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- *** Tempest's BUILD Tutorial ***
- Lesson 6 : Making mirrors
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- Purpose:
- A Tutorial on making mirrors in Duke Nukem 3D using Build.
-
- Step 1:
- The way a mirror is created is quite odd. You might not expect it,
- but a mirror needs a big room behind it. Try turning clipping off
- (type DNCLIP) and walk through a mirror. You'll see that the room
- where you came from has been duplicatded behind the mirror. To
- create a mirror, make a big room behind the sector where your mirror
- will be. It's best to make it at least twice as large as the room
- where you'll be viewing the mirror from. The example uses relatively
- small rooms and you'll notice weird effects when you look at the
- mirror from certain angles.
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- Step 2:
- Mask the wall (point at the floor or ceiling and press 'M'). This
- will be your mirror.
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- Step 3:
- Assign the mirror texture (sprite #560) to the masked wall.
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- Step 4:
- This is important: make the masked wall singled sided by pointing
- at the mirror and pressing '1'. All the transparent parts of the
- mirror will be replaced by an opaque magenta color.
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- Step 5:
- Point at the mirror and make it blockable (press 'B') and
- hittable (press 'H'). Your mirror is now finished. Go break it!
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- Cho Yan Wong (aka Tempest)
- pwong@pobox.leidenuniv.nl
- http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~cwong/myindex.html
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