Posts by Zacker

Those skies are pretty well made! Made in which program?

Lol yeah I also remember cs_rio as a true top quality map.

Sounds very cool!

It is one of my biggest wishes that I one day get a job in the game dev industry. I am however not really sure of what I should work on in order to get a such job. Considering the amount of industry guys in here, it should be possible to get some answers.

I can do all kind of stuff related to game design, I do only master a few things though. Which skills can give me a job in the game dev industry?

Until now I have only made maps in VHE. Would it be best to become even better with VHE or should I look into learning level design for other engines? Do they prefer a guy who is ok at 3 engines or someone who master 1 engine?

I can also program in some languages such as php, actionscript, c++, TI-basic, Java and some others, nothing really hardcore though. Would it be wise learn some more programming? Can this work together with level design?

Texturing/skinning is another area which I got some experience in. I am still not any good at it compared to the pros though. I guess that this is one of the things which would be good to know if you want a position as level designer?

The last 2 years or so I have been project leader. Is this worth anything? If I want a job as level designer, does it then matter that I can lead a team? Would it maybe be better just to get someone else to lead SoW and then focus on my position as Lead Level Designer?

I think the trailer look pretty much as expected. It was nothing special, but still ok action.

They aren't allowed to portray Hell because of the budget:D

Looks like a good and simple tutorial!

DoD was a really great game once, back in the times with beta 1-1.3b. After that it was still an ok fun mod, but nothing really special.

I will wait with judging DoD:Source until I have tried it. It might be a game which I am going to use some time on, but it is also very possible that I will drop it after a few hours of play.

Welcome!

Yep, I still got the music from Doom on my hdd as it is still fantastic:) E3M9 and Endmission are among my favorites.

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Oh yes, the next one's gonna be even better

FOFMG HE BROEKS TEH NDA!!11

aarrhgh

I actually think that game firms would get some of their best possible advertising and hype if some more of their workers broke the nda's. Reading a press announcement or seeing an add is far from cool, getting to hear insider details on a new game certainly is!

I don't understand your frustration as I see it the other way around. I think that in general the texture artists are the most respected and the most wanted.

As a level designer I know how extremely much a texture guy means and I am pretty sure most other people do too.

I think the reason why texture artists are so looked up to is because that a good texture artist is very rare. There are plenty of level designers, programmers and such, but not that many texture artists.

In my experience texture artists have for sure been the hardest ones to find to recruit for Sands of War. As it is now it is the same situation as ever, texture artists are what we really need.

Nice! FarCry was a damn well made game, so it's really cool that you stay there:)

Yep, thats cool:)

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Well so much for that, I just got another e-mail from HR that tells me I don't have the job. Miscommunication sucks, but I will keep in contact about the internship.Oh well, better luck next time maybe

Ohh man, I feel sorry for you, that must be like really downtrip to discover that...

I think the skins in the first shot look very nice. Some high res skins can indeed improve the characters a lot, something which I guess most can agree on why they compare the normal g-man and the high res gman in HL2.

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the remake was crap tho imo, the simplicity of the original made it alot better imo :Gstill, the original is one of the best maps to date

UT was a really fantastic game, but UT2004 is just perfect. UT2k3 was a bit of a bummer where they just focused on gfx, but in UT2k4 they got it about as perfect as a shooter can get. Everything from the graphics, to the music, gameplay, maps and everything was just one level above what most other fps games could deliver.

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Yep, the back area is somewhat easy to recognize.

Great to finally have the Q3 source open source!

Of course firms are "working on" what comes far out in the future. Its only good to get a good early start on things so that they are ready in time. At Sands of War we do also got an experimental version of beta 3 running, but this does not mean that it will come any time soon.

I do however also believe that this guy is driving it a bit too far by saying stuff like that they have been working with UE4 for 2 years...

2fort from TFC? It has some similarities with it, but I am also certain that I did not play that version.

I should watch this thread some more as I knew the last two ones:) The last one is Datacore, so post a new pic Mazy:)

They look pretty good! Judging from the pics I don't think the normal map adds a lot to the textures just as someone else also said.