This should be a free / smaller cost addon.
As much as I love STALKER they are milking the shit out this and not really giving us big leaps in content. ie: episodic content for half-life is not full price, and proivides both gameplay and engine updates, along with "new maps".
Anyway, I thought all those Ukranians could survive on 50 cents a week... greedy 'krains.
I dunno, just some generic shit like so:
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Lead people with light as opposed to encompassing them.
been paying attention to this for a while now and I am really looking forward to it - just the highway chase alone, the atmosphere and action combined, make it look like it's going to be a really good game.
wow are you pricks finishing ripping the shit out of this game yet... rofl :roll:
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The lighting is incredibly bland and even, especially considering what you can do with the spec "night time".
If different areas need different coloured lighting (I wouldn't be so sure that players will pick up on the fact that there is a colour code for areas, more overt cues are often better for frantic games such as DM) then use different coloured lighting but make it more dramatic.
There is almost no detail in the map, the textures themselves don't help to make it feel very compelling, but the lack of props for detail (pipes, valves, debris, clutter, wires, palettes, etc etc etc) give it a very barren, empty look. The building blocks are there but there's a lot needed to bring it up to a decent standard.
A big moonlight sky with plenty of stars would work wonders for setting the mood of the outside areas, and IIRC this is stock content, and if you are bringing EP1/EP2 content over then adding some custom textures should not be a major issue.
There's some good stuff in the HL2 catalogue which would bring the visual quality up, you don't need to use a lot of models, just a select few in interesting ways (remember Peri's map for the DM contest, superb use of stock).
Along with a lighting pass will improve the overall look of this no end.
Quote from hessiimo this is just fine. (nitpickers
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I completely agree; ITT people have never worked on a building site and have no idea how shit actually works.
If the gap was missing higher up, would the bricks above it fall down? No.
Stop crying, I think it looks fine, it's realtistic and doesn't disturb the scene in the slightest, if anything it enhances it by not being the typical shape that newbies tend to build =)
Quote from BuddyIt smells gnomon tutorial to me.
no one can ever just appreciate art can they 
answer: no, i didn't use a medieval courtyard tutorial to build a middle eastern street scene 
Quote from KoKo5oVaRNice use of the fluidity filter, rickD !!
All I ever did for INS was LOD some vehicles and trees 
Also, what is fluidity filter? A photoshop thing? Cause that is just Max's promaterials water with some colour tweaking!
Just a little something for my portfolio -
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One thing I'd make sure you deal with when you're putting it all together, is to take care that you use appropriate dirt, grime or shadow to make them blend into the environment; ie: avoid a sharp transition from super clean to gritty.
also, how long is your scene taking to render at the moment?
Quote from TaylorI have a beef with the rant about temporary barriers in third person action games. He calls for removal on the grounds they are cliché and ruin “immersion,” but the fact that these barriers (or "gates") are integral to the gameplay is unaddressed. I also don't agree with his list of problems and I think having a “believable” barrier appear and remove itself in every room is even more contrived and convoluted that the ‘honest,’ red webs of Devil May Cry and branches of Kameo.
Agree and disagree; I interpreted it as the arena itself should be different, rather than just a room that suddenly becomes blocked off; rather you enter a room, monster attacks through floor, you fall into a lower level, have the fight there, kill monster, it's death throes cause some object to fall down giving you a natural escape route.
The problem there is you need a unique system for each boss fight or it becomes just as cliched as the red webs, and ends up costing more art and scripting time. Also, the player is most likely going to focus on the huge monster rather than then fact they cannot run away. So for some games a cliched barrier is probably more desirable; that doesn't mean we cannot at least explore the idea of doing something different for those games that don't have predictable boss fights.
as standard as UE is, I find the amount of work required to make terrain is staggeringly over the top.
So basically none of you bothered to check out Rara Racer, so don't make any snap judgements.
Oh wait that's what mapcore does 
Dunno, all tools in one place, kinda makes sense. You have the exact same amount of screen real estate.
Also, I didn't follow a word he said.
[edit] but i went and tried rara racer - what a great little concept. cheers for the heads up!
Quote from Seldoon182Which editor the devs use to make the lvl design task? A in-house editor?
They are using the incredible In-House Engine.
difuse: (original 4096*2048)
lol wat 
Aside from the lack of tiling textures (why not!?) I would say the submarine looks much too small; looks like a 2 or 3 man sub rather than a proper big sub.
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I laughed so hard I shit.
