LIGHTS and LAMPS 2015-08-30

[Westerhound]

The floor ones will be used alot as there are almost no floorlights in TF2, am I right? Awesome work on all tho, apart form floorthing I like the red/blue/brown catwalk used thingie seen in both pics

 

[Acumen]

thanks a lot Westerhound !

here's another one i did. do you guys think i should also make a taller version of this ? like the same height, as the other standing light ?

 

[Pyrit]

Very nice work you've got going on here. I think those are a good height as is.

Have you ever considered making a lamppost? Perhaps something like this:
http://www.forgotten-ny.com/LAMPS/5th.avenue/12.littleloop14.jpg

Or maybe this:
http://thumb18.shutterstock.com.edg...ay_pic_with_logo/60011/60011,1241335255,1.jpg

 

[Acumen]

yeh, definately wanted to do something like on your first pic, but didn't find anything that fitted the tf2ones that already exist - so thanks a lot for your first picture, that'll be made !

 

[The_Ulf]

Woah - I need number 1 for what I'm working on now, actually. Does it come in red and blu flavors?

 

[Terr]

Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a "hueshift" property on prop_dynamic? You could make pretty much anything RED/BLU-appropriate. (Well, side from the rectangular/irregular geometry styles.)

 

[Acumen]

Some more of them - forgot to post the first row ^^

 

[Acumen]

another one
my stolen light entity setup somehow looks different after every compile
now it's shiny again - at least for the moment

 

[TMP]

Release release release D:

 

[Westerhound]

The last ones look really nice, DO WANT! The first new pic (during last 3 days) of the strecthed circles or whatever youd call that shape are nice too, tho the square ones in the second pic are bit boring, as they look almost like normal brushwork :/ No idea how youd make it look les brushy, and maybe its just me anyway :/ However if you release a pack of 20-30 lamps a few boring ones wont matter

E: looking at my old post, I meant to just say positive things, ended up saying something bad about the catwalk lamps tho somehow, but ignore my sucky engish and take it as a positive thing

 

[Terr]

I would like to chime in that (as with almost all models) grey or neutral versions of each skin would be greatly appreciated.

In many cases they're a cinch to create once you have the others, and a pain to go without... They make it a lot easier to detail "The Central Building"-type areas for symmetric maps.

 

[Acumen]

hope to release soon, i thought i should not confuse you people with lots and lots of tiny little releases

@Westerhound: yeh, i don't think i'll include the square ones in this pack, because they look indeed rather out of place and boring ^^

@Terr_: mehmehmeh, neutral skin......okokok, will be done in the end
skin variations out of my ear

here goes the newest addition: on this one i did the three desired skin variations and tried the texturing style that can be found on the original siren-model. think it fits quite well with this model

 

[Westerhound]

Fancy, but why green and not yellow or something

 

[Acumen]

i don't know
can add a yellow/orange one, if you think that'd be better ^^

edit: added orange texture just for you

finisched another model - will be last for today. i think i'll skip that ingame pic stuff, since i can't present the lights in their full ingame beauty - really starting to like that siren texture style, though

 

[Tapp]

Looking great, those are definately getting used in my map. Also, could you possibly leave one or two skin slots open? For any skinners out there?

 

[Terr]

Also, could you possibly leave one or two skin slots open? For any skinners out there?

Huh? How does that work? I didn't think there was any way to add a custom skin to an already-released model without basically decompiling it and remaking it.

 

[TMP]

It is official: I am boycotting these light models. They will clearly divide up the TF2maps.net community into various subsections waging war amongst each other because of which lights are the best.

Also its taking way too long and I wanna use these lights! D:

 

[Tapp]

Huh? How does that work? I didn't think there was any way to add a custom skin to an already-released model without basically decompiling it and remaking it.

That's the point. Have one or two skin slots pointing to non-existant files, so that a skinner can fill them in with whatever they want (ie, a purple skin, or a flouro pulsating skin, as a spy detector (we are assuming all spies are prone to seizures))

 

[Terr]

Uhm. Is it even possible to have an already-compiled model pull in skin textures from an external file? I was under the impression that when compiled the MDL file contains it's own skins, internally.

 

[Acumen]

shhh, Magical Potato, you make me blush
but in all seriousness, thanks so much, that really makes me wanna work even harder to get this done soon ! but it's a long way to go with all the rest of the lights

i'm not too fond on the empty skin slot stuff, since people might think, there was an unintentional missing file or whatnot. these people who like to add stuff, will know how to do so, anyways, i think