make decals stay for a long time? (Quake 4)

[Tehstrelok]

Hi, there is a particular thing I´ve been trying to change in quake for, and is the duration of decals such as blood and bullet holes, however, it seems to work very differently from doom 3 where you just change some values and that is it, any ideas here?

[VGames]

Look in the material files. Find the decal u want to alter and then increase one of the numbers in the code. Can't remember which one. Not at my PC right now. It's very easy.

[Tehstrelok]

Look in the material files. Find the decal u want to alter and then increase one of the numbers in the code. Can't remember which one. Not at my PC right now. It's very easy.

ok, I found it, was simple enough,however, I am not sure which line I´d have to edit here, for example:

textures/decals/bullethole
{
   DECAL_MACRO
   noSelfShadow
   noShadows
   noImpact
   nonSolid
   qer_EditorImage   gfx/effects/decals/bullethole.tga
   {
      if ( glslPrograms == 1 )
      blend          GL_DST_COLOR, GL_SRC_COLOR
      rgba         decalFade[ DecalLife ]
      vertexColor
      glslProgram       glsl/MultiplyBlend.glsl
      shaderTexture      Image         gfx/effects/decals/bullethole.tga
   }   
   
   {       
      if ( glslPrograms == 0 )
            blend         gl_zero, gl_one_minus_src_color
      map         gfx/effects/decals/bullethole_multiply.tga
      clamp         // we don't want it to tile if the projection extends past the bounds
      rgba         decalFade[ DecalLife ]
      vertexColor      // oblique projections will be slightly faded down
   }
}

What line should be edited or added?

[VGames]

Add this line and adjust the 300 to your liking. Its in seconds so 300 would be 5 minutes.

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textures/decals/bullethole
{
   DECAL_MACRO
   noSelfShadow
   noShadows
   noImpact
   nonSolid
   qer_EditorImage   gfx/effects/decals/bullethole.tga

decalInfo 300 5 ( 1 1 1 1 ) ( 0 0 0 0 )

   {
      if ( glslPrograms == 1 )
      blend          GL_DST_COLOR, GL_SRC_COLOR
      rgba         decalFade[ DecalLife ]
      vertexColor
      glslProgram       glsl/MultiplyBlend.glsl
      shaderTexture      Image         gfx/effects/decals/bullethole.tga
   }   
   
   {       
      if ( glslPrograms == 0 )
            blend         gl_zero, gl_one_minus_src_color
      map         gfx/effects/decals/bullethole_multiply.tga
      clamp         // we don't want it to tile if the projection extends past the bounds
      rgba         decalFade[ DecalLife ]
      vertexColor      // oblique projections will be slightly faded down
   }
}


[Tehstrelok]

Add this line and adjust the 300 to your liking. Its in seconds so 300 would be 5 minutes.

In doom 3 that works perfectly, yet here it just causes the decal to become a square and still dissapears in 10 seconds, very odd, I do not understand why it works in the other game but not here.

[VGames]

Oh man I completely missed the fact that this a question regarding quake 4. Sorry about that.

[bkt]

Raven changed a lot of small parts of the engine and gamecode in Q4.  You'll need the SDK to fix it probably. 

[Tehstrelok]

Raven changed a lot of small parts of the engine and gamecode in Q4.  You'll need the SDK to fix it probably.

I see, thanks