WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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Hmmm interesting, I still feel though that there should be a better way to get up there rather than jumping from the ground below the bridge... I'd have to see more pics to judge that though.
How would you do that? I've seen people use textures to create waterfalls, and I know there is a waterfall model... but which is better to use?
Deathpits are awesome.
Deathpits are awesome.
Lazy way? Scrolling texture down the side as a displacement.
Best way? Waterfall retexture.
You know, a town with money's a little like the mule with the spinning wheel. No one knows how he got it and danged if he knows how to use it.
The name's Void, Salesman Void. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest...
Aw, it's not for you. It's more a Steam Powered User Forums idea.
All right. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll show you my idea. I give you the TF2Maps.net Lavafall!
I've sold lavafalls to Facepunch, Polycount, and North Interlopers, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
Well, sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine bona-fide magmafied free-flowing Lavafall! What'd I say?
Lavafall! What's it called?
Lavafall! That's right! Lavafall!
Lavafall, Lavafall, Lavafall, etc
I hear those things are awfully loud. It flows as softly as a cloud!
Is there a chance the flow could bend? Not on your life, my Hindu friend!
What about us brain-dead slobs? You'll be given cushy jobs!
Were you sent here by the devil? No, good sir, I'm on the level.
The ring came off my pudding can. Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear, it's TF2M's only choice! Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
Lavafall... What's it called?
Lavafalllll... Once again!
Lavafallllllllll!
But TF2M's still all cracked and broken! Sorry, Booj, the mob has spoken!
Lavafall! Lavafalllll! Lavafallllllllll!
LAVAFALL!
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Lava—D'oh!
The name's Void, Salesman Void. And I come before you good people tonight with an idea. Probably the greatest...
Aw, it's not for you. It's more a Steam Powered User Forums idea.
All right. I'll tell you what I'll do. I'll show you my idea. I give you the TF2Maps.net Lavafall!
I've sold lavafalls to Facepunch, Polycount, and North Interlopers, and, by gum, it put them on the map!
Well, sir, there's nothin' on earth like a genuine bona-fide magmafied free-flowing Lavafall! What'd I say?
Lavafall! What's it called?
Lavafall! That's right! Lavafall!
Lavafall, Lavafall, Lavafall, etc
I hear those things are awfully loud. It flows as softly as a cloud!
Is there a chance the flow could bend? Not on your life, my Hindu friend!
What about us brain-dead slobs? You'll be given cushy jobs!
Were you sent here by the devil? No, good sir, I'm on the level.
The ring came off my pudding can. Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear, it's TF2M's only choice! Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
Lavafall... What's it called?
Lavafalllll... Once again!
Lavafallllllllll!
But TF2M's still all cracked and broken! Sorry, Booj, the mob has spoken!
Lavafall! Lavafalllll! Lavafallllllllll!
LAVAFALL!
Edit:
Lava—D'oh!
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I've never heard a one a dem dand gummit lava falls. I herd that stuff flows and 'rupts, but whoda known it falls too.
Looks pretty good! I am convinced, though, most people's issues with the swamp set is not that it's a bad set or that the content is bad, or that you can't make anything from it, it's that no one has really demonstrated a really good use of it. Most of TF2 mapping is style by imitation of what's been done before, in the given variety of themes. You have to try to envision the entire thing as done already and that the visual style is going to work. I'm so confident of this that if someone were to really use the swamp set to the full potential in a map (and not night time swamp map), people would begin to make swamp maps that imitate the same style.
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I was really thinking I could go for a 3CP Gravel Pit style map but when I looked up some reference pictures for how I'd want the map to look in the long run it just felt off. You don't see towering mountains and stuff like in Gravel Pit, and whats the point of doing a swamp theme if you make it indoors like Junction?
I'm sure I'm missing some incredibly creative way of separating the points from the players view in a clever, pretty, and optimized way.. I'm just stuck I guess. The closest I got to finishing a map using the swamp theme was this. Payload sounds like it could work. I don't have the map .vmf for Kaden but I'd rather start it from scratch anyway.
Anyone got a good idea for parring the theme with a gametype? CTF, KOTH, Arena, and Payload sound like they could work. To bad CTF is boring
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I'm sure I'm missing some incredibly creative way of separating the points from the players view in a clever, pretty, and optimized way.. I'm just stuck I guess. The closest I got to finishing a map using the swamp theme was this. Payload sounds like it could work. I don't have the map .vmf for Kaden but I'd rather start it from scratch anyway.
Anyone got a good idea for parring the theme with a gametype? CTF, KOTH, Arena, and Payload sound like they could work. To bad CTF is boring
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I'm now going to scroll back and thank the last five posts void's made, because i cant thank that one five times.
Well I finally got to compile the map with vrad NOT crashing, I had to get rid of the background building to make the skybox smaller.
But there comes the problem, I am indeed in "mat_fullbright 0" but the map models (as static props) do not light properly or I am doing it wrong.
I have a "light_environment" inside my skybox above the static props.
These statics props being the level models do not have collision models, I read shadows are calculated from the collision model unless you use the setting "-staticproplighting" so I am.
As you can see the visible brushes in the exterior are lighting properly, and yes its too bright.
Any ideas on how to solve this? I am trying to get sharp shadows.
But there comes the problem, I am indeed in "mat_fullbright 0" but the map models (as static props) do not light properly or I am doing it wrong.
I have a "light_environment" inside my skybox above the static props.
These statics props being the level models do not have collision models, I read shadows are calculated from the collision model unless you use the setting "-staticproplighting" so I am.
As you can see the visible brushes in the exterior are lighting properly, and yes its too bright.
Any ideas on how to solve this? I am trying to get sharp shadows.
When you say INSIDE the skybox do you mean inside the literal box you made with the 1/16th models?
The only thing you need in there is the sky_camera. light_enviroment can stay with all the other light entities. Mine are all right next to the main point on my map.
The only thing you need in there is the sky_camera. light_enviroment can stay with all the other light entities. Mine are all right next to the main point on my map.