fonfa

awesome. but why not hi quality jpegs instead of raw?

not okay. i don't know if they'll care, but everyone should avoid those kind of things.

what if everyone models the car they own, or a bike, or a bus, or whatever you use for transport, making a clean and a dirty/rusty version? that'd be SO useful for a lot of people! with a very limited polycount and a texture of no more than 512² or 1024², what do you say?

nice. do you work for a mod? would you like to?

awesome. in which rl piano was this based?

The tessellation is related to texture size and scale iirc. this is true for both goldsrc and source.

Something apparently inherent with source engines. O_o

I suppose generally it's a good thing for culling, probably the only reasoning behind it.

the thing is - in goldsource, when scaling the textures, you scaled the lightmap along with it. but in source you can handle both scales separately. that's why a lot of mappers put lightmaps with HUGE scales on ceilings and surfaces with less lighting contrast - you end up with less world rendering load and a lower filesize for the map too

favela!

I'd rather do my own thing.

your choice. but the chances of releasing a playable game working alone are quite null. btw, this new render looks nice. maybe you should try upping the values a bit, so it's not lit just at the almost 90º angles.

I might be wrong but I am fairly certain that the scale of your textures determins how often the faces are split up. So, reducing your map to a 1/4 scale while also scaling the textures down would be a futile act; it would just give you more map space to play with, but not solve any problems with splitting faces.

nowais. i thought it was like that too, thats how it works in hl1. but i fiddled a bit with stuff and found out that:

in source, what determines the number of subdivisions on a brush face is the lightmap scale.

the trusses on the left of the 3rd pic look weird because of the vertex lighting.

looking awesome. i think this needs a bit of rim lighting to look like mario galaxy. why don't you join the mario kart source team?

http://mks-mod.com