Meh, just replace ambient with sun, add more windows/lamps and you're good to go. I can't even remember the last time I made anything with point lights, mostly because they look unnatural. (light needs a source to look good, light entity is rather useful for spotlights instead)

Obsidian: Hints aren't necessary, while placing things outside the hull won't be as efficient as structural/detail when it comes to culling. Consider using different voxel chunk sizes for structural depending on settings, higher chunks = faster vis but slower runtime. Q3 handles open spaces badly so...

To improve vis, make the thing mark unimportant (not covering much) blocks as detail and use caulk on the invisible sides. I can't help you much in regards on how should detail be discriminated from structural, but your best bet would be to have this converter look for natural "rooms", tha...

Having experience with software like Radiant is enough to have you prepared for "serious" 3D. Took me a day to switch, really. (that's after months of doing complex models using brushwork though)

That's a problem with the model itself.

Eraser's map is probably a target practice tutorial like in TF2. That's what I see there, anyway.

Started with 1.4 but currently, Rad 1.5. Used it since the release, and I'm just used to it. Too lazy to revert.

First thing that came into my mind:
"Is this quake 3?"
Seriously, you made me think it's a Source map, or even UDK. Add some contrast to the lighting and you'll achieve perfection there.

That's what I was asking about, thanks.

It'd be stupid if it didn't reuse textures. These days though, the only thing that can slow this engine down is a huge amount of translucent and masked materials overlapping each other (the number of passes grows exponentially in this case) or huge areas with bad vis (a dirty fix would be distance c...

Bug: Slowing down player via playerspeed screws up their speed when they duck.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5485355/qblade.rar
All permissions to use granted despite the fact I never bothered to read who needs a sword and what for.
Remember, I'm not getting paid for this.

obsidian wrote:From the top down angle, it looks as if the handle is a bit too thin to match the width of the blade. I would either narrow the blade or increase the width of the handle. I like the texture though.

I'm not changing a thing.

If it's an SP game, you should consider not coding a thing and using E+ for a proof of concept proto, with little to no code modification. That's what I'm doing, with some extent of success.

I just tried to mimic the Q3 style a bit. Just fixed it, look above.

Some lazy texturing here, but didn't turn out that bad after all. http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5485355/quakeblade.jpg Leave it as it is? edit: I tweaked the texture a bit more. That would be about as much work as I'm willing to do here. Too tired to package and upload the model, will do that later. Promi...

More or less, without the middle part.

I assure you that those maps are perfectly normal.

Why should I? I take no pride in defeating someone with such stuff enabled.
Oh, you took me entirely serious again. No, I'm just ranting about the arms race that are "pro configs", and the thin line between such and cheating.

Boo bleeding hoo. Yet fullbrights work.
Give me a time machine so I can stop id from implementing the bones/bones texture... if I wanted to change anything about Q3, it's that.
Would deleting it (turning into sarge) work, then?

If this was to be envmapped, I'd use a separate material and UV map for the blade anyway. For now it's meant for bare-bones diffuse, and I wouldn't use such UV space saving tricks (there are more) if I didn't know how to texture that.
Someone split this sword discussion, please.

Maya. I cut the blade in half to save UV space, the middle section mirrors halfway. Handle already fixed right after I posted this.

Okay then, derailing topic. Would overriding an existing player model with a same name model inside a higher priority pk3 work? I want to turn Bones and Klesk (only those two) into this: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5485355/fagmd3.jpg - as my way to boycott pro-wannabe "force player model, use fullb...

I had a good laugh.
But the part about the skin is true, it looked like if someone applied the skin of some other character (could be sarge) on that model, and it's not the first time I saw that happen. Bug or some setting I didn't know of?

No, I'm not happy. So I made my own. :V

edit: and unwrapped it
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