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After slowly recovering from covid and digesting some beginner tuts on the custom assets part in the meantime, I decided to do a somewhat intermediate step with the map. That is - a few preparation layers across the level to keep things organized and pre-planned for myself before diving deeper. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2111814809 Here a few images Full imgur album with commentary A few things to note: - simple brush placeholders across the map acting as a prop placement guide, basic outer shape and sizes ratio reference - added a layer of props that I don't feel like doing custom (chimneys, antennas, gutters, power boxes, lamps, curbs, wires etc.) - established area-based color coding across the map: [blue, teal, purple] => CT area, [yellow, orange, tan] => T area, [white] => neutral areas, [rose/pink] => unifying color, central area of the map guiding players in & out of the site on inner routes - I guess lower parts of some buildings will have to be split up for different supporting materials like stone/plaster/concrete otherwise wood all over the place could be an overkill - couldn't hold myself and already did the 3d skybox (there is still room to push it a little step further later on though I guess) - added the base of shop-windows in different spots across the map, these might prove themselves pretty beneficial for callouts later on (f.e. "shoes", "akevitt" etc.) - lighting will most likely need a little further tweaking later on once I add actual textures and snow on the ground (f.e. pumping up some lights even more) Feel free to add me on steam or on discord (Rump3L#8889) if you would like to test this level as well some time. Thats about it for now, thanks for tuning in!

All art is inspired or influenced by things you have experienced before. Nothing is truly original. Saying that "not using reference imagines" is what makes a visual art piece original is purely arbitrary.

This is the best thread on Mapcore. I feel for everyone who has lost friends or family due to...all the the things that 2020 was and still is now that we are into 2021. I consider myself lucky that only a small # of my extended family got covid and none of them went to the hospital, but they all said it kicked their asses and are worried about the long term impact to their health. I am in a different part of SoCal (just outside LA) and home prices here are crazy. We lucked out and bought at the bottom of the last housing crash. Otherwise at the time we would not have been able to afford it. California is awesome...and incredibly frustrating and terribly run all at once. My wife and I talk about moving but everywhere...on the planet...feels like is fucked in one way or another. As for me, I've actually gotten into better shape during the pandemic. My wife got us to join a gym in 2018 and since dropping that in March 2020 we've (thanks to her) really upped our home exercise game. We have a 3rd empty spot in our garage (why I wanted this house) and now that is a legit workout center with a JKD trapping dummy, TRX system suspended from the heavy bag stand, a Favuke grappling dummy, large gym mat area for both me (grappling/movement drills) and the kids to do tumbling/dance/gymnastics. And lastly, I got really into this rope exercise thing that has helped my upper body so much. A trainer at our old gym got me into it...check it out: https://www.octomoves.com/ (Free EU shipping!) Lastly, my kids are crazy about Minecraft. It's fun to play with them and my oldest reads all the books and watches the youtubes on how to do all the stuff. She's said to me "When you make a plan in Minecraft, it works out a better. I bet life is like that." Praise Jesus.

Long version ? ?

god you are awful -either a troll or so far up yourself you'll never see the light of day again. by your logic there's never been an original work in any game - everything comes from somewhere, be it real life or a derivative of another artform.

So while I was at my grandmother's house last week, she showed me her cassette tape collection. After that, I ordered my own blank tapes and a recorder and started making my own tapes. And I must say, it's extremely fun! Designing my own labels is cool too! Narrating my thoughts between songs is something I've always wanted to do anyways! Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to go record some more!

Sharing the source doesn’t mean that people should copy stuff, but it should be a way to learn how to achieve certain things. I’ve been following the Quake community and I understand it’s the norm to release the source file. Ofc the problem with CSGO and any modern game is that it’s much more taxing. Sharing requires much more physical space, the workshop doesn’t support releasing this etc.

not sure this thread title is enthusiastic enough

I know where this is gonna go so I´m out after this public statement: People who release their creations to the public, great go for it. But to ask that to be the norm, meh.

I just discovered this because the author was on the latest episode of the Quakecast. The project was in fact started on Quake (Darkplaces fork) but after hitting some snags it was posted to UE4. They are doing the same thing of Graven in building the maps in Trenchbroom and importing in UE. Fascinating that the creator is a musician by trade. The teaser and two gameplay tests are the footage that exists for the project at the moment

Well, depends on your perspective; I'd say instead that journalism as a concept is simply shifting into a different medium Video youtube killed the radio bloated corpse of legacy media star

oh boy another ''ringel tries to advocate that postmodernism is the only legitimate art movement even though none of his maps even vaguely fall within this category'' thread

classically trained musicians vs high school band who think playing in tune is copying.

'let me send you the dictionary definition of original' yes I'm being toxic, I didn't start it though! I'm just very done with how you act here. you are VERY clueless and VERY opinionated. you won't improve unless you understand why people use references. it's not to copy, it's ground their levels in a believable locale. it's probably not worth even trying to explain stuff to you. you don't listen, you've never listened.

I only watched a few minutes, but I found funny when the journo asks a question quite at the start, and the dev completely ignores him. Uncomfortable silence and then picks up from his script. Bless them.

people should be supported to make great original works and not derivatives/gimmicky things. thats what mapcore exists for.

Finalle started Deep Rock Galactic with friends. Reeaaaally fun shit

Apart from the 3rd person animations looking super stiff and that annoying interview guy it looks pretty good

Hello I just submitted a 1 fan version on my Valve index mod. It can feel like a rollback but it's actually a better version I believe : 1 fan is enough to pull out the warm air, it's not that big ? It's a lot easier to make the USB plug, much more space for it Added a switch to control the fan Filled and the tiny holes that were making it less efficient Here it is with a few pictures in case someone is interested : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4735054 (and I also updated the 2 fans version with the holes filled too : https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4565466)