WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Twist.vmf]

Getting back into the swing of things, forgot to turn off shadowing on some of these things. but whatever

i live 3 miles from a farm that has the exact same looking building

 

[Twist.vmf]

find it, get out.

 

[chemelia]

some hammer screens of a very old wip payload map that never really came to anything:

worth making & testing an a1? let me know

 

[Twist.vmf]

looks promising, i would love to test it.

some hammer screens of a very old wip payload map that never really came to anything:

worth making & testing an a1? let me know

 

[Asd417]

The geometry looks uncommon. It will be interesting to see how it goes.

 

[Crowbar]

I mean yeah we sure left 1.6 mapping methods in the past but look I found a way to deal with the long fluorescent lights. I mean it's pretty obvious but look how cool it is.

Spoiler: In-Hammer setup

Under the lamp, we have a brush with light emitting texture at the bottom:

It can be set to func_brush and killed on map launch to show the lamp bottom which is prettier - it affects lightmaps that will already be baked. Could set render mode to Dont Render but that will still grab the edict.
Under that, we got a brush with a white-to black gradient texture, set to be a func_brush with Additive rendering mode (so black fade will be transparent) and about 1/3 opacity:

Now disable any shadowing on it and the collisions as well. That's the highlight. After that, we can make there and tweak a func_dustmotes for nice dust there.
Boom! a long lamp without ugly series of point light entites, that works! remember to cut down edits taken by highlights by joining several all-seen-at-once highlight func_brushes into one.

 

[Twist.vmf]

I mean yeah we sure left 1.6 mapping methods in the past but look I found a way to deal with the long fluorescent lights. I mean it's pretty obvious but look how cool it is.

Spoiler: In-Hammer setup

Under the lamp, we have a brush with light emitting texture at the bottom:

It can be set to func_brush and killed on map launch to show the lamp bottom which is prettier - it affects lightmaps that will already be baked. Could set render mode to Dont Render but that will still grab the edict.
Under that, we got a brush with a white-to black gradient texture, set to be a func_brush with Additive rendering mode (so black fade will be transparent) and about 1/3 opacity:

Now disable any shadowing on it and the collisions as well. That's the highlight. After that, we can make there and tweak a func_dustmotes for nice dust there.
Boom! a long lamp without ugly series of point light entites, that works! remember to cut down edits taken by highlights by joining several all-seen-at-once highlight func_brushes into one.

FINALLY! i hate having to avoid using those lights!

 

[Crash]

I mean yeah we sure left 1.6 mapping methods in the past but look I found a way to deal with the long fluorescent lights. I mean it's pretty obvious but look how cool it is.

Spoiler: In-Hammer setup

Under the lamp, we have a brush with light emitting texture at the bottom:

It can be set to func_brush and killed on map launch to show the lamp bottom which is prettier - it affects lightmaps that will already be baked. Could set render mode to Dont Render but that will still grab the edict.
Under that, we got a brush with a white-to black gradient texture, set to be a func_brush with Additive rendering mode (so black fade will be transparent) and about 1/3 opacity:

Now disable any shadowing on it and the collisions as well. That's the highlight. After that, we can make there and tweak a func_dustmotes for nice dust there.
Boom! a long lamp without ugly series of point light entites, that works! remember to cut down edits taken by highlights by joining several all-seen-at-once highlight func_brushes into one.

You should give this it's own post where it won't be buried among WIP posts.

 

[Crowbar]

I've got it in my signature, but yeah, I'll write a properly done guide a bit later.

 

[Izotope]

I didn't know about white to black gradients turning transparent with Additive, thanks for sharing!
Even with all the knowledge in the world, you can learn something new every day.

 

[Crowbar]

Additive literally works by adding the RGB values. So if we have a pixel with, say <148, 170, 204> (light, bleaker blue) color, and it's being overdrawn with a black (0, 0, 0) pixel with additive, instead of turning into <0, 0, 0>, pixel turns into <148+0, 170+0, 204+0>, obviously stayng the same. The lighter the color, the more solid it is.

 

[MaccyF]

I mean yeah we sure left 1.6 mapping methods in the past but look I found a way to deal with the long fluorescent lights. I mean it's pretty obvious but look how cool it is.

Spoiler: In-Hammer setup

Under the lamp, we have a brush with light emitting texture at the bottom:

It can be set to func_brush and killed on map launch to show the lamp bottom which is prettier - it affects lightmaps that will already be baked. Could set render mode to Dont Render but that will still grab the edict.
Under that, we got a brush with a white-to black gradient texture, set to be a func_brush with Additive rendering mode (so black fade will be transparent) and about 1/3 opacity:

Now disable any shadowing on it and the collisions as well. That's the highlight. After that, we can make there and tweak a func_dustmotes for nice dust there.
Boom! a long lamp without ugly series of point light entites, that works! remember to cut down edits taken by highlights by joining several all-seen-at-once highlight func_brushes into one.

would be cool if you could work in a fresnel term to get it to look brighter from shallower angles

 

[puxorb]

I mean yeah we sure left 1.6 mapping methods in the past but look I found a way to deal with the long fluorescent lights. I mean it's pretty obvious but look how cool it is.

Spoiler: In-Hammer setup

Under the lamp, we have a brush with light emitting texture at the bottom:

It can be set to func_brush and killed on map launch to show the lamp bottom which is prettier - it affects lightmaps that will already be baked. Could set render mode to Dont Render but that will still grab the edict.
Under that, we got a brush with a white-to black gradient texture, set to be a func_brush with Additive rendering mode (so black fade will be transparent) and about 1/3 opacity:

Now disable any shadowing on it and the collisions as well. That's the highlight. After that, we can make there and tweak a func_dustmotes for nice dust there.
Boom! a long lamp without ugly series of point light entites, that works! remember to cut down edits taken by highlights by joining several all-seen-at-once highlight func_brushes into one.

This would also be awesome for god-rays coming in through gaps in the ceiling, like on 2fort. Someone could make a more yellowish version of the texture too.

 

[Crowbar]

There is a yellow version of that exact texture.

Same texture name but _warm001 on the end.

 

[Mikroscopic]

What does it look like from the bottom though?

 

[Crowbar]

Not really good to be honest. @AsG_Alligator found a solution: make an already transparent gradient texture with $nocull and use displacements, but that looked like too much effort for me, and func_brush is kinda more flexible.

 

[Kube]

Did a little bit more Hammer. This seems like a map I want to pursue.

 

[Twist.vmf]

how can i make a singleplayer map multiplayer?

it's not done though

 

[SnickerPuffs]

Something is on the horizon...



Introducing

CP_LEAD

A work-in-progress 3CP push map by HolySnickerPuffs and Letter Before A.



(I'm gonna release it in like, 3 minutes.)​

 

[Asd417]

Will the creator share the night skybox with us?