Just some Matinee tech for my level for my thesis.
I was there too, what a ride!
I concur, I spoke with Robin for like 40 minutes. Very supportive and knowledgeable. He ignored my Gears of War, looked mostly at my HL2 and a few minutes at my Fallout. Where CCCP focused almost entirely on my Gears of War level, ignored most of my HL2, and then focused on my Fallout. Insomniac gave some good tips too, mostly focused on general gameplay, but still gave a lot of great feedback. If there is one thing I learned from GDC and the Career seminars is that everyone wants different things. Thats not to say you should do whatever floats your boat, but different companies clearly make different things which require different focuses.
Well cool, thanks man!
PS. Mandate of Heaven looks awesome. If I ever get Crysis installed I'll have to try it.
A question for anyone who has visited my site... I'm wondering if the link to my contact information and about me is apparent? I hope it is but having made it I can really see the page with fresh eyes.
Quote from FuryoI'm going to point the obvious here, but the description for the Source level is copied everywhere else except for the Gears one. Either that or it's a bug.Navigation wise, I think it's a little too much. Not too sure how to word this, but it feels like it needs a bit more fresh air in between the levels once they're all expanded, and the entire layout could use a little polish. Fonts, the blue with the rollover, it all feels "low res". Not sure you catch my drift. Basically the quality of the screenshots often put the website layout to shame, and I think you could design something that make them shine a little more.
On the technical side, I'll point again the difficulties of running lightbox on iPhones. Your choice really.
Ahhh. It was not all HL2 text! I was working on my laptop earlier today and forgot to download the newest version of the html to my desktop! Thanks for catching that!
I think I understand what you're saying though. I put a drop shadow on the banner/header images which makes their rollover/highlight seem bigger or less polished. So maybe I should revert them to what I had before, without a drop shadow, so that the rollover/highlight hugs the images more closely and uniform. I can easily add some "air" between the levels, I'll see what I can do on that front as well. And we're totally thinking the same thing about iPhones. I already have it set up to go to a different page without shadowbox if you're on an iPhone. Its an easy script if anyone wants to steal it from my source.
Quote from DarkWhere are all your old POW maps?
Hey dark! Long time no see. Last time I installed Quake 3, some months ago, I could hardly find any of the original Prisoner of War installations... and only a few of my maps survived the merger with JB:PoW. So... sadly I don't have any backups of those maps.
Cool thanks man! Yeah, I think you're right! "Awesome" not only sounds a little cheesy but I shouldn't praise my own stuff like that.
Hi mapcore,
Just put up the final screenshots on my portfolio. Just hoping to get some feedback and comments so I can improve it before GDC.
http://www.williamtylerbuser.com
Thanks!
Quote from duxTiberian Sun, fuck yeh!
Wow just had a flashback... I was checking out your portfolio because you're working on Natural Selection 2 which I can't wait to get (on Steam... don't trust myself with Direct Downloads anymore) and saw dm_drift. Gosh... I remember when that was a work in progress... seems forever ago. These forums are like time capsules sometimes.
Little ditty Gears of War level.
This is a short walkthrough of an Alpha level I will be updating soon. With pure mapping I/O scripting I've turned the Crossbow in to a staircase/bridge/shit disturber builder, use it to scale new heights and cause all kind of hijinks! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XTLGjDW5ahA Youtube embedding seems to be broke.
The barrel factory where shenanigans ensue
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I've been mapping in HL2 as long as anyone... but I've never got an answer... or just dealt with with this problem... but it seems to me that smoothing displacements is off. Smoothing on Face Normals on a horizontally laid displacement works just fine. But I'd love to smooth out on the X and Y axises and fail every time... when you do it they vertices clump together and bulge out rather than being evenly distributed. Does anyone know a way around this or am I attacking the problem wrong? Mmh ?
http://www.fpsbanana.com/maps/99529
A medium sized CTF map I made last week. Its my first UT3 map and had a great time learning. I've listed it as Beta and appreciate any feedback!
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Good question and suggestions! I need to find a way to make the distant rocks that hide the horizon blurry while making the sky distinct. Would I make the skybox smaller? I wanted to make it so that from a a base, the other base was slightly blurry. Maybe that's impossible without the bad side effects. Thanks!
A little something I made this week.
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What'dya think? 
Little something I made.
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Love the blue skaky. Gang walks for the win.
Thank zeta, proof i shouldn't post late late at night lol. I just noticed in the second picture too that one of the window frames models is lit irregularly too.
Thanks rt, it started out as a Mediterranean villa... it still has water below the cliffs.. but now I'm toying with the idea.
Just a little update on this forever work in progress lol.
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Am I correct in assuming that increasing the values of the water_lod_control will move that black shadow-thing further back from the camera?
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And some pews!
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I'm a having a related problem, thought it was best to post here rather than a new thread.
Anyways, I've been on vacation lately and I just got back. I open Hammer and it loads fine. I open a .vmf, the loading bar progress and bam, Hammer just disappears. If I reopen Hammer it asks me if I wanted to load the last vmf that didn't save correctly. If I do that it crashes again, tried this with several other vmfs. Any solutions?
For some reason when I make a collision model for my model, for this one particular model, I get these static lines in the model viewer, as well as the collision model. I wouldn't mind them if they didn't completely negate the collision model, in game the collision model is non-existent.
As seen here, big static lines.
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Those long red lines that don't follow the model are static, they go off the screen and don't change with the view.
For kicks I just exported the actual model as the phys box and I got a halfway normal one.
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So I'm at a loss for what is occurring here. I've rebuilt the collision model twice and it has occurred twice. The collision model is all one object, all with one smoothing group, and with the applied material.
Heres my .qc
//villa_doorframe
$modelname villa_doorframe.mdl
$cdmaterials models/villa/
$scale 1.0
$surfaceprop ""
$staticprop
$body studio "villa_doorframe.smd"
$sequence idle "villa_doorframe_idle" fps 25
$collisionmodel "villa_doorframe_phys.smd"
{
$concave
$mass 40
}Here's studiomdl's compile
C:\Documents and Settings\William Tyler>"C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\wtbuser\source
sdk\bin\orangebox\bin\studiomdl.exe" -nop4 "C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\wtbuser\sou
rcesdk_content\tf\modelsrc\compiler.qc"
WARNING: AppFramework : Unable to load module p4lib.dll!
all paths:c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\;c:\games\steam\st
eamapps\wtbuser\sourcesdk\bin\orangebox\tf\;c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\sou
rcesdk\bin\orangebox\hl2\;c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\sourcesdk\bin\hl2\
qdir: "c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\sourcesdk_content\tf\modelsrc\"
gamedir: "c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\"
g_path: "C:\Games\Steam\steamapps\wtbuser\sourcesdk_content\tf\modelsrc\compile
r.qc"
Building binary model files...
Working on "compiler.qc"
SMD MODEL villa_doorframe.smd
grabbing villa_doorframe_idle.obj
SMD MODEL villa_doorframe_phys.smd
Model has 3 convex sub-parts
Collision model completed.
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writing c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\models/villa_doorfra
me.mdl:
bones 964 bytes (1)
animations 112 bytes (1 anims) (1 frames) [0]
sequences 220 bytes (1 seq)
ik/pose 164 bytes
eyeballs 0 bytes (0 eyeballs)
flexes 0 bytes (0 flexes)
textures 136 bytes
keyvalues 0 bytes
bone transforms 0 bytes
Collision model volume 592500.00 in^3
collision 0 bytes
total 1796
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writing c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\models/villa_doorfra
me.vvd:
vertices 22272 bytes (464 vertices)
tangents 7424 bytes (464 vertices)
total 29760 bytes
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Generating optimized mesh "c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\m
odels/villa_doorframe.sw.vtx":
body parts: 8 bytes
models: 20 bytes
model LODs: 12 bytes
meshes: 9 bytes
strip groups: 25 bytes
strips: 27 bytes
verts: 4176 bytes
indices: 1728 bytes
bone changes: 16 bytes
everything: 6045 bytes
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Generating optimized mesh "c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\m
odels/villa_doorframe.dx80.vtx":
body parts: 8 bytes
models: 20 bytes
model LODs: 12 bytes
meshes: 9 bytes
strip groups: 25 bytes
strips: 27 bytes
verts: 4176 bytes
indices: 1728 bytes
bone changes: 16 bytes
everything: 6045 bytes
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Generating optimized mesh "c:\games\steam\steamapps\wtbuser\team fortress 2\tf\m
odels/villa_doorframe.dx90.vtx":
body parts: 8 bytes
models: 20 bytes
model LODs: 12 bytes
meshes: 9 bytes
strip groups: 25 bytes
strips: 27 bytes
verts: 4176 bytes
indices: 1728 bytes
bone changes: 16 bytes
everything: 6045 bytes
Completed "compiler.qc"
C:\Documents and Settings\William Tyler>Pause
Press any key to continue . . .Pleaseeee help. = /