CPR Industries: Shadow's Spear Created 18 years ago2006-10-25 11:25:29 UTC by a

Rofl - I should be finished by sunday; lots of work at the moment

Im a good portion into the map just now, but its the final details, and the custom models which are taking their toll.

PS - Dont tell what

Err... Sorry to anyone who downloaded that if it doesn't work. Seems some other people are having problems with it, too. I'll upload it somewhere else, and see if that works.

Alternatively, you could just BUY THE DAMN THING.

Er, I might have slight problem with hosting this map: My wad files are tremendously large...

Anyhoo: ive hosted it outside of TWHL - Ill provide a link...

The main question: http://twhl.co.za/forums.php?pgt=1&action=viewthread&id=11942&pg=13

is this where I post the link to my map?

Eh? No.

Never heard of wad include?

As I promised way too long ago, here's the link to download Fraps from. I suggest you get it while it's hot, because it's only going to be there for the next five days or so. And if it still doesn't work for people, too bad, there's nothing I can do.

kewl...

*twirls mustachio

Extremely sexy brushwork.
Very nice work, looking forward to more media.

http://cprindustries.googlepages.com/yak-41supersonicvtoljet

still to finish putting everything into it, just now ive only got a few pics of my latest project: one hellova lot more comming soon

That is some damn sexy brushwork there.

http://cprindustries.googlepages.com/Su-37Slideshow.zip

Just click "open" and have a look at the slideshow contained withing - a lovely made Su-37 (in an ugly hanger) with all 12 hardpoints utilised - do enjoy

http://cprindustries.googlepages.com/tu-144concordski

My latest project, the Tu-144 (nate codename "Charger" - also known as "Concordski" - tis practically a Russian Concorde - in fact, it is...)

PS - 6978 faces, 1000 solids and 4.48 MB of texture memory

sweet!

i mean, really.

Oh dear God. Very nice. What do you plan to do with it?

Basically, its purpose in my mod is to take off from the airport (on a rail - a lovely wee technique, using moving sprites for clouds (and a transparent cloud layer composed from a brush or two with a generic texture) which all move creating the illusion of motion)

Plane takes off, mid flight, you fall asleep - you wake up when the afterburners turn on, the pilot then comes on 15 mintues later, saying that they just lost an engine, you hear him restarting the engine, it fails twice, on his third attempt at restarting it it blows up, plane crashes and you wake up in a valley (you are in the flight engineer's section, near the nose at this point) and then the mod continues

you get rescued by a lovely VTOL jet (which is pitiful compared to this Behemoth - its just pity I had to wrestle with texdata and max map miptex and entity overflow errors when I was making it

LOl - ive never used so many ":P" in a single post I dont think

Thanks for the praise - its nice to see 56 and a half hours turn out fine lol

Amazing work a!

I'm stunned by the quality of your work!

Don't know why, but the first screenie in this thread reminds me of the Goldeneye game, that James Bond game for Nintendo.

by "that James Bond game," I think you mean the best bond game ever, and possibly the best FPS game ever released for a console.

ah, so you've heard of it!

Er, ive got a problem - If i am far away, I can see func_walls and light emmiting brushes (texlights) that are inside the plane

I can see them trhough teh outside of the plane when Im far away, its fine when im close up to it though - is there any way I can sort that out:|

You could have some trigger_multiples and env_renders set up so it doesn't render stuff inside the plane unless you're in it. Check out this tutorial for more info on that method.

Also is it really far away that causes it? If I recall HL has a sucky view distance...Perhaps tweak it or do what Srry said which seems plausible since it'll save some speed and it'll remove the from appearing.

The render trick works, but the problem is I also needed to turn off al the lights on the inside of teh aircraft, because you could see the far away wall throughteh nearest one ^o) - oh dear

Anyhoo - this is a screenshot from the opening movie of my mod right after a nuclear strike Featuring an Su-37 (right) and the fictional "Rapier Class" VTOL attack fighter

PS - there is also a nuclear bomber, which is right behind these two planes, but you cant see it just now

PPS - the nuclear bomber is down one munition - I wonder where it went MUAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAH!!!! oh dear im hyper

Use sprites for the engine flames >.<

Er, thats a moving texture with the name +0{afterburner.
+1{afterburner and so on - it keeps it all in one entity which means I can have just one single func_train which saves time and makes manuevering the jets easier - still a cheap effect though

You know what you could do? Use Spirit. Or, you could just make another func_train follow the same path_corners as the plane, and use some neat effects with the additive property. Check out the beginning of Heart of Evil for an example of this, where they had the propeller of a helicopter in a separate entity.

Agreed. Spirit caters for far more attractive effects.

FFS - do you think somebody of my intelligance is unaware of the fifty odd alternatives?

Im allready using that one because I was getting errors associated with there being too many entities in the one map - and I cant be bothered downplayingthe blast effects of the nuke, lol - oh dear

I went though at least ten different methods before I finally decided upon the one im currently using, it does me fine, and it looks great when you see it in person - still images arent very inspiring im afraid - agreeably using env_beams or sprite trains could give better looking effects, but I want to keep things as simple as possible - simple is best, as it leaves little room for errors like the sprite train not moving correctly or hte env beams shortening and lenthening when I dont want it to - when you see what those four (im aware you can only see two btw lol) jet aircraft are doing in that level you can understand my concern and desire for simplicity - ps - I cant use spirit because my mod is for OP4 and Ive allready modded its dll file and I cant be bothered modding the spirit of HL engine to include the effects I added in (such as the ability to use "transparent" textures on models) and also the OP4 stuff, ps - ill send some pics of my pixel distortion effects I added in today at some point - one of these days Ill stop editing the program and finish the mod lool oh dear

This is a "Sceptre Class Ground Attack" fighter - and served as an admirable demosntration of pixel distortion effects, which do occasionally suffer from glitches (such as occasionally everything behind the distortion layer turns bright green or orange) but the good most certainly outdoes the bad

Gee, sorry for insulting your profoundly high level of intelligence. I'll be sure never to suggest any mapping techniques to you again, my all-knowing friend.

Besides that, I wasn't talking about sprite trains, or anything complex. Just two trains following the same path, which as I guess you must know, is ridiculously easy.

Oh, I meant it as a joke mate - sorry - lol

My wording is terrible at times, oh dear

Aye, I tried that a while ago but it didnt run out very well, as a result I resorted to the afterburner moving texture - Ill apply distortion effects to it as well to make it look like its incredibly hot as well, so you wont be able to tell each afterburner effect is only made of two brushes (plus the brush with the distortion texture added)

Oh, btw, once I iron out the thousands of bugs I have with my distortion effects Ill host the edited dll file on google and you may download it.

Special effects include -

• Movign thrust distortion (seen above, distortion moves in direction of arrows incicated on texture - Effect activated by texture named "dir_distort")

• Ripple effects - great for water - activated by "stat_distort" texture

• lens effects - causes bulging or denting - activated by either "exp_distort" or "shk_distort" textures,

• Bent Light effects - terrific effect that is activated by using specific sprite - if used in conjunciton with a func_tank_laser or env_beam/laser creates a wonderful effect, light bends around sprite - makes laser look extremely high powered, great efffect for inside of Electromagnetic things too

• glare effects - look at the uppermost face of the "sky box" - the one with the xyzup.tga on it - screen gets glare effect - magnitude is cotnrolled by entity "env_glare"

lots more, instructions on how to use everything will come with the downlaod if I ever fix all the bugs - for instance, occasionally the screen goes all black and white and blocky when a distortion effect is used, otehrtimes, you get this big green and pink and orange and blue distortion field, which looks fucking awesome but I dont want it to do it unless I specify, it doesnt look too good with a jet emitting a technicolour afterburner glow.......

What the!

How do you that pixel distortion effect? I could use that in my yet unfinished Space Shuttle map. W00t!

Callum P Robertson, how the hell did you do that pixel shading? You still havent told me how. (Except that you told me you programmed it yourself, something I find highly unlikely from a 16 year old boy with no coding knowledge )

Anyway, looking great, Im actualy quite jealous.

Sorry for not getting your humor. Lewlz.

Athlete: Who's Callum P. Robertson? a? But he's not 16...

ROFL - oh dear

Thats me

and er :$

Well, I suppose the cats out of the bag now - I am 16 - the Sergei Gerlukovich you have heard of is in fact my father who I dont see very much of but admire substantially

If you really want - http://www.myspace.com/cpr_industries is my myspace profile if you really want to find out who I am...

PS - CPR Indutstries is Fictional, the pictures in my profile are of the place where my Father works, which is indeed a Russian Robotics Company that handles both military and civilian contracts - I dont get told much, and father only let me photograph the southern, less populated part of his work complex at turinsk, we hardly see him - occasionally he gets one of the companies planes to give me a lift to see him - usually antanov 74s, the company has three of them at the Turinsk' Branch where my father works.

I am actually very sorry for the deception - I had assumed, that since I had used my own name before - that you were aware of my guise, I do appologise - ps - that picture of my fathers work team - that is me sitting where I labeled

PS - Jimmi, I have quite an extensive coding knowledge - father tought me how to add effects into three dimensional schematic programs, all ive done is reiterate them in a different programming language and through a lengthy course of trial and error I have came up with the modded HL engine...

Oh... wow. I don't remember you using your own name before, though.

thats awesome

do you think somebody of my intelligance is unaware

Oh yes... It takes loads of intelligence to make a model plane...

P.S.

Its spelled intelligence

I?m aware of that, taking neither into account that this is not a mandatory, nor for that matter a particularly serious forum, I don?t dedicate much supplementary time to check my spelling.

PS ? the fact that it doesn?t require much intelligence suggest that somebody of my intelligence has a rather superfluous awareness of the alternatives so you are in fact supporting my statement, so thank you.

PPS - Im having a Mini competition (hosted externally) - ill give more details when Ive got the site up (oh wow, googlepages - a massive achievement on my part - aye, massive lol)

i can use the thesaurus too.

Hah, comment of the day.

I can't say i really like the look of this mod.. sure the planes are nice, but that's all there is. The few world screens we've seen are far less impressive. It gives the impression you're just using some well-built prefabs - I know you aren't, but it feels that way.

Word, Penguinboy.

And I know what Strider is talking about, too. Are you really just making this mod as an excuse to show off your (quite excellent, really) prefabs? Because that's really all you've shown so far. No environments, no gameplay, no cool architecture - Just a bunch of planes and vehicles sitting around. Is there going to be anything else to it? How many models of aircraft can you really use in a first-person shooter?

A conferance room with the tables removed (which are blockingthe door from a bunch of aliens incidentally)Air Traffic Control Tower at Zebrynsk Military complexRandom Foyer room at a military center in ZebrynskA picture of the TU-144 that you fly to the crater in still on the runway, you leave the building behind it to get to it, I appologsie for the lighting, it wasnt finished when Itook that picture, hence the cockpit's lights werent yet installed.

Kickass stuff.
Looking forward to this a lot.

Thanks mate ;D

PS - Jimmi, I have quite an extensive coding knowledge - father tought me how to add effects into three dimensional schematic programs, all ive done is reiterate them in a different programming language and through a lengthy course of trial and error I have came up with the modded HL engine...

Ah, ok. Pixel shading though is very advanced, University level stuff. But of course it appears you can do it, so well done.

My latest prop-prefab, the "Titan-Class" medium assault mech, 3/4 of the way through a .mdl version of it that will serve the basic purpose of walking in a few cutscenes, and firing (at you) later on

Ps, I cant remember why I put GMan in, but he is there :S

Hey, welcome back.

Looks good but whats up with that Gman? Looks like he has emo hair. :

yes, it does.

/wrists

I absolutely love that robot. O M F G. A winnar is yuo. Man, it's THAT great.

That's kickass man.