The Forgotten

Thanks guys!

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Some very promising stuff in the outdoor areas.I think you get nice results when texturing the BSP with unique sheets but I think you run into problems with reusable sheets, and wasting time making unique sheets. Would be worth building a few very generic sets (a 512x512 sheet with two 256x512 walls on them, for example; a generic ceiling and floor etc) to save yourself time and only use unique sheets where you absolutely have to.

The reason that it'd be easier in source is you have more tools to allow you to detail places more uniquely without having to rely on very detailed unique texture sheets. However, it looks fine on HL1, has a very retro vibe to it. In a sort of ugly pixelated way

Anyway, looks very nice, more screens please.

I'm not using unique sheets everywhere, there's still a lot of tiled textures, especially for the outdoor areas, it's more for the indoor locations where such detail is more noticable.

Someone said the patrol car wheels should be plain, so I changed them.. not sure which one is the better deal...

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It's a custom source model converted to goldsource by someone, they sent it to me, I didn't download it.

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Quote from Joe Pesci

Fogging fog!

There's only so many ways you can make a country highway, so it's bound to share the same look, but SH2 didn't have powerlines running down that area and there was a fence post not a metal barrier. I want to use the visual style of said game but not copy the environments as that's just lame.

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I bet you're going to tell me the map looks a lot like Silent Hill 2 as well, good job it's WIP.. ;/

I'm not angry!

You'll be able to visit a lot of the town but little of the surrounding county other than the forest and camp, lots of sections will be blocked off with vehicles, barriers, debris etc.

No way, I want to avoid big gaps in the road and those daft ten foot barriers. I'm talking more construction netting, fallen powerlines, barriers that block off road due to hurricaine warnings (o hi, ive played vice city), I'm currently writing up a list of ways to block off areas that don't rip-off Silent Hill. The only 'hole' will be a collapsed bridge, which has been torn apart by a tornado (original.. yes).

As for the code, it's still just the Paranoia engine at the moment, I don't even have working fog yet (the screenshot above is a photoshop job to test how well the environment looks with fog applied, which appears to be very well. I've had exactly 6 people tell me TF looks just as good Silent Hill 2/3.. this pleases me immensely. I'll be attempting to incorperate bits of STALKER into the mould as well, it has several areas that would fit well into a country town.

BUMP!

Following the small heart attack I endured from having my machine go Tits Up™ I managed to sort it all out, so I've been slaving away *cough* to bring you all the new media release, except that this wont be ready for awhile yet. However since you guys are so awesome I put together a couple of pieces of media, one of which isn't very exciting but the other one... well, let's just say enjoy it whilst you can, this section will most likely not be shown to the public eye much at all (It's the Elderworld you see... it's kind of... special).

Sorry there isn't more here, stay tuned for the proper media showcase around mid August-September

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Three things;

1) That door texture is from a photobook.

2) The Max Payne textures are free to use for non-commercial use anyway.

3) The door is a mixture of different sources.

Sometimes shortcuts have to be made for a project this ambitious!