Posts by rockdude86

Quote from Hipshot

@ rockdude86, use another skybox, the current one is dated, bland and sub par.

ghehe happen to have a nice one laying around?

heres another update

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yes its stil very dark... however i did brighten up the light_env AND the torches. could use some crits on this. for myself i think its a lot better already

EDIT

here is a whole pack of new screenshots http://%7boption%7d

eheh yeah you could say im struggling with that light_env i cant really get it to be the way i want to.

when i made the huge rocks into a 3dskybox the rocks got lit up more somehow so they didnt fit the map anymore.

so its really anoying when you want your 3d skybox to be darker and the map itself to be brighter.

im currently trying out some different settings for the light_env ive made the angle a bit steeper so that theres more direct light and turnt the ambient up a little.

dont know about the contrast though i dont want it to be too blue.

maybe this is a bit better? its not yet much lighter but color wise maybe its better?

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it was... i've got a pretty busy live nowadays with working and such however i've been quietly learning some new stuff over the last year especially texturing and some modeling stuff.

back then i didnt feel like i was going anywhere with the map since i didnt have any modeling skills. so i kinda got over that now and you can expect some more updates soon.

im probably not going to change really much to the map exept for the lighting and adding props to it

bump....

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added nice bumpmap to the mountains, modelled torches and some minor additions.

been more than a year since i last did something with the map, somehow i feld the urge to continue with it...

that's pretty awesome for q3

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That's a real shame if it's true. Shorter production time and less technical concerns than current engines

mean it would be an ideal platform for casual/enthusiast mappers.

I'd love to see a simple in game UI for managing custom maps, making them easy to install and more conveniant for the average gamer. I know I'm dreaming there though.

i've read a article on carmack's quakecon speach in wich he said quake live wont feature modding capability from the beginning but they are thinking of adding it later on

hmm i cant get that to work all i get when i replace the LightmappedGeneric tag with LightmappedGeneric_DX9_hdr is wireframe

thanks for the help ill try to find the tag. i can probably find it on the valve developer wiki and ill try using a stronger envmaptint.

dont really know what kind of method your refering to but im already using the commands to lower the contrast and saturation.

here is my vmt file:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{

"$basetexture" "set01/brick01"

"$bumpmap" "set01/brick01_normal"

"$envmaptint" "[ 0.3 0.3 0.3 ]"

"$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1

"$envmapcontrast" 0.2

"$envmapsaturation" 0.2

"$envmap" "env_cubemap"

"$surfaceprop" "brick"

"%keywords" "set01"

}

dont know if it could be of any help but im not really sure if the hdr effect is the problem.

so im trying to add a specular map to a wall texture ive made and when running in ldr it looks ok but when i use hdr everything turns completely shiny and my texture becomes plastic!

here are some screenshots:

with hdr:

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as you can see the ldr version's specularity is barely visible so why does it turn into plastic in hdr mode? some help would be greatly apreciated

tried out the same tut as hp did and added some other stuff i've learned lately.

made some variations also

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so since hammer is still not working for me i've been toying around some with photoshop after a long break due to moving on my own/work so here's some crete wal with added ornaments probably is a bit off but it's just for practice. tell me what you think of it.

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bugging bigtime? it doesnt even work for me... when i load up and click even a single object it crashes!!!! and its been like that for a couple of months now for me

counts for both the new beta and the ep1 version of the editor

first try to create some sort of a metal texture:

*used a ref from cgtextures*

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trying out some more stuff

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*for some reason liking the greenish aqua style*

my first brick texture

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c&c very welcome...

started working on my own base textures:

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never saw that coming

good to some more dutch work on here

looking nice man

simply amazing seeing that on source looks better then the episode2 stuff thats out there. how did you do the shadows on the ground?

yeah texturing is pretty crappy right now havent yet found a texture set of my likings

dunno maybe ill finally go and learn how to make my own

same goes for the brushes not being models i can handle 3dsmax to some extent but havent got around it that much to go all the way with texturing etc...

but since i have vacation right now i got the time to learn some new stuff