Journal #5427

Looking forward to playing it.

Your blessed with a taste for ugly looking textures

Actually, when done properly, you can make awesome looking architecture with just the default HL texers.

The first screenshot for example, is too blocky. If you vertex manipulated those xen parts, it would look much more... alive.

ohh nifty. better than my big white rooms and confuzing doors

lol i only used the xen textures at the end to give the map some atmosphere. it has plenty of normal textures in the bsps befoer this one

Skals, thats not the point. Your Xen textures look boring, flat and blocky. If you used triangles instead (read Daubeh's Tetrahedron Terrain tutorial) and vertex manipulated it to create height and depth, it would look a whole lot better.

Also, why is there an ugly seam in your xen brushes? Forgot to turn off Texture Lock or something?

whats texture lock

Its the button labelled tl.

If texture lock is enabled (button is in its pressed state), textures on brushes will move with the brush and retain their allignment when you move those brushes around. Textures will not move with brushs if TL is off.

uh im confused.

Read this: http://twhl.co.za/wiki.php?id=946

You told me you know better mapping than me . I think you were referring to creativity instead of mappping .

Striker is on to something. Seriously, what a douche. Bragging about how much better he is at mapping than you and then asking what texture lock is.