Perhaps some hanging banners, like they have in museums with pictures of dinosaur exhibit promo's or something? dunno if that'd fit in the TF2 artstyle.
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It would probably fit best if it was a banner of Saxton Hale and the dinosaurs fighting each other.
I dunno. The obviously-resized-and-badly-JPEG'd Steam Screenshots image is a big part of this, but the round building looks too low-poly to me, at least on the outside. I'm interested in seeing how it would look if you doubled the faces.
So I opened Strata in the new SFM hammer to take a look around, I must have hit ctrl+s by mistake and then I could no longer open it in Source MP hammer. So no problem I think to myself, I'll just copy some files over and then work in SFM. This goes well for a few days until I try to compile, I find that SFM uses BSP version 21 and TF2 won't open anything beyond BSP version 20.
"Oh no!" I cry.
"I am doomed" I cry.
Then I remember about a little tool called VBCT that might save my skin. I hastened to download it and try it out. In a few short minutes I'm back up and running with a version 20 BSP. My skin is saved.
"Hooray" I sigh in relief. "To celebrate, I'll post a screenshot!" I exclaim joyously.
Then I came to the forums to post such a screenshot.
"O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!" I chortle in my joy
I don't like this building, you got a totally rounded shape at the middle, and on the border it's horribly straight, do everything rounded or don't do it
Like diz (excuse my paint skill)
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Might be too late to be of use to you, but it appears it's only certain entities that cause problems when going from SFM Hammer to TF2 Hammer. I made the same mistake you did, and was able to recover from it by deleting everything except world geometry and brush entities and saving to a new vmf.
Was able to do the same thing with lights and props.
The only thing left to try was cubemaps, player spawns, and environment entities (such as fog and skybox lighting) but I had an old backup I could C&P those from so I didn't bother isolating further.
Once I did that, I was able to open the vmf in TF2 Hammer and merge everything into a new map file.
SFM Hammer is a lot better than TF2 Hammer, but I learned my lesson not to mess around with it.
Wow I didn't think anyone would have isolated what the format inconsistencies are yet, good work. Though I don't need to port it back to Multiplayer Source Hammer now it's good to know.
Ravage I hear you and I agree it very well could look better being much more curved but for this version I'm going to leave it as it is currently so I can get it done sooner. I may revisit it later and curve it up more.
Ravage I hear you and I agree it very well could look better being much more curved but for this version I'm going to leave it as it is currently so I can get it done sooner. I may revisit it later and curve it up more.
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Make those heavy models a key gameplay feature.
Reskin some of the plant models to look fake and plasticky, and then you can use them to add colour around the dinosaur's bases. At the moment the earth and rock is... not bad as such, i just dont like it.
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LOL if you could animate the dinos to bite at the players on the cp - that would be AWESOME!
