tcMod entityTranslate

[Szico VII]

Any idea what this does?

[mrwonko]

A quick glance at the code suggests it is connected to effects in some way and never actually changes, unless I missed something.

[Szico VII]

Never actually changes what?

[Asgarath83]

models/players/water_elemental/water
{
    q3map_nolightmap
    cull    disable
    {
        map models/players/water_elemental/water
        tcMod scroll 0 -0.3
        tcMod scale 4 4
    }
}

 

Tcmod it's used on shadering for making scaling, scrolling, rotating and turbing effect of sprites. it's common in water, lava and liquid surfaces.

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[MoonDog]

Dear science... Again?

[Szico VII]

Again.

The question wasnt what is tcmod. It's what is tcmod entitytranslate

[mrwonko]

Never actually changes what?

The texture coordinates. Using it might make no difference compared to not using it.

[eezstreet]

Not quite. I've given it a look and it appears to be identical to tcMod scroll but applies the effect to the entire entity, not just the parts with the shader.

[Szico VII]

So if I made an entity with basic textures and one part had a shader with this parameter, all the other textures would get scrolled as well?

[eezstreet]

So if I made an entity with basic textures and one part had a shader with this parameter, all the other textures would get scrolled as well?

Possibly, yeah. It looks to be calling the same stuff as tcmod scroll does, but applying it to the ref entity as opposed to the surface it's on.

[MoonDog]

So would that mainly be for stages of effects and player models?

[eezstreet]

I guess.