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UT supported Smoothvision (i have no idea how much better it looked though), this is 2006 and Quake 4 shows spheres still as 16-sided polygon. :/ I don't understand why such a simple thing as a spherical map model can't be smoothed a bit to be more pleasing to the eye. Just wanted to get this of my chest.
UT supported Smoothvision (i have no idea how much better it looked though), this is 2006 and Quake 4 shows spheres still as 16-sided polygon. :/ I don't understand why such a simple thing as a spherical map model can't be smoothed a bit to be more pleasing to the eye. Just wanted to get this of my chest.
There's a lot of things to pick on, here, but I'll just do a few:
You're obviously very interested in mapping, and that's cool; I think that more people should be involved.
You released this map on filefront about a million years ago, if memory serves. This one may be slightly improved, but really: Maybe you should stick to making a few more "learning" maps from scratch, rather than trying to tune things that are fundamentally broken.
Stuff to note:
1) Texturing is really, really important. And most textures simply are not suitable for being tiled one next to another for a great distance. Simply put, to make something look good in Quake 4, you're going to have to use more complex architecture; this feels a bit like the Doom (one) engine.
2) Given # 1, this is minor, but it's at least an easy fix: Your boxes are stacked as though placed with the precision of God's Own Hand. Use the rotate tool to make it look like a jumble of boxes, rather than something stacked by a herd of nerds with protractors.
You're obviously very interested in mapping, and that's cool; I think that more people should be involved.
You released this map on filefront about a million years ago, if memory serves. This one may be slightly improved, but really: Maybe you should stick to making a few more "learning" maps from scratch, rather than trying to tune things that are fundamentally broken.
Stuff to note:
1) Texturing is really, really important. And most textures simply are not suitable for being tiled one next to another for a great distance. Simply put, to make something look good in Quake 4, you're going to have to use more complex architecture; this feels a bit like the Doom (one) engine.
2) Given # 1, this is minor, but it's at least an easy fix: Your boxes are stacked as though placed with the precision of God's Own Hand. Use the rotate tool to make it look like a jumble of boxes, rather than something stacked by a herd of nerds with protractors.
Your right about the boxes, but that changes how you get to ra much :/
Gonna have to do some tweaking there.
custom decals, Trims and lights are missing as I wanted to cut down download size for that release (even only used the 256 textures and not the 512 ones) so its a bit tiled everywhere.For the geometrical detail I wanted to wait for feedback before finally adding it.
thx for the feedback
Gonna have to do some tweaking there.
custom decals, Trims and lights are missing as I wanted to cut down download size for that release (even only used the 256 textures and not the 512 ones) so its a bit tiled everywhere.For the geometrical detail I wanted to wait for feedback before finally adding it.
thx for the feedback
Dr4ch, don't worry about download size, its totally not an issue these days.
I love the way your maps are designed for movement.
I hate the way you use too many textures, you seem to use different texures for every room ^^. Most notably in pic 2 and 3.. its texture hell. over 10 textures in one room. top right.. you have a light wall texture being instantly cut off and changed to black texture, how nasty is that.
I love the way your maps are designed for movement.
I hate the way you use too many textures, you seem to use different texures for every room ^^. Most notably in pic 2 and 3.. its texture hell. over 10 textures in one room. top right.. you have a light wall texture being instantly cut off and changed to black texture, how nasty is that.