A WIP.. and a hello

    KungFuSquirrel: For the walls alone there's 14 512x512 textures. You're not going to get that from any console or PC title any time soon for the amount of realestate those textures are occupying. A more realistic number for videogames for this amount of realestate is 5, maybe 6, 512x resolution textures. So far, there's 26 textures - trust me, no game will push that for this small amount of space. I have to fight with that sort of thing day-in-and-day-out at work. I'm doing this piece to move away from those limits and have some fun.

    Thanks for the comment on the textures. The bottom texture is most likely from the Marlin Studios texture pack; they're mixed in with the rest of my sourcing images.

    KoKo5oVaR: Yah :\ I'll be running about a 15-20% sharpen on the final when its all done. What I've done to this is about 50%, and its overkill.

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    You're not going to see a lot of whiz-bang visuals in concrete, thats for sure. The scene will come thru in beauty shots.

    and super-high resolution normal maps

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    I dare you to compile this for Source

    wouldn't the lighting be crap though? since it's basically going to be one big model, it'll be taking lighting from either origin or vertex-based. i suppose you could light it in max and bake it into the textures.

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    wouldn't the lighting be crap though? since it's basically going to be one big model, it'll be taking lighting from either origin or vertex-based. i suppose you could light it in max and bake it into the textures.

    Thanks for the comments so far.

    I'm fairly sure that Episode 1 added localised vertex lighting (i.e. fairly accurate per-vertex lighting) as opposed to taking a light sample from the prop's origin and lighting vertices using that one lighting point.

    There's very little information on the technical specifics unfortunately. The best explanation I found was from one of the DoD:S forum posts by a Valve guy. I've not seen anything similar to lightmaps for props. It'd be a nice thing to have for when the need arises

    Another thing would be shadows. There'd be no character/object shadows. They should really work that into the Source engine (as in, static props accepting shadows).

    lol wonderful work anyway Adam, even if this thread is starting to turn into a source engine discussion. if you can stand the transition, you should try working in hammer instead and making a full-blown map. you would obviously be able to make your own textures/props, and that would be a very good thing.

    SnipaMasta: Static props have the ability to do this now, dynamic props do not. So you'll get it on objects that aren't moving, but characters and other physic props are out.

    Belgarion: I work with the Source engine professionally, I'd rather not do my stuff at home for the engine. I'm sure you can understand

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    Defrag: As I mentioned, they added lightmaps for static props to Epi1. This gives the illusion of self-shadowing. It's very sexy. There's a -command that you have to run when cooking with vrad. I don't know it off hand, sorry.

    If you could dig it out, I'd appreciate it. Is there a way to apply it to only specific props or is it a map-wide change?

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