WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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deadsource
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The lighting preview window is utterly useless. Don't use it.
The reason why the fence is dark is because its origin is in the shade. Enable -staticproplighting (not recommended in alpha), assign another origin (your best bet if this bothers you so much), move the prop, or ignore it for now
The reason why the fence is dark is because its origin is in the shade. Enable -staticproplighting (not recommended in alpha), assign another origin (your best bet if this bothers you so much), move the prop, or ignore it for now
deadsource
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The lighting preview window is utterly useless. Don't use it.
The reason why the fence is dark is because its origin is in the shade. Enable -staticproplighting (not recommended in alpha), assign another origin (your best bet if this bothers you so much), move the prop, or ignore it for now
Oh yes, I have read about -staticproplighting. It might help. But the problem with the cliff remains unsolved. Could it be that the shading of the cliff goes monkey on me because it's a displacement made of the front and top of a brush? Now that I recall, everything worked fine; when I decided to do a little reshape- the shadow appeared. Your thoughts?
Edit: awesome, the lighting in my map is now totally bashed. And I don't know how to reset the lighting in the compiler. Oh well, google time.
Edit: never mind, that was the engine's fault. Still the same problem with the cliff.
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deadsource
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I found a leak and sealed it. Still the same cliff shading problem. See the same problem with the roofs? Maybe the cliff is sharing the same problem?
Those roofs are made of: a displacement map in the middle and 4 brushes on the sides.
Edit: Ow, sorry for double posting.
I think I understand what's the issue. I'm using a blend texture. The top area, which apparently is in a shadow is also alpha painted. Although the top paint looks dark, the same paint at the bottom renders nicely.
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deadsource
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As I said before, only 2 sides were made into displacements. It seems the wall of text hit you so hard that you forgot what you have read.
I know now that the problem is with the shading of a blending texture. I just changed the texture to a non-blending one. As far as my knowledge goes, smoothing groups (shading?) might be the little bastard that caused me such a headache... I could've realised this sooner...
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YM (I think) wrote a guide on compile options. By default the compiler doesn't calculate lighting that way for props, but it will if you add an option I cannot for the life of me remember. It makes compiles way, way longer though.
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I'm withdrawing from the KotH contest due to my inability to have a work of ethic for it. So, I'm going to go ahead with something advanced someone wanted to see, as there is rarely any non-stale Payload Race game modes.
This, is the only start. My map will be based around the winter theme similar to the official Coldfront (5-CP) and Frostfell (PLR). I hope that development of this map will come a long way and receive good ratings. Hopefully if it outscores, it could be on Valve's list of maps. I don't want to plan for that but I think it would be nice to.
As of current, the Red spawn I have is too under-scaled and lighting glitches are occurring (awkward shadows on objects). I have not yet set a skybox, but there is a ton of leaks. I plan on fixing that once I get a photo out.
This, is the only start. My map will be based around the winter theme similar to the official Coldfront (5-CP) and Frostfell (PLR). I hope that development of this map will come a long way and receive good ratings. Hopefully if it outscores, it could be on Valve's list of maps. I don't want to plan for that but I think it would be nice to.
As of current, the Red spawn I have is too under-scaled and lighting glitches are occurring (awkward shadows on objects). I have not yet set a skybox, but there is a ton of leaks. I plan on fixing that once I get a photo out.
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The_Virgo
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I'm a bad example of a mapper, really. I never draw out a layout, instead choosing to work off a design in my head, and I never make "Alphas". I just start making them as if when I'm finished, it's ready to go to beta. This may be partially why I never end up FINISHING any of my maps, but mapping is mostly a hobby and a nice way to spend the afternoon while listening to music.
That being said, here's a WiP picture of what I'm currently called "cp_fortress". It's a kind of trench-based map, with the Red team assaulting a blue Fortification (backward to the standard CP style, I realize). Gameplay wise, it will be a linear, one-round, three-CP assault/defend map.
Also, please admire how well the tank barriers turned out. :cool1:
That being said, here's a WiP picture of what I'm currently called "cp_fortress". It's a kind of trench-based map, with the Red team assaulting a blue Fortification (backward to the standard CP style, I realize). Gameplay wise, it will be a linear, one-round, three-CP assault/defend map.
Also, please admire how well the tank barriers turned out. :cool1:
deadsource
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Yeah, me too. I never did a map. The way I work is by adding small parts of the map every day. The thing is, I don't want to make a balanced and fun to play map- I just want to make a map. Wait, WHAT? Well I want to finish a map so I would be familiar to all the tools. logic, compiler, etc. before trying to make a good map. As they say, pancakes are yummy, but nobody want them burnt. And when do pancakes burn? When The Pyro cooks them.I'm a bad example of a mapper, really. I never draw out a layout, instead choosing to work off a design in my head, and I never make "Alphas". I just start making them as if when I'm finished, it's ready to go to beta. This may be partially why I never end up FINISHING any of my maps, but mapping is mostly a hobby and a nice way to spend the afternoon while listening to music.
That being said, here's a WiP picture of what I'm currently called "cp_fortress". It's a kind of trench-based map, with the Red team assaulting a blue Fortification (backward to the standard CP style, I realize). Gameplay wise, it will be a linear, one-round, three-CP assault/defend map.
Also, please admire how well the tank barriers turned out. :cool1:
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsjiIzu3ixk - a small video of what I have. Sorry for the poor quality. It seems I've forgotten to increase the bit-rate of the video when rendering.
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Why the hell are you showing all your cliping issues?
If you really want demos sitting above the spawn and camping the exits. good luck.
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deadsource
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Thats not an excuse, in Badwater someone was do lazy to do it right,
but it seems like you want this to happen.
It looks like you now what I mean, but you still put it in your map. o.0
deadsource
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Yes, yes I do. I even came up with the name for the map just now. I''ll call it "I'm too lazy to do all of the clipping"...
Why I'm being sarcastic here? Never mind...
The thing is, I want them to camp in those spots. That would redirect them to those two passages on the right, while the third passage on the left would be almost clear. That would enable the BLU team to flank the enemy... or just die horribly.