Posts by TheGuma

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Thanks for caring about Opera, unfortunately i'm kind of busy recently so i haven't worked that much on the map.

I worked on the lounge area and a bit on the outside.

But since i didn't find anybody wanting to work with me on the project, it will be much longer. I consider the project as a learning project, i learn a lot of things and maybe it will never be finished but at least i would have acquired knowledge.

What do you mean as in someone wanting to work with you on the project? Heck, I'd love to help you out.

Except that I'm utter shit at working with models, but I can help with the rest haha

If you think that's impressive, you've seen nothing...

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Here's how it looks like with some different settings + Displacements

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Small updates I did,

here's one of the greenscreen rooms:

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Also, included the new Phong feature in my textures:

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With the new Phong feature you can totally make this map look like BO2, make sure you don't post it on Reddit otherwise people will rek you there for the map being a Call Of Duty map.

Add some height variation, replace the red color with lime/aqua color and add flowers. Replace certain structures and you might have a good map!

Smiley is right, it's Transcluent 1.

Also try experimenting with Nocull 1 / 0

So I've started working on idea that I had in mind yesterday, finished up the graybox in 2~ hours and now I've started doing concept work on how the map will look like.

Basically I wanted the map to be set in a filming studio, however, I'm quite lackluster when it comes to custom models so I'll try to work something out.

The theme will have snippets of many maps, such as Cobblestone or Italy as recording places and sets. There are many greenscreen backdrops around that help out visibility. The call-outs shouldn't be a problem, as you can simply say that one person is in "cobble" ETC.

If you want your map to be featured as a recording place, feel free to let me know and I'll add your map as a snippet (free advertising I guess).

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Many things will change, these are just concept screenshots.

Also, the bombsites were designed after aim_ and fy_ maps which makes them balanced for both sides. Also, server admins will be able to use plugins to place walls and use either of the bombsites as a seperate aim_ map.

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I still don't understand how none of his maps have made it into an operation....

Catfood, if you are reading this, on Tulip you should remove the "layout" preview picture near CT spawn.

Also, try to resort from putting your map logo in screenshots and overview pictures.

It may sound stupid, but thank me later

I'll probably use Phong on 90% of my new maps textures. I'll see how far I can push the old fart Source engine on my old fart computer while maintaining good framerate. As far as I'm concerned Phong is less performance intensive because it only gathers information from a light source rather than a cubemap, which both takes size and acts as an image inside computer memory (no matter what format).However, having two shaders on a texture confuses Source thus why there may be some problems with blend/cubemap stuff combined with Phong. I suggest sticking with only one (either envmap or Phong). Bumpmap shouldn't be a problem though.

Quote from Yanzl

Oh! Can you tell me how do you make your custom cubemap ?

I drew the sun on a spherical map of the sky and made the background black in Photoshop like this: http://i.imgur.com/jCvEfS8.pngThen I used HDRshop to convert it to hdr and cubemap format, added it on top of the skybox in Photoshop and changed the exposure +4. The images should be in this arrangement http://i.imgur.com/pa7lnGk.jpg  except mirrored vertical.

I saved the image as .pfm (it has to end with _hdr) and used vtex to convert it to cubemap with

cubemap 1

pfm 1

pfmscale 1

nocompress 1

Then you just add in in the vmt as $envmap "cubemaps/file_hdr"

Wow, thank you! I was looking for a way to do that.

I guess the reflections would look better if I would make them blurry manually for every cubemap

(I'd rather have blur than pixelated cubemaps).

Is it possible to increase the resolution of a cubemap?

Change the description, add some screenshots. These are my first suggestions before I download the map, mainly because my bandwidth is not that good

It's quite weird, we were talking about this in the chat 2 weeks before this update came out.

We were looking for ways to make a texture reflect light on a world brush rather than a model.

Two weeks later, Valve out of nowhere

Do we have an undercover Valve employee here?

So lets sum this up, Phong looks BETTER on large surfaces in my opinion.

It looks smoother, shinier. But what about performance? Is this method more performance efficient than cubemap reflections? Should I use it sparingly?

I'm very curious, as this could radically increase my map's graphical fidelity.

Quote from Klems

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Phong_materials

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phong_reflection_model

To put it simply, envmap reflect world, while phong reflect lights. You don't need cubemaps to use phong, so there's no artifacts related to cubemap resolution. The reflection is pixel perfect. I know world is essentialy light and lights are actually rendered in cubemaps, but I think you get the point.

There's a bit more to it, phong shading is per-pixel lighting. Goureaud shading is per-vertex and is used on prop_static.

I'm not sure how source handle dynamic models.

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I know world is essentialy light and lights are actually rendered in cubemaps

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the world lights are rendered in lightmaps?

Been messing around as well

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Could do it a bit more subtle, just showing off what a single brush an a texture can do.

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In game, shitty lighting as always.

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I need some advices, i'm not really sure about the colors/looks It will be a huge industrial building next to the shore.

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Okay, so I gave it a thought after I saw your compile screenshots, why don't you use a sunny environment? Although I realize that you want to have moodier environment, I think that bright lighting and blue sky would give players happy and bright tone, as well as improve visibility in certain aspects (even though its not an issue). It would also give that summer feeling.

Sort of Super Mario Sunshine esque

Quote from FMPONE

I wrote a post on my experiences that got to the top of r/gaming and then it was deleted LOL gg Reddit

Yeah theres quite a bit of /r/gaming mods drama going on. Pretty crappy subreddit if you ask me

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I need some advices, i'm not really sure about the colors/looks It will be a huge industrial building next to the shore.

That looks amazing!

Wow this thread blew up

I'm pretty sure you can get student 3ds Max version for free.

It sucks though that it costs around 3000$ if you don't want to pay monthly.

Hmm. I am interested in Valve's approach.. I would love to pay for quality mods, for example.

I would definitely pay for Black Mesa Source, and I've heard they're working on a commercial version.

Counter Strike was mod back then, right?

Either way, just checked out, the Skyrim blades and stuff they're advertising are around 0,20$ to 1$ range. It's not THAT expensive considering that people spend THOUSANDS of dollars for skins in CS:GO. Let's say a map costed 1$, I would pay for it if it looks good. If it looks meh, I wouldn't. It's still about choice. I'm sure modders who oppose this new feature will continue on with their lives, and talented artists will get some funds.

Also, they haven't mentioned maps being included, so we are speculating so far. Eventually things will balance out, people will get used to it.

It's Valve, so I trust them to some sort of extent.