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[Zed]

Really refreshing to see an actual pit of Cheetos dust on a map.

 

[SnickerPuffs]

Really refreshing to see an actual pit of Cheetos dust on a map.

If any more is needed, I'll gladly offer some of mine. That shit's covering the walls up in 'ere.

 

[Pocket]

Makes me miss GoldSrc's displacement-animation feature that it would use for the surfaces of liquids. Nowadays you're stuck making custom animated models, and those can't be lightmapped.

 

[Vel0city]

Oh god yes please. I never understood why displacements couldn't be animated in Source. Hell, the Half Life 2 Source demo had animated displacements in the first room you'd enter. I mean, if you remove the feature from the game due to story/gameplay reasons that's fine, but there's no reason to remove it entirely from the engine (unless it caused severe performance related things which quite frankly aren't an issue nowadays)

In terms of liquid animations we took a step backwards, from animated displacements to animated normal maps. Sure, have all the reflections/refractions in Source, but that's the only thing Source's water has going for it compared to GoldSrc.

 

[Izotope]

if you remove the feature from the game due to story/gameplay reasons that's fine, but there's no reason to remove it entirely from the engine

My thoughts on most entities from Half-Life 2.
Also vehicles.

 

[Dr. Orange]

Makes me miss GoldSrc's displacement-animation feature that it would use for the surfaces of liquids. Nowadays you're stuck making custom animated models, and those can't be lightmapped.

Well, GoldSrc's water usually isn't lightmapped either. The engine doesn't support lightmaps on transparent brushes.

 

[Crash]

Oh god yes please. I never understood why displacements couldn't be animated in Source. Hell, the Half Life 2 Source demo had animated displacements in the first room you'd enter. I mean, if you remove the feature from the game due to story/gameplay reasons that's fine, but there's no reason to remove it entirely from the engine (unless it caused severe performance related things which quite frankly aren't an issue nowadays)

In terms of liquid animations we took a step backwards, from animated displacements to animated normal maps. Sure, have all the reflections/refractions in Source, but that's the only thing Source's water has going for it compared to GoldSrc.

I'm willing to bet it was more a collision issue than anything. They did those deformations in front of the player and then they walked out onto it.

 

[norfolk]

Let's go shopping! (Also yes, I forgot to add lights to that corridor, good thing it's a wip)

 

[Flower_Shop_Guy]

A bit of nostalgia.

 

[Pocket]

(also for the record yes I know the water in GoldSrc wasn't displacements, per se, because GoldSrc doesn't even have displacements in the standard sense; I have no idea what GoldSrc water actually looks like in Hammer, probably just a flat surface that gets broken up and animated automatically in-engine)

 

[Vel0city]

2Fort?

Oooooh, from the original TF2 concept. I get it.

 

[Flower_Shop_Guy]

(also for the record yes I know the water in GoldSrc wasn't displacements, per se, because GoldSrc doesn't even have displacements in the standard sense; I have no idea what GoldSrc water actually looks like in Hammer, probably just a flat surface that gets broken up and animated automatically in-engine)

Animated WAD texture.

2Fort?

Oooooh, from the original TF2 concept. I get it.

Yeah, from HL2 Leaked beta.

 

[heyyou]

I'm moving along on my geyser dinobone map (further than I thought I would get). I almost have stage one (two points) ready for testing but have a lot of cleaning up to do. Shortening the name to just pl_geyser.

Stage 1-1:

Work by Jukebox so far on the dino-head (he is working on all custom dinobones - currently placeholder with white brushes featured in pictures):

Littleboots is also tinkering with Geysers for me.

Stage 1-2:

 

[SnickerPuffs]

I quickly whipped up this "Anti-Bully" sign, to be an alternative to Norfolk's one, because if you don't like how someone did something, do it yourself.

Do you guys have any suggestions on how I can improve this?

 

[Mikroscopic]

...paided?

Also "The one of you mercenaries" sounds weird. And I think the hand should be a little more faded, or lower contrast; it clashes with the words a bit.

 

[Uncuepa]

Air control tower for Hangar

 

[radarhead]

...paided?

Also "The one of you mercenaries" sounds weird. And I think the hand should be a little more faded, or lower contrast; it clashes with the words a bit.

Also, that should be "its" not "it's", which is a contraction.

 

[SnickerPuffs]

...paided?

Also "The one of you mercenaries" sounds weird. And I think the hand should be a little more faded, or lower contrast; it clashes with the words a bit.

Also, that should be "its" not "it's", which is a contraction.

Thanks for the feedback. I'm very tired, so I'm sorry if I spelled anything wrong.

 

[RodionJenga]

"Beatings will continue until the allegations of bullying stop"
-Saxton Hale

The government has mandated that "this workplace does not allow harrassment." Got it? Good, now get back to work, you ugly, half-wit sorry excuses for mercenaries!
-Saxton Hale

Do you guys have any suggestions on how I can improve this?

 

[Corvatile]

more koth_cinder detailing. tactical screenshot strike inbound.

ventsventsvents

tunnel. yes I know it's too dark

and last but not least, the all-import coal chute for speedy escapes

Again, none of this lighting is final