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Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:23 am
by phantasmagoria
o'dium wrote:Ignore lighting/shadowing, just added it quickly to that position to test the flow. Works fine.

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/odq4ctf1_beta_rail.jpg[/lvlshot]
you need to sort the lighting and the shadows out in that, the big black box looks terrible

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:37 am
by DooMer
It's kind of strange having 2 of the same weapon so close to each other. like the ng on both sides of the rail. CTF weapon spawns are fast.

Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2005 10:20 am
by o'dium
DooMer wrote:It's kind of strange having 2 of the same weapon so close to each other. like the ng on both sides of the rail. CTF weapon spawns are fast.
Only reason I tried that was because vortex does it, but i never saw the point either.

What i'll do, is i'll just add them all to one select area in the middle once the map geometry is done, and then use that for testing jumps/sizes etc (already found quite a few nifty jumps). Then I can work on placement.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:41 am
by o'dium
Ok. Got sky portals working but particles still draw in front of them from elsewhere in the map for some reason, so i'll fix that after work. The sky portals are now a bit more detailed than before, plus they have team nebula:

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/odq4ctf1_shot_1.jpg[/lvlshot]

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/odq4ctf1_shot_2.jpg[/lvlshot]

Plus if you look up, you get a nice pic of the moon, because your halfway between the bases:

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/odq4ctf1_shot_3.jpg[/lvlshot]

I'll fix that bug later and finish up on geometry then i'm done.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:58 am
by MKJ
nice touch on the moon sir

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:25 am
by DooMer
make the strogg base hover over stroggos. DO EET

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:19 am
by Kiltron
Glad to inspire. Looks neat! ;)

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:00 pm
by o'dium
DooMer wrote:make the strogg base hover over stroggos. DO EET
I want to so bad, but you can only have one sky portal.

Posted: Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:00 pm
by rgoer
so make your sky portal big enough for two planets

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:02 pm
by o'dium
Ok, took what some people said onboard. I heard a lot about how small some areas and walkways were, so i fixed that and made the walkways wider. I heard some people moan about the detail being to sparse, for which i agreed with because it was a beta map for layout not detail :p I re-did the whole size and shape structure of the thing but kept the overall feel the same. Its got a bulkier feeling to it.

I've also been making my own textures and team decals and so on for the level and so far its looking a shit load better.

Ill keep you updated.

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:12 pm
by o'dium
Example of new team decals:

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/teamlogos.png[/lvlshot]

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 4:33 pm
by jester!
I like them. :icon26:

New link for download?

Posted: Thu Nov 24, 2005 10:04 pm
by jayP.lq
looks great Odium

my clan just got a Q4 ctf server, once your map is finalized I'll see about running your map on it

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 9:37 pm
by o'dium
Still working on those textures, its proving hard, i dont have a lot of free time ATM. Heres another preview, its the teleporter bracket at last. well, keep in mind that textures these days take four times the work load, so i have to make four texture for a single surface. Anyways, its also an alpha texture which means the center metal part is cut out from the rest. I've tried to give a pic, on the right, of it ingame, but remember that its using a static light source so the angles may look odd:

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/od_teleside.png[/lvlshot]

(of course the damn ingame shot came out blurry because its resized (the one far right)

Posted: Mon Nov 28, 2005 10:18 pm
by neh
dude - take your time and get summit you're happy with - next beta comes when the next beta comes ..

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:25 am
by HateFactor
o'dium wrote:Example of new team decals:

[lvlshot]http://www.quake2evolved.com/odium/teamlogos.png[/lvlshot]
:icon14: :icon14: :icon14:

Posted: Tue Nov 29, 2005 4:44 pm
by r3t
This looks to be coming together quite nicely. Good job o'dium, keep it up! :icon14: