Posts by aevirex

Hm ok I already knew that normalmaps are impossible with UT2004, I just thought your mod team has made up some fancy technique.

And you are right, the texture pack's name is "normalmap.utx" iirc, Epic probably forgot it.

UT2004 NORMAL MAPS?! Am I missing something or what?

Anyways looks cool, usually you shouldn't take references with shadows in them but they work ok here.

A trimtexture (I was in a hurry though):

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The highpoly doesn't need to be uv wrapped as well for AO, if you are using max, then just do the same (render to texture) but (or actually additionally, so you don't need to render it two times) choose lightmap or shadowmap (sorry I forgot :/). Alternativly you can use xNormal for both normal and AO.

Glad for you! I really enjoyed my Barcelona trip in march. Definitly a nice city with interesting sights (and great texture resources ).

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+1, I like the idea!

Hehe I also thought the first pic was a photo or render

Pretty cool I must say. I don't think it is boring if the atmosphere is right. Just take a look at the UT2004 mod "Hollow Moon" which is also only in black and white and creates an awesome atmosphere!

Or you could just make some Characters or story relevant things, places, etc. in color. Sin City like.

Method: Awesome! I love it... makes me consider reinstalling Doom3

Psycho: Looks cool but the architecture (ceiling!) seems weird. You should take a look at Resident Evil 1 (remake) and Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles screenshots from the mansion (only found this one, quick search ).

A small update on my map:

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Cool Furyo, however the orange floor looks a bit weird (I thought it was the hl2 placeholder texture first). I'd suggest you either desaturate it a bit and / or make it darker.

Thanks for sharing this, however am I too blind to find the button for the diffuse + normal preview?

On the other hand, it takes longer to calculate all that stuff than with 2.0 it seems .

shit, i came... i don't like the parallel lights much though (the yellow to white gradient looks a bit weird).

(... i wish you would make ut2004 maps again )

I'm sorry, tbh the reason why I didn't say anything on your screenshot is because I didn't know what engine it is... it looks very nice and atmospheric for HalfLife 1 indeed!

For future screenshots I will try not to steal all the attention .

It is called ... pssst ... don't tell anyone .... "Sharpen".

Here is a screenshot without sharpening:

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(On the other hand, I didn't have Antialiasing and Anisotropic Filtering activated.)

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Well, yeah, true... I thought I have to make a bit outstanding (no Normalmapping, ... the engine is o l d). I hope it doesn't bother you (that much ).

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Like it alot! Clean and stylish, but the textures could use some polish imo. Dont like the tiling bland texture boxmapped on mesh style, but i guess it works good with unreal.

The textures for the prefabs I did at the beginning were quite complex (Ambient Occlusion, etc.) but for progress' sake I went for the 'unreal way'.

Thanks all.

Two Screenshots from my heavily wip UT2004 DM:

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Looks cool seir (your website looks nice too ).

So this is really new to me that you open Unrealed hit a button and have a map

It is not like you open the new Material Editor and can't edit anything (if you want to I'll make a screenshot of the MatEd). About the power of the new engine, I (Hourences was involved) was able to implement a technique that saves up to 12,5% (actually more due to DXT compression) of the texturesize on your hdd on the first day I started with UE3 (no, knowledge of UE2.5 doesn't help much with the new MatEd).

One thing that makes Source popular among mappers is imho the inability of most to do prefabs in programs like Max, Maya, ... If you want to make a decent map for UT2K4 you need custom models and textures. Tbh I think most things can be achieved with both engines, it is just the time you lose to things that are not important when you want to design a level.

At the end, take the number of sold licences...

Very cool, reminds me of your BR-Biohazard.

Not for someone who has limited bandwith D:

Yeah i know rapidshare isn't a great solution, but it would be ok if someone was downloading just a few pictures (or sets)...

Really awesome but can't you split it and rapidshare it (well not splitting it, but making several packs)? Please, please, please hessi