So, i thought about how to make simple things that are not possible in EFPSE and how to make them work anyways.

Back in the DOOM and/or Wolfenstein 3D Days they had to use some tricks to get the visuals they wanted. They had to use old tech to get stuff to the screen that looked much more advanced as it was.

But the great thing today with THIS engine is, we can work "backwards".

As example:

I needed a none rotating sprite of razorwire. Sprites allways rotate at the moment and transparency gives more than just a bunch of problems. But we can import 3D models....why not make full 3D razorwires as a mesh, import it as a 3d model and use it like the Sprite in need?

Any Tips from you Guys/Gals?

I ended up with somethin, most People (i shoed it) thought its a sprite, but is really completly 3d:

So, any tips like this from you guys/Gals?

(BtW if there any typos, i´m drunk as hell right now and not a native english speaker. So yeah.... ^^)

So, to add everything together:

• Model has to be Triangles
• Only one Texture per Model
• Model has to be MD3 and Texture has to be PNG
• Model and Texture must have the same name
• There has to be a Decoration with the same Name
• In the Free Version you have to modify the Models.dat
• for example: Name Name 0 0 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 500 1 1

Hello!

How feasible is it to create an elevator in the form I am about to describe? I was imagining this as an alternative option: So, if you could make a solid body 3d sprite that just moves up and down continuously, you could use that instead of stairs to get to certain floors... How would you implement this? 

I had a similar problem, I wanted to make curtains in a doorway. A sprite decoration was out of the question, as it rotated towards the player. I tried to make a single plane with texture and import it as a model, but for some reason it made decoration entities (like the barrels on my screenshot) on the other side invisible, whether the transparency option in model configurator was used or not. After a LOT of trial and error, I came up with a way that seems to work. Can be used for things like fences, perhaps even wall decals.

So, here's the weird procedure, maybe someone will find it useful for their projects:

1) I made an image of the curtains, 64x64pix png with transparency.

2) Used a voxelizer tool on this site https://drububu.com to convert it to 64x64x1 voxel image, then save it as .vox file (MagicaVoxel format)

3) Open it in MagicaVoxel (it's a free software), export it as .obj file.

4) Open the .obj file in Maverick Model 3D (another free software), export it to .md3 - it's important to DO NOT touch anything, don't move, don't scale, nothing - otherwise texture will be corrupt.

5) Import the .md3 file to EasyFPS, set Y offset to 3, scale to 4. Do not merge with level geometry, because it will be halfway in the ground and the offset won't work for some reason.

And yeah, there's an ingame model with pixel-perfect texture to the original png and working transparency. Offset is tiny bit off, but the engine does not take inputs with decimals like 3.1 in offset field for some reason.