Posts by Gaz

I didn't way I wanted him to get a crimal record for sorting that little twat out, but it said it was in wales. And in the UK justice is never served.

I saw in the news a year or so ago that a burglar entered someones house and started bagging stuff up, the house owner awoke and knocked the theif out with a kitchen utensil. The house owner was arrested and jailed for violence, and the thief got seen as the victim. Its appalling.

Thing is, the knockout guy will get a criminal record too

I like it meo Render on a meduim grey so I can see it better next time

Black makes it hard to see, and white blinds you

Its Mac Only

Cheers guys

Yeah thats a problem with the engine RD, to block the level off would mean hidden polys, so I left them out.

Its the game engine we use at Uni. It is built on the Blitz3D engine, basically animations, etc are defined in the game.txt

Its a good little engine to use, but not for proper games, as it has (at current) a very basic trigger system, "if your in range do this anim", you can't have complex trigger systems unless you devise a killer animation system, and theres only basic "wonder about" AI.

Its nice for art demos though

Cheers Sensee

I've worked on it a bit more, though I'm going to leave it at this stage, unless I get some crit that really needs to be worked with

Really Really appreciate the crits Peri

I changed the rocks somewhat, its less noisey but still the style I wanted, I also did the lightmap as suggested, and with the spare space added more detail to the sand. I then made the oyster look better, and more sea worthy

Anyway, heres the new build and texture sheet:

Download here

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It was a challenge set on my Uni forums

Regarding the lightmap, I felt it looked 10x better than vertex lit.

And as for the textures I agree, although I used the small overlays for variation in shading, I'll look into improving the textures (mainly the cliffs) later

I recently took part in a challenge to create a 1000 poly model with a 512x512 texture space, with alphas (opacity) allowed.

The theme was an underwater FPS. I chose to make a level, as I thought it would the most challenging thing to do

Anyway, I though I'd post what I made for you guys to play.

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Click to Download

Its about 2.3Mbs

To run just double click the cauldron.exe

Its set to run at 1280x1024, if you need a smaller res, please edit the start.txt as necessary

The entirety of the level makes exactly 1000 polys, with all the textures together totallying 512x512.

And heres my texture sheet:

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I love the railway part, especally the shot of the tunnels.

Only thing that I don't like is the water fog colour, its too blue and doesn't fit the rest of the level for me. Perhaps a more browny colour would suit better?

Good job though

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery

If its good, people will copy/modify

...Hessi you git, thats what I was saying Just in a more complicated harder to understand way...

Quote from Minotauro

vmt:

Code

VertexLitGeneric


{


 "$basetexture" "models\mino\avon_scaffolding_mino" 


"$translucent" "1"


	"$alpha" "1"


}

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Ok, resave your source texture (one you use in max/maya) as avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts, bring it into max/maya whatever, place it over the areas you want translucent. Leaving the original texture in parts you don't want translucent.

Re-export your smd, and duplicate your vmt.

Rename the vmt to: avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts and save.

Open the avon_scaffolding_mino vmt, and take out $translucent and $alpha and save.

That should now fix the alpha sorting (the problems your getting).

Note: you don't need to compile the avon_scaffolding_mino_alphaparts texture in max/maya to a vtf, as it will pick up the vmt we duplicated and renamed.

Hope that all makes sense

*Edit: If the floor uses a mask (on or off alpha) repeat the above process, but in the new vmt, replace $translucent and $alpha for $alphatest" 1.

That is truely sick.

I knew Essex was bad, but thats awful

That happens on a friends card, they have an ATI, I have nVidia and no problems

Thanks guys, Really appreciate the feedback.

Regarding the level design, yeah I agree its pretty simple and open. The levels from the first part of a "full game" and is mean't to be like the hub level that the players come back to to restock, and talk to new rescued towns people etc

The narrative that the level has, meant that it needed to be rather simple, so that a 5 year old can navigate it and know where they need to go etc

The idea on the giant tree was that it was once where the "holy chub" lived, but it fell down in old age, so the villagers built a tower out of stone, and used the remains of the tree as houses.

Thanks for the tip insta, I'll take a look into that, at the moment though the levels pretty much in a done state, whilst I finish up all the documentation that my degree requires.

Afterwards though, once the documents are done, gameplay will be finalised and I may release my level as sort of "demo" of the game

I couldn't reply with smilies for some reason *unhappy face*

My lecturer told me that they will do this, especally to programmers, as they have the ability to completly screw up a project. So thats the only way they can fire them, purely on a "saftey of the project" reason.

This is looking really nice ferret I like the hotel area the most

How much stuff like detail props does BF allow you to add? more stuff like thr crashed chopper would add even more

Hey all

Please download a flyby of my video, it has sound but is rather quiet so you may need to turn it up a bit. Enjoy

Download Here

Note: This videos in DivX format

Yeah Hessi, thats how I made the large waterfall blend into my river on my final project