BrattyLord's: Alise Created 18 years ago2005-10-01 17:09:46 UTC by BrattyLord

Okay, good :).

Now THATS a Splash

Don't worry, When I finish remodelling the Grunts it will look better

[EDIT]

Woopsy, didn't see that my sky didn't line up

how embarassing

Uh, was the text done in Paint? Anti-aliasing!

its photoshopped with the inward bevel or inward shadow effect. but yeah.. looks horrible quality

Quality is because I coverted it in order to post it here...

Photoshopped?

Paint?

no way dude!

Used a $700 program...



I think I just wasted my money

The text looks terrible. No, I don't mean compression artifacts.

If ya want a splash - I can make somethin up..

Cool ship...

skip the "BrattyLord's" part. no need to advertise yourself

nice work BL

no need to advertise yourself

I do enough of that on 5th av.



Thankee 38_98

The spaceship is nice, but those grunts in space look odd, plus they make the ship feel so much smaller.

hmm...

I'll put the ship over in the distance. The smaller it looks, the farther away it looks, and the larger it appears... odd concept...

Something's not working here...

but looky! I got Gordon in on it!

That ship needs a tail fin or somthin'

I like the idea, but keep in mind the actual Xen aren't bad, just the ones under Combine control (Similar to the combine soldiers in HL2).

I was thinking of posting an idea similar to this.

After the Human's victory in saving thier world, they decide to repay the Xen for aiding them in thier rebellion, By helping them liberate thier world.

I was thinking of having dropships and stuff similar to the ship in that pic. And sweet looking Human Soldiers with armor and stuff that looked similar to combine uniform(it would be stolen technology) And the xen would have some cool armor stuff as well.

And the leader of the whole thing would be the Gman, with Gordon Freeman and Alyx Vance as field generals, so to speak. Maybe alyx gets her own HEV suit

well... except this is HL1...

I'm going to remoddel the Grunts, Barney, and the Scientists to a more... Space mood...

I'll also code it so that the Grunts will behave like Barney (they are on your side).

Hmm...

New Xen Armor?

Maybe I could mess with the storyline and say this is a different Xen fleet or something...

Well,

To be honest... The real storyline has little to do with what I told you. This is only the introduction to the bizzare stuff that's going to happen...

I hope you guys'll like it

I have to be honest here

I don't like the splash. It's a piece of flat ground and a badly aligned sky. it just seems very amateurish (sp?). I know you can do better Bratty. use that ship you've got and make a pic with it being in the center.

splashy is trashy.

everything else looks good though. keep it up

I don't like the splash ether, it's so empty.
How about, you see one of these flying things in space from a cool angle.
And the camera is very close to the space ship.

okay,

I'll Redo it

And some photoshop filters would be very cool too..

I don't have photoshop...

Splash looks very dull, with no atmosphere at all.

Um...what is Gordon firing from?

Anyway, yeah, that second splash was worse than the first. Maybe get a behind-the-shoulder shot of gordon blasting aliens/soliders on the Alise, or something.

And you can get Photoshop Elements for only $60. If you don't want to waste money, everyone suggests GIMP, but the interface looks far too cluttered for me.

$60!!!

I just bought Abobe Illustrator for around $600...

DOH!!

Hmm... I'll figure out a good splash...

Kinda hard to make an action shot, since Ill be blasting aliens in 3rd person... impossible to aim.

I haven't made the entire ship's interior yet...

Guess I'll do the splash last.

P.S. The ship is only the first chapter. The second is on Xen... Then... Things get a little... wierd.

Moved this thing...

Hey...

I obviously need some help If Im gonna finish this thing...

Mind If I keep posting screenies of specific problem areas and selfishly asking for critisizm?

Who am I kidding, you LOVE pointing out whats wrong

So, what'd I screw up this time?

oh, and Im not sure what the interier of an normal elevator on a space ship looks like...

Its looking like crap..

What do I need to add?

Maybe a broken car would fix it up?

looking better, hallway looks to cretie now though

The texlights in the first screeni are horribly streched try flipping the texture.

$60!!!
I just bought Abobe Illustrator for around $600...
DOH!!

Yup. Heck, you can get it for $16 on Amazon.

looking better, hallway looks to cretie now though

erg.. I need metal textures...

I might make a .wad for Alise...

The texlights in the first screeni are horribly streched try flipping the texture.

I know you know what the texture actually looks like... But I like the effect that it has here...

I'm keeping those lights the way they are, unless I want to go back later and add some 3d details to them...

Yup. Heck, you can get it for $16 on Amazon.

woah is me...

I could have given that money to charity...
or bought a nice hat...

A few little tips to making the map look better:

1: Give Doors Frames! Doors and entranceways dont just magically appear out of the wall, they have a frame that they fit into, add a frame around those doors in the screeny with the barney lying infront of it.

2: Making Textures Smaller: This is a pretty simple and very effective way of making a texture look better, compress it in the texture apply tool, somwhere around .75 or .5 will greatly increase eye pleasure in game.

3: Not So Many Light Textures / Sources: You will never find a coridoor with light fittings on the wall every 2 foot, lights are spread out, they have to show people where they are going, not eluminate (sp) every nook and cranny.

Follow those three simple rules on that first screen shot and repost it, I garentee (unless your a moron with no taste or skill, which you arnt) that it will look better.

As for the splash, the reason it doesnt look good is because nothing is center stage, examine it from a critical eye, what fills the picture most? Yep, sky texture and Xen rock. Make the space ship center stage, have it so its up so close the tip of it is off the screen, then actually make the grunt models, and put them in an enviroment more detailed that a flat lump of xen roid, and your in business. I seem to have a nack for doing things like that, and as I said before, I would be happy to help.

Anyway, hope that helps you out.