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[Eraser]

You actually might be wanting to turn that into an Urban Terror map

[clownfart]

Doesn't anyone remember that one guy who was arrested for making a Counter-Strike map of his school?

I actually played it, the brushwork was pretty sloppy, and it was the awful scale of that game.

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Funny how they confiscate his "hammer" seeing as how you use Hammer World Editor for building CS maps.


Edit: btw Acid, Warsow misses your style.

[[acid]]

I don't care too much, because I've already been interviewed by a newspaper and reactions were exclusively positive. My former headmaster once phoned me, I shall not release it, because there would be a copyright regarding the inside of the school and thieves might be able to train with the map

It is a public building, always open from 7am to 5pm. The current headmaster seems to be a lot more relaxed tho.

[Kaz]

Everyone's competition maps are starting to look really neat - glad I don't have to worry about it this go around
@fkd: try not to break q3map2 too badly

I might actually be able to release a beta of this sometime in the near future, it's nearing "presentable" as opposed to "really broken", and I'd like to have some folks inspect it again :

[lvlshot]http://student.cs.appstate.edu/freemancw/junk/shot0325.jpg[/lvlshot]

[Bliccer]

It seems that not only the competition maps look good... great job.
Only the texture in the doorway is misaligned.

[clownfart]

How long have you been showing that map for?

[Rav3n]

Eraser is right, that map definitely looks like something for Urban Terror.
Tho i haven't really seen much "urban" maps been made lately.
Even I'm working on something more medieval looking that urban.

[fKd]

so far...

[nitin77]

is that now a ctf only map? Nooooo...

[cityy]

Looking cool fkd - I like it. A little dark on my screen though.
My stuff is slowly starting to take shape.

[lvlshot]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15072710/MSGcompetition2011/week6_ingame%282%29.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15072710/MSGcompetition2011/week6_ingame%283%29.jpg[/lvlshot]

[corsair]

UDK, interesting and capable, but filthy >;V



this is WIP, and nearly final.

- horrible smooth-edges errors are horribly apparent and known.. any thoughts/feelings on the atmosphere/color tones? too this or too that? or ok?
- a glass shader's map isn't normalized - occasionally making the glass blue and/or interfere with the fog
- glass shader is fuct - distortion - opacity - light transmittance and whatnot need to be addressed

[obsidian]

Try with less fog, it seems strange with so much fog indoors. It should look like dust beams, not a Marlboro convention.

I take it most of it is modelled?

[Silicone_Milk]

Interesting. I just started playing with the UDK a couple days ago, corsair.

Prototyping a brawler game and am learning how to make custom static meshes for it.

[tehSandwich]

I have been working on trying something in Blender and NetRadiant, something that would look seamless in-game.
This is a case in me using the pk02 texture pack. Try to find the seam between the model and the game brushes.

[Eraser]

UDK, interesting and capable, but filthy >;V



this is WIP, and nearly final.

- horrible smooth-edges errors are horribly apparent and known.. any thoughts/feelings on the atmosphere/color tones? too this or too that? or ok?
- a glass shader's map isn't normalized - occasionally making the glass blue and/or interfere with the fog
- glass shader is fuct - distortion - opacity - light transmittance and whatnot need to be addressed

It looks like all the colour has been sucked out of it. There seems to e a lot of visual noise somehow. It kind of looks like this was rendered at 320x200 and then upscaled to 1080p.

[corsair]

thanks for the suggestions and critique - will definitely improve those bits

the scene´s geo is indeed all modeled; you'll probably wonder what the size of this is on the hdd then too. And that's a bummer indeed because the level and the content pack combined are 200mb!!

It is proceduraly modelled in houdini, which means every step taken in creation is stored (like chain), and every parameter from any action can be linked to another (which would connect multiple chains, more more or less).
What's left is a construction tree - or a multitude of them for the various types of geometry in this case - which allows for a very flexible way of working as well as a relatively small filesize (but with an increased loading time instead - as the end result still needs to be computed after the file is loaded).
The scene file for houdini is only around 8mb (300kb compressed) - the textures in the udk-pack account for much less. If I had exported smaller bits and copied them more often in udk I could make massive leaps with filesize reduction - but I'd prefer an engine which would accept procedural language instead of going trough the trouble ;p

The images probably feel resized because the materials are mostly setup for color only as of yet - but the contrast, normal mapping and resolution are still borked

have fun silicon_milk! there's a lot to explore :)

[Strahlemann]

fKd: i really like what i see! The screens have a great massive feel. Very nice detailing and architecture. I only wonder while half of the daemia-statue is buried (1st pic)

cityy:: looks super-slick

tehSandwich: looks seamless. But also doesn't look like modeled in Blender Anyways i'd like to know what workflow you used if you don't mind

[tehSandwich]

tehSandwich: looks seamless. But also doesn't look like modeled in Blender Anyways i'd like to know what workflow you used if you don't mind

It's really just some careful UV-Unwrapping and the forcemeta spawnflag. A thing to note is that it is impossible to make such a thing directly in GTK-Radiant; Brushes are too crude, curves are imprecise.

Here's a picture of the "ring" used. For some reason, the ASE exporter I used triangulates in-Blender and not in-plugin. I ended up saving the triangulated mesh.

[fKd]

cheers Strahlemann. its going well so far.

[cityy]

[lvlshot]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/15072710/MSGcompetition2011/week7_ingame%281%29.jpg[/lvlshot]

Beta soon!

[Eraser]

Awesome lighting. Has a bit of a Blade Runner feel to it.

[ShadoW_86]

Good work cityy, looks classy.

Small preview of my own map, abmient lighting only and no details :

[fKd]

very nice!

[obsidian]

Arches look to large and heavy to support themselves, suggest arches below:

[ShadoW_86]

Hehe, actually I'm thinking about something like that.