I have a nice idea for this :), 10 more days and I'll be back home ready to begin mapping!
Y'all better watch out.
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Yeah, you won't need more than 15mb of textures every day, that'll get you 10-20 1024x1024+ textures.
Suture is kind of like the Grumpy cat, he just wants to see the world burn, that's all 
His ideal country is one where everyone gets to walk around with guns strapped to their belts, ready to pull on anyone who may pull on them first, kinda like the wild west I guess.
Here's a thought! Maybe you should go live in Zimbabwe or one of those countries.
I mean loads of people may try to kill you, but at least you'll have an AK47 to defend yourself, right? What more could you ask for? xD
His ideal country is one where everyone gets to walk around with guns strapped to their belts, ready to pull on anyone who may pull on them first, kinda like the wild west I guess.
Here's a thought! Maybe you should go live in Zimbabwe or one of those countries.
I mean loads of people may try to kill you, but at least you'll have an AK47 to defend yourself, right? What more could you ask for? xD
The only site I know CGTextures is very disappointing.The hell are you talking about? CGTextures is amazing, the most useful place for making textures. It's got thousands of different materials, and everything is well organised. What more could you ask for?
I also would argue that we should arm teachers (if they go through training.) More lives are saved if these people can get the shooter first rather than waiting for the police to show up. Besides, taking away guns from normal people is entirely stupid because what people do not get is that criminals are criminals and they will get their hands on weapons illegal or not. All this does is take away weapons normal people could use to defend themselves.Yes, because giving everyone more guns will stop shootings!
Dimbark sounds like one of those crazy old "I told you all and you didn't listen!" doomsday preachers.
Seems bullshit to me, how a country that exalts it's freedom is stripping rights away from it's citizens.
I want to visit or live in the US, namely Washington or California. But I'm afraid of going there due to laws such as this, and many other things like the allowance of guns and so on.
I want to visit or live in the US, namely Washington or California. But I'm afraid of going there due to laws such as this, and many other things like the allowance of guns and so on.
and yet most of you still use goldsource engine, haha. Dat engine xD
Unless you actually have a graphics card 
I find it funny when you guys are agitated over the 4000 poly count, as if 4000 was a lot of polys. I'm planning to put 100k-400k per area in my map.
It's on!
CGTEXTURES.COM!!!I do! I've used the website to make most of my textures.
Why does nobody listen to me?
You mean the project that had pretty much no updates for over a month, the one where I wasn't told to do anything and eventually everyone gave up on it?
Captain Terror pls. Every time you make one of these community projects you just forget about it
Everyone should participate, rufee you too! We haven't had a proper competition with many entries for quite some time, and it seems that a lot of people are interested this time around.
Even if you think you can't win the competition, it's good practice. Back when I was crap I used to compete every time. I lost all of them, but I kept getting better and better and eventually won a competition :D.
Even if you think you can't win the competition, it's good practice. Back when I was crap I used to compete every time. I lost all of them, but I kept getting better and better and eventually won a competition :D.
Trempler that's very nice, I'm loving the way you use those Egypt textures 
...and thanks Grim! I need some practice in the Source engine, so I'm going to create an episode 2 map.
I'm either going to create a floating combine fortress, or a fantasy styled floating dungeon with gothic architectural style, something similar to Trempler I guess.
...and thanks Grim! I need some practice in the Source engine, so I'm going to create an episode 2 map.
I'm either going to create a floating combine fortress, or a fantasy styled floating dungeon with gothic architectural style, something similar to Trempler I guess.
Grim I've got a question,
Your task is to create a map located on a floating chunk of land. You can make anything as long as the map is suspended in mid-air.Does the map literally need a piece of land inside it, or can it be a structure floating in air? I mean it wouldn't be an island if it had no land on it, so I want to know if I need to include land into it, or if I can simply make a floating structure without adding the land.
Sees Tremplers map, reaction:
I'm off for a month, have fun mapping twhl, oh and have a good holiday - merry christmas - and a happy new year. I look forward to seeing what some of you have done on this.
Ok Grim, I shalt participate, I'll use some left overs from a project I scrapped a few months back, since I'll only have half the time available. I don't plan on putting too much work into this though.
Why don't you use the latest UDK? You could make some really awesome maps with it, not to say your current aren't, they're just outdated.
Awesome, exactly when I go on a vacation and don't get to use a PC
Kinda sucks because I actually tried creating several floating island maps during this year and it never worked.
Kinda sucks because I actually tried creating several floating island maps during this year and it never worked.
What intrigues me more is how is this news worthy? That's typical media for you isn't it; a woman commits suicide, we must put this on the headline and point fingers at people, because we have nothing better to write about!
The movie was amazing, highly underrated, Well I haven't read the book, but the story was very good. Srry, it's already been established that Half-Life was based upon the story from 'The Mist'.
If only I mapper for goldsource, I deleted all my goldsource stuff and switched to Source and UDK
Is this it: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0884328/ ? Might have to watch it.
Thanks a lot Lajron, first one was a good read, and second was exactly what I was searching for
I know what Half-Life's main inspiration was Quake, to the extent that Half-Life was even based off Quakes engine, but is there an article where anyone confirms that Quake did in fact influence Half-Life, and what other games inspired Half-Life?
In case any one is wondering, I'm doing an assignment on Half-Life, and I need this for it.
In case any one is wondering, I'm doing an assignment on Half-Life, and I need this for it.
That looks very nice noSICK, it's a shame that you focus on creating small one time maps, I'd really like to see a mod by you, that would be awesome. Something I'd play.
Nobody lives forever Urby, better start learnin' now before it's too late!
The Apache turned out a lot better than I expected, It's all thanks to my great tutor in my 3D modelling module in Uni, and my college tutors for getting me started.
The model was made in Maya, textured with Photoshop and crazybump, and imported into UDK.
From now on I'm going to be making Source and Unreal Editor levels with only custom made content, I'd already released this: http://gamebanana.com/csgo/maps/168954
Which had a lot of custom textures by me, but In the future it's only custom. Maybe if there's a gamebanana mapping competition I'd participate in it.
My next level is going to be a Gothic Cathedral, here's a WIP: (Maya)
My Tutor for 3D was actually quite surprised at my standard of work, I'm the best in the class. It's all thanks to you guys, even though you all harassed me and banned me so many times, I'm still thankful for everything you guys have taught me.
The model was made in Maya, textured with Photoshop and crazybump, and imported into UDK.
From now on I'm going to be making Source and Unreal Editor levels with only custom made content, I'd already released this: http://gamebanana.com/csgo/maps/168954
Which had a lot of custom textures by me, but In the future it's only custom. Maybe if there's a gamebanana mapping competition I'd participate in it.
My next level is going to be a Gothic Cathedral, here's a WIP: (Maya)
@ Instant Mix, that's awesome, must have taken a while.
I've finished my Apache. This is a screenshot from UDK.
Let's just leave it at that.
Ninja Defuse, looking good
But for the broken floor, you should add displacements otherwise it doesn't look right, and you should replace that piece of metal on the bottom left with a model, because it looks too well cut, just like the floor.
But for the broken floor, you should add displacements otherwise it doesn't look right, and you should replace that piece of metal on the bottom left with a model, because it looks too well cut, just like the floor.
Elliot Lucak that is an amazing model, the texturing is perfect, that's something I'd expect of an AAA game, very nice!
Stojke keeps asking me to post new screenshots of my gothic cathedral models, so I'll put some screenies here:
Stojke keeps asking me to post new screenshots of my gothic cathedral models, so I'll put some screenies here:
A gaming rig? 3D modelling and level design requires the same specs as a 'gaming rig'
I have a GTX 560ti, I bought it for 150, this card is a beast, I can run 2 mayas, photoshop, visual studio and youtube all at the same time with 0 lag, but all the components in my pc are really good, i spent quite a lot of money on it, it's not just the gpu that comes into play in this matter, it's the cpu, ram, and hard drive as well.
#2 with improved lighting
Since when did this turn out into a Bethesda mapping community?
There's a specific reason for that, Jeffy mah boi.Lol.
It looks quite nice, how big is it so far? Is it just the few rooms that you've made? Also nice to have you back lol.
Because all of Source models were made with Maya, and Valve recommends Maya, so I would assume that Maya was more compatible with Source. That and it's easier to use. I modelled in 3DS Max for 2 years, started using Maya just now and I think it's so much easier to use, and faster too.
autodesk gives student versions for pretty much all students, they are good guys in comparison to adobe. Also I would suggest Maya instead of 3DS Max if you're modelling for Source.
Purchase 3DS Max? Wat? Can't you just get the student version?
Salmon, did you try multisources with masters? Check out a tutorial on them. What multisource does is it lets you enable or disable a button or any other trigger or triggerable entity for that matter, when certain conditions are met.
Here's an example of how it works: You put the master value of a door to that one multisource, and you set an entity to target the multisource. The multisource will be off at default, and the door will not function because the multisource is off. But once that entity that targets the multisource has been activated, the multisource will turn on, and the door will also turn on and start working... and you can make the multisource have multiple inputs and it will only be on once they all are active.
So you need to use your head here, you have four floors, four buttons in elevator, plus one for each floor, so 8.
What you can try doing, (this is just me thinking of ideas), Is give all the buttons the same master value, linking to your one multisource. and then whenever a button is triggered, make that button move the elevator PLUS run a little multi_manager sequence that turns the multisource off, and then on. The triggering of multisource would have to be done by the same trigger, otherwise the multisource would be waiting for multiple inputs. You can make each button trigger the same multimanager event I guess.
I hope you understand what I just wrote, I mean it seems clearly fine to me, but untill you mess around with these things you might not know what I'm talking about xD
Here's an example of how it works: You put the master value of a door to that one multisource, and you set an entity to target the multisource. The multisource will be off at default, and the door will not function because the multisource is off. But once that entity that targets the multisource has been activated, the multisource will turn on, and the door will also turn on and start working... and you can make the multisource have multiple inputs and it will only be on once they all are active.
So you need to use your head here, you have four floors, four buttons in elevator, plus one for each floor, so 8.
What you can try doing, (this is just me thinking of ideas), Is give all the buttons the same master value, linking to your one multisource. and then whenever a button is triggered, make that button move the elevator PLUS run a little multi_manager sequence that turns the multisource off, and then on. The triggering of multisource would have to be done by the same trigger, otherwise the multisource would be waiting for multiple inputs. You can make each button trigger the same multimanager event I guess.
I hope you understand what I just wrote, I mean it seems clearly fine to me, but untill you mess around with these things you might not know what I'm talking about xD
Yeah Zeeba, like I said, you're getting way ahead of yourself. There wont be a lot of people that would play a GS mod, maximum a thousand that find it on moddb I'd say, if we get it on steam greenlight like captain said, maybe more than a thousand. But nobody will pay for it, and it would be illegal for us to sell it, so scrap the idea of making money on it.
We can however, do this as a project to build experience for further projects, where we do actually make something.
We can however, do this as a project to build experience for further projects, where we do actually make something.
Yeah I can't do animation, that is a completely different thing from just making static models.
...and hold on Zeeba, don't get ahead of yourself! lol, we ain't making no big bucks here. We can make it an awesome popular mod, put it on moddb and all that! But nobody is going to pay for a goldsource mod.
...and hold on Zeeba, don't get ahead of yourself! lol, we ain't making no big bucks here. We can make it an awesome popular mod, put it on moddb and all that! But nobody is going to pay for a goldsource mod.
Yeah, but I'm not sure if the authors would like it if somebody took their work and used it for their own mod.
Check the wip section, you'll get to see some models I'm currently making.
I know how to model quite well actually, been learning it for the third year now. Know how to texture too.
Basically I am interested in this project of yours, because I want experience in making models for someone on request. If you are interested, add me on steam/skype, I'll PM you the names.
Check the wip section, you'll get to see some models I'm currently making.
I know how to model quite well actually, been learning it for the third year now. Know how to texture too.
Basically I am interested in this project of yours, because I want experience in making models for someone on request. If you are interested, add me on steam/skype, I'll PM you the names.
The second is a personal project I am working on, going to make a Gothic level, haven't decided the engine yet, source or unreal.
...and yes I am dual screening two maya's at the same time, with photoshop in the background, badass.