Posts by Pampers

Pampers · WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots! Pampers March 27, 2008 at 1:43 PM

i think your ambient light setting is a tad bit too blue, other than that it looks really nice

Pampers · WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots! Pampers March 11, 2008 at 6:06 PM

I would suggest making a blendmodulate texture for the rock and snow

Pampers · go-kart model Pampers March 7, 2008 at 6:30 PM

a scare crow

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awesome can't think of any other features than making displacements based of a heightmap image although there are some other ways to do that

Pampers · dod_kolsch Pampers February 28, 2008 at 12:53 AM

maybe all this hype have raised everyones expectations a bit high?

Pampers · Source lighting, your best tips? Pampers February 27, 2008 at 9:52 PM

Way to many outdoor maps have their ambient lighting setting too low, creating an unnatural contrast between lit and shadowed areas, so it's important to play around with the different settings on the light_environment until you are happy with your result. Also, when placing fog in your map I would recommend setting the fog colour to something similar to the 2d skybox texture for best results

Pampers · go-kart model Pampers February 20, 2008 at 1:02 AM

hmm, face is not cute enough, rest is fab

Pampers · game devs you really hate! Pampers February 20, 2008 at 1:00 AM

email valve

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beautiful work there BJA, really nice

Pampers · WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots! Pampers February 6, 2008 at 1:40 AM

thanks, just doodling so far.

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got inspired looking at screens from Uncharted so I made this little scene:

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We didn't add detailsprites to the grass material because of game play reasons. Afaik the detailsprites are client based and can be turned off via console commands and we didn't want the players to be able to "cheat" that way. If i wanted the map to just be a pretty map I would of course have added detailsprites

We tested some self made grass models like this:

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but it didn't look good at distance due to mipmapping etc.

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both are old screens

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stuff like dead wood and rocks are there but are not shown in those screens, also those screens especially the last one is taken from a very large open place and we all know the source engine...heh. I've done a lot of optimization though, but I guess there is always some more that could be done. Here are some screens showing of a bit more dense area

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