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Don't listen to him! Why should you stop? Never stop!
Looks interesting, but architecture and textures look kinda Unrealish and cartoonish. The lighting is strange too. What is it? Show more screens. The window (if it is), at least from this angle, doesn't really feel like a window. Maybe the lighting is bad? Try putting SKY behind it instead of texture light.
Wow, Daubster, what a what the fuck!
Afunakwa - Sweet Lullaby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPPsS4-Dsxg
Afunakwa - Sweet Lullaby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPPsS4-Dsxg
Some old sketch:
Now sometimes VHLT doesn't do wonders... It tends to blend the lights in funny coloured gradients. It wasn't that noticeable in older tools I think.
You can see yellow>green>blue, it shouldn't be like that.
On your map, hlife_hotdog: not bad start! Currently it's a bit too simple I think, too repetitive, too clean. The lobby is a bit too open I think. Add few more objects or make it smaller. And again, try to make it dirtier. Don't be afraid of dirt. It's an underground facility built 50 years ago, the concrete should be runny, leaky and cracked in some places. Those lazy scientists wouldn't care about fixing it. Make some tiles cracked. Make few lamps not working or working pretty bad (glowing darker, yellowish or something). Make some wires hanging, some electric boxes and some other tiny shit.
You can see yellow>green>blue, it shouldn't be like that.
You can make animated looking water (even smoother I guess) without func_water or even without animated texture... There is a trick I invented not long ago: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyKahyg_uZI
It works great for water caustics but I'm sure it will work as great for water itself too.
It works great for water caustics but I'm sure it will work as great for water itself too.
Wow, great lighting. VHLT does wonders. The architecture is pretty good so far. Great atmosphere too. Put more blue in shadows since the sky is quite blue (play with _diffuse_light). But I think it's way too blocky and boring. I see almost no details.
Why was it cut in zigzag and not a straight line then? Well then make the cutting sequence or make it like I said because it looks terrible. You have to go around things this way...
Not bad. The lamps are a bit too blocky. The cables are too blocky too, better try using a transparent texture instead. Such bridge wouldn't brake like that. Metal bends, not brake. Here's a noobish but correct example of metal destruction in GoldSrc:
True, but this way I can put it on one brush, rather than 4.It's chopped in to at least 4 faces anyway. Default -subdivide is 240, but everyone should use 256 because it's a cleaner number thus will sync better with textures in power of two (64, 128, 256) and will decrease w_poly. 256 is the biggest you can use.
Good work! Love dedicated textures like this. However, a quarter (90 degrees rather than 360) would be enough and the texture would weight 4 times less.
MJ
Wow, this'll actually come in handy on a little side-project I had a while ago.Indeed, since you can also have 32MB of textures.
Skals: 262144 pixels is the maximum HL allows. Whether it's 512x512 or 1024x256. You probably misread the 4096x4096 one, vluzacn meant that now you can have 4096 different textures, not a 4096x4096 texture. That's engine limit.
Good luck everyone!
Sickest shotgun I have ever seen!
Yes there is a bug in HL when textures with dimensions not in power of two (48, 96...) appear blurry in game. If this fix this then it's great!
Don't see any difference between this and default OpenGL.
Russians lived through wars and other shit they're very strong, talented and determined people. While Americans and others are lazy pussies.
HLFX allowed dynamic shadows, projected textures, shaders and so on like 5 years ago. But it's cool, maybe this is more optimized because HLFX ran like 30fps as far as I remember.
Wait, wasn't your map inspired by this shot? 
Not bad, Archie, but still I think your textures are a bit too clean and repetitive.
No... Decals work differently than transparent textures. The brighter a pixel is the more transparent it will be.
I think you must put your decals in decals.wad for it to work. Decals are not bad, but Archie's solution is very good too.
I think you must put your decals in decals.wad for it to work. Decals are not bad, but Archie's solution is very good too.
Shame, Captain Terror
This is all bullshit. Only old hardcore GoldSrc mappers map seriously and they already know all they need and newbies better leave this old piece of crap and go to Source or UDK or whatever which are with tons of documentation already. Waste of time, a bit too late.
Cool, never knew that. I thought it's fan made.
Can anyone tell me how these guys managed to mimic the original voice of HL scientists so good?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pIWNW1o3w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09pIWNW1o3w
The Whole Minecraft
Very important thing is the organization of detail. GoldSrc is very limited and to create a big map with all areas equally detailed you have to apply smart tricks depending on the situation. For example objects far away or massive objects like buildings and mountains should always have bigger texture scale and less detail than objects close to player. You can always use transparent textures instead of geometry. You can use them even for very complex objects if they're very far and are unreachable.
Stojke
"you can not develop such a thing nicely with out guide."
I never read any tutorials. I learnt everything I know by myself. But if we can make it easier for people then why not.
"you can not develop such a thing nicely with out guide."
I never read any tutorials. I learnt everything I know by myself. But if we can make it easier for people then why not.
I don't think there is something to special about optimization. Just try to make yours maps as clean as possible in every aspect. I think it's is a self learning process. Any experienced user already builds his map in the most efficient way. But of course for beginners we can write something. But I think we don't need "a Big PDF book", let's try to keep it short and simple.
Wow, not bad.
Cool song, Daubster.
7PM GMT on Saturday, 17th December sounds great.
Password.
Who is me then?
He'd kick your ass.
I don't think you understood the point.He did.
I wish there was a way of gaming where you can play HL2 maps where you're set INSIDE the game.You wouldn't last a minute in it.
Maybe. Move your asses, it's not that hard.
And as I said I might create an entity which would do all the job.
And as I said I might create an entity which would do all the job.
I wish to fight Bruce Lee.
No, not at all. It's still the same single light style and same lightmap. Apart from sacrificing 20 entities solely for sun. And if spread angle is very big (if sun is under clouds) you might need like 50 entities to get the shadow smooth. My picture is only 4 degress and I used 17 entities.
Things you must remember: you have to remove ambient lighting (sky lighting) from all the entities except one by setting _diffuse_light 0 0 0 0. Also if you want sun's brightness to be 200 and you have 20 entities then you have to use only 10 brightness on each of them which combined will give you 200 (10x20=200).
As I always say it's all about efficiency. GoldSrc always had so much hidden potential which costs nothing. Like bounce depending on texture color and this method.
Things you must remember: you have to remove ambient lighting (sky lighting) from all the entities except one by setting _diffuse_light 0 0 0 0. Also if you want sun's brightness to be 200 and you have 20 entities then you have to use only 10 brightness on each of them which combined will give you 200 (10x20=200).
As I always say it's all about efficiency. GoldSrc always had so much hidden potential which costs nothing. Like bounce depending on texture color and this method.
DiscoTsu you are absolutely right!
TJB: But you're probably right!
Joebama: If you will show me at least one map I will be very surprised. What it has to do with being dynamic? Do you even understand what is is?
Joebama: If you will show me at least one map I will be very surprised. What it has to do with being dynamic? Do you even understand what is is?
Guess how it's done.
Thats why artists are useless. Art is just a word, don't concentrate over it. There is no such thing as art. Fucking philosophers..
Keep it to myself? Shut the fuck up for once you lazy ludicrous little man. I'm trying to move and achieve something rather than being lazy useless creature like you and sit at the same spot and do nothing. So please, if you don't have what to say just shut up. And my crititism, or whatever you call it, says all I want to say.
Far more interesting for those who don't use their brains. Anyway, I completely agree that there is such thing as pure art without too much purpose, I mean we're still humans. We eat thing like these everyday. That's what I consider what keeps us alive. Food just fuels our body. Emotions, thoughts and questions created by art is what fuels our minds. But in my opinion when there is thought behind art it reaches higher level. And gaming has nothing to do with it. Game design or real architecture, movies or whatever - all the same shit. And don't call me ignorant. Trying not to be one is one of the things I do all the time. I try to see everything as it is, analyze it and express it honestly.
I don't see where else you could use so useless and pointless architecture and overall design rather than in some kind of futuristic city purely for aesthetics. Ok, maybe I'm too rational... But then tell me the idea you have in your mind.
Why Bruce is doing this all the time? He loves to be proven wrong.
Why Bruce is doing this all the time? He loves to be proven wrong.
I like ninja defuse's idea of cityscape. It could be some sort of futuristic skyscraper shop or hotel or whatever. Benches and flowerpots would add a lot more life to it. Try adding some advertisement boards like ones in Hong Kong streets only more futuristic and in several languages perhaps.
This would at least give some purpose to it.
cs_siege