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Well, its hard to believe its been 5 months already. This project currently dwarfs my previous release and has much more to offer. I've got a Beta ready to go and am looking for a couple people to play through and give demos/feedback. You will have to click my name and them email me - private beta.
The map features new textures, sound effects, and implements many AD features such as custom particle templates, storyline and more. I've already posted a couple of screens, but here's another gallery update: http://imgur.com/a/qNGOZ So far I've had a lot of great help and feedback from people on func already, and it has been a blast to work on this. As mentioned before this map is a mix of Egyptian ruins and base map, inspired partly by Operation Urth-Magik. Anyone who wants to be a tester, click my name and email me! I will try to send you the beta within 24hrs. Thanks, Redfield Looks great! Though the only gripe I have is that the outdoor area looks a bit dull with lighting. I would suggest adding some proper sunlight, so you can mess around with _sunlight_mangle until it looks right to you.
Hey Breezeep, ya I do agree with you on the flat sun. The reason I've got _sunlight2 right now is because of frustration. I had a sunlight mangle setup, trying to replicate the sun in the skybox and I end up with super vibrant areas of sun, and dead black goofy looking areas of shadow. The shadows are so bad that I place lights everywhere to fill them. I keep replacing lights, compile, hate it, replace, repeat. So I went with sunlight2 for less ridiculous shadows.
Maybe I could try a much smaller mangle, I'll keep experimenting, but I'm really not too impressed with _sunlight. Combining _sunlight2 and _sunlight is a good bet.
_sunlight gives you sun light coming from a particular direction that matches the skybox (but fully black shadows), and _sunlight2 is coming from all directions (anywhere that can see sky texture) and helps light up the harsh shadows a bit. I have a screenshot on https://ericwa.github.io/tyrutils-ericw/ in the "sunlight" section, click on "sunlight + sunlight2" I never thought to try them both at once, I'll give that a go.
If there is anyone else that has the time to test my beta, please post here and either email me or give your email and I can send you the beta files. I saw that it was actively discouraged to post betas on quaketastic anymore, and to handle it privately, so I'm going that route. Sprites are awesome but impractical and will be the death of the project if I don't ditch them :(
in-game oppressor model + test animation original sculpt retopo It turns out models are 10x easier and faster to produce than sprites and way more flexible. Go figure. It was a naive pursuit and I was too hard-headed to realize it. Note to self: try to avoid such blunders in the future. As someone who prefers Quake, as cool as the sprites were I think that models are better.
I think you made the right decision :) Yup. And he looks spectacular in-game. Life is all about learning or at least it should be.
@dumptruck - I agree. Sometimes stubbornness pays off, not so much this time. However, I'm optimistic about the model route and moving full speed ahead!
thought I had to share: http://quakeone.com/forum/quake-mod-releases/works-in-progress/276445-arenagate-q3dm1-remake-for-arcane-dimensions
Yes, you read that right: Soulmarine is remaking Q3 maps for AD, with MP (duh!) but also SP added in. Even got a little help from our own dumptruck_ds... I quite like the idea if he can pull it off.
A way to overwrite something I've uploaded to quaketastic later when I've updated it or is google drive share link better?
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