Good to hear. I look forward to it.
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Nice, those rocks will come in handy.
FreeLance_FoX
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I made this for myself, but I figured that some of you might be interested as well:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1930120/rockgarden.vmf
I just made a vmf with all the new rocks so you can see the scale. They're rather huge. >_0
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1930120/rockgarden.vmf
I just made a vmf with all the new rocks so you can see the scale. They're rather huge. >_0
FlavorRage
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All you need now is two more skins: Alpine versions, and alpine w/ snow.
FlavorRage
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Yeah that too! These are great models.
These are awesome. Something that nagged at me a bit was that the origin refused to align nicely with the grid when I stuck a few in to see how they looked, but they're irregular enough that it's not really an issue.
Man, I don't think I'll ever get the origin to align, unless they're regular shapes...not rocks, etc. But if that's fine with you, have at them.
Ok, so, 7 pages, 94 downloads, and no one says anything about the lighting origins of these models? These are little things I forget about unless I actually make maps with them myself...no one noticed?
I apologize. When next these are updated, the lighting origin will be fixed.
I apologize. When next these are updated, the lighting origin will be fixed.
All the rocks are compiled atm with "$illumposition 0 0 0" in the .qc, which pretty much means if the bottom rims of the rocks dip into the world geometry they render black. Not solid black, but as if they were in a shadow. This is bad if you don't know what you're doing. I never noticed when I was making them because I hadn't actually placed them inside world geometry while examining them in the engine. Just something that you forget about from time to time.
Technically, you could use info_lighting for each, but it would be a major pain in the ass to do it for each prop.
Yeah, it's a matter of filling in coordinates of where the prop should be looking for lighting position. You can do this in your 3-D software if the units are 1:1, or in hammer.
Cornish Gamehen
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I'll definately give these a try in my desert-themed map, once you sort out that lighting issue.
All you have to make sure you're doing is placing the $illumposition in a location that is most likely to not be inside world geometry. For example, in this example of rock_01:
Moving the $illumposition to the top of the model is a better solution. $Illumposition 0 0 0 is a terrible location for this; if the rock dips slightly into the ground below, the whole model will render incorrectly in the source engine.
And for promotional purposes, here's how they look in a practical example:
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Cornish Gamehen
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Thanks very much, should be nice to see some variation in rocks.