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Not bad, Joe. It's indirectly inspired by this old concept art for the 1982 movie Blade Runner, since Deus Ex was inspired by it.

Btw, why are you on 16-bit color?

Both are shit today. Buy the one with better FPS/$.

No in yours.

Thirdperson sucks, it totally destroys immersion.

Fuck you and your fucking genius archie

I mean Nvidia 3D or some HMD 3D. ****ing cockroaches...

There is no doubt HL3 will support 3D like hell.

No problem, it was just an idea. And yeah it would require good management.

Why not make a poll?

Don't be lazy, it's not that complicated... It's something more interesting than just tons of people adding tons of random shit into a single map. Anyway, what everybody else think?

The first one? I thought this has been tried a few times and failed. Maybe my idea would work? What others think?

What about more organized teamwork mapping? I mean, for example, one is responsible for layout and basic structure, one for all the details and finishing touches, other for texturing, other for lighting, other for ambience/sounds and so on. We could vote and choose the best mappers for each of these aspects. Several people could be responsible for a single aspect. Do you like it?

BTW, I'm for good old HL1.

EDIT: Also, this way our work would interfere as little as possible. Of course we could give suggestions to each other and so on, but we would avoid those very nasty debates. A leader of the team, the director or whatever you call it would be a good thing for this whole method of teamwork, because teamwork is all about good understanding of each other and we need somebody to bind everybody together. And if we succeed we might create something very quality.

Wow, great atmosphere, Blitzkrieg.

Very good, Archie! Your textures are getting better. I like the structure. Nice play with those lamps. Try making one of them more yellow or more blue, it happens all the time in real world. Now, what does it need? You probably don't want to waste such a spacious hallway. Add way more air/duct/vent shafts or whatever they're called, more different pipes in sizes and colors, some vertical too, maybe some valves too. Some wires hanging and an electrical box somewhere. But what would really kill the repetitiveness is some nasty staining, dirt and rust both on walls and floor.

Testing my Sony Ericsson Android camera. I used camera only a few times in my life.

Ballad of Bruce Lee, Jeet Kune Do by Robert Lee (brother of Bruce Lee who dedicated these songs to Bruce after his death)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R69tt2cB4AY&

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=44yVJlN2XKE&

Haha, I was planning to build Taj Mahal as a part of my Arabian HLDM map. I shouldn't say that...

Not terrible.

Pretty messy, but not terrible at all!

Some dude playing Billie Jean on the accordion!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMhAu_3w10c&

Find it please!

Does Source output surround sound? Because two channels are probably not enough to represent the work done by those physics.

And when was that? Since the beginning or recently?

Cool. But Source engine? Never heard So sound waves actually bounce off and go through walls depending on material, thickness and so on? That's what I mean by sound physics.

I knew years ago that Valve will look at the feedback stuff whether it's biometric or haptic or whatsoever. It's the first step to new era of games. Today's games are nothing more but pimped Wolf 3D's.

What I want is totally stereoscopic HMD with eye pupil and ciliary muscle tracking and UHDTV resolution. It would allow to use our eyes to focus and such things as anti-aliasing and texture filtering wouldn't be needed anymore. Also correct surround headphones plus realistic sound physics in game (which anyone haven't done yet).

It would cost quite a nasty amount probably... But now it's pretty realistic to expect a collector's edition box of HL3 with something like this inside.

Sometimes the misalignment is so tiny you can't see it but is enough to create lighting and clipping bugs. Try making things like spheres, domes, donuts and you'll see what I mean.

There is something very wrong with clip tool, Captain Terror. Through years I learned that it's very unpredictable. Clip tool shouldn't be used on objects more complex than a cube. On more complex objects clip sometimes sets vertexes off grid in the level of floats (by thousands of an unit). Also, clip should never be used on grouped objects. Also, vertexes often go off grid when compiling a map, in the process of .RMF to .MAP. conversion. I heard some prefer mapping straight in .MAP format. Also, everyone should use vluzacn's new VHE float enabler which possibly improves the conversion too.

Thank you. It is inspired by Pitch Black! Haha. Those corners aren't really that nasty, VHLT does great job on smoothing compared to previous tools. Such bugs happen when a surface/polygon is tinier than a single unit of the lightmap on it. You can fix it by lowering the scale of lightmap (by lowering the scale of texture). Anyway, GoldSrc is just too old for such level of complexity, especially when it comes to brushwork. But if you map very efficiently, I'm sure you could use it in some places.

Here, some up-close texture testing:

From left to right:

1.Original 1024x1024 to 512x512 (scaled by nearest neighbor)
2.1024x1024 to 128x128 (bilinear)
3.1024x1024 to 128x128 (nearest neighbor)

Does UDK have dynamic radiosity/real-time global illumination?

Some experiments. Note the complex geometry metal walls, made of brushes by hand, also one my first texture painting attempts.

Also some logic behind it:

/ - Low weight
Y - Medium weight
X - High weight

To save metal ^^

Shrink the density of detail. Make the pipes with less sides. Scale up textures somewhere (for ex. grass). Use NULL. Use -subdivide 256 on BSP. You can't do a lot because your map is very open.

MJ43V3R

You can't. All you can do is control global lightmap scale through compile parameters and make it either uncompilable or terrible looking. Again, it's 2012, my friend.

Hint brushes do cut world. Learn to use pyramid technique if you really need to use hint. It makes a lot less cuts and is easier to join together. There is a tut somewhere on the net.

It's 2012 man. Screw them

To do traditional GoldSrc or Src lighting in real-time you would need a 10 petaflop PC. Of course, it's just that it's very inefficient. Frostbite 2 (Geomerics) managed it...

Texture light brightness is calculated a bit differently, since it works by arranging point lights in a grid depending on the scale of lightmap, which is probably 16 by default, you have to multiply the brightness you desire by 16 as well. When using -extra, lightmaps are automatically scaled down two times. Lightmaps also scale when scaling textures. In other words just use numbers in terms of dozens.

Learn, my fellow men...

Probably a transparent solid with some sort of animated smoke sprite inside it will do it.

Screw time! Like Mr. Gabe Newell once said, make it perfect or release it imperfect and it will suck forever. Don't let time influence you.

How big is that room?

Not bad. Similar to my one I posted before.

No, I'm not saying this. If it really uses average color then it should emit pinkish light. I just wanted to figure out why it differs, now it's clear.

Congratulations for creating a great project! And of course, congratulations for an impressive achievement of writing a book!

The idea itself is something really new, very unique and opens vast range of possibilities. The concept of mix between past and future is something very unnatural to people's eyes and I think that's exactly what people unconsciously want.

It reminds me a bit of a movie called "The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"However, I won't lie - there is a lot room for improvement. At least from the images the level of detail in some maps seems too low for Source engine. Some places look great, but some look like it's GoldSrc. Also, I think it's quite repetitive in some places. The neon letters look very similar everywhere. Lighting too. The connectivity between old and modern could be a bit better. For example the modern glass building doesn't blend with the surroundings well. I could compare it to early HL2. You guys really need to polish everything a lot. But it's not a problem. You have a strong base - great story, big team, a book and the project itself seems very quality. This is definitely going to be a success, but you must not hurry! Also, I would really, honestly recommend to get rid of this yellow color correction/color tint or whatever it's called. I just think it makes things look boring and not alive.

The trailer is composed really great but production itself is pretty unprofessional. Some scenes seem like straight out of Garry's Mod.

So, I think it's just a matter of time. You should eventually go from a level similar of early HL2 to HL2 as it looks right now. Your game looks way better than early HL2, I must say.

Sorry for quite a nasty amount of negative feedback but I just want it to turn out even better! Good luck, my friend!

One the difference:

Maybe light_surface calculates the average color of the texture it's being emitted from to define light color? The texture isn't very red, it's quite pink on average. I also heard that light_surface uses smaller density of the light sources than old texture lights. Or maybe it's just a bug?

"...it MAINTAINS the texturelight look. Awesome."

You could always get the same result with ordinary texture lights, you just needed to use -coring 0, but few knew that. But I believe vluzacn already fixed the "pointlight" bug thing in dynamic lights.

You should inform vluzacn about this.

info_texlights sets values globally for all surfaces with specified texture, while light_surface allows you to have different values for individual surfaces even with the same texture.

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

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 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.