Posts by m8nkey

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":1o663dqw]Is he registered on mapcore?

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not really an active user. Amazing level designer though. Even the storyline, provided through txt on the HUD, is excellent.

Looking good John. Are you using a custom skybox? The stock night skyboxes look like shit in a HDR map.

A bin I made today. Uses a 512x512 diffuse and a 256x256 spec map. I'm not going to make a normal, I don't think it's worthwhile.

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Stunning looking map Minos. I'll try to make some time to checkit out ingame next week.

Realy unique looking map. I love the art deco architecture and neon lighting.

Looks great PaulH. I like the before and after concept you've gone for. The explosion looks awesome too.

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Looking good Slainchild, although I'm not a fan of generic sci-fi maps

Touché . Both are looking great.

I think the vegitation in Nurb's map is feasible, there are shards of light entering the cave through the ceiling. I also agree with Slainchild that even non-realistic maps need to look plausible to suspend the belief of the player.

Certainly an impressive, natural and open looking landscape. Regardless of personal opinion on the yellow lighting, it's certainly unique and well implemented. I'll be sure to check it out ingame once it's released.

I stumbled accross this only yesterday:

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Official Site (haven't checked it out, it's blocked from my work):

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It's a Korean anime MMO that uses the Source engine. It's free to download so I'm going to check it out over the weekend. I can't imagine the Source engine being suitable for an MMO, one thing I found very irritating about Hellgate London was the insane amount of instancing and loading screens. It really effects the players immersion, an essential part of an MMO.

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Looks bad ass. The sand texture doesn't fit though. Try something brighter, with patterns maybe.

I aggree, the sand doesn't look as stylised as the other textures you've created. Other than that your textures and colour scheme are working nicely.

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Solved, apparently you have to load another map after building your cubemaps with mat_specular 0, then reload your map...

I've always had this issue using EP1 SDK, neither reloading materials nor mat_specular 0 resolved it.

I just load a different map after building the cubemaps, no need to change mat_specular. It's pretty annoying though.

Surely the first CryEngine 2 spotlight?

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And yeah, the performance on this map is pretty bad, but this was my first map and I wasn't really sure of the engines capabilities.

Using +Showbudget I found my system was spending way too much time processing the world rendering. It sat at between 5-10ms with spikes up to 15ms. A typical map sits at around 3-5ms.

Visually the map looks great. Nice work.

Looks good. I'll download it and check it out over the weekend. Good to see another aussie on mapcore

I thoroughly enjoyed portal but personally, I had my fill simply finishing it and don't go actively looking for maps for it.

That said, this looks like a respectable release. Admitedly I gave up after getting stuck for a few minutes but what I did play was enjoyable. As it's all about the puzzles, I don't think you need to add custom content to produce a good map and as you said it could actually hinder or complicate the gameplay.

I only have one crit. I noticed some missing materials on my system. I thought it may have been the cubemaps but I rebuilt them and the problem persisted. Here's a screenshot of an effected area

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I noticed in your screens this problem isn't there.

Really impressive stuff HP. Great variation between natural, man-made, interior and exterior environments. This map would definately be a contender in any comp.

I think this is inevitable and not a very big deal. Throwing lawsuites around is a massive overeaction. As mentioned this is probably just some teenager starving for attention. It's not depriving you of any income, I'm sure he's not making any money from it and I'm guessing he's probably completely butchered your work.

I'd only be concerned if someone used my work without credit to produce something commercial or a reputable mapper/mod produced something awesome using my shit.

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that's why warby and i agreed on allowing that anybody might use dod_kolsch content, since those who ask for it usually get it and those who don't ask get it anyway.

This is a pretty good attitude, some people will use your shit whether you give them permission or not. These sort of people only produce crap anyway. Not worth losing sleep over.

Really original looking style Albatros, nice one.

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I've found a tutorial a while ago which explain you how to convert a brush to a model using XSI but I can't find it...

i could use this as well. any chance you remember the site?

I don't know of any tutorials for it, but I'm guessing it envolves exporting a DXF from hammer then converting that into an SMD using XSI. If this is the case the resulting models probably aren't very efficient. I find exporting DXFs from hammer a useful scale reference though.

That's looking damn nice Marcos .

Maybe add some vehicles to the outside areas for cover? The map looks very industrial/warehouse like. For the interior, machinary could be used to provide cover. Some forklifts would be cool if you can get your hands on a model. It would also make palletes and crates far more acceptable.