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Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-30 20:14:39 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304809

Niiice. I love the shadow play being cast into the center of the intersection. I always use the default values to start with then adjust from there, rather than just start with values I'd pretty much guess. It should be pretty obvious why

Oh, and did you set the spread angle?

The leafs where mine. I didn't know source bugged about 4. Those physics props in the log I noticed, but didnt fix. I thought about turning them into cyclers, but i thought id just leave it for someone with more knowledge.

This is turning out sick, now I can't wait for my second pass!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-30 18:28:38 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304807

Guys. Guys. Guys listen. Hey guys, when I set- guys listen. When I set the sun up, I forgot to set the sun spread angle.

Someone should set it. I think 4.5 looks quite nice, personally.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-29 20:04:26 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304767

Here it is! http://localhostr.com/file/xsmpH4O/team_mapping_007.zip

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-29 19:44:52 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304751

Okay! I'll add something when I get home from work and re-up it!

[edit] back from work! time to crack this sucker open and check out all your works!

[edot] also, im gonna make a graffiti for myself, and I'd be happy to make one for anyone here who doesn't feel like it/can't. I've got a tablet and so I can bang simple tags out pretty quickly. Lemme know! Doesn't even have to be now, last person to edit before we're done can spray them around.

[edpt] guys, has any talking about the layout been going on? and have we picked cs_map or de_map?

[ed[t] so is this sky and lighting temporary? im dying to change it. someoen else can change it again.

[edt]

Before

After

I extended the existing freeway, and curved it, to close off that side. I added a building (half is dev still, will get on 2nd pass) and an ally-type yard thing. Also, feel free to say no and tell me that it's overused, but IMHO this sky looks baddass with everything.

now i just gotta figure out how to zip this all up right.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-29 01:01:00 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #304744

Ok I'll try both things tomorrow.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-28 18:35:54 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #304734

It feels good to flex muscles that haven't been flexed in a while. Here's one of the little fight yards I've been making to practice Hammer. Who knows how to fix those ugly lines that appear on brush edges? I only used to get them on displacements, but now they're everywhere

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-28 08:46:28 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #304719

Gratz to the winners, this was fun. Then for those wondering, those stairs were marble not snow

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-27 23:39:47 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304715

OK man! I definitely want to participate. I've made several little maps since the compo and I've been practicing. I really want to show you guys my progress! Also I'm eager to look at what you've all done in hammer and analyze it.

I'm not 100% sure on how to finish/submit/pass on whatever I do but I'll ask you in PM.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-21 22:13:02 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304478

AH! NO! DON'T GO WITHOUT ME! I'M STILL HERE.

Sorry, this thread went on quite a bit. I got a new job and so I've been a bit busy. I'm still down to do this. Even tho I'm not quite sure what it is anymore. I'll go read the thread.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-19 19:00:49 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #304439

I wanna get my hands on those .rmf so I can see how you guys did some of it. Particularly cs_laundry, I think was the title. I gotta learn to make those sparking on and off lights with matching sound. Really cool.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-19 00:32:53 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #304426

good games, you guys made some really cool stuff!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-16 22:25:47 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #304356

What do you mean by extend? You can copy+paste and then sew pieces together add to them, stretch them by raising/lowering on Y and X, and just plain old transform them.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-15 23:04:30 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304329

Many counters will be stricken.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-10 04:59:28 UTC
in Team Mapping Post #304128

I'm down like a clown, Charlie Brown!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-03-10 00:13:46 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #304109

I'm practicing! LOLZ!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-26 01:12:20 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #303738

More Dirt. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNxrQTWr-eY&context=C302db0eADOEgsToPDskKd9XPYVD57JmXYpOehRvY6

Codemasters makes fun games. I'm bummed the next game isn't rally focused. Can anyone here recommend a good rally series?

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-16 22:54:40 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #303456

So I was playing Dirt when suddenly... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sP60dA41eHM&context=C302db0eADOEgsToPDskKd9XPYVD57JmXYpOehRvY6

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-16 03:45:49 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #303426

According to wiki the remake was done by a former DICE employee. Dear Valve: steal some DICE employees.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-16 00:43:35 UTC
in Now Gaming: ... Post #303423

That's some hot shit right there!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-15 19:17:54 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303414

Well, your writing is somehow not blowing my mind, but props on learning the construction kit. I still haven't figured anything out.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-15 18:11:37 UTC
in Zeitgeist - An alternate reality HL2 tot Post #303412

"No one will remember if the game is late, only if it is great" -Jay Wilson

Those screens blew my mind by the way.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-14 21:48:19 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303389

You could always just place some pipes or a grate down over the problem areas to mask it if you can't find a solution :/

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-14 03:17:22 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303369

:/ just throw down two bombsites in place of each pair of hosties.

I also just realized that my map's going to be half-finished and the gameplay sucks, but fuck it, gotta submit! thank god i found out about Packrat so I don't have to worry about collecting all the custom shit and properly zipping it.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-14 00:08:36 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303364

Bah, buyzones and bombsights are a matter of making one brush and tying to an entity- optimization is over rated, hdr not really needed, and there's only one good sky anyways

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-12 23:03:52 UTC
in Urby's Half-Life Quiz 2! Post #303346

I'll just sit down in the 60% corner of shame. Actually, considering I've only beaten it once and it was only five questions I'll take that 60% proudly.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-12 19:49:28 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303341

Damn that's hot! Maybe just slightly yellower lighting? A few feint glowing red lights (switches of some kind, or emergency lights) here and there would really flush it out and compliment the splashes of blue IMHO.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-09 02:20:12 UTC
in Now Playing: ... Post #303232

Fuck yes, that song RULES. So does Shortest Straw, and Blackened, and Justice, and Dyer's.... you know what? That whole fucking album rules.

[edit] Oh, and NP: Richard Hawley- Time Has Made a Change

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-09 00:07:56 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303227

That layout looks really nice.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-08 23:14:33 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303224

added them, if anyone wants to play a little in a couple hours before i go on vacation i'll join in

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-08 20:04:16 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303216

You should enter anyways. I found out today I'm going snowmobiling until Sunday, so I'll have 3 days to finish instead 8. Ah well, it will be fun and maybe being in a very snowy environment will give me a couple last-minute ideas.

Everyone has setbacks, you should still submit what you've got done!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-07 21:31:46 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303205

Maybe he's part of a cleanup crew dispatched to the office because someone finally snapped O_o

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-05 22:03:05 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303184

dayuuumm

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-05 01:19:37 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303165

We must thoroughly test the test servers, this is key.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-02-04 06:41:50 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #303156

Ah, friggen Battlefield 3. I'm going to finish- but it won't quite be on the scale I originally intended. I found out I reached top 10 of over 20,000 players on one of the reddit BF3 servers, and so I've been hitting it pretty hard. I feel some obligation to show up at least daily and play well.

I also decided, at the worst possible time, to take up Diablo 2 again until 3 comes out- also on a private reddit server. I'd be happy to give the info to anyone and play with them/help them out. You don't need a genuine install. I own 2 copies of LoD and have 3 copies of D2 registered to my bnet account- but I can't find the damn discs. You don't need them here. It's the bee's knees compared to BNET. Zero spam bots, everyone there loves the game, maphack is allowed (but no botting/pickit- anything that affects other players is cheating) and there's a 24/7 freebie room for getting people started!

I vow to submit though. I've been here for six years now- I owe genuine effort to each and every one of the admins and dedicated regulars here. I've submitted only one map, finished just one compo now, but I really consider you guys friends. This shit is fun and you're all fun people.

I can't wait to play these maps!

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-29 19:21:03 UTC
in Skyrim Post #303042

He'd still kill the witness either way though, right? I gotta say I'm not as experienced in guard murder as I'd like.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-28 16:50:13 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303023

Knowing that it would take me too long to get it looking good enough, mostly. I could spend hours on building a mountain range out of displacements only to delete it all because it looks like garbage. I've deleted the entirety of my displacements and started fresh four times now I think. So, I'm going to keep things pretty minimalist and go with distant card scenery.

Under a time constraint and considering how slowly I'm relearning this stuff, I don't even feel a tiny bit bad about it. Valve does it, I'm doing it.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-28 05:24:13 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303019

Capt nail'd it, the sun is low and behind the camera. There are large shadows being cast. I do still want to blend the outdoor areas. I was going to use that color correction tut and also I can just recolor those trees and mountain textures. Haven't done fog yet. I need do rim's skybox fog tut as well I think.

Also, is there a material that blocks light but is invisible?

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-28 01:04:07 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #303007

Ok so I took your feedback and tried to inject a bit more of a "dirty" feel to the snow and trees. I also made my own mountains! Any more suggestions?

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-26 23:15:32 UTC
in How did you start mapping? Post #302989

~What made you start mapping in the first place?
Playing Marathon on one of my dads Mac's. I found the editor and started making stuff. From there I dabbled in the new things I found.

~What was your first map?
First map ever, no clue, first completed Gold map was some CS:CZ goodness. A demolition map with it's own cool theme.

~Where did you get inspiration for your first map?
I don't know, playing games I imagine.

~To who did you show it & how did they react?
My first complete map was for my clan at the time, they liked it. I made a bunch of smaller GoW inspired symetrical maps for them to dick around in also. I do have an incredibly awkward story about when I was just starting out and the creator of de_dust, de_dust2, de_cobble, de_tides and some others David Johnston. I basically sent him the first eagerly half-finished room connected to a hall I ever made and he actually wrote about it in his blog. I don't think it was even compiled, I think it was a shot from in-editor. It probably took me an afternoon. Funny stuff. He was nice about it, it was pretty obviously nooby and so he went over basics.

~Your advace to future mappers/current mappers?
If you hold your shit up on a plate in front of a professional shitter, he's going to call it shit. Keep shitting anyway.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-21 02:59:00 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #302859

lol, that pond is 3d skybox. most of it anyways, you can sort of see where it changes. CT spawn and the rescue zone are on the shore of that pond, so i made it blend into skybox so it could be big. I think it needs mountains in the distance, I might have to make a texture of those myself.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-21 00:09:53 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #302849

I want to spoil as little as possible, but I need motivation to keep going. I got discouraged when I realized I can't make indoor areas as nice as outdoors. This is the first thing I've mapped in a while. Motivation plz.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-13 19:29:44 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302659

Wow, that's made out of displacements? How the fffffffuuuuuuuuuuuu

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-12 19:24:06 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302637

That is now proudly displayed in my profile.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-12 05:19:03 UTC
in Post your screenshots! WIP thread Post #302629

I love when people make things in gold that look better than anything I've ever made in source.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-12 05:10:43 UTC
in Skyrim Post #302628

After 70 or so hours in Skyrim I had begun to play less and less. Then I installed every graphical mod I could get my hands on, and I have completely fallen in love with this game all over again. I play with my monitor's saturation and contrast cranked up, because real life is saturated and vibrant, so these screens don't really give the full impact- but it's close.

I'll gladly screencap the list of mods installed if anyone wants it. This also reminds me what a whore for aesthetics I am.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-11 22:30:37 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302618

ENTRIES DONE LOL

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-11 08:57:22 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302606

Well, the theme is from de_survivor. Alpine. Snow, ice, pine trees, you get the idea. Maybe if I can find a crashed plane model I'll throw one in there to really seal the deal. I don't know if I want to give away everything yet, but the layout is a remix of another map which never got extremely popular either.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-11 05:32:39 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302603

Oh god that. I liked torn, but the scale made moving from one area to the next feel slower. The entire map fealt tedious, like it was coated in molasses or something.

I'm actually psyched to see someone doing torn.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-10 23:38:47 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302595

Yeah, func_illusionary is confusing. The wiki says that it is obsolete, and only in the SDK for compatability with goldsrc. However if you open up an official valve map like cs_militia in the sdk, you see that they use func_illusionarys to make some of the tree lines! Meanwhile other tree lines in the same map use func_detail! Very confusing. I just won't touch it.

Blitzkrieg

Posted 12 years ago2012-01-10 22:04:46 UTC
in Competition 32 Post #302590

I hadn't heard that! I just assumed one face < many faces! I'll definitely look into propper.

Blitzkrieg