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cause DAMN that looks awesome. are those all your own textures again? fantastic work, if they are. ;)
Any one with a relatively slowe pc, like p4 or an old a64 willing to do some performance testing?
I have here an nf2 ultra board, I can put on it xp1700+ xp2100+ xp2500+ or xp2800+
I also have tualatin 1400, but I guess that's too slow. Videocard - anything you want, I have a videocard collection, I can test it with anything from voodoo1 to gtx460 (my current card). necros, the textures are all my own work, I am not sure you why you are winking in your comments, I thought they were good quality. I was planning another puzzle map but my laptop just died yesterday and took all the data with it, such as life! :)
nitin, yeah the Italy trip was good, I took about 5K of photo's and I have mountains of new texture / architecture reference. It is always refreshing to see new places when wanting some inspiration. I was developing my own set of SP style entities which I was hoping could be merged into entityplus. Unfortunately if I don't get my HD back from my old laptop, it will be all gone.
Bleh rather fed up with fiddling with this thing, it appears to be working okay now, so anyone interested please take a look.
No area in it is finalised, and a lot of it is raw layout with no brushwork (but a lot is also pretty heavily worked on). I'm quite busy irl so I wanted to get this out for feedback before I disappear off again, so sorry for releasing an unfinished product :( If you have an old machine don't try it, it's only fast-VIS'd -Monsters- Easy: 247 Normal: 291 Hard: 490 Hard has loads of Quoth monsters, less powerups, more traps and is generally really nasty. ***Requires Quoth and a powerful engine*** http://www.zealousquakefan.com/junk/zqf_arrival_alpha.zip random screenshot lawl
http://www.zealousquakefan.com/junk/zqftest03_construction73.jpg Another big open area, I'll never learn
Aboard speeding trains, toot toot! Light glitches on pipes makes me sad :( Blocking out platformy silliness Looking for good but basic look for a skybox for Arrival :E Number one rule for sci-fi reactor operation: Don't actually look at it Yeah this is going to be fun trying to finish :E Trying to get the right atmosphere for this place...atm low lighting and fog... had to up the pic gamma :/ Just catching up on 2 months of stuff! That's a large amount of texturing to be done zqf. Got halfway into it so far. For now on I'm using a shotgun to learn code.
I was getting a problem in one area where a brushface wasn't getting lit fully, even by adding a light directly under the face. Nearby is a triggered light, and at a distance some other non triggered lights. Turned out the distant, non triggered lights overwrote (lit) the final version of the rendered face, and not the later (much closer) triggered lights. By deleting the non triggered lights, the face was lit the way I wanted it. Did you see any warnings like "too many styles on a face" when running light.exe? That would explain the problem you were seeing.
Nice pipes; for the lighting either play with anglesense, switch to q3bsp and darkplaces and use patch meshes, or place point lights around them to fake proper lighting.
Plus, any light problems are less visible when your map is overall bright... The reactor: Just surround it with tons of pipes and blinking lights ;-) Ambient sounds!! Could be overall a lot brighter, but I realize the space theme requires deep shadows. At first I was using bjp's light with no warnings. Months later I tried Tyrann's tools and got the too many lightstyles, so I stuck with bjp light. Thing is, the light setup and architecture is mirrored (i'm guilty) and one side works correct the other not. I fixed it by moving lights around, but the problem came back when adding more brushes in the room in other remote areas.
Tyrann's warnings may be correct, not sure, but I still have the same number of lightstyles and it's all working. It just seemed like the same triggered-on light would act up on the same brush face on occasion. I deleted those lights a while ago and thought they were regular ambient. I loaded a backup of the map and found they were switchable lights, thus pushing past the 4 style limit.
It looks interesting for the visible part.. but damn: can't you tune the gamma ?? It is way too dark even with my laptop screen brightness to its max :/
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