TC Strata (version 538) b1c

[DaBeatzProject]

happy birthday and yeah, just as i posted that i realized it wasn't even displaced yet ....

 

[littleedge]

That building with the gutter that we're talking about. I've never seen one with walls like that that extend beyond the roof. Where'd you get that idea from?

Also, Happy birthday

 

[Seba]

Happy birthday baddie

I'm not too keen on that entire building below the air control tower; I think my main gripe is the fact that it's a metal building with a concrete structure on top. That plus the vent area...eh.

 

[LeSwordfish]

That control tower badly needs some kind of trim or something around the roof of the metal bit. That metal is so haphazard the neat edge looks really off.

 

[Omnomnick]

Apparently it's YM's birthday today.

Happy Birthday

 

[YM]

That building with the gutter that we're talking about. I've never seen one with walls like that that extend beyond the roof. Where'd you get that idea from?

Also, Happy birthday

Well.

 

[YM]

Progress update!

Blue is done, red is not started yet. So that puts it at just over 1/2 done.

 

[YM]

I wrote some words. Not very in depth but whatcha gunna do?

http://www.subtleallusion.com/blog/?p=78

 

[YM]

It's Screenshot Saturday!

Coming up next week: Timelapse Tuesday (or Thursday, or maybe later in time, who knows)

 

[grazr]

Are tents usually that patchy or does it look better ingame? I'm concerned that a) It's the same brown as all your cliff walls and b) it's beyond reasonably patchy.

Otherwise, looking very nice, especially those cliff faces.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Broken seam on the right hand side cliff.

But I agree with grazr, I'd like to see an ingame shot of that tent, it seems like it might be too patchey...

 

[YM]

jeeeeeeez guys the cliffs are what's being shown not the tent, everyone knows the tent sucks already

I've been trying to model one but I don't get along with the cloth modifier.

 

[YM]

Finished up all the displacements in the centre of the map (middle four points) and since they're all about 80% detailed now it's probably time for another release. I'll get everything sealed up again at the weekend for next week.

Looks like it's gunna be Timelapse Thursday tomorrow!!

Over 8 hours of displacements condensed into just 15 minutes of blur!

Watch this space.

 

[YM]

Here it is!, 8 hours of displacements condensed into three 10 minute chunks for your viewing pleasure. Enjoy.

Part 1 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bJbhivdR98

Part 2 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NnfOpjw3iY8

Part 3 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLKQeF8wiDU

 

[YM]

Screenshot Saturday!

Some quick compiles of those cliffs:

 

[grazr]

Wow, that's an intimidating amount of brown. The fences, the roofs, the cliffs, the RED buildings. That's gonna be a bitch to break up in RED areas, especially when many of the desert foliage pieces are also muted brown.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

It might just be me, but as much as I love those cliffs... Something seems horribly disproportionate... I can't tell if if its the textures, or the curves you added, but something just doesn't seem right about them and I can't put my finger on it... (and no, it isn't the lighting)

 

[YM]

mmm brown content is exceedingly high you're right..

The only area that definitely isn't suffering brown overload is the tracks and each base CP

 

[Languid]

The normal map or whatever effect you've got going on there (SS?) is craaaazy out of control. It reminds me of when you hit the hydro texture with lighting from a certain angle and it looks incredibly fake like someones painted a giant protrusion onto a flat surface, only all the time. If you can fix that it'll be sexy as all hell to me (which is what matters).

 

[Pocket]

You know what it makes me think of? It looks almost like the smaller rock formations are trying to camouflage themselves. Or like that scene in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with the bridge painted to look like the stuff behind it.