Mirrors in Legacy?

[Melfice Darkmage]

I was wondering if you can make Mirrors in Legacy and how. I'm making a castle level and decided to put a huge hall of mirrors in it. Can someone help me please? thanks.

[iori]

well you could fake it. make a copy of your exact room that you want reflected and flip it and attach it to your hall. then make an impassable transparent texture between the two. there is a way to reflect objects but i forgot. its in another post somewhere lol

[Aliotroph?]

You might be able to fake a single mirror, but you'd never get stuff like projectiles right. You could never make a hall of mirrors though. Nevermind that it would bump the system specs required for your map by like 300%.

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[DarkWolf]

Right, if you had two mirrors facing each other you'd create an endless reflection which would probably drive the computer insane.

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[Melfice Darkmage]

Damn...guess that ZDoom still has one over Legacy eh?

Have any ideas that'd be as cool as a Hall of Mirrors for the castle (I'm gonna make 4 towers, a Dungeon, Torture Chamber, Balcony, Library, Entrance, Courtyard, Halls of the Damned, Tunnels, Bridge, Emprisonment Chambers, Sanctuary, maybe more if I think of something hehe).

[Aliotroph?]

You couldn't even fake that infinite mirror thing in Legacy if you wanted to. There's no way to do it.

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[ToXiCFLUFF]

I haven't found a 3d engine yet which can do more than one mirror reflection. Q3, quake and Serious Sam all crashed instantly when I tried to set this up. Which is kind of to be expected I guess. I don't think something so governed by finite numbers as a computer would deal with infinity very well http://forums.newdoom.com/UBB/biggrin.gifDDD

Hmm... I think you've got pretty much all the scenes for your setting Melfice. Apart from maybe a church. Or is a sanctuary like a church?

Ah, speaking of churches and castles, I'm slowly putting a webpage together for Rust and my Quake3 maps which I won't be working on until after Rust and the map for the Legacy megawad. Anyway, a rather longwinded route to the point (and a rather rambling point about the longwinded route) (and a rather..... ad infinitum):

Q3 map pic: A church inside a castle in one of my Q3 Urban Terror mod maps: nice, foggy and atmospheric dawnish lighting. Beware, pics are about 100k each:

http://www.geocities.com/toxic_fluff/Q3/Quake3.html

Hmm... what about a graveyard??? They are always fun to play in.

[Melfice Darkmage]

Yeah, a Graveyard would be good, hehehe. Also a Crypt to the side of the Dungeon would be good aswell come to think of it.

[DarkWolf]

Sewers, if it's more of a palace-type castle. Fortress-type castles just has the "stuff" drop in the moat.

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[Aliotroph?]

Having mirrors face each other actually doesn't go infinite. The light between the two will attenuate really quickly unless you have a perfect mirror. Games just forget to simulate that. You could do it realistically with only 4 or 5 layers deep but that would still crash most of the time.

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