Self made decals not working

[Hauser]

Running into some difficulties with blurry terrain texture i was trying to solve them using decals.

I painted a texture, added an alpa channel, saved it as a tga file. imported into leadwerks, created a normal map, made it a material...

same with png format...

i copied all the settings from the engine decals... besides the fact the material got all red when Z-sort was unchecked

down below is the result... i can run into the cube and see the decal on its walls but not painted onto the terrain.

my question now is what did you guys do to get working decals or the other way round what did i do wrong?

[burgelkat]

thats my settings

look for the right shader there is a special for decals

 

[Hauser]

oh my... been so focused on things not working as expected i simply didnt look left or right...

It was the wrong shader!

Thank you so much for turning me to the right direction

 

[burgelkat]

The new look (Galery picture) look good. It would be interesting to draw the hole thing (tree and decal) with the vegetation tool. Is this possible?

[Hauser]

Interesting thought. i dont know yet if it is possible to define prefabs (tree and decal) as vegetation layer. If it is possible to assign the decal shader to parts of a model this would save a lot of work. i will sure give it a try as soon as i am home. 

[Hauser]

I built a Tree with a box as a limb, named that box decal assuming it might work sort of similar to a collision mesh namewise.

Imported the model into the engine and assigned the materials.

Simply naming a box decal doesnt make it a decal. To bad...

Wouldnt it be a great feature?

[mdgunn]

Thanks for the update.  Anyone is free to add a post in the Suggestion Box.