WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[re1wind]

paste the vmf because otherwise we're blind-men searching for a needle in the haystack without fingers.

 

[EArkham]

I have no idea about your displacement issue, but in the image the texture looks very stretched. Did you subdivide to create that lump? Honestly I tend to delete and recreate from scratch when weird stuff like that happens.

For your weapons, use prop_dynamic instead of prop_static.

And now, per request, a variant of the pyro homburg for the demo:

"It's like having an ace up your sleeve. Only it's a bomb. In your hat."
Workshop Linky Link

 

[Deodorant]

Thanks. The displacement is indeed very stretched, and it's the result of temporary manual laziness. I'm fixing it now.

EDIT:

paste the vmf because otherwise we're blind-men searching for a needle in the haystack without fingers.

Was this directed at me or someone else?

 

[RaVaGe]

Cut it in half in which way?

Looking front to back , or left to right?

Just here

(front to back)

 

[Shanghai]

"We are a serious TF2 mapping community."

*Cue 2 pages of discussion about a chest of drawers for Amnesia*
This is absolutely fascinating though, please do go on.

 

[Sel]

Whew, there.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3332789/Amnesia/Props/drawers.jpg

 

[Deodorant]

My displacement problem has been solved. I intersected displacements instead of sewing them, and apparently that is terrible.

So... Every map ever has to arrange all its displacements in a tetris-style puzzle grid, huh? that sounds terribly inconvenient.

 

[Sergis]

RE: the lighting issue, specifically your map, does the following vrad variable change the above "splotches" in any way?

-LargeDispSampleRadius
This can be used if there are splotches of bounced light on terrain. The compile will take longer, but it will gather light across a wider area.

did a compile with that, the bug is still there

 

[honeymustard]

Keep emailing Valve about it, hopefully they'll fix it..

 

[Languid]

My displacement problem has been solved. I intersected displacements instead of sewing them, and apparently that is terrible.

So... Every map ever has to arrange all its displacements in a tetris-style puzzle grid, huh? that sounds terribly inconvenient.

Well when you consider its tetris where you can control the size and shape of the pieces entirely (apart from them having to be 4 sided), its not that bad.

Also generally sewing is good for discrete objects but not necessary for everything. Have every piece in a cliff-face sew, but you can just poke it through the ground and the lighting will be fine

 

[soylent robot]

plus if a displacement just wont stick together or look good on the corners, you can always hide it behind props and brushes

 

[EArkham]

plus if a displacement just wont stick together or look good on the corners, you can always hide it behind props and brushes

This is a tactic I like to call "Just Park a Truck Over It."

 

[Deodorant]

Well when you consider its tetris where you can control the size and shape of the pieces entirely (apart from them having to be 4 sided), its not that bad.

Also generally sewing is good for discrete objects but not necessary for everything. Have every piece in a cliff-face sew, but you can just poke it through the ground and the lighting will be fine

Really? But poking through was what caused my problem, wasn't it? The cliff thing consisted of a bunch of sewn together displacements, which would have worked fine on its own. However, it poked up through a relatively flat ground layer, and there was a dramatic change in lighting between ground and cliff.

plus if a displacement just wont stick together or look good on the corners, you can always hide it behind props and brushes

Yep, I'm using a few of my houses for that. It's a lifesaver.

 

[ScorpioUprising]

this is a tactic i like to call "just park a truck over it."

"who put these barrels in the snow??"

 

[Shanghai]

"who put these barrels in the snow??"

Stop questioning the way I run my facility and get back to shooting people.

 

[soylent robot]

 

[LeSwordfish]

i'm not sure those windows really fit, i think the wooden ones would work better. Also, i dislike that vent up there, it's probably very close to the players for the 2D design (though that may be less obvious in gameplay). Otherwise, kinda nice.

 

[re1wind]

The wooden support around the top right window is a bit odd. the wooden support, specifically the bottom left corner needs something, either a diagonal support to the left tall window's bottom right corner, or a vertical, or near-vertical support.

otherwise i like.

 

[grazr]

Shouldn't those wooden beams be on the inside?

 

[Shanghai]

Shouldn't those wooden beams be on the inside?

Actually, they are. The whole map is considered inside, except for the area under those roofs. That's outside.