Posts by Wesley Tack

It's drivable too

I don't know what you mean by the shadows though, if you mean the big dark areas, thats cause it's compiled in cordon mode

An update on the ship dock for ol_undersiege:

The textures on the locks need some updating, stuff for tomorrow ;p

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Big milling companies tend to have big repeating walls, I know I still have to add some more detail, But I want to get some playtesting on it first and see how the map works before I do some more, cause if the gameplay doesn't feel right you'll have twice the more work to edit it. Here are some shots of milling companies, as you'll see it looks somewhat like what I made:

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Big repeating walls is what they usually are. But I will add some more detail to them eventually.

There are some WiP shots of the map on my site.

Here is the final crane model:

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Something for my latest map:

Still to texture the crane, but it's unwrapped:

(purple box is player size)

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I'll probably add a cabin / stairs to it as well as a separate model.

no,

It's just my 3 year old computer having a hard time playing the game at 1920*1200, even though swap buffers are at max. it still plays smooth...

So I'm not gonna pay anymore attention to it for now.

Thanks

http://www.game-artist.net/forums/

they have them almost every month...

they'll be starting a new one soon, keep eyes peeled

Ok, did all the commands that seemed worth testing:

r_drawdisp 0

r_drawworld 0

r_drawstaticprops 0

r_drawentities 0

r_drawropes 0

r_dynamic 0

r_3dsky 0

mat_bumpmap 0

mat_specular 0

With all these turned off I still got that high swap buffer.

It's weird cause it mostly happens when I'm actually looking at less content, like in the screenshots below, I'm looking into the void and thats when the swap buffers are highest, and when I'm looking at the level brushwork everything turns back to normal. Same thing for interior area's, where the swap buffers usually go up, and when I get back outside they go down again. I'll see it goes during playtesting, but it's a mystery to me so far

Void shot:

http://users.pandora.be/simon.wt/swapbuffers_2.jpg

Brush shot:

http://users.pandora.be/simon.wt/swapbuffers_1.jpg

I'll do the command stuff and test again. If it's still there I'll ask during playtesting how it looks for other people.

My map doesn't have any water btw, mostly specs is what could be causing it as far as I know. I'll dig some more

Thanks for the info!

Hello,

I've done some research on swap buffers, and what I could find is that it's an overuse of shaders? I seem to have this in a lot of areas in my map, even in this hallway where only the hallway is rendered, the entire level is cut by the visleafs, and yet still I get these low frames and swap buffers at a maximum.

Not even any shaders in that scene, other than the spec maps on that wall and some windows. Even when I am facing the edge of the map (behind the wall is void) I get swap buffers at maximum? Does anyone have an idea how to fix this, what I should be looking for? It's the same before or after I do a buildcubemaps as well (if thats any help). Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction as to where I got to look. I am planning a playtest session this Sunday, and I hoped to get this problem under control by then.

Thanks !

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Quote from hessi

actually no, but if your screenshots are so heavily WIP then why do you post them?

Because this is the WiP section? ;o

He just wanted to show off his T-rex model, which looks good

I do hope what you said though, that he takes his time and make this a spotlight map

*edit*

arg didn't there was a page two

what he said ;p

link doesn't work

that is looking very nice!

great lighting, nice interior detail as well, wondering what the contrast will be between interior and exterior, you planning some dense jungle action? would be cool (I love the Crysis movies ). Can't wait to see more, great work so far!

What most people said I agree on, great setting, reminds me of the wolfenstein maps, loved those!

Fine detail lacks in almost every shot though.

some examples:

http://www.albatros44.de/edb3/edb33.jpg

why is that metal arch floating between the two pillars ?

http://www.albatros44.de/edb3/edb3promo1.jpg

as mentioned above, the camouflage clips all over the place? looks weird?

also, the side railings of the bridge looks like a large fence texture?

http://www.albatros44.de/edb3/edb31.jpg

the cable cart isn't hanging in the move_rope, it's an easy fix to move that cart a bit, don't know why you didn't do that? Also the wall texture to the right int hat screen is tiled up, whereas if I recall correctly Valve has sets of that texture (bottom/middle/top), you should have used that

http://www.albatros44.de/edb3/edb35.jpg

the stairs in that shot float, you used the railing as the support for the stairs, but in reality the whole thing would collapse after a few moments

adding some diagonal beams would look a lot better

http://www.albatros44.de/edb3/edb36.jpg

in this screen you use the metal plate texture with the rails on it for the sides of the train carrier, looks weird. Also, I don't know if you can make custom textures, but if you can, a decal texture for the pile of snow would make a huge difference, this way you could add a decal or overlay entity and make the snow blend in and fade out with the floor beneath

So basically, overall the map looks like a solid 1st pass, but it could use a few more passes to add more detail, this is a WiP map imho. Hope you'll improve some points on this, or ed least pick them up on your next project!

Quote from Dark

Looks very nice, Love the custom texture work. How long are your compile times for these huge maps?

This is from the latest log, fast compile no HDR.

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2 hours, 30 minutes, 46 seconds elapsed

In hammer the map + 3Dskybox is half of a full grid in top view. And I still need to optimize the final layout. So I hope compile will go a bit faster in the end

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Wesley...For some reason that reminds me of what a TFC2 map would look like. Looks unique.

Really? Any screenshots, I'm interested in seeing it

I've been thinking about the rocks, I kinda want rocks like in the movie "Duel" they look like what I have atm, but they aren't very nice right now. Maybe I'll make props for them, once the layout is complete I think I'll just make big props of rocks and replace the displacements. This should give a much better look. Not sure yet though.

Here is a screencap from Duel, shows the rocks I wanted:

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3rd map I'm finishing for Off Limits, the biggest yet. Still a lot to do, like making some of the rocks go into the 3Dskybox, and lots of tweaks / fixes. Still need to open up the canals underneath the rocks as well.

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So what about spotlight?

Making a poll and asking it wont make it happen.

Very nice screens though, a bit more screenshots wouldn't harm, you see very little of the whole map imHo. But the shots posted are very nice work.

inspired by fortress forever ?

looks nice none the less

Give them some time, god knows they need it... ;p

They should just get some guys from the mod community to fly to their offices for 1 or 2 months and fix / update all the content ;p

This seems to be finally fixed thanks to the latest steam update...

Hooray !