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[Penguin]

If we're talking SEGMENTS, its a segment of a regular octagon.

http://youtu.be/ETdRWL3rf6Q

 

[deadsource]

Today's progress: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcCTalW367s&feature=youtu.be.
Change log:

• Expanded the doorways;
• Added new structures;
• Added some tiny detail to the blue spawn.

(I don't know if I should make a separate thread for my map. This could happen to be more of an experiment (for myself) than a map meant to be play.)

 

[GPuzzle]

Too much detailing for an early alpha.

 

[MangyCarface]

(I don't know if I should make a separate thread for my map. This could happen to be more of an experiment (for myself) than a map meant to be play.)

This is exactly what you should do

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

I'm gonna replace the curve with a higher-resolution one, but I like it so far

 

[tyler]

Use a displacement

 

[Pocket]

There's no good reason to do that. You'd have to make a normal quarter-cylinder anyway as a guide, and using a displacement would only make the texturing look worse. Especially on the bottom edge.

 

[tyler]

Maybe Steve is right, even though his process for making a curve isn't.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

Did the arch tool become taboo at some point?

 

[tyler]

No, not really, and actually I think you're better off using an arch. But subdiving displacements with guide brushes and then deleting the guides leads to a smoother curve and a better lit surface. Usually.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

a better lit surface

With VRAD in its current state I don't want to go through the trouble of making that just to have its surface become an orgy of multicolored light blobs.

 

[tyler]

Haha true I forgot about that

 

[Pocket]

Fun fact: I found displacement lighting bugs in Frontier the other day, near BLU spawn. I forget when that was last compiled, but it was before we started noticing the bug, wasn't it?

 

[tyler]

No, after.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

It's on Doomsday too, so its not like Valve has some secret fix theyre hiding from us.

 

[Prestige]

tarry, add a boat please. i feel like there is a number of places a boat will fit in ferrum and that screenshot has loads of them.

 

[Boylee]

Use a displacement

Even better, use a mathematically generated displacement!

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

Hammer decided today that Ferrum would be better off without point entities, and, being a paragon of selflessness and courtesy, took the time and effort to delete them all for me. I read in a parenting book once that you should never be angry at your child for something they did wrong if they did it with good intentions, so I sat Hammer down for a stern talking-to, in which I explained that, while I appreciated that it went out of its way to improve my map, I would not tolerate any further tampering with my work. I followed this up with a vicious beating with my studded leather belt and then dug through Hammer's autosave files until I found a functioning one.

Fear not. My work shall continue.

 

[deadsource]

Hammer decided today that Ferrum would be better off without point entities, and, being a paragon of selflessness and courtesy, took the time and effort to delete them all for me. I read in a parenting book once that you should never be angry at your child for something they did wrong if they did it with good intentions, so I sat Hammer down for a stern talking-to, in which I explained that, while I appreciated that it went out of its way to improve my map, I would not tolerate any further tampering with my work. I followed this up with a vicious beating with my studded leather belt and then dug through Hammer's autosave files until I found a functioning one.

Fear not. My work shall continue.

I know that feel', brotha.

 

[Freyja]