no lightmaps on any surfaces.. you could bake shadows onto the terrain tho.
peri: in etqw megatexturing will only be available on terrain as mentioned at quakecon etc.
i think i read in some interviews with carmack that he wants that megatexturing on all surfaces in the future. maybe ids next engine? dunno.
peri: yeah andrew rocks 
he basically created his scene based on those rumors.
haha good one zacker 
well as far as i am aware the megatexturing technology is indeed new (at least the way it is being used). its one big texture that is being streamed in and out of memory. it doesnt load the whole texture at once. afaik what battlefield does is using a "lowres" texture for creating unique shades on the terrain so it looks completly unique on a distance and if you get closer it just uses tiled textures layered on that. thats only a guess tho.
seriously tho i really think its only a selling point. megatexturing will start to be really interesting as soon as you can use it on all surfaces.
Quote from MarkusI don't understand why they are trying to emphasize this 'megatexture' technology as the concept been around for years
its a selling point.
awesome model! how about some empty shells in those boxes?
heh. arne was here for an interview already.
where do you get all your infos you got on your site, channie? i dont know any french but your articles on leveldesign for etqw seem fairly lengthy.
awesome ref fotos on that site!!! thanks a lot!
well deserved mr royce 
greetings to badmofo indeed.
Quote from DennisplsHmm never even heard of might check it out if its so awesome
lol what are you doing on mapcore then? poke646 is the best singleplayer mod for hl1 and might only be beaten by its successor.
Quote from TeddyBearI've had a very good friend of mine here tonight, he let me do some scans of his face and body. Here is some material of this night's experimental harvest
hah.. nice way to say that you were making out all night 
seriously though it looks like very decent results. but the normalmap doesnt look like it will work on a 3d mesh. prove me wrong by posting a 360 turnaround video
a super mario kart level editor would be much cooler
nothing, any recommendations?
are you sure its an mmorpg? i thought it was mainly a singleplayer game like diablo and in multiplayer theres a limit to amount of players etc.
i could be wrong though
lighting is still the weakest part in your whole project as i mentioned a while ago already.
rest is nice
judging by the demo i really liked the looks and sharp and crisp textures. i thought the bloom was a bit too heavy most of the time though. too bad im not a big fan of tactical shooters like this.
grafically its pretty nice tho. get us some screenshots of your textures now, klein!
yup, teddy. that is incredible! doesnt even look like a render!
heres some serious feedback:
- water colour doesnt match up with sky colour!
- do some reference research on building roofs and get some more unique shapes into the skymodel buildings, some colour variation on the facades, more church towers etc. ; add a trim to the closer skybox building between facade and roof
- i know you are shooting for a cartoony look but you should still match up the tree colour (and the water in the bay - again) to go with the more realistic approach on some of the detailled building facades
- add a slight angle to the sun direction, atm it casts a perfect 90 degree angle shadow on the ground
- make the stone basement for that big building a bit slanted, straight 90 degree angles sucks
- armrest on that chair has a wierd and probably uncomfortable shape
- might be good to have some more roof detail to help the silhouette a bit, like more antennas and cables, the few antennas that are there work quite well.
- add just a little bit more dirt to that clean beige plaster wall so it goes easier with the awesome decals u got
- add a proper ending to some of the shingle roofs - check hessis corse map for reference
- u got some red brick chimneys but no red bricks anywhere else in the map. maybe adjust them to yellow/brown/greyish bigger bricks or plaster or whatever.
otherwise this map is looking hot. definitely dont step away too far from the cartoony look - its your own style (as it already was back in the day of 52h mapping contest or even winternights ) but you know you can push it a bit, try new stuff
cant wait to try the map when its close to being done!
ah.. a 3dsmax workstation pretty
not too shabby
Quote from atrocityFrieChamp: GG_Factory was made off of a few shots like this one[Blocked Image: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y64/Red…IMG_1096res.jpg]
ive seen this before. here is another take on this scene by a fellow mapper. hope it serves as some inspiration for you. http://littlelostpoly.co.uk/images/gall ... /nd039.jpg
btw. i think that crossfire is probably your strongest map atm. i wouldve liked to see a slightly different take on it but i guess you decided to stick as close as possible to it for the blackmesa mod. still looks good though
