Posts by Zacker

  • valves new steam update

    Sounds great with some news abut DOD:Source and a Source version of HLDM. For some it may look like just another game to the list, but I am actually looking forward to HLDM. I have never come to like HL2DM nearly as much as I like/liked HLDM.

    Yeah, those mods look pretty good. Not beyond what you could expect from 16-17 dedicated students though.

    This SMU Guildhall course really sounds like something I would like to attend.

  • Beast WIP

    He just ment that there should be a lot of scratches and other details on the normal map, which would make it look great even with a weak diffuse map.

    "baking" the high poly version onto the low poly is one way of doing it. Things like scratches as ferret mentioned are probably among the things you could just as easy just PS onto the normalmap.

  • WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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    If u going to have huge open areas with terrains just scale the textures to like 2.5 or 3 that you wont have any problems with r_speeds

    Usually each terrain face will not exceed 228/240 so scaling up the texture will not decrease r_speeds. Scaling up the textures only improves r_speeds if you have faces which are larger than 228/240.

  • Displacement Editor

    In case anyone cares, then this is some of the features I miss:

    - More generation options instead of just noise. Sudivide&displace and ridged perlin would be nice. Multi perlin and ridged multi perlin would be 1337.

    - Some generation options such as glaciation and canyonism to easly create realistic terrain

    - Material distribution options: Min/max slope and min/max altitude

    - Constant subdivide size per quality/power instead of reliant on brush size

    - Blending of more than two materials

    - Editing of two displacements without them stopping to line up

    - Get some proper sliders. They should go from -512 to 512 instead of from 0 to 256.

    - Allow for smoothing on all three axes at the same time

  • SoW1 vs. HL2 - Graphic quality

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    The SoW textures look nice for HL1, but it still looks like someone bukakked difference clouds blotches all over them. What the hell are the greyish blotches meant to be? It's a pretty stupid comparison. Most of the time I see HL2 textures they're very sharp and detailed because of the increased texture size. The overall effect is more important than two screenshots that aren't close to even (texture scale, lighting, position when taking the screenshot etc).

    1. The so called "bukakked difference clouds" over them is the diffuse texture which is almost transparant at this distance. It looks crappy yes and it is probably the effect that I dislike the most about detail textures.

    2. HL2 textures are not very sharp and detail because of their increased texture size, it's because of their scale and their bump maps.

    3. Yes, the overall impression is the most important. I only compared texture detail here. I doubt anyone is in doubt of what the result of comparing the overall visuals for HL2 and a HL1 mod would be:D

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    Look at the textures Zacker. U can see even from a mile away that the SOW textures arent looking very spiffy, but HL2's are.

    Slackkiller did not use detail textures in SoW_Village, maybe thats why? And yes of course textures scaled at ~1 without any shaders looks worse than textures scaled ~0.25 with bump maps. You dont really have to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out...

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    Yea, rd's right, why the fuck am i arguing about this? No one stares at floors and says "DETAIL TEXTRES RUL HL2" anyways.

    Trying to avoid the point that you said down right wrong things? Around here it is custody to apologize when you have done so - if you havent been banned already.

    We are going nowhere in this thread. Thread closing requested.