Posts by Thurnip

Name: Arthur de Padua

Nick: Thurnip

Map: Brutal Lab

Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5442600/q3trnp1.pk3

finished!

Do you guys think it's too dark?

at home was ok, but here at work seems a little bit darker than i expected

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5442600/q3trnp1.pk3

finished the map. Now sealing it to get a RC version asap...

Then, if enough time, i can try work on details a little more

zzzzzz

worked all the sunday... and today night.

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now i think i'm trying to make it look the same all the map. Today i think i have different vibes in each area... so im trying to unify it

Download file updated (all leaked lol)

http://arthurdepadua.com/labs/leveldesign/q3trnp1.pk3

All the tex looks very sharp are you using only custom? or some stock textures as being used?

im having some trouble to make a shader to be used as circular flare...

I have a thurnip_fx.shader file on scripts folder. on this.shader file i have this shader:

textures/thurnip/fx_flareRed
{
    surfaceparm nolightmap
    surfaceparm nomarks
    cull disable
    deformVertexes autosprite
    {
        clampmap textures/thurnip/fx_flareRed.tga
        rgbGen wave sin 0.5 0.5 0 0.2
        tcMod rotate 20
        alphaFunc GE128
    }
    {
        clampmap textures/thurnip/fx_flareRed_stripe.tga
        blendfunc add
        rgbGen wave sin 0.5 0.5 0 0.2
        tcMod stretch sin 1.1 0.1 0 0.2
    }
}

My idea is to have a circular glow on a layer, and a horizontal stripe of light on other layer. Both will scale up and down using sin.

I'm havin some trouble because neither quake3 or q3ase are loading my fx_flareRed.tga and the stripe file file. I think

using this assets.

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5442600/fx_flareRed.tga

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/5442600/fx_flareRed_stripe.tga

there's some catch to make those guys load the assets?

Update:

omg, it's working. As always, human mistake.

here's the final result

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And yet, my Q3Ase is not loading the assets.... Any idea if there's some config i must setup ?

yesterday update. Minos suggested me some cool tips to improve the overall look of this area

thanks mate

before

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After

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hummmm i have ubuntu installed on another partition, i use it to scan with a very old scanner that runs on a scsi controller card. But since my scanner died, im not using it anymore. This recovery process works fine on sdd? i tried recovering using a random soft i downloaded, but the .map file was corrupted and (apparently) old.

i'll try to recover using ubuntu. Meanwhile, i setup a very clean install in other hdd... outside (scumbag) steam. Right now i'm working on a 2 day old version of the map. Lost around 7 hours of work.

Thanks for the tips

Nice. I asked Steam to delete Team Arena, to try fix that texture issues.

Steam deleted all my quake3 folder and started downloading Q3A from scratch.

All .map deleted.

I have a version at office but I think i lost all my Saturday and sunday work.

adding some details, but yet a little lost and confuse about how to make it look more interesting

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About overall brightness:

In my Q3 client, the map looks fine, but in screenshots looks very dark, There's a good way to see if the map is with a good ambient light?, not too dark, not too bright?

i was about to upload a new version, but there's not much changes and one trim texture is missing. Also, the tex is still missing when running TA. So no idea where that texture came from. I think i need to clean up my q3 (working) folder.

i've selected a bunch of materials from stock q3 to use in the map... Cool all those stuff is modular

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1: thanks!

2: oh, ok!

3: i'm using group to keep easy to select stuff on radiant. eg. stairs, or a piece of detailed wall.

4: thanks!

Missing texture: strange. I'm only using stuff from base_wall, base_floor from default quake. I'll set up a clean install to search for the missing tex. Thanks!

Update: Fixed the missing tex. i was using base_wall/basewall04_rept, replaced using base_wall/basewall04 and it's working now. Thanks !

some new images

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today i added some items and detailed the higher corner of the map... probably i'll comeback on that area in a future.

and today's build... with working bots, probably

http://arthurdepadua.com/labs/leveldesign/q3trnp1.pk3

Please, comments are appreciated I'm a little insecure about the gameplay...

Oh, and i gathered some questions i have, maybe there's someone around who could help me

1-Some places im using texture with scale 0.25 instead of the default value of 0.5. This is a good pratice? this can break my map? or is just a matter of size of texels? And there's someway to make the default value to be .25? cause sometimes i need to change this value everytime i apply a texture to a brush

2-What is the different between nodraw and caulk?

3-using func_group is a good pratice? it have any impact on the game itself, or it's just a way to keep elements together, inside gtkradiant?

4- On some brush faces pointing up to the sky, should I use sky texture or caulk texture on those faces? i'm using sky texture...

hum.... my quake3 are not running this

usually i set sv_pure 0 and run the map using devmap mapname.bsp...

This should work, right?

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oh, now the bots are working

Thanks!

I remade the acid chamber. now has a glass case with that gourgeous alien pattern... Idea taken from q3dm11, deva station.

There's a heavy armor on that green spot.

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two more before going to sleep

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i think the shadows are too hard, too dark.

Are you planning more lights to change this?

keep it on

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at first, it was bad... then got worse

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Working the visuals. I want to use only stock textures

Screenshots are dark. I think my brightness setting on q3 is messed up.

And my radiant (1.6) is having some problems to compile bot files (aas, correct?)... there's some setting i need to change to make it work properly?

yesterday i worked a little on it

I tried to make a shader similar to quake1 splitgate to use on the teleport, but using Q3Ase i replace and lost my other shaders, for my other project

anyway, in feeling more comfortable using radiant and using shortcuts, and getting a little faster

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