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[Kill_the_Bug]

Nope - it's a top down viewpoint of somebody's house!

 

[Moonfixer]

Glad its not mine. I can tell by the multiple rooms.

 

[Moonrat]

Glad its not mine. I can tell by the multiple rooms.

How depressingly funny!

 

[Bull]

Started on optimising my god awful 5FPS area of coldtop

 

[Muddy]

More work on cp_matthew_b1. I still need to add overhangs to some of the roofs and add details to the buildings and out-of-bounds areas. I've also got big plans for the interiors.

 

[HQDefault]

Nope - it's a top down viewpoint of somebody's house!

Who the hell has time to put in 2 PARTY ROOMS?

 

[HQDefault]

Did someone say clear ice couldn't refract?

And stickies do stick:

Still workin on a slightly blu-ish variant. Not the finished variant:

EDIT ok how 'bout this color, along with clear:

Now Source does have an ice surface, however it makes people slide around for a long time, as if people were wearing ice skates. So now the surface is made of glass (for the engine at least).


EDIT I got the refract from this texture, however I don't really think it fits TF2 very well.

EDIT 2 Got a clear version too, next to the blue one:

What some snow overlays can do to a border between ice and land:

Do me a favor and make it a blend texture with snow for an alpha

 

[Moonrat]

Who the hell has time to put in 2 PARTY ROOMS?

A very rich person, that's for sure....

 

[Pocket]

Well, it's a more realistic layout than the actual Five Nights at Freddy's map, certainly.

 

[Vel0city]

Do me a favor and make it a blend texture with snow for an alpha

I tried to do that, however the refraction is a standalone shader. I have yet to figure out how to get a snow blend with just a refraction shader where the snow isn't see-trough and the ice is.. Putting the normal map into the other $basetexture channel doesn't work.

However I didn't compile that, I just saw from Hammer that it didn't do anything good. Maybe I should go ahead and make that then. Not today though. Too busy with other stuff.

Although I don't think it will work. The refraction shader is just a bunch of code in a .vmt and as far as I know you can't set .vmt's as base textures. Yes it has a normal map texture to give it the refraction but that normal map will show up as just a texture if I set it as a base texture.

Unless people have a way to put a dedicated .vmt in the $bastexture1 command I can't create a blend texture, and so you have to do it with an overlay, like I showed in the last picture.

 

[Vel0city]

More work on cp_matthew_b1. I still need to add overhangs to some of the roofs and add details to the buildings and out-of-bounds areas. I've also got big plans for the interiors.

First thought: Barnblitz last.

 

[Muddy]

Well, I did use a lot of Barnblitz textures. They just really suit the theme!

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

Who the hell has time to put in 2 PARTY ROOMS?

Obviously you don't know how to party and start living a little

 

[Bunbun]

Recent trade map iv'e been making.

 

[Vel0city]

Recent trade map iv'e been making.

-pictures n stuff-

Looks great

 

[tehOMGfather]

I tried to do that, however the refraction is a standalone shader. I have yet to figure out how to get a snow blend with just a refraction shader where the snow isn't see-trough and the ice is.. Putting the normal map into the other $basetexture channel doesn't work.

However I didn't compile that, I just saw from Hammer that it didn't do anything good. Maybe I should go ahead and make that then. Not today though. Too busy with other stuff.

Although I don't think it will work. The refraction shader is just a bunch of code in a .vmt and as far as I know you can't set .vmt's as base textures. Yes it has a normal map texture to give it the refraction but that normal map will show up as just a texture if I set it as a base texture.

Unless people have a way to put a dedicated .vmt in the $bastexture1 command I can't create a blend texture, and so you have to do it with an overlay, like I showed in the last picture.

Any way you could do it with detail sprites that just lay flat and fixed against the brush? Otherwise the obvious answer would be to use an overlay or second displacement.

 

[Vel0city]

Any way you could do it with detail sprites that just lay flat and fixed against the brush? Otherwise the obvious answer would be to use an overlay or second displacement.

I think those overlays can have a bump/normal map. I'll try that tomorrow. If I load in the same normal map as the Refract shader it might work.


Hmmm...

Maybe I can have a clear piece of flat glass with the normal map refracting the surface so I have a $bastexture, which would make blending it in a lot easier. However, I think a see-trough refract is only possible with the Refract-shader. I might get something done though with $alpha though. Again, I'll figure that stuff out tomorrow.

 

[Vel0city]

Done something with ice, now with a body of water underneath it (stole the 2fort_expensive water shader and edited it a bit), and now the water underneath creates a real-time reflection that seems to come from the ice above

EDIT: darker color for the fog. much nicer.

EDIT2: brought the farz for the fog back to 150 from 200. I really like this.

EDIT3: made an ice texutre which is clear, meaning all the colors now come from the water surface underneath, meaning it's all a bit lighter blue.

And one with the $refractamount set to 1. It looks quite awesome.

 

[Tumby]

Second image uses mat_bumpmap 0.

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "nature/snow_full001"
	"$surfaceprop" "snow"
	"$color" "[.75 .75 .75]"
	"$lightwarptexture" "arctic/lightwarp/lightwarp_ice02"

	"$reflectivity" "[.34 .37 .38]"
	"$envmap" "cubemaps/cubemap_shapes002"
	"$envmaptint" "[.065 .068 .071]"

	"$bumpmap" "water/dx80_tfwater001_normal"

	"%keywords" "tf,custom,arctic"
}

Remade lightwarp

 

[Bunbun]

Second image uses mat_bumpmap 0.

"LightmappedGeneric"
{
	"$basetexture" "nature/snow_full001"
	"$surfaceprop" "snow"
	"$color" "[.75 .75 .75]"
	"$lightwarptexture" "arctic/lightwarp/lightwarp_ice02"

	"$reflectivity" "[.34 .37 .38]"
	"$envmap" "cubemaps/cubemap_shapes002"
	"$envmaptint" "[.065 .068 .071]"

	"$bumpmap" "water/dx80_tfwater001_normal"

	"%keywords" "tf,custom,arctic"
}

Remade lightwarp

I wonder if normal players would not see it as ice and instead never use the area with this texture?