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"Bending" decals

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4 comments, last by azjerei 19 years, 5 months ago
I am in the midst of conceptualizing a decal system for my game, and I have ran into some problems regarding how to apply decals to the environment. The problem that I am having is that I don't want decals that go over edges and sticks out, like this: 

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The lines represent a piece of geometry, a slope, and the dots represent the part of the decal that sticks out over the edge. How would I go about bending that part down onto the slope-polygons? I am using OpenGL, and have support for multitexturing, if there is a way to map the decal onto the textures, thus creating some form of effect. I dunno... Any ides and suggestions?
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why not just clip the polygons that make up the decal, somehow.
A detailed description of a working algorithm, with code, can be found in one of the first two GPG books in the article 'Applying Decals to Arbitrary Surfaces'. I based my decal system on this article and it works great. It involves some work (clipping triangles, creating the decal volume, etc.) but it's very effective.
And GPG stands for?
Game Programming Gems. Or possibly Graphics Programming Gems, which I'll leave you to google for yourself, but that was more oldskool and more along the lines of rasterizer implementation hacks (at least the bits of it I read were).
Ok thanks, will borrow them from someone and check it out.

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