Posts by DvS

  • [TF2] cp_unnamed (updated)

    Quote from Psycho

    Looks nice. Are these made from scratch or reference images?

    Ref pics, yes and no. When I look at them now they don't really resemble what I have at all.

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    Trying to get the look right, it doesn't seem to want to fit in nicely.

    The last texture worked close up, but tiled really badly with the chipped corners.

    EDIT: Progress, I hope....

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  • [TF2] cp_unnamed (updated)

    Thought I'd stop spamming the wip screenshot thread and start my own.

    This is what the map textures looked like:

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    And this is what I'm trying out at the moment. It is pretty cheap, a blend between the cutout filter and some other stuff + a new normal map, but I can't help but liking it for some reason.

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    I cropped out the textures that I haven't changed yet, they will require more work so if I end up going back to the other texture style, I won't lose as much time. Feel free to add input.

    Still orangemapping the layout, nothing concrete yet.

    Also, taking suggestions for names, cp_dust = no

  • Zero Gear - an indie multiplayer kart racing game

    Given the minimalistic art style, I don't think the "time" hud piece is very useful/helpful unless time is a critical component in the gameplay. Even if I don't really play kart games on a regular basis, I'd imagine a higher priority be placed on getting past other players than focusing on improving your "best lap time".

    But that's just me

  • PC Adventure Game Accused Of Ripping Assets

    Quote from Laurence Francis

    Dear ShaDoW,We use inhouse engine which utilises 2d backgrounds and 3d characters for cutscenes. I'm responsible for all Voice Acting, Steve did all character models and mocap editing and Tim painted/rendered all 2d backgrounds (which were inspired by other games such us Oblivion and RTCW). We've put 10 years of hard work to make this thing happen! I'm glad You all like it.

    Best Regards,

    Laurence Francis

    Obvious unsuccessful troll is obviously unsuccessful.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from Term!nator525

    oh really?

    Have those rusty pipe models reskinned, they scream hl2 and tile really badly.

    Also, on the first shot you can see grating on the side wall things that is sort of half inside a wall, it looks really weird.

    Other than that, it looks good.

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    Albatros":ta7m6iy4]

    Working on it .

    Changed the lighting due to suggestions, towards a blueish style. What do you guys think?

    Last picture: close-up of AA-searchlight, gonna tune it down for the next compile but I like the effect already.

    Cheers

    I like the change from sepia. While it would have been pretty novel, it would probably wear off pretty fast for players.

    EDIT: Update.

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  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    The geometry is interesting, if not a bit overdone on the diagonal side, but from what I can see through the DoF effect and the angled camera, it looks a lot like a (good) HL1 level.

    Post some unaltered screenshots (no DoF, no angles) with a better JPG quality and larger resolution and it may start to look like source.

  • TF2 Purple Reflections?

    I've found some posts stating that you can get around it by not using a TF2 sky, but that's not really good enough for me.

    Another post said to do mat_specular 0, build cubemaps and then reload the map, but then I get this error:

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    *** Error unserializing VTF file... is the file empty?


Error reading texture header "materials/maps/textest2/c-2080_256_32.vtf"


*** Error unserializing VTF file... is the file empty?


Error reading texture header "materials/maps/textest2/c-768_256_64.vtf"

    And the purple reflections come back after I re-enable mat_specular.

  • TF2 Purple Reflections?

    This is the exact console output after building cubemaps:

    Compile:

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    I really like the textures, but please don't use displacements for those.

    While displacements are cheap to compile and render, they are absolute murder on file sizes. I made a smallish DM map using nothing but displacements and that was 40mb. Needless to say, it didn't receive much play.

  • TF2 Purple Reflections?

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    I have two cubemaps in this screenshot and they're both the same, I've built them and I'm not using HDR (when I do, I get the same result, except more pronounced). Not using the skyname_hdr thing as that gave me more purple stuff. Tried googling this but kept getting people who had purple checkerboards for textures, not reflections. Oh, and using the tc_hydro sky, not that it matters since I've tried at least 3 others.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Deez: How much of that is custom material? I've never played gears of war so I wouldn't know. Looks very good even though as Sentura said, the textures sort of blur together.

    Another small update, sorry about the spam, but I thought I'd include a reference to set the scale.

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    I've got a little clash of art styles though with the TF2 models and my textures, but I'm hoping it'll look ok once I start detailing with overlays and overlapping displacements (sand).

    EDIT: Most of the walls behind the "broken" brick walls will be removed when I finish my sand texture, I'm gonna have sand come pouring out with displacements.

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  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from MJ

    looks like a ns map

    Exactly what I was going to say, I think it's the diagonal bits that do this.

    Anyway, I made some revisions:

    Scaled up the brick texture (as in, enlarge canvas, fill in more bricks) to eliminate repetition.

    Changed the tiles from blue-dominated to black-dominated (although it looks blue too)

    Changed many surfaces from the blue trim to the bricks.

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    Now I just need to come up with a layout

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from Quakis

    Personaly, I absolutely love the look of those textures. The blue tones really work well with the sandrock-coloured brick. Nice work. Th brick however does have major repeatitiveness issues though.

    Thanks, and yeah, I originally was going to scrap the brick because there are only two distinct bricks in the pattern and it looks kind of weird, I might just replace it.

    Quote from Psycho

    I find the blue a little overpowering. Hurts my eyes a little.

    You mean all the blue or just the tiles? Needs to be toned down yeah? Originally the tiles were orange, does look a bit excessive.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    My first shot at making custom textures, planning to make something for TF2 when I get this down.

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    BTW: Does anyone know why all your reflections turn purple when you try to compile HDR in TF2? Works for EP2