WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[radarhead]

The music seems a little odd for showcasing the imminent destruction of Earth by aliens. It sounds more like waterfalls and mountain scenery, along with self-discovery and a touch of dreaded LOVE.

 

[phi]

Any team must blow up the alien mothership in Attack/Defend gamemodes. In symmetrical gamemodes, the winning team must blow up the mothership. How it is destroyed it up to you, but we've heard Bombs, lasers, rockets and ray guns are effective. (for UFO Assets, see below)

I think snowycoast is fine. Don't know about invasion or haleharbor. If we're going to skimp on contest rules w/e, but this is like the ONLY actual "special" rule that makes this contest anything different than just 'make a map'. It's bolded in the original thread too, so it must be important. Whoever runs the contest should seriously think about how it applies to a few of the maps entered.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

 

[Fantaboi]

Please tell me you mean all of them are allowed, just wanna double check

 

[Fruity Snacks]

All of 'em are allowed.

 

[Lampenpam]

More experimentaion going on:

These rings rotate nicely using motors but is there any way that I can parent them so they can follow a fun_tracktrain

How about you use an animated model to reduce the amount of data the server has send every frame?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Playing with the UE4 Cascade Particle Editor. Fun stuff, still trying to get the hang of things.

Was able to make some better visuals for Elementalists pre-alpha attunement wells.

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

How about you use an animated model to reduce the amount of data the server has send every frame?

I'm open to all suggestions, however, I don't know how to make animated models.

Can you use propper or something else to do it? The image also has a combine powerball (prop) in it.

 

[hutty]

H̛er͢e͟a̕notr ̵t̴ŗa͜i͡s̷s̡i҉ ̨that͟ w̸ ͢h͜ąv̡e͞ ͏inr̨c̡e͞pI̧t seeḿshe̸ ̛loca̶on conns l͏l͘ to͏w͞e̶r i̧n̶ ͞t͘hȩ ̴c͡èn͏teŕ t͞hat͡s ͘a s͡u̢i̷t́abl̴e ͝s̕nip͜ìng̡ posi͠n. ͟a̛po͝lo̕gi͏z҉e̷ f̀e͠ ̸q͠u͘ality o̡th͜pśh͏o̕t̕,̵u͢t͞ ̀s͏ e e̷ste ͞c͜a ̀w͘iţhh ̡sm͏ll̀ ̢eme͠n͝

 

[Shogun]

H̛er͢e͟a̕notr ̵t̴ŗa͜i͡s̷s̡i҉ ̨that͟ w̸ ͢h͜ąv̡e͞ ͏inr̨c̡e͞pI̧t seeḿshe̸ ̛loca̶on conns l͏l͘ to͏w͞e̶r i̧n̶ ͞t͘hȩ ̴c͡èn͏teŕ t͞hat͡s ͘a s͡u̢i̷t́abl̴e ͝s̕nip͜ìng̡ posi͠n. ͟a̛po͝lo̕gi͏z҉e̷ f̀e͠ ̸q͠u͘ality o̡th͜pśh͏o̕t̕,̵u͢t͞ ̀s͏ e e̷ste ͞c͜a ̀w͘iţhh ̡sm͏ll̀ ̢eme͠n͝

Man, I hope this "map made without Hammer" plays well enough to be worth all the cryptic hints and blurry screenshots.

 

[hutty]

' ^ ' this was made in hammer

the non-hammer stuff is project layercake ... which is secret ... and unrelated

 

[Seba]

How about you use an animated model to reduce the amount of data the server has send every frame?

Isn't Source entity work done clientside

 

[Lampenpam]

Isn't Source entity work done clientside

not at all. I think almost all the entities are server-sided. I thinnk the short lag during round reset is because the server has to send the clients the data where all the entities are spawning. Including all decoration particles and spotlights.

And this is why you shouldn't have a lot of moving entities move simultanously. Always stop them if they aren't needed right now and if it's decoration, preffer animated props without colision over other entities

I'm open to all suggestions, however, I don't know how to make animated models.

Neither do I ^^'

 

[tyler]

Isn't Source entity work done clientside

No and this is precisely why massive trade maps with tons of ents and good optimization are still laggy

 

[Shogun]

trade maps

good optimization

pick one.

 

[Crash]

As someone who is on the process of making two trade maps, I think you're stereotyping.

 

[Shogun]

I probably am, but keep in mind you're an experienced mapper. Most trade maps are made by inexperienced mappers who don't know about optimization.

Anyone familiar with Pink Taco's unusual trading server might remember when someone was asked to update the trade map run in the server and make it bigger. The result was a completely unoptimized mess, I normally get 300+ fps in this game and I was getting less than 100 at all times.

 

[Another Bad Pun]

 

[Shogun]

 

[SSX]

Meh...Six Sams are better.