El Paso [Outlaws&Lawmen] (updated 17 jan)

I had many doubts about sun position, and also there were some problems with light intensity but that's partially caused by my TFT low bright configuration. Now I think this will be the final lighting, I tested also on a CRT

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(HDR on)

BTW, I can't get to work new prop static lighting, that supposed to work only in DOD/EP1 or am I doing something wrong? Well, I'm not sure at all, there is prop (curtains) which is half lighted, not possible with standard system. That prop is inside the saloon so doesn't receive light_env, could it be related?

Shadows are still quite dependent of the ground lightmap scale. That's 64 now for compile times, so props don't even cast shadows. Final LS will be 16 I guess, except on outer parts. In the HDR shots maybe contrast was higher and shadows were darker, I'm not sure, below shots are LDR.

And this is a small stagecoach I made. I'm not used to model such "complicated" props, he he, skin is a pain in the arse for me but I tried to do something decent. Some corners were cut to mantain polycount down (850/ 1520/2200)

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This is a respawn area, lighting still needs some improvements:

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I like that idea too, but I'm not sure at all if those displacements'd look credible enough. I mean that all surrounding textures would need such dusty feeling as well. Implementing them over all the map is far from being possible now, not too much room to add more details.

About that wood texture, I haven't too much freedom for texture usage now, the video memory usage is quite high so I'm reusing the same materials in several places.

Well, still some work to do here, but this map is in its last stages. This is a slaughter house:

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There are open areas and close combat areas, to give you a rough idea: it's like GR:AW in the MP game mode where each team need to control several zones to win the map.

Thx Teddy, hope our mod will be out in not too much time, still some work to do with characters and coding (and that's progressing slowly). Weapons and maps are okay at least for a first release. Textures are completed for this map, but thanks anyway

I was messing with wind today, there are random wind gusts and I was able to create a very subtle effect. I mean, no visible dust sprites, looks quite real and performance doesn't suffer too much. Also tried to add moving tumbleweed, but it doesn't work yet. I supposed it should work only with the env_wind and a very light prop, but something fails. Long time ago I did it just with a func_phys.

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He he, sure, here are some:

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I found the issue , there was needed a trigger_wind to push the tumbleweed instead the env_wind, just remembered. Dust clouds+tumbleweeds will rock he he.

The old engine is still vacant, so if you keep interested won't be any problem.