, thanks nilbog! Will look for the relevant .bmp.

[kecki01]

So is the fact that the hood graphic displays along with the custom helm graphic?

Image attached.

[Sallan]

[QUOTE=nilbog;2237209]This is fixed, pending update.



Thanks nilbog. Does this include the custom cowl of mortality too? There's also a slight tint on it atm

[nilbog]

Originally Posted by Sallan [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Thanks nilbog. Does this include the custom cowl of mortality too? There's also a slight tint on it atm

Yep.

[Sallan]

Originally Posted by nilbog [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Yep.

Splendid!

[Zaela]

Originally Posted by Sage Truthbearer [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

• Fix the transparency on visor for Erudite female custom helmet

The texture is it570erf03.bmp in gequip2.s3d.

But the texture itself is fine. The problem is in the gequip2.wld data -- the visibility/blending flag is wrong for the material that is applied to that texture.

Oldschool EQ models used two kinds of (cheap) partial transparency/blending algorithms. One is mainly used for particles and such (skulls with green beams of light coming out of their eyes in various old zones are an example): the texture is transparent as its color approaches black, opaque as it approaches white. The other, main one is more basic, essentially just multiplying the color of the texture with the colors of the world behind it, which makes for a somewhat more even effect as far as the transparency goes.

The erudite veil is using the first one instead of the second.

This is what it looks like with the particle-style blending (visibility flag: 0x80000017):
(I couldn't remember what packet or command is needed to make the model show up on the head, which is why it's in a dark elf's hand instead)
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And with the main transparency style (visibility flag: 0x80000005):
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I don't know if your texture fixer application can edit the .wld files; that's what would be needed here.