Custom Materials for tagging

[dedmen]

Allows to use custom materials (rvmat) for tag's.
Adds additional "materials" array to the config.
When there are the same number of materials as textures, it will select a random texture and the corresponding material. If the numbers are different it will select random texture and random material.

Allows for things like this:

Glow-in-the-dark tags.

Next question would be if we also want to directly implement a glow-in-the-dark spraycan directly in ACE.

[dedmen]

ah crap. the model cfg's belong into armake pr.

[dedmen]

For some reason the ace action doesn't do anything when I pack unbinarized.
Not even diag logs are printed. No idea wtf is going on there :D

Ohh... I probably just don't have uniqueUnitItems yet, If that's not released yet.

[PabstMirror]

need to handle materials in fnc_quickTag.sqf

if !(_possibleTags isEqualTo []) then {
    private _availableTags = _possibleTags select {(_x select 2) in (_unit call EFUNC(common,uniqueItems))};
    (selectRandom _availableTags) params ["", "", "_textures", "", "_materials"];
    private _styleIndex = floor random count _textures;
    [_unit, (_textures param [_styleIndex, ""]), (_materials param [_styleIndex, ""])] call FUNC(tag);
};

Linking textures and materials like this makes more sense to me than picking 2 at random,
but either way should be ok

[dedmen]

Didn't want to use floor random count because.. YUCK.
And perf doesn't matter here..

Might be a problem? QuickTag line 39 has the X tags hardcoded. What if people add new X's? Should replace that by config entry someday.

Linking textures and materials like this makes more sense to me than picking 2 at random

It might be plain required for some tags to have matching materials. For example if you wanna use normalMaps too. It's look weird when they don't match.

[PabstMirror]

problem with find is if there are multiple similar textures
example
textures = ["A", "A", "B"]
mats = ["X", "Y", "Z"]
will never pick combo A/Y

[dedmen]

okey yeah didn't think of that. But we still only want to select matching ones if they have the same size.
As you can't select material 5 when there are only 2. And a additional selectRandom as default value might be more overhead.

With your above solution it would be possible to associate a texture with no material. But it wouldn't be possible to just have one texture with many random materials.
My way allows for both, you can just add "" into the materials array if you want none.