Model Railing and diving fins 2015-08-30

[Malcolm]

thanks guys, i updated the picture with the final heights. did a comparison with the tf2-railings to be safe
anyways, hope you fear my mappingrailingskills ! figured out, you could use 45° angles. it works, if you're humble like me

Download for modular pieces:
http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=2820

I request other colored versions of them... at least blue and red of course, but also a decent grey for neutral settings that are not supported by this "alert yellow"-bumper color.

 

[SiniStarR]

acumen you are a god to me!

 

[Acumen]

sry Malcolm, but i won't make grey, blue and red versions of this. i just think that not every model needs 3 versions of it and since these are special safety railings that just don't come in all flavored colors, i'll leave it at that, sry
it's just that they were made with a certain use in the back of my head and making different colored version would just not fit. moreover i think it's not the tf2 idea to color everything team-based. some stuff can be just be left as it is. i kinda orientate on the tf2 stuff heavily and it's safe to say, that there's not 3 colored versions for every little piece of scenery. hope you can understand that i'll be doing teamcolored stuff in the future again, for sure !

SiniStarR, you are an exaggerator to me
anyways, didn't wanna start a new thread. finished the baywatch buoy stuff - also only in red right now - just to keep it iconic - but maybe i'll do a blue one as well, just for the sake of it ^^

 

[Terr]

What about an orange version? It'd be clearly an "emergency color" without being too closely associated with RED. (examples)

sry Malcolm, but i won't make grey, blue and red versions of this. i just think that not every model needs 3 versions of it and since these are special safety railings that just don't come in all flavored colors, i'll leave it at that, sry

I have to try it in-game, but it looks a little bright. Perhaps a version where the yellow paint has faded and flaked a lot more with age and moisture-exposure?

 

[Zwiffle]

The railings look really good, but do you have a specific reference of what you were trying to make? Or is it just some railing you made? Looks a bit thick and a bit too tall though, can you put it next to a player model for comparison?

The fins looks awesome, good work on those.

 

[Acumen]

weird, that you guys fight so hard to just download some kb's and try it in hammer

Terr, do you mean orange for the railing or the buoy ?
the lighting could also be my lacking map lighting experience. just try download and see for yourself. don't be shy

Zwiffle, the height is about the same as some of the spytech railings ~36 units for the horizontal bars. i'm sure, it would be faster for you to download and put in hammer than wait for me old person finding out how to place a player, compile map, take screenshot, upload and post, don't you think so

that was one of the refpics - mixed some together.

 

[Terr]

I came across this interesting moon-pool pic while looking for railings. I think what I was really looking for was something from The Abyss.

 

[Acumen]

i'm not too sure what you're trying to tell me with this ?:blushing:

 

[Terr]

Nothing! Muwhaahhahahah. I'm just trying to find "real life" versions of those railings around a secret-spy-base pool.

Closest so far is this. Different lighting.

 

[Acumen]

haha
so "moon pool" is the term i should have been searching for. i was also looking for abyss stuff but kinda fell short of decent movie pics
on a serious note, if you should stumble upon some secret-spy-base stuff, it would be great if you can send me some links, cause i'm still searching any kind of such reference pics !
i think i'm gonna have another go to tune up this really old stuff and break ouf ot experimentation status ^^

 

[Fraz]

The Diving props I was talking about are:
props_spytech\dive_canister
props_spytech\dive_canister_arm


dunno if they're any use or anything.

 

[Acumen]

ah, thx for the info. didn't know about that !
shame, they have no usable materials and are not uvmapped yet :/
but it's a great inspiration for my submarine stuff. the arm looks totally cool !
again, thanks for leading me into this !

 

[Wraith411]

Those are really sick. I am going to talk to my team and see if we will put those into our Nautical themed payload map "Tempest". Nice work man.
-W

 

[Pocket]

Dwuh-- bluh-- spuh-- You're making a bathysphere now? Geez. You're just speeding through this. One day you're going to wake up and discover you built a whole Marina theme and don't even remember doing most of it.

Curious where the fat, stubby yellow bar on the far left of your first pic is though; it's not in the model pack.

 

[Locutus]

Ze flippers! Zey do nothing!

Excellent models bro.

 

[Acumen]

you never know stevethepocket
concerning the railings and bar, these are still in production - i was just teasing Terr with the really old picture !
actually the yellow bars were my first compiled test models with hyperrealistic texture tries

 

[takabuschik]

This models are great, I love them.
probably going to use some of them in my map.

 

[Ælement]

great find taka. These will be perfect for the pacific pack too.

 

[Kube]

Planning on using these for the 72-Hour Contest. Thanks!