Posts by hessi

Quote from SnipaMasta

I'm not so sure about that, but handheld games consoles can. You can get Duke Nukem to run on a GP2X (and probably the PSP, but I don't know).

Quote from R_Yell

if they get too vertical appears a dark shading.

you should re-orientate all your vertexnormals to 100% straight upwards. you are using maya?

edit polygons -> normals -> set vertex normal (hotbox) enter 0 0 1 if using z up or 0 1 0 if y up

good start, but i see two big problems:

1. your leaf planes are too flat or they are mostly all horizontally aligned. if you look from above it's fine, but as soon as you look from a player perspective the planes are really visible as planes. maybe you should add some vertically aligned leaves too.

2. the branches are kinda "outstanding" and overbright. add more subdivisions to those that are closer to the players view and give it a smoother shape.

anyway: good start. and maybe you could remove those fir cones they repeat too much

Quote from von*ferret

just use max and be done with it

nyamomd (= not yet another max or maya discussion)

yap there is a Maya-8 or lets call it Maya-8-which-was-about-to-bring-several-cool-features-but-none-of-them-do-work-in -he-release-version

ask Mds. he tested Maya 8. He now uses his old working maya 7.0 again

uha. maya 8.0 isnt used by ANYONE. It's like the crappiest version ever. btw how did maya 7.0 run highquality mode with an ATI? I always got black jaggies on all surfaces (used and x800 and several driver updates/downgrades). the last maya that ran well was the 6.0

those white edges are mipmapped levels of your texture as phil already said.

as i can see you are working on plants so i would recommend you my (video-)tutorials on tree modelling and texturing. in the texturing tutorial you can learn a pretty easy way to prevent your mipmaps from screwing your colors.

i got a html tutorial in german which might be usefull too (lots of pictures)

http://forum.counter-strike.de/bb/thread.php?TID=98929

and all my video tutorials:

http://www.thomashess.net/index.php?cat=4 -> "Photoshop - Creating tree textures" would be the one i'd recommend you

Quote from entity

looks awesome, I wish my version of maya could use high quality rendering

ATI user? because highQ mode and ATI in Maya == shit. ati has crappy opengl drivers.

wtf. this image does not fit on my screen! in 1920x1200! you little bitch!

anyway: model looks cool. i am currently texturing another 12k polies model :X

whats the problem with skype? its easy to use. its fast. got good quality. has a lot of users. saves contact lists. well i would screw any IM for skype!

Quote from Gaz

And regarding the seams, how would you recommend it? I don't want to use the same texture blended up from the floor onto the rocks, it just doesn't look right Not at least using the alpha blending.

try my "vertexalpha" tutorial

http://www.thomashess.net/index.php?cat=4

with this you can hide those textureborders above the watersurface at the ground. your textur is btw too white. make it lss opaque and user multiple waterfall "layers" (user multiple planes where you let the water scroll on) and make the one scroll faster then the other. maybe you should use different textures on those planes too. you can get a wave like effect with this.

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shall i remind this waterfall?

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anyway: good stuff but you need to hide those texture seems from rocks to sand/grass

if you model correctly you can save uv space even while not rotating it.

the big plus for 90 and 45° rotation ist, that most paint tools allow you to snap to axes in those angles.

maybe the space you would save by rotating isnt worth the work. you got a big love-per-pixel ratio but I wouldnt stick that hard to it. it might be wastefull sometimes but i dont want to freak out because i saved 10px height...

congrats ferret it was only a matter of time

nazul i made a quick correction to your texture. yours was too bright and less saturated

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thanks for your replies. i wrote an email to valve too.

maybe they:

1. notice it

2. read it

3. think about it

4. answer it

5. fix it

source engine:

I recently tried to make use of the devshot system to archive the development history of a map project I am currently working on. Somehow there was no documentation in the sdk wiki and using search engines like google or internet communities didn't help to find any more information than the "help" console command gives.

I copy pasted some of the point_devshot_cameras from sdk_dod_flash.vmf to just "rip" it of but using the devshots_screenshot command doesn't return the screenshots the cameras should give me. All that happens is a tga-screenshot of my current screen. There is no screenshot of any of the devcams.

If there is a command to switch cameras or a working batch command for those point_devshot_cameras this would really help me out.

Quote from teeluu

hessi, you should do modeling in two kind of ways.

you are like the 10th person who tells me to but seriously i would not want to do that. game art is fancy enough

btw. i added some of my work on my first comercial game to http://www.thomashess.net in the gallery (TheGuild2)

i demand a 1920x1200 wallpaper

awesome stuff!