WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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I'd recommend removing the spotlight sprites; it's really not an appropriate place for them. And the standard way to deal with light sources from those props is to reduce the lightmap scale on the affected faces (using the texture application tool) and to angle and/or shift the light sources further away from the pillar if that's not good enough.
Still doing achievement_l33tsc0p or whatever name is suitable for achievement maps, and i got a little idea for a gimmick. It's basically an arena that can fit in a lobby or whatever, and shrinks entering players down to the size of a puppet. Only problem with it right now is that things like speed, jump height and melee range doesn't change with the size of the model, but whatever.
Well for the jump height you can just increase the gravity and for the speed you can use a trigger_stun. I don't know if it's possible to affect melee range though.
There is an option for trigger_stun to allow it only to affect running speed so that you can still use weapons.
Sel
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if you're not going to take proper renders at the very least press g to hide the grid
also that curve consistency is terrible, your handle and blade are obviously not smooth, yet you're using a huge amount of geometry to make a smooth twist that will probably never be seen?
also that curve consistency is terrible, your handle and blade are obviously not smooth, yet you're using a huge amount of geometry to make a smooth twist that will probably never be seen?
Sel
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uh, for the twist, i'd say just don't have it at all since no one would ever get close enough to really see it, as for everything else, edge and/or vertex chamfer is your bestest friend.
Keep the twist and use it in your high res model to build the normalmap.
There's no need for that geometry to be put in the game though.
There's no need for that geometry to be put in the game though.
Woozlez
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Still doing achievement_l33tsc0p or whatever name is suitable for achievement maps, and i got a little idea for a gimmick. It's basically an arena that can fit in a lobby or whatever, and shrinks entering players down to the size of a puppet. Only problem with it right now is that things like speed, jump height and melee range doesn't change with the size of the model, but whatever.
Reverse Skybox maybe? Most of the map is in the skybox area, and then there is this area in the center of the map, with the sky camera aligned with the table?
Speaking of which, someone could even remove the skybox for Coaltown, and replace the museum model in the spawn area with the actual map. That'd be trippy.
I just decided the best way for me to start making the map was to set my grid size to 128x128 and then reduce for the smaller details. Seems to be working out.
Building map structure on a huge grid is smart in general, if you ever need to move bits around or scale things it's much easier to work with a bigger grid.