Caldera by Joacim "Grillet" Rappu

[fKd]

Some nice texture combinations going on there. Keep it up!

[Hipshot]

I like the third screen the most =)

[Grillet]

Thanks guys

[Grillet]

Started to work on some shapes and lighting. Just one area more complete atm, but will post updates when more areas gets completed.

 

[Grillet]

Done a first pass on the lighting. Noticed that the level is in general a bit too dark, so I need to brighten it up. Also might need to add some more stuff on the walls to break up the tiling and make them a bit more fun to look at.

[Sprony]

Done a first pass on the lighting. Noticed that the level is in general a bit too dark, so I need to brighten it up. Also might need to add some more stuff on the walls to break up the tiling and make them a bit more fun to look at.

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How are things progressing?

[Grillet]

 

Done a first pass on the lighting. Noticed that the level is in general a bit too dark, so I need to brighten it up. Also might need to add some more stuff on the walls to break up the tiling and make them a bit more fun to look at.

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How are things progressing?

 

Slowly forward. Mostly artsy stuff left.

[Grillet]

Is there any solution to remove these spots?

[g0th]

Have you tried to bump up the lightmap resolution?

[Grillet]

Have you tried to bump up the lightmap resolution?

Yeah, it only made the spots smaller.

[Daniel Nilsson]

Built w/ what settings?

 

Have noticed some spots w/ fast test gtk-radiant but these settings in Q3Map2 Toolz I don't get spots.

"[GtkRadiantpath]q3map2.exe" -meta -v "[levelpath.bsp]"

"[GtkRadiantpath]q3map2.exe" -vis -v "[levelpath.bsp]"

"[GtkRadiantpath]q3map2.exe" -light -bounce 8 -dirty -fast -filter -patchshadows -samples 3 -v "[levelpath.bsp]"

 

And I haven't even changed lightmap res. probably should though... Where's the settings for that?

[Hipshot]

The best way to go about this, I would say is to create a group and use the flags

 

_lightmapscale with a value of perhaps .25, that will give you ha lightmap on the group that is 4x the normal one. I use this all the time where I feel it's needed.

[Grillet]

Managed to remove the worst ones by setting the lightmap resolution to 0.25 and added _receiveshadows with a value of 1 and _castshadows with a value of 0. Still got some small spots in the picture, but they disappear when I do a more advanced build. Picture is Fast Test with Q3Map2 Toolz.

Thanks for the help.

[Grillet]

Been reworking the layout some and would like some playtesting for some feedback before I start finalizing the map.

Here's a link: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/64384600/q3dmcalderav4.pk3
I think I did it correctly with the .pk3 file.

[Thurnip]

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?