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more about the kind of camera equipment that was used in those shots. The interiors really did have an ultra digital feel to them, as if the ugly effects of natural lighting were filtered out (what I hated about the Unreal 3 engine demo is it appeared they were putting back in the ugliness of real light that cinematographers for generations have struggled to take out).
Nice find, Maj. A lot of crap but a few good pics. Like the hydro ones are the bottom.
http://www.photo.net/photo/pcd4553/ http://www.webshots.com/g/tr/pp-sh.html
More than architecture, but some of those are gorgeous. Some kittens too. Some should be familiar and one quite familar
homepage.smc.edu/.../ Exam%20One%20slides.htm Kittens are: http://kinn.spawnpoint.org/randompics/beaupwns.jpg
http://www.bunkertours.co.uk/the_maginot_line_metrich.htm
also you can use the next/previous/etc buttons on the bottom of the page to access a few more pages of stuff. I said the LotW thread!
http://celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=27243 so THAT'S what Maginot Line looks like. Never bothered to google it before... Looks good, thx frib.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=35091
This was a neat little thread on conceptart, mostly figures and whatnot but had a couple sweet structural/semi-structural bits too. I like the dragon thing with the cathedral on its back. http://www.katwest.com/
Semi useful. More artsy photos with lots of empty warehouses reflected on wet floors, but can be useful. Why isn't this thread permanent at the top of the page? What a great idea! I don't remember who, but someone was talking about this very idea in #terrafusion.
For inspiration: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=e791232fbc039ce172ce45b96d345120&threadid=1409604 Black and white photos colored in photoshop, i believe:
http://www.londonstation.com/Photographs/photographs.htm morden.htm is way cool. This sort of thing will send zombie to Spencer Street looking for his next D3 build area.
Victorian Underground + D3 monsters = American Werewolf In London? :)
It would be a nice change of D3 pace
Good movie, and you could slim down Fatty Zombie for a pensive Lon Chaney look. I dunno if this has been posted here before, because I remember it from some time ago.
Anyway, a repeat won't hurt: http://www14.big.or.jp/~kawamura/m-city/english_photo_gallery.html & http://www.ne.jp/asahi/saiga/yuji/gallary/gunsu/thumbnail.html That site is bloody brilliant as the british would say. My home city doesn't have an history as rich or as interesting, so I didn't appreciate New York's until now. The artificats really are a small glimpse into an interesting story.
http://www.sewerhistory.org
some nice pics there http://www.digital-images.net/index.html
including architecture... I've seen some interesting ideas at:
www.dpreview.com browse the camera review samples. That have been making the rounds in #terrafusion
http://www.photomichaelwolf.com/hongkongarchitecture/ Weird photos of Hong Kong building facades. http://craneporn.org/ Photos of cranes. Now u no fo sho From my Peru trip:
Lima capitol buidlings and/or a cathedral: http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~winslorc/pub/peru/peru%20_%20lima%20capitol.jpg From atop Machu Picchu, looking off the side opposite where llamas rest during the day: http://unixgen.muohio.edu/~winslorc/pub/peru/peru%20vista.jpg I'll get a hold of more pics soon! builds lots of stuff, including nuclear power plants. Here's some pics:
http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/01.html http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/02.html http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/03.html http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/04.html http://www.mhi.co.jp/atom/hq/atome_e/04/05.html and chornobyl images :( http://www.ukrchicago.com/inform/dovidky/Chornobyl_1/index.html the millions killed (and largely ignored) in the Gulag Archipelago
www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0060007761 strikes me as somewhat worse. For a bit of evil history and American complicity, I would suggest looking up Operation Keelhaul. Stalin would have never got away with it if it wasnt for his supporters in the West. Compassion is the stupidest this thing ever. Why bring it up?
For example: compare Jangaweed genocide with the Indian ocean tsunami. One is ignored almost entirely while the other gets more support than is useful. Completely stupid. This thread has been nothing but awesome so far. Don't mess it up with starting a discussion!
then a mile high pile of human skulls can be considered one as well.
By saying 'worse', you brought in to the discussion a scope including a moral dimension. I am saying Gulags are worse than Chernobyl as a human event. By any measure other than a geographic one that should be self evidently true. I'm not even sure what compassion has to do with it. Tsunami is an apple, Genocide is an orange. The later is preventable, the former is not. http://www.realtor.org/rmomag.NSF/pages/arch35?OpenDocument
learn your column varieties!! This is just good knowledge to have. This site however is pretty good at giving you a general idea of a time periods architecture. Some better than others. we can get people to stop referring to eras as various as the Byzantine, Romanesque, Renaissance, and the Boroque under the all encompassing lable Gothic.
Spent a couple days in the south of France, and took some random photos of architecture and stuff, maybe it'll inspire some of you, who knows...
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005 I should really go take some shots of all the cull stuff in Paris someday... Especially because of this:
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3350 http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3365
And this was the point in the gallery where I made a mess of my pants. I'm not so good with this sort of stuff, but most of the architecture in that city was said to be a mix of roman and gothic styles...
Nice photos really.. I didn't know that Dordogne have this kind of architectural "treasure" !!
BTW, I made a little search on the web using google, and most of the architecture in the city are roman and gothic like you said... but concerning the photo pushplay mentionned, it's typically "Renaissance" Style architecture (XVIth century)... ;) There's certainly some similarities between this:
http://www.atwitsend.org/Resources/Ext%20Ste%20Maxime%208%2002%2010.jpg and this: http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/souillac2005/IMG_3365 http://www.midnightsociety.com/web/Abandoned/SImon/SImon.html
http://www.lostdestinations.com/mnastry3.htm these are the same one actually, just different pics. http://www.netserf.org/Architecture/ this seems to be a decent assortment of references...when you can get a good view in the pics that is. http://www.mont-saint-michel.net/ AHA... here's the monastery I was thinking about... It was a pretty cool daytrip if I recall. The Mont Saint-Michel is pretty bad ass, I ran around it once, some cool stuff, have to go back there some day with my cam. =)
Woo! bunch of referance and inspiration here! Thanks nitin, awesome stuff!
http://scampie.spawnpoint.org/egyptref/ /me prepares urltoys
thanks nitin for quality stuff (it's cool when fotos are taken by the gamer/designer ;) thx scampie for hosting all i have to say is thanks!!!the catacombs tour was cool.i see your site is being worked i couldn't contact the guys direct....awesome
nitin really took some inspiring shots. Some of the images from the start of the series in particular are really interesting; a kind of style I've never studied before, or even seen many pictures of. So thanks a lot, and nice job scampie for the hosting.
Oooh, nice shots man, thanks for sharing! Saved them all for eventual future reference. =)
Damn, I wanna go to egypt too someday... Mind describing your trip a bit maybe, so we can know what some of this stuff is and all? Could you put the
I was thinking I'd put them all in one big Rar file and put that up.
As long as the file is compressed, and is singular, I'm happy. I'll go through the pics tonight and post a brief writeup of whats what.
601 to 615
These are from Cairo, from a section called Coptic Cairo. The building in pics 601-604 is a greek orthodox church. 609-610 are from the cemetery section of the church. 615 is the entrance, it's interesting because depsite being a church, it has quite an arabic influence. 652-702 This is the biggest mosque in all of Egypt. i believe its called the Sultan Hassan mosque. The scale is very very awe inspiring, if you look on pic 659, you can see people near the bottom of the entrance to give you an idea of the scale. 723-738 these are self explanatory but 727 give a good idea of scale. 761-767 this is the Red Pyramid. not located with the other pyramids and usually not open to people. However, it was sort of open when we went there. The outside climb is 20-25 m and then you descend down a 1.5 m by 1 m pasageway for 63 m. Pics 765-767 are on the inside, once your reach the bottom. 795-798 These are from Alexandria, a city north of Cairo on the Mdeiterranean sea. as the name suggests, it was as far down as Alexander the Great got. Therefore, the architecture here is more graeco-roman. A lot of the original city is now underwater. 824-825 this is Fort Quaitbey in Alexandria. 901-934 Luxor Temple. 936 - 966 karnak Temple. this is a massive complex with an absolutely humongous hall near the entrance that is filled with 100's of pillars. This felt very Duarendin like (from LOTR). Pic 956 gives a good idea of scale. however, the complex is in pretty bad shape and apart from the hall, it really isnt as impressive as some of the more well preserved temples we saw later. 972a-972f This is the temple of Medinat Habu on the west bank of Luxor city. Not as many tourists visit this temple, but IMHO its far more impressive and well preserved than the more famous and popular Luxor and Karnak complexes. 972g - 972h This is the Ramasseum, which is also on the west bank of Luxor. Not that original or well preserved but it was a few shots. 972l - 972q The famous temple of Hatsheput (Serious Sam level 1). Its a very impressive sight as you're walking up to it, being built into the rockface. However, there's not much to see once you get there as it is being restored. The Valley of the Kings is behind the mountain that this temple is built into. Generally, you take the road that goes around the mountaing to get to the Valley, but we decided to climb the mountain (both a good and bad idea since it was very tiring but it gave some fantastic views). Pics 972o - 972q are shots of the temple as we are climbing up. 972q is when we were directly above it and since it has no roof, it makes a great top down view. 1005-1036 The awesome temple complex of Abu Simbel. The most visited Eyptian site apart from the Pyramids. Its built into a rockface and is absolutely stunning in scale and detail. It has also been moved some 100 m in and 50 m up from its original site because it was too close to the water and was deteriorating. That is why the rockface that it is built inot looks more man made than natural. 1005-1017 are shiots of the temple of ramses II and 1017-1036 are shots of the temple of nefertiti, the wife of ramses II. The complex is located about 250 km south of luxor, approximately 20 km north of the Sudanese border. 1042-1051 the temple complex of philae, situated in the middle of a lake. 1052-1053 the temple complex of Kom Ombo, situated on a river bank. 1060-1068 the temple complex of horus. If anyone has played the UT1 map, CTF-Horus, Evil atje did a great job of sticking to the real temple's layout. I could almost navigate it without looking at a guidebook, simply because I'd played ctf-horus numerous times and know the layout. 1098-1107 The temple complex of dendara. Perhaps the most well preserved temple in Egypt and beacuse of that is quite an experience. Just having a roof makes it so much more awesome. Shot 1107 is from a crypt under the temple that had an entrance that you pretty much had to limbo under to get in. I'd say it was about 0.2 m high and 1 m across. It also features some very strange and unique hieroglyphics, as seen in pics 1103 and 1105. Even an non-expert like me could tell that they were nothing like the normal hieroglyphic in the other temples. Anyway, that covers it I think. If anyone has any specific question, ask away. Thanks nitin, really appreciate this stuff. =)
Just added a little no problem.
Also, in case you were wondering, there's heaps more to see than just the pharoanic stuff. We spent a few days on essentially a glorified sailboat on the Nile and 4 days or so through the Western Desert which is amazing because within about 500 km, it goes from a normal desert to a black desert that looks like the area surrounding Mount Doom from LOTR to a white desert that looks a bit like the arctic. unreleased architectural projects of soviet russia (30s-40s)
http://www.muar.ru/ve/2003/moscow/index.htm Here's some cool pictures from a somethingawful thread that a guy took while he was staying at a Zen Monastery in New York.
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?s=4c2e4d7bb2ab23d2731acdb0b2a17815&threadid=1495601 I asked some days ago where could I find some military textures..., and I found an incredible source of Military textures at http://www.combatmission.com/
I downloaded a 1942 Willy Jeep example, and it's really interesting, while the textures are in bmp format, and sometimes not 1:1 scaled... There is a little bit of work to do.... Anyway, it looks interesting.. So enjoy !! I was just reading Slashdot, and a user posted this:
http://halley.cc/pix/?d=./new.york Some really great pics there. Enjoy. meant it resembles the doom 1 parallax sky. (It was made from some photograph from China, this is Taiwan so the terrain might be similar if it's close by).
Nice von. =)
That reminds me, don't think I ever posted my Japan photos here, if anyone is interested: http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/japan2004 in terrain/desert shots?
I have some of those from my trip too, there's some cool ones of an area that's a canyon but in a desert. meant it resembles the doom 1 parallax sky.
yes, I got that, thank you. I was making my own reference. The exterior design production photos are really ace. I wonder what kind of system it will take to get the pouring rain effect working in engine as it is shown in modeler here. The interior photos are the clean lab/base look we all love and may never tire of seeing.
http://www.blackshock.com - Industrial photographs of Prague
I was thinking Maya or 3ds when I was browsing through it; the artist explains his process later in the forum:
Se7en : Most of the environnments are painted over really simple 3d box, some roughs space done for fixing the level building and gameplay. No lights, no architecture and 3D elements. Just perspective and scale with some character references on them. In fact when I haven't this kind of 3d ref, I create my own "3dboxes" and perspectives with photoshop (with some grid to help, just walls, space and a roof). Photoshop used for its specifities, like a kind of architectural tools. Don't know if it can be used for Quake... but at least it exists ;)
http://telejano.berlios.de/wiki3/index.php/TexturesSets http://www.stilllife-game.com/gallery.aspx
^^ Saw this on Bluesnews this morning. Looks really cool. I figure most of you aren't into adventure games, so you probably won't play it, but at least you can snag some ideas from the nice artwork :D http://members15.tsukaeru.net/kuroma2/index2.htm
Mad props to that crazy bald zoo worker from SA. Also, let me know if that site doesn't work from that direct link, because it seemed like I went through 5 or 6 pages of links to get there. http://www.erreur404.org/rofocale/
nice technique http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research3.html
there are some fucking amazing shots in here... i'm a bit confused why there is so much abandoned stuff in japan however as property values are extremely high and competitive. ...to your maps when doing water reservoir type stuff (bit like in HL2)
http://www.stormwatercenter.net/Manual_Builder/Performance%20Criteria/Stormwater%20ponds.htm no wonder steel price is getting higher when they build such things in the far east...
It's crazy. i always envied kell for that he's living in edinburgh... so many old castles, so many sources for inspiration...
seen that site in a matte painting class - he's awesome. That pic made me immediately have to put on the blade runner soundtrack.
Natural bridge in Virginia:
http://www.zentropolis.com/2003_bridge/natural_bridge_1.jpg http://www.zentropolis.com/2003_bridge/natural_bridge_2.jpg Another natural bridge, in Albany, NY: http://www.uni-ulm.de/~s_msimo1/DownUnder/4WD-Tour/images/Natural%20Bridge%20-%20Albany2.JPG Crazy tree that apparently was used to hold prisoners, in Australia: http://www.luxurycampers.com/pictures/prisontree.jpg Weird rocks on a beach in Hopewell Cape, NB: http://roadtrip.arcticcircle.ca/2002/P8149820.JPG http://roadtrip.arcticcircle.ca/2002/P8149827.JPG http://roadtrip.arcticcircle.ca/2002/P8149846.JPG earlier tonight I browsed this I&R thread for possible material to inspire my turtlemap.
I found this link in a post of yours, http://www.orientalarchitecture.com/ and this what I have made so far tonight, http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/3110/wat27cm.jpg While googling for one I knew of in china I found this site: http://www.naturalarches.org/
:) -- just as good for some things. That is probably as smooth as I could hope to get for import into Quake.
But I assure you that is not Albany, NY - Albany is 250 miles inland!
Pretty cool what water can do to sedimentary rock! http://flickr.com/photos/stillburning/sets/638142/
There is some good stuff there if you can manage to filter out all the "OMG EVERYTHING FOR FREE NOW, HITLER!" crap that national geographic magazine can be a great source of inspiration. especially for asian cities.
http://www.uib.no/bot/qeprg/pictures/places/Bhutan/pages/Taktsang%20Monastery%20(photo%20Jane%20Jopling).htm
http://www.barbara-and-stu.com/Taksang%20Monastery%202.jpg Built into the side of a sheer cliff. Wow. Fingers must have an awesome brain to be able to just churn out stuff like that. It would take me a day to come up with one of those i think.
Scrawled on small post-it notes at work, over a period of a few weeks.
I use to do that all the time. I esp like Ikka's Black Mariah on the sword page I would just like to point out that those color WWI photos are the most impressive stuff I have seen all summer.
I mean. Holy fuck they look good to me. but the access denied page has a helpful link to the same image which works becuase the referer is local :P
I guess they want to enable <a> but not <img>. I believe the Guggenheim was once described along the lines of 'a dynamic eruption of plastic form'. I prefer 'a tragic abortion of spastic foil' myself.
There's a museum in Japan, whose name mercifully escapes me, which is essentially a few geometric primitives stuck in a field. It has been featured in several books which go on about how great it is. What utter bollocks. It's the architectural equivalent of a newbie boxmap. Some modern architecture is cool, a lot really makes me wonder how on Earth ANYONE could approve these designs before they are built. Spent some time in the south of France again this summer, have a little album with photos on my site, might be some inspiring stonework stuff in some if any of you care to take a look around:
http://bal.spawnpoint.org/gallery/summer2005 Guggenheim museum looks ok to me, the curves and stuff are pretty funky, and it must have been tricky to build. But yeah, it probably is quite over-rated. I've been to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, was cool, it looks very nice. Had a very hard time finding a bathroom though :/
Pwnage:
http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=redsands%20fort&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&sa=N&tab=wi http://images.google.co.uk/images?svnum=10&hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=red+sands+fort&btnG=Search ^^^ takes a little clicking to find the best pics, although for Brits there are some sweet ones in the Sunday Times magazine last weekend. Can't believe I hadn't heard of this place before. P.S. Edinburgh rocks, most impressive architectural city I've been too, some of it is straight evile. of the Principality of Sealand:
http://images.google.com/images?q=sealand there is quite a point in the deconstructivism
another thing, if you like it or not but actually, I dont think it will make a cool map My map, "Slipstream," is in final beta today. You can get release candidate #1 here:
http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1.bsp And some screens: http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_1.jpg http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_2.jpg http://www.qwplayers.org/inertia/sliprc1_3.jpg I want to finalize it tomorrow, so please test everything you can and let me know if there are any problems! thanks. http://lost.biker.ru/gallery/
It's in russian, but I'm sure you'll manage clicking some pictures anyway. Thanks. Those crane (earth mover?) pictures are pure inspiration straight from the distillery of time.
http://www.arrakeen.ch/thailand/thailandjan03.html
And if for some reason that doesn't inspire you: http://www.arrakeen.ch/thailand/051%20%20Ann.jpg Nice pics ! to your opinion, would it be easy to convert all these ancient maps in a single wad file ?
Why? Easier if someone just extracts the ones they want, and people probably wouldn't want it as original, but preferrably scribbled on more rough pieces of parchment/skin/marble or the like.
yeah, convert ones u need, but you might loose all the beauty of the high resolution. it's better to use them in moreadvanced engines that supports hi res texes.
.. was to convert some of these pics in order to use the most interesting one as general HQ strategy maps, like you can find in Wolfenstein, etc... Anyway, I will try by myself to see if it's interesting or not...
spirit the sturdy rover and opportunity's twin, has reached the higpoint of husband hill and sent us some nice pics.
These are two samples (they have others and more resolutions too on the site): http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050831a/Sol500A_Whale_L257atc-A590R1_br2.jpg http://marsrovers.jpl.nasa.gov/gallery/press/spirit/20050901a/Summit_240deg_L256T-A590R1_br2.jpg I already mentioned someone might make a nice skybox.. after all, quakers are from Mars. that guy is so good, a lot of the paintings look like they're in-game. Thanks for the inspiration Kinn; though that guy has no right to be that talented.
Jago, CG = computer graphics, using photoshop/painter/etc = CG, so yes obviously those are CG as far as I'm concerned (I kind of doubt he did them with traditional means).
But if you mean 3D renders, yeah, he probably renders some stuff before doing a paint over (but I know it's possible to do that kind of stuff without it really). but I know it's possible to do that kind of stuff without it really).
My best friend gave me a Blade Runner city scene print before going back to college, my first thought, 'we would assumed this to be CGI instead of hand painted matte if we did not know its origins.' http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=39434&start=30
He's really good, young, self thaught and a nice guy! (I worked with him for a while about three years ago) including architecture
http://www.patentroom.com/ Thanks for the link. To my surprise, most of those textures are tilable so they can actually be used in a game.
http://episteme.arstechnica.com/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/34709834/m/943001045731/r/325001045731#325001045731
Some AWESOME pics from Huangshan, China. the huge bridge between sweden and denmark is like that too, there's an artificial island where it goes underground/water. One can see it from the airplane is one flies to/via copenhagen (SAS hub so it's likely if you travel in the north).
There are also small dam/bridge combinations in the north (seen them in sweden) where there is first a dam that overflows evenly from the whole width and then the water runs over a road that is a couple meters lower - it's only a few cm deep when the flow is normal so you can drive on the road over the river. But it feels strange since on the other side is a thin wall holding huge amounts of water, and if there was a flow increase, it would flow over the dam and your car would be washed away. Shame I didn't have a camera with me. http://ueba.com.br/forums/index.php?showtopic=18987
I guess it's India? My own translation of the important bits:
Kanyakumari: Located in the southernmost part of India, Kanyakumari is the point where three seas join: the bay of Bengal, the Arabian Sea, and the Indian Ocean. The legend behind the temple is as romantic as the place itself. Dedicated to the virgin goddess Kanyakumari (Parvati) who is proud to protect the country. The temple is built on the top where she was created and she waits for her consort to come and ask her hand in marriage. After the tsunami??? I wish there were more shots close up. It looks like there might be some cool details. http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43791
constantly updated (even if uv been there, it`s worth another look) many images http://www.opacity.us/gallery87.htm
(boingbong) Wow, cool photos !! It would be great to make a partially submerged map using these photos...
I'm just dreaming about a ship cimeterry full of monsters.. ;P I'm just dreaming about a ship cimeterry full of monsters..
If you ever make such a level, I have the perfect name for it. Do you know what the Barbary Pirates called their deep sea hell? Dom Daniel -- The first time I encountered the word was in a short story by Gene Wolfe several years ago. I looked it up with whatever search engines were available at the time, but I found little information (Gaimon also made reference to it in Sandman).
So I looked up Wolfe's e-mail address and asked about it, and got a nice little etymonic discription in return. I wished I still had that e-mail, it was quite interesting. Please if you still have this email, send it to lambert_jph - at - yahoo - dot - fr
I'm always interested by these "mythological" stories... it gives me some good inspirations for mapping ;) a) I want to have czg's manbabies
b) Valve must have based hl2 entirely on reference from this very site. Exhibits: http://www.opacity.us/image3260.htm http://www.opacity.us/image3283.htm http://www.opacity.us/image3177.htm c) Metl fix this fucking recursive sql error so I don't have to keep retyping posts. I didn't comprehend Lun's post on first read, and I clicked the links thinking it was a tech demo of some new valve engine... :O
That's an entirely reasonable assesment and I can clearly see how what I said could be construed as such by a sober, clear-headed individual.
the image of manbabbies does take a little time to shake before you get to point b).
bandwith limit exceeded... well, gotta try another day.
The internet needs broadcasting technology. (Or active proxies as people from different timezones start following links) when somebody complains about a crappy map / game which is just plain corridors and stupid enemies, I can just say that "you just don't understand, it is perfect! A masterpiece of the hayden tunnel inspired".
that the baroquefactory picture and others was from - it's only $300-400!
Awesome pictures of Russian architecture and landscapes from the turn of the 20th century:
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/empire/object.html (sorry if this has been posted before, at least one of the pics looked familiar to me, but might have just been on IRC) "Please note that titles occasionally go out of print or publishers run out of stock."
went on a surfing spree that was approximately bath quarries - bath - saxons - normen - varangians - novgorod
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Detinets.jpg You can get pretty awesome stuff from this: http://images.google.com/images?q=russia%20cathedral http://www.howardlyon.com
Mostly character/animal/thing studies, but some nice architecture in "Paintings" at least. Some good links too (eg http://imphead.com/ ). Detinets in Novgorod - been there, just not in winter time
Saviour on Blood cathedral has impressive exterior and interior (too detailed for my taste tho) http://www.areyou.net/photo/Earth/xhome/piter99/spas-big.jpg interior is very map-able http://photo.korsakov.ru/data/media/1/CRW_0016.jpg google for more, or come to St.Petersburg to see it :) Beautifull paints ! And it will be difficult to reproduce the paints in a texture file IMHO...
I understood, while I think the most interesting things there are the paints... Anyway, good photos ;)
Of the recently-launched Venus Express.
http://sci.esa.int/science-e/www/object/index.cfm?fobjectid=31141&farchive_objecttypeid=18&farchive_objectid=30912 Nice mechanical stuff. i just got the http://img167.echo.cx/img167/5929/goatlake6ss.jpg joke.
too bad.
Now part of the world is forever ruined for you. Like the beauty of v838 monocerotis. :( http://heritage.stsci.edu/2005/02/index.html has probably been posted sometime before but apart from the posing people it seems like it's time for a holiday in kambodja!
http://www.danciprari.com/images/worldtrip/cambodia/ca-siem-ta-prohn-5-kristen-600.jpg http://www.unc.edu/~knesnow/BlogImages/Angkor%20Wat%202.jpg http://www.bmi2.bmt.tue.nl/image-analysis/People/BRomeny/images/Bart%20@%20To%20Prohm%20Temple%20-%20Angkor%20PC130874%20-%20800%20x%20600.jpg http://www.potterfam.com/MasaJay/archives/The_Bayon_ubiquitous_face.sized%5B1%5D.jpg http://www.22000milesplusloin.com/site/article.php3?id_article=32 http://www.rseghers.name/Cambodia_Thailand_2004/pics/033%20Inside%20Angkor%20Wat.jpg http://www.neolog.com/images/pics/travel/Mutt%20Ang%20face.jpg http://www.neolog.com/images/pics/travel/Angkor%20Wat%20Muttley.jpg I'll be fairly close in chiang mai in northern thailand for about three months from january...
If you have the patience to go through them all, I applaud you. Else just click random links:
http://www.clubdesmonstres.com Some good shtuff. I visited the museum of modern art in Helsinki, Kiasma, today. Most of the stuff sucked badly and a lot of it was just.. ugly. But some rare ones were good.
There was also a room where artists had done 3d paintings but the tech was kinda primitive... i hope something comes of this in a few years (even though the tech has been there for many years). Audience could look with polarized glasses and in one of the glasses there were these two balls which where the reference according to which the projected image moved. In another exhibit, there was a simple metal wireframe village with a church in the center. It didn't look much special at first look, but actually it was put on a circulating platform and light was projected through it at a wall. Damn, it looked just like a computer game with the wireframe picture on the wall. :P There is a water material definition sitting in fluids.guide. It seems to be your fancy HL2-style fresnel/fog/two normalmaps/reflection and refraction water, too.
Why they dropped that, who knows. Couldn't have said it better myself. I actually wrote a damn post and then forced myself to delete it.
dont NDAs get removed after the game release?
anyway, me wants q4 expansion, with water or not - doesnt matter *wink* With all the water shaders for d3, isn't there a problem that they don't seem to work properly on lower end hardware? Maybe they were removed for simple performance reasons..
no, we have a standing NDA on all matters that haven't been made public yet. you're only thinking of coverage of features themselves - yes we're obviously allowed to talk about what's in quake4 once it's out, because it's out. the stuff that's not in the game is kept internal.
http://ian-albert.com/misc/gamemaps.php
Maps (like roadmaps, no levels) from different games like Doom, Ultima, Zelda and others. Quite interesting. we use that at work. One thing that seems to be lacking is the ability to create a root system. So if you're making a swampy level where the trees are all standing in water, you can't have all those cool exposed roots.
Maybe they're working on it! But yeah some gnarled, swampy rooted trees would be wicked.
I posted the link in Inspiration because I really do find the majority of those shots to be as inspiring at looking at similar, "real" wooded areas. We're finally getting to the point where we can have a fair trade between polys and performance vis a vis trees. looks like the dream of cliffyb is getting true. i remember he was telling back in the unreal days that he dreams to create the forest that his mother would cry looking at it :)
Maybe already posted, but here are some png textures that should look great ingame... but it has to be converted.. sorry...
BTW, the "company" seems to provide interesting texture tools.. http://www.nodalideas.com/textures/ for guys who like hard retro-contemporary military-political stuff.
http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/colderwar.htm Somewhat mixed with reality in parts. :) http://www.oakridge.doe.gov/media_releases/2003/r-03-029.htm http://community.webshots.com/album/516054988zzfmUP
Webshots is a good general source of inspiration anyway, but I saw this on the frontpage today ... would be a very good basis for map... sure ! And BTW, the photos on the websites are very good
please let those of us who actually have jobs know in advance when you've linked a girl with a fucking ball gag in her mouth in a thread about architectural reference thanks
Madison is a progressive town. I'm sure you have people in ball gags walking around the office. Even if they don't look like Maggie Gyllenhaal.
These are not necessarily the best photos of it, but there's not bad for a start. Do some searches for "ostia" and you'll probably find more cool galleries.
http://www.cgl.uwaterloo.ca/~smann/Rome05/ostia.html Lots of pictures of lots of places...
http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/ Stumbled on to this looking for something else -- hooray for happy accidents! http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/index/index.html
This is actually a much more comprehensive list of everything on that site. http://www.danseagrave.com
interesting images of strange environments and scenes. i particularly like the temple series (from which i also have two posters). the only setback is that the site uses flash and opens in popups, which makes viewing the large versions of the images a pain. e.g. http://www.acclaimposters.com/_gallery/large/10033052.jpg Title says it all. If you've got up-and-coming q1 deathmatch releases, post pics here:
http://nqr.esports-zone.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=81 looks like I imagined Soviet Union would be.
Or partly, Afghanistan: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v200/9505367/Subway%20Album/ShieldsRdExt1.jpg The Clockwork Orange!
personal anecdote: my dad, trained civil engineer, worked on the modernising of the glasgow underground. That victoriana building about halfway down the page, the entrance to St. Enoch station, had to be jacked up in one piece - by 7mm iirc - so the tunnels below could be worked on. My dad has dozens more photos of the project, but I shan't be asking him for more 'inspiration' :P What a surreal reminder o_O Off of bear's pics of Thailand, what the hell is this place...
http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9072.jpg.html http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9073.jpg.html http://bear.leveldesign.org/wordpress/gallery/Thailand/IMG_9074.jpg.html Pretty damn freaky. (Btw, nice heads Lun) Contemporary thai artist making his own bhuddist temple after his own design. Apparently there's another artist that's answering with a black temple in the same city but haven't seen any of that.
The shipbreaking yards of Chittagong, Bangledesh. We've seen a few photos of them in this thread before, but I never knew the name of the place they came from. Apparently half of the tankers in the world are dismantled on this beach:
http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_21_00.jpg http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_12_00.jpg http://www.aeroplastics.net/dreamscapes/BURTYNSKY/SHB_01_00.jpg http://scenic-group.net/tsunamibenefit/artwork/burtynsky_number15.jpg http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photos/him/wallpaper/1024/him_288_01_l.jpg http://www.palinstravels.co.uk/photos/him_photobook/wallpaper/1024/him_p_172_02_l.jpg And this doesn't have anything to do with shipbreaking, but it came up in the search: http://www.baaa-acro.com/Dossier%20Photo/S2-ADN.htm Also, this guy took some of the above pictures, check out his website for more cool photos at a lower resolution: http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/index.html http://tinyurl.com/kyveu
Notice the two tiny helicopters down at the bottom to get a sense of the scale. heh, that spiky thing looks a lot like one quake concept sketch i did a couple of years ago. :)
wasn't supposed to become a church/monument, though. A building in souther Germany called Goetheanum.
http://www.gnosis.art.pl/iluminatornia/ogrod_antropozoficzny/goetheanum_06.jpg Google for more pics of it and it's burned older brother (the rounder one). http://images.google.de/images?q=goetheanum Just random generated swirly patterns in all the colors of the rainbow.
Useless for mapping. Cool I live in wales, the only one Ive been to is Rhuddlan castle though, denbighshire is actually nw and not north east as the website says :o
uploading photos from Cambodia atm, I'm really tired and the connection is pretty slow now so I probably will stop in the middle of the process and continue some other day.
Shame they didn't go the whole hog and have the entrance underwater though!
I noticed that if you click the 'Industrial' Journal tag link on that page there's loads of other entries full of the kind of rusty decaying stuff that usually get us quite excited :) Also, I once spent six weeks on an archaological dig at Carew Castle in Wales. My knees have never been the same since. I am quite surprised by how few of those photos have sheep in them. http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_076/index.shtml - Raskat launch pad for Energiya rocket with Russian Buran space shuttle (area 110, Baikonur cosmodrome, 29 March 2006)
http://www.novosti-kosmonavtiki.ru/content/photogallery/gallery_077/index.shtml - UKSS universal complex launch pad (stand) for Energiya rocket (area 250, Baikonur cosmodrome, 29 March 2006) The Energia rocket used same components as the Russian Buran space shuttle, just without the shuttle. It was launched only once - in 1987 for the Polyus space battle station. That failed. The Buran shuttle only flew once, in 1988, succesfully, without a crew and did an autonomous landing on a runway. The big pipes are crew and personnel escape tubes, I think. A large collection of someone's travel photography. Includes cambodian temples, english churches, italian stucco, turkish minarets etc.
http://www.jorgetutor.com/viajes.htm I've posted some photos of my weekend in Bruges on my site, maybe they can inspire some people, quite a bit of red brick houses and gothic-ish churches...
http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/bruges/ not sure if it's for mapper's inspiration but
sunsets, sea, bridge... http://img417.imageshack.us/img417/3517/greatsunset18fi.jpg http://img467.imageshack.us/img467/1433/bridge18008xn.jpg http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/3349/sea18004hm.jpg I need to read through this thread from the beginning and archive all of these links in some better format than func_messageboard.
here, i made it with urltoys for 30 secs
http://vondur.net/files/inspiration.txt that clearly is a lot better to read / remember than here on this msgboard oO
you'd need descriptions with that to be of any use. yeah, andy linkification plugin for firefox would do that
http://www.beggarchooser.com/firefox/ and there are others i'm sure There's lots of great stuff there if you browse through his updates. Only bad thing is that the images aren't of better quality.
The more I look the more I feel it's a goldmine - long live soviet russia! Do NOT click unless you've got some free time just now, heh :o)
http://www.xs4all.nl/~kazil/ Saw this at dick, err digg:
http://www.jorgetutor.com/jordania/petra/petra.htm http://www.yuccamountain.org/photo.htm
We need a pipeline-esque index for all these. URL, two lines of description, and perhaps a thumbnail of the best or most characteristic pic on the site. Does anyone know offhand a good source for crazy-ass underground mines and stuff? Like big caverns and tunnels with all sorts of funky mining machinery etc. I tried my hand at the google lottery but it's been a bit slow to find decent pics
I have shitloads of pics of that sort of stuff but no URL's handy I am afraid... If you give me the ok I can email you a zip with lots of pics in for ya...
Daz: any possibility of me getting a copy of that as well? adambailey AT mapsbytron.com is my new address.
I had this bookmarked
http://www.pro-bergbau.de/bilder/bilderwahl.html and this on my hdd: http://img302.imageshack.us/img302/6121/lwalshr1vt.jpg Daz: cheers, that would be awesome :D
bdwooding -AT- gmail -DOT- com Spirit: rockage - i will have a look through that as well :) I pasted this in irc ages ago but here it goes.
http://skynet.campus.luth.se/~chosen/bam/gtc_telescope_sg011203-02p.jpg Some heavy machinery for you
http://forum.nasaspaceflight.com/forums/thread-view.asp?tid=2591&start=1 check page 2 too. This has been quite quiet lately. :/ http://www.funmansion.com/html/Underground-City.html
There's a link posted earlier by Jago with some, but not all of these pics it seems. Stop taking "HDR" photos. They look like shit. Bracketing your exposures and then photoshopping them together to crush the exposure range into 0-255 not only isn't HDR, it drains your image of depth and color, puts ugly haloes around things, and is a moronic amount of effort for a result that looks indistinguishable from a quick Filter->Other->High Pass in Photoshop.
Knock it off. Please. HRD destroys all the shadows making pics all fullbright. and we all know how we hate fullbright, right? hdr looks sharp but synthetic and lifeless...
I assumed that they HAD simply done a high-pass filter. It's pretty ugly in some of those photos.
One probably needs better, calibrated displays and dark rooms for the viewers too so photographing can advance, so that it can show realistic bright and shadowy stuff. These hacks are not good.
Interesting idea though, use all the bracket photos, since the CCD dynamic range isn't as good as film. It's just done somehow very wrong here. There was a siggraph paper that talked about taking two photos, one with a flash and one without, to get a crisp photo with accurate lighting.
Basically it used the flash photo for all the crisp, in-focus details, but used the no-flash photo for the color and brightness of the ambient lighting. Not a pro-quality solution, but this is software that the average dude with a cheap camera can use. http://research.microsoft.com/projects/FlashNoFlash/ I nowadays never use flash. It just destroys everything about the original setting and atmosphere. I'm planning on moving to a F 1.9 seventies Canonet and 800 or 1600 film for dark environments (tested it a few years ago, there is some noise but the photos have atmosphere too). I don't really like B&W either. doh. How limited technology still is today.
I really hate flashes, but I'm no photographer, and holding my camera still for a couple of seconds to get a long exposure of a dark scene is a pain in the ass and prone to blurry results. When it works, the results are way better though.
I really hate flashes, but I'm no photographer, and holding my camera still for a couple of seconds to get a long exposure of a dark scene is a pain in the ass and prone to blurry results.
that's why actual photographers use tripods :) you can very often find a place to lay your camera on or support it against. Big tree trunks are better than tripods, since if you push hard enough (with an SLR the "shoulder" the lens and body form is good), it's completely standing still. Also, some table or ground and just put something under the camera to do the vertical alignment.
Tripods are never around when the situation comes and they are ~never robust enough. :/ I also like to use manual focus, since otherwise it's always fucked up (in this way only like 30% of the cases, especially if there's not much time.) Of course that's a pain in the ass with cheap new cameras. Tripods are always around when you always have one with you. =)
I used to do like you bambuz, find somewhere to push my camera against, but having a tripod is much much better, and alot more stable. For once BoingBoing is useful/interesting:
http://pingmag.jp/2006/07/24/japan-underground-photography/ (No, this is not that old photoset of the G-Cans project.) I'm like Det. Lt. Somerset, I'm around...
Just finished playing through hl2and hl:ep1. Valve knows how to make games. Jesus christ, do they ever... In fact, they might as well come to your house, piss on your floor, and punch you in the crotch. "We're Valve - and you are all snivelling shits next to us." And no, I'm done, though I've slightly touched one of them with the tip of my penis, and you don't know which one. Bon Apetit! Flashes can be good if used right...it's not as simple as just saying OMG ALL TEH FLASH0RZ SUX!
Even the simple ones that come with most affordable cameras (that pretty much do suck) can be usable. You can always add something to reflect the light upwards for indoor use or put some plastic over to make it less harsh. Fortified city in the south of France:
photo galleries: http://www.pbase.com/ouinpis/carcassonne_2004 http://www.pbase.com/dimasebaur/carcassonne_2005 http://www.flickr.com/photos/68259253@N00/sets/1194255/ huge panorama image: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fc/Carcasssonne_vieux_pont.jpg http://www.pbase.com/dimasebaur/image/46233040
This looks strikingly similar to the day of defeat : source map anzio. http://www.nothing-2-fear.de/inc/images/maps/halflife2/dod/dod_anzio.jpg (best pic I could find of that particular street..sorry) Cool place. That looks strikingly similar to *MY* Anzio level for MOHAA:Breakthrough.
http://www.celephais.net/cv/image.php?anzio2.jpg http://www.infiltration.org/index.html
<quote>Infiltration offers a mix of the practice and theory of urban exploration in areas not designed for public usage. This site is the online companion of the paper zine about going places you're not supposed to go. The latest issue of the zine, focusing on military leftovers, came out in June 2005. It's black and white, but you might like it anyhow.</quote> I went into a cafe in Paris and the waitress kept on asking the same question to everyone. It's really scripted, just like in the games! I was blown away by the outright realism of CoD.
I even found the location where the glider landed in CoD and it was THE SAME. http://www.cgtextures.com
For all your texture creation needs. Seriously packed with VERY high quality source material. http://morguefile.com/ Haven't actually bothered to peruse it yet, but apparently it's full of good reference. I have a feeling it won't all be environment stuff though - there could be a lot of useless shit there too. But cgtextures is pure awesome. Also check out http://www.imageafter.com/ if you find that sort of thing useful.
where is that from? Apparently it's so high it was easier to build a railcar than a water lift.
the label on those boat pics says "Yenisey ship company", Yenisey (or Enisey, don't know how it sounds in english) is a river in Russia.
I don't fucking care go look again anyway
http://www.beksinski.pl/ This man's work is seriously unsettling and the music at the website doesn't help. If he and Lovecraft had been able to sit down and weave something together cgtextures is great. I feel bad seeing textures I recognize from AAA titles on that site, though - aren't professionals supposed to have cameras and, you know, be resourceful and shit?
For more goodness, check out http://www.mayang.com/textures/ Download limit of 20 per IP per day, but if you were a good little artist you'd buy the dvd, which I swear one of these days I'm going to do, honest. there's no c in his surname.
Anyway, I don't like such gimmicky pages... was bothered to navigate and watch three pictures. Ok, but nothing earth shattering. Stabbed to death by the son of a long-time aide when he wouldn't lend the little shit money?!
I hate people. I Googled it. Thanks though.
Just such a senseless and stupid way to die. :( Here, this might help. http://imreallysad.com Or, it might just make some of you throw up, or die of diabetic shock, dunno. http://englishrussia.com/?p=293
The photos of the trees from the top of the tall building towards the end are really beautiful. this one looks like a prototype stargate...
http://home.fnal.gov/~skands/img/cdfdetector.jpg they're detectors for particle accelerators. They crash commonplace particles into each other at high speeds in an attempt to create exotic, short-lived particles and observe them before they turn back into ordinary matter. These observations help support physics theories.
But don't you just love the way the ladder is propped against the wall... just like HL2! All lazy and just waiting for an accident to happen.
(I was at a conference at CERN).
It's BIG, but a bit cramped for having a DM in, I'd have thought... amazing gigantic almost Victorian-style machinery though. thanks Lun.
Of course it's all gonna go tits up once the manned missions begin and we start the excavations... I actually think the fifth video in that series is the best though for the pure speculation and apparently drug induced imagery.
Living creatures with heat rays and ultrasonic weapons? Rock on. While the fifth video has plenty of wtf moments, the sixth one is cool because of how close to a lot of modern thinking the journey is accomplished.
No, mathematician/computer scientist, I was at CERN for a computing conference. Did some particle physics in my degree though, so I knew a bit about what I was seeing (the best part of the tour though was having a real live CERN scientist as your guide you could pester with questions).
nice! i'm going to into math and compsci myself (AI) so perhaps we will formulate devious plans together..
the last comment says it all - "Looks nice but I keep expecting someone to pop out and start shooting" :D
Very interesting; for me it serves as a perfect example to demonstrate how using real-world scale always feels too small in games.
http://www.khulsey.com/main_english.html
although this leaves little room for creativity, you have to admire the skill and attention to detail that (good) technical illustrators have. Look at this ship ffs... http://www.khulsey.com/empress_main.html Only a few of these can be considered level design related, but all of it is cool:
http://www.oncotton.co.uk/peter/index/index2.html but there's some recent video from Chernobyl
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/makingwaves/archives/2006/10/chernobyl_example_what_we_made.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Architecture_stubs
note: the pages go on in chunks of 200 terms at a time. More accelerators and particle collisions: the CERN photo collection
http://cdsweb.cern.ch/collection/Photos CERN is the European version of Fermilab, featured in Dan Brown's book Angels & Demons. It is also the birthplace of the WWW - yup, the web was invented to do particle physics! Go figure. Some really weird stuff. Hard-to-navigate-site though.
http://www.sfcovers.net/ Dig that retro-future stuff. BLAST OFF TO ADVENTURE IN THE AMAZING YEAR FOUR HUNDRED BILLION!
.. I found from a french Quake community website...
ftp://ftp.yi.se/pub/software/equake/addons/equake-skyboxpack-1.1b395.rar Enjoy !! I've just opened the equake rar file containing the skyboxes mentionned above (see previous post), and skyboxes are in png format. Furthermore, the end names (i.e _lf, _rt, _bk, _up, _dn, and _ft) are not correct... I'm currently working on thesse files in order to convert all the stuff into
No, none of them are mine. I think a couple of them might be sock's.
The panels are only 256x256, instead of 512 or larger. Most of them aren't very good either tbh. .. already done... Nevertheless, I saw, where I found these skyboxes, that Kell's skyboxes are also referenced... I hope it is not coming, or even copyed, from Kell's skyboxes...
Note I didn't verify deeply: I just didn't find any matching names between the 2 sets... ;P So I apologize a lot in advance if Kell would find something that would be his own work, cause it it is not my intention to stole his talent... ;) Anyway, here is the link (22Mo file !!): http://lambert.jeanphilippe.free.fr/DownLoad/equake-skybox.zip Enjoy !! ... Anyway, I noticed the size was not correct... and I didn't changed the original size in the above link... I will not perform all the job guys, it's up to you now ;)
the answer to that being no. I don't think png support is one of the implied standards.
are both things that would be nice to support, but since they required dlls, i was somewhat reluctant to do it.
However, i realized it's possible to make the dlls optional (disable the feature if dlls missing) so it doesn't sound so bad, then. But yeah, only pcx and tga supported right now, and not very well either (no way to override liquids, or sprites, or skins, or HUD elements etc.) Plus I think there's a bug with some tgas being loaded upside-down. http://hebig.org/playground/facetbrowser/?do=showpostings&facet=region&value=ruhr
There's quite lot of it but there's nice stuff in between. Cars, interiors, products, everyhing from the 50s. Pretty cool "sci-fi" stuff there.
http://www.plan59.com/main.htm totally beautiful. I hate most modern cars because everything seems too look too generic and functional.
I wonder if that style will come back at all. I think Dodge may have made a couple of interesting cars with a 50s influenced look, but I can't think of any others. Not a 50s or car buff though, so what do I know? ;) http://seriss.com/people/erco/fovicks/
This is an extensive set of pictures along the LA River which you may recognize from Terminator 2 and other TV shows and movies. I bet any money that the guys from HL2 were checking these out when they were doing the boat chase stuff :) i've seen a lot of canals like that around southern california (even as far north as santa cruz.) They are almost always dry or have a tiny trickle of water in them, and I think they are usually more for flood control than for aesthetics.
But they look cool. We have some of those back home in Adelaide, they are dry most of the time but are more an emergency measure in case there is a lot of rainfall.
http://www.cliffhouseproject.com/photos/photos.htm
Also check out the "maps" and "blueprints" pages. Bonus Link: here's a aerial photo panorama of san francisco after the earthquake: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/b/b3/San_Francisco_in_ruin_edit2.jpg architecture in america at that time was very much "take europe's buildings and make the windows bigger," which shows in those images pretty well.
http://www.urbanterror.net/news.php?extend.107
Pretty cool article about how a map author modded q3map2 to allow for all sorts of new mapping techniques to be used. Nice screenshots too :) http://www.zahkunst.net/ Abandoned stuff, mostly in b+w. Pretty cool.
Almost forgot http://sleepycity.net/
eeep http://sleepycity.net/viewpost.php?b=67
is just plain ridiculous! I yelled in unashamed triumph from the depths of my chest for every drop of Niagara's sweet bukkake that stung my face and trickled down my cheeks.
http://www.quaddicted.com/stuff/spiritcementplant/
Lots of images, single page, ~12MB. Your browser might freeze for a moment. ;) Silly humans polluting decaying factory with dumb graffiti. At least have the decency to paint about azathoth and the old ones.
it's too bad becuase they reduce half-life-2-quality inpsiration down to kingpin-quality inpsiration.
This guys goes into a crazy amount of detail in designing these alternate Earths, and other fertile planets:
http://www.worlddreambank.org/P/PLANETS.HTM (ignore the fact that when he gets to the "biology" section, these planets always seem to be inhabited by furries.) A lot of it reminds me of my days playing SimEarth in high school. I also liked to draw imaginary land masses and coastlines and stuff, and loved the made-up maps that come with fantasy novels and console RPGs. And since I'm working on an MMORPG, i actually got to imagine and draw maps during the early pre-production phase of the game. Maps are cool. http://www.sfarmory.com/about.php
So apparently it was bought by a porn company, no doubt because it's full of dungeons and stuff. If they open it up for tours, maybe I'll go there sometime. http://sleepycity.net/view.php?image=732&tag=surreal
thanks for the link, blackdog. this site is amazing http://www.confluence.org/
Pictures taken from literally every corner of the earth - the idea is to have photos from every point where longitude and latitude degree lines meet (that is on land). Who the hell comes up with this stuff? I know I'm a one-trick pony in here, but this is some cool panoramic stuff I've never seen before: http://www.artfutura.org/02/moebius.html
are there any good moebius art books? I've looked on Amazon etc. and they seem only to have comic books... I was hoping for a large coffee-table style art book... or even something smaller, if it has enough art in it.
I've got one of them, entitled CHAOS -- it is really nice, covering a lot of his early output and two of his more recent series: Wonders of the Universe and Stories Inside Something -- the latter which led to his more abstract art. What's more, its got a look inside of some of his sketchbooks, which I really dig.
I'm sure there are more, but God knows where... There are some other unofficial artbooks lying around I think, but best solution is still to buy all his comics weee!
http://www.pingmag.jp/2006/09/13/frederic-chaubin-soviet-sf-style/
These are awesome; I wish there were more/bigger pictures. So, 1960s futiristic architecture... I want to find more real-life examples. What I have so far:
The Space Needle in Seattle: http://www.vanderbilt.edu/commodores/NCC/NCAAWomen1st/images/The%20Space%20Needle.jpg Pacific Science Center in Seattle: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/03/PACSCI6.jpg Space Mountain in Disneyland: http://disney.rocket9.net/images/DL_SpaceMountain.1280.jpg BONUS LINK: Space Mountain concept art: http://stetson.edu/library/SpecialCollections/images/img005.jpg Habitat 67 in Montreal: http://expo67.ncf.ca/expo_habitat_structure.jpg More pictures from Expo 67: http://www.space1999.net/~sorellarium13/expo67greatbritainandfrance.jpg http://www.space1999.net/~sorellarium13/expo67israelpavilionatnight.jpg That's all for now. If you like modern architecture, have a look at this building, a new sience museum in wolfsburg (home of volkswagen), by the great architect Zaha Hadid.
http://www.hiepler-brunier.de/phaeno/ Why are crazy designs like that usually reserved for museums and art galleries?
Because it's too expensive for common mortal we are, and also because such architecture is not good for real life all days usage...
http://pruned.blogspot.com
Haven't really understood the purpose yet. But there are interesting things (some rather NWS). Inspiring? For sure! sometimes it's a blessing:
http://www.hohpe.com/Gregor/Travel/2002/Seattle/emp.jpg This one is confusing. I have a photo if this in a book I have at home and it looks really cool with a huge suspension roof and everything sort of curved and stuff. But all my google searches turned up a boring open air soccer stadium.
Turns out they must have removed the roof, though I've seen no mention of it anywhere. The wikipedia entry is notable silent on the fact that there used to be a roof, and that the roof was the fucking NOTABLE part of the building. Anyway, here's a page with photos of the original structures: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/TIMELN/tkyo_gym/tkyo_gym.html And here's a google maps image of the same site -- notice the roof is missing on the big one, and all new on the small one: http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.678834,139.713746&spn=0.005055,0.008669&t=k And here are some typical photos: (where's the roof???) http://www.fussballtempel.net/afc/JPN/Tokyo_Olympic.html Wikipedia page: (not very informative) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olympic_Stadium_(Tokyo) ---- Totally unrelated, here's a cool stadium in montreal built for the 76 olympics: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/gsapp/BT/DOMES/TIMELN/montreal/montreal.html Here's a page with good color photos of the stadium with roof from various angles...
http://www.archiplanet.org/wiki/Olympic_Arena when someone actually gets paid for something like that
http://www.hohpe.com/Gregor/Travel/2002/Seattle/emp.jpg I'm reminded of the Bloom County strip where an idea for a protective shield is built around the Earth using 40 billion dollar bills laid end to end is pitched to Congressmen, and a head line caption reads: They Bought It! Wrong area on the map, it's a bit under than the stadium, right under Yoyogi park, kick ass place to spend your sunday afternoon (various animations every weekend, lots of amateur musicians and stuff).
http://maps.google.com/maps?om=1&ie=UTF8&z=17&ll=35.667661,139.701161&spn=0.006494,0.010042&t=k My camera was out of battery when we got to it though... =( ah, that explains it... but considering how many photos of an open-air stadium when searching for "olympic stadium tokyo" i wonder... what is that other stadium that everyone seems to think is the olympic stadium?
Wikipedia's page is completely off the mark in this case, it seems. it's the Yoyogi National Gymnasium it seems, it was also built for the Olympics, so not surprising it can be confused.
Wikipedia has it right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoyogi_National_Gymnasium Would that be "Contemporary Japanese Architecture", by Botond Bognar (one of the coolest names evar), by chance? If so urok 'cause I got the same one =D
actually it's "Annotated Architecture" by Neil Stevenson (no, not the Snow Crash guy, that's Stephenson.)
And apparently Neil didn't do his research, becuase as Bal says, it's actually called Yoyogi National Gymnasium or something like that. http://knuttz.net/hosted_pages/Miniature-Park-20070121
It's a lot of buildings we've seen before, but the pictures show a good aerial view and there is a nice variety of architectural styles. (3 pages of images) There's something like that not far from where I live, it's only silly french buildings though... =(
It's a shame they don't have the names of the buildings, some of those are nice and I'd be interested into looking into them a bit more. in case you were interested in that one and didn't know the name, it's Neuschwanstein. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein
I'd like to know these: 1* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_015.jpg 2* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_027.jpg (reminds me of a painkiller level) 3* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_040.jpg 4* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_042.jpg 5* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_077.jpg 6* http://media.knuttz.net/0701/miniature_world/mini_world_078.jpg Anyone know those? fairly certain that's the Blue Mosque in Istanbul.
Don't know about the rest though... #2 is the Sultan Ahmed Mosque or "Blue Mosque" in Turkey:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultan_Ahmed_Mosque #1 Castle Chenonceau at the river Loire (France)
http://www.chenonceau.com/media/fr/index_fr.php #3 Einstein Tower, Potsdam (near Berlin, Germany) http://www.aip.de/einsteinturm/ #4 looks like a building in Sanaa, the Capital of Jemen http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sana'a - the other ? #4 is not in Sanaa, it is in the
Wadi Dhar in Yemen and it is named Dar al-Hajar (the Rock Palace) http://www.flat3.co.uk/yemen/pages/index_wadi_dhar.htm http://www.pervan.de/reiseberichte/Bild*Dar_al_Hadschar*34099 scroll down at this site, there you can start a slideshow, with very impressive images of Yemen! nobody laughing, everyone on drugs, but nice architecture.
~~~~ found #6 Laxey Wheel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laxey_Wheel http://www.geschichte.uni-osnabrueck.de/fach/wiso/main.htm The time is here. The place is now. The journey, every episode of the twilight zone ever.
http://www.yourtvlinks.com/the-twilight-zone.html hmm.. think I've missed that one until now and yet it was sitting next to Hagia Sophia all the time! With both of those next to each other it seems like a really fantastic place to visit.
http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/landover_mall/Former%20Hechts.jpg
http://www.deadmalls.com/malls/dixie_square_mall/pics/Dcp_0987.jpg You might have to dig through a lot of text to find them, but this site http://www.deadmalls.com/ has a ton of pictures of dead/dying/demolished shopping malls along with their backstories. http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xmc83_twilight-zone-its-a-good-life
You may notice it was redone for the Twilight Zone feature film (by Joe Dante, no less), but not nearly as good. I've spent a lot of time in Istanbul and travelled throughout Turkey but I never captured it quite like this: wonderful photography and outstanding presentation.
http://archibase.net/archinews/14101.html
Gukanjima is an island near the westernmost shore of Japan. It is an island built upon a reef in the early 19th century because of a coal mine in the reefs and quickly became a densely populated island 1 km in diameter and 5300 people living packed together, working the mines. Someone posted about Gunkanjima a while back, this site has more photos I think:
http://www14.big.or.jp/~kawamura/m-city/english_photo_gallery.html Great place, wish I could visit it. GODDAMNIT 3000euros per print
sigh. So much for being able to appreciate something nice in my own home. Dunno if this has been linked before, but I found it in the latest Rue Morgue mag -- wicked stuff:
http://www.uer.ca/locations/show.asp?locid=21151 that reminds me of my first day with worldcraft.
http://halbot.haluze.sk/images/2007-01/2996_galeria_ludvik.JPG http://www.richardrogers.co.uk/render.aspx?siteID=1&navIDs=1,4
Some great stuff, some boring. Here's a nice gallery:
http://www.pesc04.org/bilder/images/25_06_2004_Friday_Technical_Tours/Technical_Tour5_Opencast_Mining/Opencast_Hambach/ And here's a giant panorama one: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Bagger-garzweiler.jpg This appears to be one giant crane being dismantled by other giant cranes: http://www.varvshistoria.se/kranens-webbsida/bilder.htm
And then at the end, they put it on a big boat, like these: http://static.iftk.com.br/mt/2007/02/giant_cargo_ships.html the big boat in that first series IS pictured a few times in the second one - you can see the name Mighty Servant 3 on both.
http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/23/castles-of-scotland-part-four-st-andrews-dirleton/
http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/09/castles-of-scotland-part-two-stirling-dunottar-linlithgow/ http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2006/12/05/castles-of-scotland-part-one-dunstaffnage-doune-aberdour/ http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/01/15/castles-of-scotland-part-three-craigmillar-edinburgh/ Scroll down on all of the posts to see the purdy pics of bricky goodness After porn and poorly spelt forums postings, pictures of the abandoned modern ruins in Chernobyl are the most common thing on the internet.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mrbiffo/ Ignore the first few pictures which are of an entirely unrelated party. (As the name suggests the gallery belongs to one Mr Biffo, who will be known to some UK bods as 'the Digitiser bloke' and to more as 'that Edge column bloke.' The weirdness of the first few pics makes perfect sense once you know it's Biffo.) I've got try this in Quake:
http://www.superjer.com/pixelmachine/img019.jpg http://sturman.livejournal.com/271320.html
I just scrolled past a post somewhere up there that said heresp4 and it looked like it said herpes4. that's kind of unfortunate. i think those islands are resting on smooth water, not floating in void.
reminds me of a sauerbraten map: http://sauerbraten.org/new/screenshot_5498832.jpg http://vanishingpoint.ca
sewers, drains, power generators, underground, cool stuff! HELLO. First post here. Couldn't help but come after playing ant.bsp! I still love Q1 and have just now been looking into how to build maps. One of my first ideas was for a labyrinth... I thought, wouldn't it be cool if a SP map looked like this??
http://www.astrolog.org/labyrnth/snap/maze1.jpg then I realized how fast the strafing and running is in Q1, and you almost never see tight corridors. So I can't decide, but if I knew of other maps like it (surely there's been a lot of mazes for the Quake series, DOOM, etc?) maybe I can see how it works. The Doom games had more maze-like levels... but i'm mostly interested in Q1. I'd caution you about trying to build a maze in quake. For one thing, well-designed maps have a good sense of place and make navigation fairly easy. Mazes are intended to confuse and make navigation hard, usually. Getting lost in quake is generally not fun. Second, "maze" levels are generally boring because everything looks very similar, and feels very copied-and-pasted.
I'm not saying it couldn't be done well, but it would be a challenge. Ways I would do it well: 1. make only a small portion of your map a true "maze." 2. Have obvious landmarks like towers rising above the walls. 3. Have fewer dead-ends and more loops and multiple valid routes to the goal. 4. Try to have unique details in each hallway and intersection, such as decorations and debris, and texture and lighting variation, so that people can recognize various parts of the maze. This was my problem. I realized that putting up posters of Connolly (i.e. Hitler in Wolf3D) would make her look too pixelly (ugly). i hate glquake. looks like n64 graphics.
I think you're right about the problems with mazes in Quake. Better work on a tower of some kind instead.
Actually, perhaps what I could do is make a tower level (by which I mean a stone tower that you scale from outside, round and round, jumping on slabs that slide in and out of the wall, trying not to fall) and down below, circling the tower, is a vast Labyrinth-the-movie-like maze. Depends how big Q1 maps can be. I'm a total newbie here and it's the year 2007 :( Um, the maze would not be something you're supposed to enter, except if you're doing bad and need to get extra health and ammo, perhaps. But the further you go into it, the harder the enemies get, kind of in a mathematical way, step by step, until you're just faced with a ridiculous amount of those big white abominable snowmen guys, and anyone who tries to make their way through that is a total fool. It's like "what're you doing, turn back, ya schmuck!" Anyway, what's better to use... WorldCraft 1.6, WorldCraft 3.3 (with Quake settings), QEradiant, or what? I found the WC Tutorial at planetquake, so I'm trying that. bye.
This is that kind of idea that sounds completely awesome in your head, but when you try to start making it you realise all the limitations of the engine and also that this isn't actually very fun to play, and then it will either never be finished or it will be finished and it will be rather terrible.
Was just browsing your site and tried czg00. Pretty short and I know, but i saw the screenshot with the tower, so i tried it, and that's a lot like the kind of level I wanted to do! probably better than my ideas, actually. heh. oh well, i'll see if i ever finish anything...
But you couldn't walk around on the outside of the tower in mexx9.
Also in Prince of Persia: The two thrones, the last level is climbing around on scaffolding at the top of the tower of Babylon. Let's discuss towers in games! The Adventures of Lolo! Well, the coolest tower game I'm aware of is Tower Toppler (DOS). There was also some cool levels like that in Pandemonium and Castlevania Bloodlines.
anybody here played Ys? Somebody should make a multiplayer deathmatch version of Ys. that would be k-rad to the max.
http://www.chairmanfilms.com/ACO_at_Canterbury_HiRes/index.htm
I'm not saying you should build a whole, friggin' LEVEL around it. I'm just saying you could have a few of those in the background of a Q2 map and it might work. Hi, I am after some source code for QRally or Quake Rally. Has anyone got them on a dusty harddrive? Cheers
They called it a Citadel, but everyone knows those are shorter and more crenelated.
when I get bored i sometimes read up on famous pieces of architecture/landmarks/and monuments of grand proportions.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ca'_d'Oro hell yeah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hands_of_Victory I don't care what it represents or that it was cast from Hussein's own arms, it's rather impressive (stainless steel :o) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Olympus yeah it's not architecture so what. Can one not be inspired by a legendary place such as this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoysaleswara_temple I think other images of the Hoysala temple have been posted, but imho reading up on these places just makes them even more interesting. fuck while you're at it just check ALL the shiva temples http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Shiva_temples Axel Torvenius
gothy freelance artist/illustrator, skilled in a range of media and styles homepage: http://www.torvenius.com/ older portfolio, which includes a 'summon your own demon' flash game: http://www.conceptdesign.tk/ Also, while I'm about it, here's John Coulthart. Also gothy, also highly skilled in a range of media. Friend of Alan Moore, and creator of what I consider the best visual depiction of Cthulhu. http://www.johncoulthart.com/ is annoying as hell. My first thought when clicking a link should not be "gee I wonder what this does."
Summon a demon is nice and creepy. You could create a whole game menagerie with the 'random' button. http://tesladownunder.com/Pulse_Power.htm
Basically, this is an Australian guy with a camera and an insatiable curiosity about what happens when you put a bunch of electricity through things. http://99rooms.terracontent.de/99rooms/99rooms.html
old, but i don't think its been put up here since it predates this 'ere thread afaik. bambuz posted these but I'm taking credit
http://www.flightglobal.com/imagearchive/Image.aspx?GalleryName=Cutaways/Aeroengines/Aeroengines-Piston&Image=Alvis-Leonides-engine good for overdetailed doom3 jiggery. what's that big round thing they're standing on? makes me think Blade Runner. does the translation say?
thanks! i have a cd of Alan Lamb ( http://www.discogs.com/release/176430 ). He uses the sound of electro poles in his album, sounds almost the same as on video, but with additional treatments.
That's pretty wild! I've experienced something similar - in Land Surveying we use magnetic locators a lot (e.g. http://www.schonstedt.com/index.cfm?page=GA-52Cx ) - kind of advanced metal detectors for ferrous metals - we use them to find old monumentation for parcels.
When they are used over buried utility lines or under power lines you can hear a strange, creepy modulation much like in the youtube link - but the power line "hum" imposes itself over the standard detector beep/whine. It also works on underground telephone and IT cables, but to a lesser extent - and mass transmission lines give the best (and creepiest) effect. Next time I hear it I'll try to get audio and post it. Neat links, though! http://www.forbidden-places.be/
One problem - their galleries are all flash and thus you can't save any images. :/ English URL, French(?) content. Weird.
Print Screen's pretty good for taking images from flash/right-click-disabled sites. you could always just grab xnview and set up the screengrabber to take shots when you press a key. Pretty easy, though you'll end up with unwanted parts of windows etc.
apparently includes Quake 4 concepts:
http://www.autodestruct.com/concept.htm try out GadWin Printscreen. You can set it up so when you hit printscreen you just drag out a box shape on your screen and it will capture that to a folder for you.
http://www.gadwin.com/printscreen/ oh yeah, its all free! and works fantastic for all sorts of things. is an awesome dude and I saw him this week. He's in Austin now doing far better work.
One of my favorites of his (from his oceans-of-disturbed-beatin'-off-material page): http://www.autodestruct.com/images/spacegirl_wip5.jpg Three Gorges Dam:
http://ziza.ru/2007/04/27/samaja_bolshaja_plotina_v_mire_14_foto.html If you look carefully at the third picture, I think you can see Dorothy and Toto!
I feel a song coming on... try this
http://hisaharu-motoda.petit.cc/muscat1/ click on the links below the picture and the other links Speedy posted this in #tf.
http://tokyo-vr.com/ Click around and you can get some 360 quicktime panoramas of various places in tokyo, some in cool underground tunnels. Spaceship: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=191402
Fighter: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=189394 Speeder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=188625 Speeder: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=186929 Castle: http://www.brickshelf.com/cgi-bin/gallery.cgi?f=186646 I know, there are tons more out there... make a map based on a lego model :)
You'd get a selection of pictures to start off with and mappers would be free to choose a model to base their map on from those pics. Either that or just look for a cool model themselves. Pics of the lego version must be supplied in the speedmap zip or as a texture in the map. Love that castle, btw. I love finding stuff like that on brickshelf and saying as I scroll down the page "oh that's cool I like how he's got the different hull pieces fitted together HOLY SHIT IT HAS AN INTERIOR?!"
As seen in post 57:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=870&start=57&end=57 Post 472 is more photos of the same place: http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=870&start=472&end=472 interesting character designs (and their mobility) http://www.stephanehalleux.com/
bonus chtulhu babies http://www.flickr.com/photos/bugmaker999/sets/72157594425420153/ Russel Croman Astrophotography set should be re-used to create some skybox: the photos are awesome !
dunno if this has been posted already: http://m3mary.com/strange/strange7_2.htm
some pretty cool buildings That second one is 'James Bond Island' in Thailand.
http://www.onlinethaitravel.com/images/1129879989/1129880029.jpg This is the most blatant and shoddy photoshop. I assume it's a joke: http://m3mary.com/strange/lava_lamp_Soap_Lake.jpg I seem to recall the phong nga one with a different watermark
http://www.lunaran.com/pics/octoporno/
No idea what they say, but 'octoporno' is caution. (ps it's not really 'octoporno') 1. no smoking
2. zone 3. strictly prohibited to enter during the work of the machine 4. Caution: 360V 5. CIVIL DEFENCE: The complex of measures for protection of population, wealth and culture values on the Russian Federation territory i case of the danger caused by the war actions <Vondur> something like that (b0rked translation but hope u got the idea) 6. Spare parts for the correction module 7. alot of "Responsible for the machine: name" 8. Shower only for the workers of the trolleybus park. Show your pass. 9. Dacha N1. Responsible Tarasov 10. Zone for conservation and reconservation 11. Zone for documents packing and unpacking 12. To Finland railway station 13. Keep your work place tidy. 14. Potable water 15. Shelter 16. LAboratory. Unauthorized persons not admitted http://www.zahkunst.net/mainpage.htm
Some more industrial photos http://www.flickr.com/photos/telstar/sets/56935/
I've only been to a few of these places. There are also a lot of them in Puget Sound up in Washington State, and probably many other places along the west coast of the US. http://www.derelictlondon.com/
i thought this had been run through here, but a search tells me no. So here it is, shitty site layout, but some gems inside. http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/research.html
more i didnt see posted already. japanese derelict stuff those hot libraries are really cool. i should have seen this page before! very inspiring for arcane project.
Pictures of the Yucca Mountain Project (construction of a nuclear waste storage site): http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/index.shtml
My favorite pic: http://www.ocrwm.doe.gov/info_library/newsroom/photos/images/ym_14452_300dpi.jpg Found on this site, which collects links to US Government websites that contain public domain photos: http://www.unclesamsphotos.com/ Great pics metl.
DaZ, that's not a door, it's a tunneling machine, use the same type to make subway tunnels and stuff. http://fantastic.library.cornell.edu/viewall.php (found on drawn blog)
I'd love to see a game with graphics in the style of these pics - there is something very haunting and horrible about them that I love. Wish more abandoned places had as large amounts of pink as this Japanese place:
http://home.f01.itscom.net/spiral/newkomagari/newkomagari01.html Do go to see Anthony Gormley's "Blind Light" exhibition. Very good, one of the best art exhibitions I've been to. It's exploring the space around and within the human form through a wide variety of mostly sculptural work, some of it harsh and metallic. I thought a lot of it was great on many levels.
Relevant to this thread, my favourite piece was "Space Station", a massively imposing 27 ton construct of perforated blocks chaotically joined and perched at an esoteric angle that does indeed evoke the atmosphere implied in it's name. http://www.benhanbury.com/2007/06/21/anthony-gormley-blind-light/ http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f246/scottmc1/gigs/ligeti/IMG_3490.jpg It was well lit from an adjacent exhibit, and I found it particularly rewarding exploring the dark side of the piece and finding all the random "passages" through it. I defy anyone to go there, look at it in detail, and go back home and NOT open Radiant/whatever! Metal lego's!
Dunno, looks a bit random to me, but interesting none the less. Also (sadly), I did not get the urge to open a level editor after looking at this :( I defy anyone to go there, look at it in detail, and go back home and NOT open Radiant/whatever!
Did you? I meant looking at it in reality. The pictures are like, nothing, compared to wandering around it.
Wrath: I got the urge for YOU GUYS to make some map with a similar theme :D http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/0start.htm#TOC
Weird navigation but you'll get to them. lost mine on top of the hood of a Mustang.
Some interesting design here: http://www.designbuild-network.com/projects/Hydropolis/ ...is like a hive of utterly mental construction projects these days, that hotel is just one of them.
http://www.funonthenet.in/content/view/127/31/ http://www.thecathedral.freesurf.fr/cathedral.php
flash site, pretty pics, nice atmosphere... stop hating me Be warned, massive Comic Sans Serif usage and terrible site design ahead:
http://www.childrensbooksonline.org/super-index.htm Interview with urban explorer, contains many cool photographs:
http://bldgblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/drains-of-canada-interview-with-michael.html We've seen it before, but here is a site with some different photos of the same underground flood control system under tokyo, and some related tunnels:
http://www.bigempire.com/sake/g-cans_geo-site.html Main gallery link:
http://www.launching-gantry-operator.com/Eigene%20Webs/MeinWeb/photo.htm Some of my favorites: http://www.launching-gantry-operator.com/Eigene%20Webs/MeinWeb/Photoalbum%20Ordner/D6Lift-1.gif http://www.launching-gantry-operator.com/Eigene%20Webs/MeinWeb/Photoalbum%20Ordner/Endspan-1.gif http://www.launching-gantry-operator.com/Eigene%20Webs/MeinWeb/Photoalbum%20Ordner/Postension-1.gif It looks like something from an old Gerry Anderson show.
http://www.thecoolhunter.net/travel/WATERWORLD---China/ why do photographers do this?
I don't know why this photographer loves 360 degres photos, but in anyway there are nice shots from London ! Holy shit.
My inner bibliophile got an instant massive hard on at the first pic. Which then exploded as I continued scrolling. Ow. This one rocks: http://de.fishki.net/picsw/092007/28/1000/1000_056.jpg
http://archinect.com/index.php
i particularily enjoyed the post on russians http://archinect.com/features/article.php?id=62725_0_23_0_C that book:
http://www.icif.ru/Engl/cyc/101/pages/1.htm him: http://www.icif.ru/ apparently his books are called "cycles" so click on that Needs more hardcore boat lifts
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2227/1535973134_fa6f401db0_o.jpg Big Chute Marine Railway - Ontario, Canada http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=377367709&size=o Strepy-Thieu Boat Lift, hainaut, belgium http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2290/1540825751_bc8b7d535f_b.jpg niederfinow boat lift, brandenburg, germany And the best for last... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjqr6dycBcI Falkirk Wheel in Scotland then here are some of those pics:
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7607/catacomb00he5.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4730/catacomb03gh1.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/7630/catacomb04ta8.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/8929/catacomb06mv8.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/6811/catacomb08gb5.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/3377/catacomb09ii2.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5281/catacomb15rr3.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/2111/catacomb22da5.jpg http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/5633/catacomb23zy9.jpg Ive never seen anything like that! Is that place open to the public? I'd say obviously its real, how old do you think those skeletons are?
really a french blade runner, or is it a different movie that happens to be comparable to blade runner?
What nitin said, the script is really poor, and the black&white rendering was slapped onto it towards the end of production cause they didn't quite figure out how to do what they wanted, and it ended up hiding 80% of the awesome facial animation work that was done for it.
Some of the settings are quite nice, especially if you know Paris, and I guess the style is original enough to make it worth seeing, but it's definetely not a great movie. http://www.classicist.org/handbook/index.html
Very specific diagrams and measurements on the Doric, Ionic, Corinthian, and Tuscan styles of classical architecture, which are recycled a hell of a lot throughout history. probably too academic (and not on a Quake scale) for most but it's damned handy for me at the moment. http://www.mondospider.com/
is this old? but i have seen better walkers. there's this (norwegian?) forest walking machine that walks really awesome and smooth
the finnish mecant. http://automation.tkk.fi/MECANT
It can be seen in the scifi-movie "Lipton Cockton in the Shadows of Sodoma" as well. The director said when they were filming that scene, everybody had to wear hearing protection since the noise from the machine was so horrible. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40debSRrAOw
Is the mondo spider, does look a bit jerky, but faster than I expected as well. Couldn't find video of the MECANT. looks a lot more flui9d and lifelike in this video: http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=8hfljB2wQD8&feature=related
Even though it sounds like it's gonna explode.
Very nice piece of machinery; flashbacks from the terminator films. but there's old scifi posters here
http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/retro-future-to-stars.html I posted some new photoalbums on my site, maybe some of them could contain some ok reference material. Most interesting is Pierrefonds Castle:
http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/pierrefonds/ But there's some ok stuff from Honfleur and La Rochelle here too: http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/rochelle/ http://www.born-robotic.net/photos/honfleur/ Bambuz, that scifi poster collection is awesome. A real gem!
It's really striking how the vision focuses on what could be possible while completely ignoring the cost of realization. how horrible and cold it would feel in everyday life with the vast barren areas. No real possibility for walking or bicycling either. Effortless shopping - makes you fat too.
Of course it's natural to realize what problems are created only after you have created systems resembling that, and operated them for decades. I need some!!!
I haven't made much since The Hand That Feeds You, dont really know what to do!! Anyone wanna callaborate? Or what would be a cool idea? :-P Thats inspired me to sack off mapping in Q1, go and buy a better PC and start mapping in Q4/D3...
:-( this looks strangely familiar
http://blog.wired.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/12/06/rebelround_400.jpg what game is that from again? i think those symbols were your lifes left, or something. Duke Nukem 2?
Maybe already posted: http://www.davegh.com/blade/davegh.htm however full of cool textures that could be used
BTW: I'm looking for a cool tutorial for blood splashes create onto wall / ground textures. Any idea where I could find some ? I can send a few that I made over tonight (I'm at work) to show you how I did it - they're nothing special or fancy but might give you some ideas. Also answered on the other thread.
Must be under huge pressures. Not only do they have to work long days, their beautiful women are constantly threatened by western men and space aliens. And lately, even...
http://world.honda.com/ASIMO/new/ Yes. Did you ever think why your cute spouse insisted on getting a household robot? Men, leave work early and spend some more time with your loved ones! http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=11152
"Bogost creates and writes about serious games, seemingly simple diversions that deliver educational political and advertising content alongside entertainment. In Persuasive Games, he offers an academic but accessible introduction to their potential, and it is very meaty reading for anybody interested in where the interactive arts meet real-world topics." -- Scott Colbourne, The Globe and The Mail They are breaking down(?) that awesome cement plant I visited autumn 2006. If you like industrial ruins and graffiti, here are a lot of pics: http://www.geocaching.com/seek/gallery.aspx?guid=b2bbf3b9-5ce1-4b4c-a740-45dff0369ac1
My pics of it are somewhere above. The artificial spaces video: the spheres, metropolis and artificial space parts were bloody awesome thanks for posting!
through some of these photos:
http://photo.net/photodb/member-photos?user_id=1783374&include=all&unlimit=1 Both very interesting!! Lunarans discovery just looks cool, but that stuff that czg found is kinda like WTF!?!! On a closer inspection tho it is pretty cool.
Click the "I" tab at the bottom of the screen, then select "view fullsize". The pic opens up in a new browser window. Whee!
Well, almost
http://www.seatreker.com/Lembeh06.htm My current favourite: http://www.healthline.com/blogs/outdoor_health/uploaded_images/mantis-shrimp-791419.jpg whats that little bastard got to cheer about, he looks the the bastard child of a hula dancer and a orange elephant! :)
In April 1998, an aggressive creature named Tyson smashed through the quarter-inch-thick glass wall of his cell. He was soon subdued by nervous attendants and moved to a more secure facility in Great Yarmouth.
So that little bastard has one of the fastest punches in nature. Plus it can see and differentiate circularly polarized light, even clockwise and anticlockwise. You can't do either of those. Among many other things. on encountering bigger-than-man Humboldt squids.
http://www.deeperblue.net/article.php/696/%200/0 Strange things exist in the sea. First high res pics of Phobos
http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/phobos.php Awesome movie.
I have both those artbooks, with all the scenery sketches and paintings, amazing work, and very inspirational, 100+ pages of that kind of art in both of them. The second artbook is full of sketches like this: http://born-robotic.net/stuff/tekkonkinkreet.jpg
Which are also amazing. extreme talent, extreme ambition. And diligence.
I don't know that movie but some anime things really go the extra mile in detail, something that is practically never seen in "for kids" western animation. Best western animation to me is probably the forties Donald Ducks etc. They're comedy but anyway you can feel identify with Donald so much in his hardships.
Bugs Bunny etc are cheap and nonsensical instead... Even if you don't enjoy Pixar movies, you can't deny their creative process is very in depth, the ammount of research and concept art they make for each movie is amazing. Everyone of the "The Art of..." artbooks released for each Pixar movie is great.
And yeah, Ratatouille is great, can't wait for Wall-E. when will there be a postapocalyptic grand artsy adventure game? and I don't mean Fallout.
Maybe the assets are just too demanding. I just absolutely love that concrete isogrid building. for example
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_citFkSNtk as well as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIn-sMq8-Ls Best shambler remake ever:
http://iheartwells.com/Gallery/Personal/GA%20Mini%2011/Final.jpg (Posted by Sectaurs on polycount.) that kind of style would be extremely hard to do with 3d graphics. Since modeling's mostly limited to the axis of more cheese or less cheese, especially when animated. Ok, kidding slightly with the last sentence.
is beyond concept art.
http://airpower.callihan.cc/images/xyplanes/XF84H/x84h-usafm.jpg Check out that absolutely huge spinner. It's like a caricature. Nobody would have the guts to make such in a movie A gallery of Nudibranchs
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/06/nudibranchs/doubilet-photography http://www.markozubak.com/eng/paper%20toyz.htm (scroll down a bit)
wtf were they thinking?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/36625118@N00/103436494/ http://www.mrlycon.com/index.php?site=images/portfolio/leveldesign/losttemple
Spotted this after Metl linked to the guys site for some GTK article. nice model: http://www.gameartisans.org/contests/events/3/team4/preview_finals_1_5319.html
seems like he was inspired by the Q1 Ogre! He did one awesome model, lots of other nice stuff worth checking out in this year Dominance War finalists:
http://www.gameartisans.org/dominancewar/3/index.php is it just me, or most of the art is charachter-centered, while finding inspirational environment art is much harder
plus, it's mostly chicks aged 18-24, and a smattering of weird monster characters...
few artists seem interested in painting men, old women, or children (unless they are disturbed and-or sexualized girls.) These guys do have a lot of talent, though. Are the bestest things to draw, metl -- EVERYONE knows that
Excellent stuff, Lunarol. stars = suspense, windows = voyeurism
http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2008/06/book-review-the-wrong-house-th.php I get it! then a ceiling fan is horror.
And couple em, you've got twin peaks. A girl told me she remembers only that from watching it as kid and it was a strong experience. Staris are like one of my fave tings to map in maps. I really have no idea, why -- but I always find them appealing in games, and even in architecture.
The Buenos Aires Italian Qaurter. When the immigrants came off the ships they had no paint for their houses, so bought it on the docks. The paint was all for ships, so the colours were from all over the spectrum.
that every house in that shot is a different color, or that every house in greece is whitewashed with a blue roof:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Greek_Church.jpg So Mediterranean. you're thinking of Camino street in Boca. What you say is right back then, now only one street (the tourist street) has house like that.
These are some great (and long.. over 2 hours each!) videos of Warren Spector interviewing a bunch of game industry people for a master class at U Texas.
info: http://junctionpoint.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/master-class-videos/ mirror of videos: http://www.ninjadodo.net/temp/spector/ I watched Hal Barwood, Richard Garriott, and Tim Willits which were all quite interesting. Willits kept calling Quake a "mess", and seemed to like Q2 more. http://www.intothepixel.com/artwork/2008_contest_winners.asp
Some great artwork by game developers, very nice to look at! Sneak peak of a possible theme in HL2 ep3 (could perhaps be seen as a spoiler). The Death Star '49
http://saucers.greyfalcon.us/MECHANIX%20ILLUSTRATED.htm Have a sixties military laboratory environment?
http://history.nasa.gov/SP-4308/p111a.jpg seem a bit 60's techno retro. I only recall a few labs in No One Lives Forever (btw, it was awesome), a sub base in the second, a chemical lab in the first, but neither had much technical detail. Most of the places were groovy instead, like the club in West Berlin, the shag carpet and corkscrew stairs in one villain's hidden private quarters -- good stuff.
Neat. I love the idea of procedurally created things, because they can come up with content you may never have thought of or just provide a feeling of 'randomness' within limits. I'm a big fan of controlled chaos, and procedurally generated stuff fits in so snuggly with that.
Cool find. i've wanted to make a game with proceduraly generated worlds for a while. Partly because it's a cool artistic/programming blend, and partly because 1-man teams can't rely on lots of content creation.
As game worlds require increasingly more content, teams using procedural generation can (arguably) always be smaller than teams that do everything "b hand" as it were.
I'm curious, where is the boundary between procedural generation and just really good tools? that's what i was going to say -- the ideal tools from an efficiency standpoint are probably using some procedural generation layered on top of designed content.
http://www.stevebulman.f9.co.uk/cumbria/images/penrithcastle.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2063/2021784200_caa84a15c7.jpg?v=0 http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_4.jpg http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-31127b.jpg http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrithbeacon-4585a.jpg http://www.english-lakes.com/images/lakes_5/penrith_2.jpg http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-1544b.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith.htm&h=399&w=640&sz=77&hl=en&start=7&tbnid=qZDgWTXMleno7M:&tbnh=85&tbnw=137&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dthe%2Bbeacon%2Bpenrith%2Bcumbria%26gbv%3D2%26ndsp%3D21%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DN This is where I dwell. See the last link - there is an aerial photo showing the bulk of the town: http://www.visitcumbria.com/pen/penrith-0393b.jpg Well there is a group of tress n bushes just left of the middle of the photo. I am just behind those trees right now!!! I was up near "the beacon" monument just half an hour ago, scrabbling around on my own in the bushes..... We need more Greebles!!!
Note to self: Put lots of greebles in next map! Like the "superpipes" tex from Doom3! Portuguese art!!!
http://www.mosteirojeronimos.pt/index_mosteiro.html someone make it :) it even got the plans ;) I thought you mean the earth turning into molted slag, but that video was far worse (though I still liked it).
I know, the researchers will tell you the same class of particles being investigated routinely bombard the earth so you could sleep peacefully on your pillow tonight, unless you read this . . http://www.dallasfed.org/news/speeches/fisher/2008/fs080528.cfm that "one about video games" is so awesome
I remember one (similarly sarcastic and hilarious) night manager talking about "strategic soul-crushing" when I worked at a fast food place in 2000/1. btw Lunaran, you have a damn awesome attitude. The games industry has almost no interest for me anymore. I really look back fondly on the days when playing computer games at all made you a social outcast. Now a massive economy is based on various internet social networks, and they actually make games like The Sims, in fact most games are based on some other pop culture shit, games are exactly like movies now. Not only are the days of 10 nerds brainstorming in a bar and making an awesome game gone, but the days of ANYONE making an awesome game (by my taste) are also gone. I think my entire life is me frantically fleeing the influence over culture that the average person has. As George Carlin said, "Think about how stupid the average person is, and then realize that half of em are stupider than that." There are still a lot of very good games being made, although I obviously have to agree that the industry as a whole has been moving in the wrong direction (from my POV) for some time now.
Metal Gear Solid 4, Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War, World of Warcraft, Stalker, Oblivion are just a few of the games I consider to be true gems of the past few years. That being sad, the noise to signal ratio of good games to shit games has been increasing at a sad pace. World of Warcraft is only a good game in the same way crack cocaine is a good way to release and relax.
I think what I like about your attitude is that you're in the industry, but you're anti-commercial
but,you're anti-commercial, without being pro-pretentious-asshole- -little-whiny-fag-artsy-bitch you're anti-that too,as is well called for. cheers, as they say in the land of poisonous snakes and kangaroos. but,you're anti-commercial, without being pro-pretentious-asshole-
-little-whiny-fag-artsy-bitch You don't know him in real life. :) we are entering the future, just look at bicycles...
http://accel92.mettre-put-idata.over-blog.com/0/02/72/10/randon-2008-news/Lew-09/Lew_longo_big.jpg Play less Engineer. Seriously. It's mindboggling. Go play Soldier or something fun!
I want to live there
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jwillys/2717904105/sizes/l/in/set-72157606566769262/ Check out the full set, pretty awesome. of the world's most penisy building
http://www.burjdubaiskyscraper.com/ http://www.navoine.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?p=551
very slow and instable, but nice stalker like pictures. quite harrowing. A warning to people of faint disposition may be appropriate with a link like that.
However, it's good to see Nike sponsoring the boys, and Christian Bale doing his bit for the war effort. http://img389.imageshack.us/img389/2109/img9659oo7.jpg http://img522.imageshack.us/img522/6498/img9620wd2.jpg I like how Russia's like "Don't worry, we're following all the laws, we're making a truce, we're about to pull out, we're on our way out, we're not even there anymore" as their soldiers fortify their positions and reinforce their presence.
not blaming the whole thing on them, but Russia seems increasingly sinister these days. About five years ago I had a Russian history professor who said "Every year the gap between Putin and a dictator grows smaller," and that was before plenty of the shit Russia has done since then. Russia is VONDUR, and is therefore awesome.
Russia is also this which is also awesome: http://www.iheartchaos.com/2008/07/10/morning-music-video-gorbachev-is-a-zombie-killing-barbarian-in-this-russian-metal-video-i-heart-music/ There is no propaganda, there is only... VONDUR. http://www.thecoolhunter.net/
SEE: Architects who design residences like steel-and-glass skyscrapers, only tiny! FEEL: The pain of residents with no privacy and massive electric bills! Well, even though it IS a "Portal of Souls" as in The Night Journey, the style might not be so much my style - if a similar underwater maze partially submerged was found in Europe, that might be more like it. I've never really done Mayan or even Egyptian stuff, which seems like a more simple architectural style than (Medieval) Arabian or European - but of course in any Quake map there's a good deal of "make up whatever the hell you want." I do admit to the underground mazes tendency though - lol, just wait for Arcanum.
Re: Lunaran link I still don't understand why there aren't "stylistic" buildings that are just totally reactionary. I guess every huge company just has to go with the modernism/futurism style in order to seem cutting-edge. Try to forget that I'm linking to a site called 'pink tentacle.'
http://www.pinktentacle.com/2008/08/photos-tetrapod-beaches-of-japan/ Ok, it's not great but brings some nice ideas perhaps...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpaJOGIhcyE&feature=related http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0076.jpg
Lessee. A masculine huge-jawed hero testpilot and his comic sidekick small mechanic guy test fly a german war booty aircraft. A woman is involved too. http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0069.jpg But the real beauty is the aircraft, perhaps the best looking ever constructed in the history of aviation. http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0064.jpg The link to the gallery
http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/falvy_pics.html This is all just so... strong, by itself: http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0079.jpg http://www.nurflugel.com/Nurflugel/Horten_Nurflugels/ho_iv/Falvy_Pics/Img0097.jpg http://www.materialicious.com/
and his other site http://www.stairporn.org/ and something linked from it http://www.richardpowers.co.uk/library_landing.php?id=2 at the other end of the timeline, Opacity hasn't been killed in the collapse of an old insane asylum yet and now has 100+ albums:
http://www.opacity.us/ That bank is SO not going to go bankrupt. It probably has its own time travel device built into it to prevent such catastrophes.
Also, to get an account there the bouncer has to think you're cool enough. Shit won't stick on it.
Sadly, what happens when that surface is tarnished? You can't change any panels or grind out or anything, since it's monolithic. And it also probably turns yellow with time. Plastic summer cottages were marketed in Finland in the sixties. You don't see any around... http://www.kiasma.fi/site/pop/pop.php?tid=61&lang=fi&mo But there were different ones... Lotsa great inventions here... except that most of them didn't work out too well.
http://www.dself.dsl.pipex.com/MUSEUM/POWER/rotaryengines/rotaryeng.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rM_JLIhZLxg
The future is here. Hovering rocket vehicles popping all over USA. Showdown in November. Soon, space travel will not be the same as it used to be. suggestion for someone else to make for Q1SP, maybe speedmapping session:
Pyramids in Antarctica (as in, they were built so long ago that it was tropic there at the time), as in Lovecraft's AtMoM, or even (maybe) in the Bob Dylan song Isis. Rollercoasters are the way of the future - you can do tight turns with high speed since the track can be tilted.
http://www.brusa.biz/news/news.php?l_sel=1&idm=4&idk=9 There's been a huge number of fascinating concepts for mass transit but something always comes in the way: http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/romag.htm Here's a more general history with a huge number of cases http://faculty.washington.edu/jbs/itrans/history.htm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERdF0FK-2io
Cabintaxi from Germany a monorail thats now over 100 years old !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNI45mt8q0o&feature=related http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuppertal_Schwebebahn as the computer game industry grows, more specialized niches will spring up, and virtual crate designers are bound to be high in demand (ever seen a FPS without one?).
Of course, gazebos are my thing. is the man. He's always been one of my favorites, and is often imitated, but few artists have the sheer talent and style to get away with it.
More here: http://www.artshakes.com/GalleryDetail.asp?GCat=99 apologies if this has been posted here before, but I hadn't seen a lot of these:
http://villageofjoy.com/50-strange-buildings-of-the-world/ Be sure to go on to part two. Not sure if it was mentioned in your link, but I heard Frazetta lost his right arm (his drawing arm) to a stroke or somesuch, and re-learned to draw with his left arm.
Fucking gosu. Props. Mad props. I saw a poster of some picture of this guy yesterday because there will be an exhibition in Hamburg. Thought "BANG! Inspiration!".
http://www.hoenerloh.de/startframe_en.html (a bump actually, it was posted just a few hundred posts ago. But it's so level designish.) NOTE TO PHOTOGRAPHERS: step away from the high-pass filter. Your fake HDR does not impress us.
First, a little reading - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceberg
and now some inspiration http://www.wallpaperbase.com/wallpapers/landscape/iceberg/iceberg_1.jpg http://www.transport.polymtl.ca/civ1120/etud_h08/KERLAN/iceberg.gif http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/70/Iceberg,_Franz_Josef_Fjord_(js)5.jpg http://www2.skolor.pedc.se/mellanheden/bild/iceberg2.jpg http://www.mollybawn.com/iceberg17.JPG Some cool shots of inside and out of this ruined station:
http://flickr.com/photos/cal33dyc/2916718911/sizes/l/ http://flickr.com/photos/grantz/2733939167/sizes/l/ http://flickr.com/photos/grantz/2777541738/sizes/l/ http://flickr.com/photos/grantz/2360027811/sizes/l/ http://bighugelabs.com/flickr/onblack.php?id=2842826914&size=large http://flickr.com/photos/jessespeelman/2974876067/sizes/l/ Oh, nice arches and curves everywhere inside the station... very cool place that gives me plenty of idea for my next map :D
Somehow that was the apex of cool technology.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c1/PAGEOS.jpg Inflatable space radio reflectors, Echo and Pageos. Brighter than most stars viewed from Earth's surface. From Deus Ex 3
http://games.tiscali.cz/news/news.asp?id=30175 I especially like http://games.tiscali.cz/images/deusex3/img2x.jpg we all already know this with our own eyes. Why must somebody inevitably always, always, always make a point of mentioning in the post after that something is phoney photoshopped HDR like effects? We get it, comment on the actual pictures themselves if you're gonna.
and to contribute some pictures that are unrelated to my whining. http://hellofrancis.blogspot.com/2008/11/astor-courts.html a little bit bright for our FPS tastes, but the idea is there. My HDRs are far from fake its nice talking shit behind peoples backs if you have some constructive crit to give then give it
your HDRs are fake behind my back i feel totally good saying this and not making a point the third one linked is particularly fugly sorry but i miss any contrast there it is still a nice picture the first has some serious glow around the building which screams i edited too much hello somebody
Very depressing. Some look like certain areas in Berlin to me.
Built on lies, delusion, and fake grandeur, and sadness after failure. *shudder* http://members.iinet.net.au/~rmine/middel3.html
http://www.middelaldercentret.dk/Projekter/trebuchets.html Dunno if ijed or someone else posted this already. Notice the harbour defense one - yes, they're pulling on the trigger rope in that pic! Link to 5 photo albums:
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/rome_vatroman/apage_1.htm http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/rome_vatchinese/apage_1.htm http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/rome_doors/apage_1.htm http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/rome_churches/apage_1.htm http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/rome_misc/apage_1.htm Main Index Page: http://www.simonoc.com/pages/materials.htm Back in August I went on holiday to Rome and took a crazy amount of pictures (about 2000) which were not really organized into any special order. Over the last couple of months I have been trying to group them into relevant topics and gradually realeasing them on my website. The last set above took the most time to compile because it is a series of pictures I took for architecture reference / inspiration reasons and I wanted to explain why I liked them in the first place. Most of the pages (on the last picture set only) contain links to additional relevant images so the initial index of pictures is just a header to more. Hope you enjoy the pictures and if anyone finds them useful I would love to see what they create from seeing them. Also if anyone finds any spelling or grammer mistakes please mail me because I would like to correct them. Sims All use of my digital work is covered by
you release all your digital work under CC? nice. Nice reference shots, too. Egyptian textures are GPL2 - http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Everything else - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ Egyptian stuff was switched over to help out a GPL mod for Q3 so the mappers had more textures to use. and I complained to her about her recommendation of the movie 'Stepbrothers', and she said, 'funny is in the eye of the beholder' and I countered, 'well, ma, there is a reason Chris Rock gets HBO specials and Yakov Smirnoff has disappeared into obscurity.'
I only wished I had the free time to contribute much more than I do, but what I do to keep the heat on and food on the table can be fun at times
too, so I shouldn't complain. 'well, ma, there is a reason Chris Rock gets HBO specials and Yakov Smirnoff has disappeared into obscurity.'
The fall of the soviet union? My instincts say 'no, that's not it', but let me take a few shots and give a proper mulling over before any conclusion is reached.
http://s76.photobucket.com/albums/j17/TomcatFanatic123/Titan%2034D%20explosion%20pictures/
or something in that vein. http://www.28dayslater.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?t=35754
Check out the entire forum, its the best uk urban exploration site apparently, I had not heard of it until now and there is tons of good stuff in there, ...are pretty cool! Any backstory?
I poked around and found these: http://www.stuff.co.nz/AAMB0/aamsz=760x120/4686540a25482.html http://www.fiveoclockbot.com/blog/archives/001046.php but they don't seem to be the same thing? not really good ! (or new)
lot of this so called "web-artists" steal their stuff from real artists. in this case from robert longo. --> link: http://www.robertlongo.com/work/view/1118/5730 a segment on 60 Minutes about the aftermath of a nuclear accident in the old USSR back in the 60s. They showed a fetus preserved in a jar that had been born a cyclops. Doesn't get more fucked up than that.
some of the agent orange affected foetuses and people in vietnam last year, it can definitely get more fucked up than that.
I've seen the result of the effects of being exposed to the most dangerous substance known to man. The person in question was unfortunately exposed for 10+ years. He is the most deformed individual I personally have ever seen.
His name is czg and he was exposed to Quake. /keke \o\ '-' I've seen reports on Agent Orange where their were cases of organ inversion and external organ growth. That is very fucked up, as well as the circumstances where that occurred.
I recall with the cyclops having a hard time getting my head around the idea that it was real. Up to the point late in in the gestation period, it was alive as you or I with that one eye. ZWIF FTW Aren't you a republican? Aren't agent orange stories just leftist lies? Dioxine doesn't do anything. Neither does mercury or radiation, they're just environmentalist myths...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minamata_disease your poorly conceived misconceptions, Bambs,
I haven't voted for a single Republican since 2000, and I regard the top of that ballot an epic mistake. I pretty much vote a straight Libertarian ticket when I even bother to vote these days. Besides if I was a Republican, what would it matter. Who started the Vietnam War, who escalated the Vietnam War, and who ended it (though later than necessary)? Hint, it goes D D R by party affiliation. Stumbling through a fantasy art site, I found this:
http://www.pen-paper.net/artgallery/MattDixon/ShubNiggurath.jpg.html Does anybody know anything about the Cthulhu RPG's, and what description this picture might have been based off of? Or is it just random... I certainly don't remember HPL ever actually describing Shub. he did describe shub in some story... she looked like a wide, squat tree with lots of ropey, flailing branches... so actually, id software didn't completely miss the mark.
That's from a rpgish Chtulhu based board game. Can't remember the name :(. And I'm pretty sure it's NOT shub. shub had a redish picture that looked remotely like the shub we know.
Many places, over 150!
All abandoned.... pools, factories, castles.... www.urban-travel.org It was on eof the Mythos authors who described Shub - Ramsey? Something about a wax museum in the name, but I'm translating there.
That looks like a Dhole not AFAIK a Drole is a Quoth invention. Necros, that reminds me a lot of certain parts of your maps, perhaps your older ones, or the coagula-style map.
of victorian England.
http://www.lateralscience.co.uk/ymboa/galvreanim.html for some wtf moments in game environments.
http://seedmagazine.com/Saved_By_Science/sbs_slideshow.html http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2008/11/tiles-vaults.html
The result defies common sense, because a timbrel vault is very thin compared to a Roman vault, while at the same time it is capable of bearing much higher loads. Detroit is such a dynamic flashy place
http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1882089,00.html The story is kind of cool (another attempt at a net-positive fusion reaction) but the photos are pretty sweet:
http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2009/05/gallery_nif Honestly, this might be a decent way to spark up speed mapping again. Or, turtle maps at the very least. Post a picture and let the picture be the theme. That picture conjured up a bunch of stuff in my head when I looked at it...
Post some pictures of the salt flats and stuff, probably tommorow.
It looks like ice but it's not, reflections being the only thing outside of the Q1 scope, for now at least. great links, thanks.
The spaceinvading.com architecture blog looks especially nice. Some sexy stuff there. http://qrf.mine.nu/stuff/amoeba2.png
http://amoeba.sajberspejs.com/ wish i had a root bridge like those :/ http://lumajs.googlepages.com/ocean-temperature.jpg
would be cool to make a map where you fight your way into an iceberg (not vondur's...) and there's lot of ice tunnels and air pockets and then you discover a tech base inside or something so it's frozen base + leaks. someone do that. i command you. concept for a Sci-fi ice world setting, where mecha robots roam free
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/7193/winterect.jpg from http://www.pandemoniumart.net/2009/07/02/winter-setting/ is that seriously one guy's work? reminds of some of the cambodian ruins outside of angkor wat in the jungle.
great find willem. Personally, I find stuff like this a bit depressing. I mean sure it look very good and all that, but seriously, how the fuck am I supposed to compete with visuals like http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/6425/00085y.jpg/ as a fellow mapper?
I want to be a level designer, not an environment artist, but I still want my maps to look good. I just neither have a few chinese artists on my payroll, nor the extraordinary talent of a few people out there who can not only make good gameplay but also make it look stunning as well and to top that off, they can do both at a ridiculously fast development pace. It's a rare individual who can do that sort of thing as a one man show. We produce levels here that look that good on a regular basis, but it's generally a team effort. I do the shell layout, someone meshes it, I go over it again as a second visual pass, an artist adds ambient effects, etc. That's the normal path of progression.
Those shots I posted look amazing but that's not a level yet. It's a screen shot maker. http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/313130/in_praise_of_the_scifi_corridor.html
Great subject matter, but i wish the article was 10x longer and had 10x more pictures... and the pictures should be bigger... and more info about designers and stuff... Basically i wish the blog format didn't suck so much. But I guess business is business. Nice find indeed, but I'm still having a hard time believing that all of the other images weren't reverse-engineered from a photo, it's that good.
Step 1: Start http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sj7DCJidDvUin the background
Step 2: Watch the pictures and videos of a sandstorm over Sydney http://www.flickr.com/photos/plasticbag/galleries/72157622310168099/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrlD22HwPvI Also many pics in the comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/australia/comments/9n36h/red_dawn_in_australia_red_dust_blankets_east/ DP is an engine.
Also I can never get the reflective and realistic water to work in Darkplaces.......... I only ever been to Syke once, and its amazing. Love to go back some day and actually climb some mountains :DDD
DP used to include a mod too, which i *suppose* could be run alongside Quoth, but don't know what he's talking about really.
Like his math though ;> http://boards.polycount.net/showthread.php?t=65408
That is mostly default crysis assets, there are some new objects I don't recognise (mostly stone ruins) but overall that is out of the box stuff. The quality of the props that the crysis artists made were unbelievable, plus add in some cool engine lighting system and voila you have amazing looking stuff. Now actually moving around that as a working level that does not need deep blue computing power and AI fighting across all those props is something else. :P Linked from the spectrum quake picture, found these quake monsters that I'd never seen posted here before:
http://catwell.deviantart.com/art/shambler-119852317 http://catwell.deviantart.com/art/scrag-102852206 http://catwell.deviantart.com/art/Quake-knight-102954597 http://catwell.deviantart.com/art/fiend-102850893 http://catwell.deviantart.com/art/ogre-102831295 There are a few more I didn't link if you explore the gallery. those look really good. the knights especially look quite evil and the scrag translates the direction of the original model quite well. the fiend looks like it's smiling though, but i suppose it's happy as it's probably going to eat you alive. (there's also the death knight and vore too, equally as good)
i think what i like about these is they are very faithful to the original look. (or they just align very well with my imagination for the original models :P ) The characterisation was very strong in the originals. Those scant verts were very well used alongside the animation to give the creatures personality.
Nowadays it tends to be 'meshsmooth'll fix it' but a really good low poly mesh can capture the imagination without the need for hirez. The work is very crisp and suggests motion; I like the strong lines. Even if some of the characterisations look a bit twee - for example the Shambler looks like a deformed kitten, to me. Excellent all the same, especially the Ogre and Knight(s). yeah, i'd say the shambler is the weakest looking one of the bunch. i think that's mostly due to the fact that there isn't really much to see in that image. just a giant fur head, teeth and a bit of a claw. (otoh, that's pretty much what the shambler is, so...)
i'd say the shambler is probably the most difficult to translate from it's original model. it is more vague than the other models and it's look is not immediately obvious. in fact, while i always thought the shambler was covered in fur, it's possible to interpret the texture as wrinkled skin as well. (and if it is fur, than it's actual form is hidden and we don't actually have any idea what the shape of the actual shambler's body is like under the fur). things like the ogre and zombie are probably easiest as zombies are really just dead humans and ogres are just malformed/grotesque humans. both have an easy point of reference. Yes, those are amazing. There are a couple more, bottom of http://catwell.deviantart.com/gallery/ currently.
found this:
http://naburus.deviantart.com/art/Creatures-of-Quake-Vore-62211639 there's a shambler and rotfish, but the vore is the strongest image, i think. bah, I was just going to post that!
I would like to see a fancy building with that kind of fractal decorations everywhere, it would make rococo cry. A new benchmark in user created source content
http://www.littlelostpoly.co.uk/devblog/ As postcards, those are horribly underexposed and too uniform and boring in color. As in-game shots, pretty gorgeous.
The original Dear Esther was kind of interesting, these new shots look gorgeous, should just stick this in L4D... :D
which is basically a plane that flies so close to the surface that it gets extra lift from the air being pushed back up from the ground (or water.)
Does http://pics.livejournal.com/igor113/pic/007eez56/s1024x768 remind you of firefly at all? =)
http://wvs.topleftpixel.com/05/10/04/
click 'archive' at the top and look in the list for the architecture section for more stuff including some lesser seen wats, one of which has much more foliage than Ta Prohm. Also have plenty of shots of the Shining hotel from pic 4.
Will put them up when I eventually sort out my japan photos and combine them with my sth america ones. Need to look into some free hosting too as there's a lot of photos. let me emphasize once more how awesome this is.
http://image.gd/image,tags,1,0fe36b6635f9236eca227cd584ac27a62bfed575,3 http://image.gd/image,tags,1,033802d7165975e0fc7308fb7280e8c10103ed09,3 http://image.gd/image,tags,1,529f4dcf58f0279fbcbef01ac4507a6fc49f5409,3 http://image.gd/image,tags,1,61bfcd47731974055f0d169c53c2f698d4e0cd96,3 These are from about 5 minutes worth of watching Get it here http://nrkbeta.no/2009/12/18/bergensbanen-eng/ thanks for reminding me! i picked up a new hdd yesterday, so i have plenty of space spare now. :)
I was just watching Le Roi et l'oiseau on youtube and it has some really nice exaggerated castle designs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Sg6qzpa_wc just watched that whole movie. Love the illustration style, the colors, the lighting, the composition, etc. Feels very mid-twentieth-century, sort of reminicent of Salvador Dali, the Jetsons, etc.
does anyone know what the dome like structures are that were designed to alert the mainlands of sea battles (or was it to other way around?) i want to say they are in maybe southern Europe perhaps?
if someone could help me recall and maybe include images that would be great, google is no help when you cant remember the names of things :/ I believe you're thinking of a "cloche" ?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maginot_line#Armoured_cloches http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GFM_cloche i don't think they were turrets of any kind, perhaps i explained it wrong. they are dome shaped and meant for bouncing sound waves (i think i forgot that crucial part in the initial post :S) they're kind of satellite dish looking, but are not satellites like the radio signal space thing in Puerto Rico. there like sideways, err maybe to be described as north or west hemisphere?
those things are interesting though, remind me of that paplon (or whatever, butterfly in french) movie Do you mean acoustic mirrors?
http://www.artificialowl.net/2009/03/abandoned-acoustic-mirrors-denge-uk.html http://villafanestudios.com/Dantescroll.jpg (2mb image)
that script just rocks
http://www4.pic-upload.de/03.02.10/b1m5datenfxz.png valve sure knows how to play their fanboys
and their fanboys are talented like hell http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=3391 The blog itself seems like something for the BIFFmassa but this should be for everyone:
S. Petersen's Field Guide To Cthulhu Monsters, 1988 http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2009/12/s_29.html http://monsterbrains.blogspot.com/2009/12/s.html Unless that guys is the actual author of that book, publishing copyrighted material on blogsites is wrong. Yes the images are amazing and yes I am sure people want to see them but nevertheless they are copyright material. I am sure friends share this kind of stuff on the internet but a blog sites are the wrong place to do it.
It is out of print. Personally I do not have much sympathy for copyrighted material that is not even available for purchase anymore. If something like this keeps "collectors" from paying/receiving disgusting amounts of money for an original, then I would be glad.
I pretty much agree - if it were still in print this would not stop me from purchasing a copy for myself. All it really does is allow people to see the material that they otherwise would not have access to because of the lack of availability. It's not as if we stole a book that was readily available to the masses.
- this would not stop me from purchasing a copy for myself, it would make me more likely to purchase one for myself. The book looks good enough that I would want to own a copy.
For example, here at work we have a copy of The Art of H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos - I can have access to it anytime I want, but I still own my own copy because it was such an awesome book. Cool photos here...
http://www.oboylephoto.com/ruins/index.htm Specifically, click on Bannerman's Island. I swear there's a Quake level there. yeah, holy fuck.
if glassman could make that map, I'd shit my pants. especially if it had swimming fiends. has anyone seen the 'real themes' thing going on over at planetphillip? pretty cool
http://www.planetphillip.com/posts/category/articles/real-themes/ I run www.monsterbrains.blogspot.com and want it to be known that "S. Petersen's Field Guide To Cthulhu Monsters, 1988" has been out of print for 22 years. Because of that fact I felt more than comfortable posting the majority of that book on the blog. It is better to be seen than not. However I do have an open invitation on the blog for any copyright holders of any works posted on the blog to contact me if materials posted are against their wishes.
i think it was great that you shared such a rare and difficult to obtain work. this is completely different than if the book was only a couple of years old and still easily available in bookstores.
Thanks.
I got some weird blocking on some of the images though - might just have been my firewall but was unable to view some of them. Specifically I wanted to grab all the jpegs for backup. Do you have a zipped archive uploaded anywhere? Can understand if that's not in your interest to provide, just thought I'd ask. ... the Jesse Van Dijk who made the runner's delight episode? Seems like it. Small world...
Woah, nice catch! Yes, that is him.
Now, how do we get him (and fs-razor and who else is an uber-artist in the (ex-)Quake-scene) to make some Quake speedpaintings as concept art for mappery... This one
http://www.cloister.se/bilder/Lammathen%201a.jpg Reminds me of the Ghast description some. The Fiend's original inspiration. Some Quake re-designs but a guy on conceptart, scroll down or Search for "quake" or something
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182756 Now that I think of it, the shambler should have a cock. I mean, He's a 12 foot tall yeti. And the yeti are known for their extravagantly large penises, am I right?
It would definitely make the dude more intimidating. It would definitely make the dude more intimidating.
cause it would be at head height for the quake guy? o.0 Everyone is posting clever stuff that's worth thinking about recently.
Or maybe just my impression and I've been stupid-er for years. http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/03/20/the-beauty-of-india-50-amazing-photos/
loved those Quake monster concept re-designs posted in #1437 - some are really different but there's a load of good ideas, especially liking the knights and the ogre. http://www.trekearth.com/
Spent a good half hour going through the Cantabria region of Spain - so many awesome pics. The latest MtG expansion, Rise of the Eldrazi, has a lot of cool Cthulhuish creatures and some really awesome labyrinth/dungeon designs.
http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtg/daily/feature/85 Somebody else on this board likes magic, heh.
Check this out, some of the same pictures, but uber high res: http://www.5colorcontrol.com/images/fanart/Rise_Art/index.html Also worth noting is my favorite magic artist, Mark Tedin: http://marktedin.com/home.html I find some of his concept art very "Quakey" - large scale, polygonal, cyclopean, with good textural detail. Anybody here been there?
http://www.airshipsonline.com/sheds/Cardington.htm http://www.flickr.com/photos/knulpgallery/4521841519/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/53411191@N00/4522274748/sizes/l/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/conte/4521471918/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12431263@N02/4520934493/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/12431263@N02/4521569726/sizes/o/ http://www.flickr.com/photos/10089490@N06/4520922695/sizes/l/ it's disturbing that that doesn't disturb me.
i remember thinking the bone pipe organ in goonies was the coolest thing. http://uo-planescape.wdfiles.com/local--files/sigil/Sigil_by_Tony_Diterlizzi-02600_%281994%29_TSR_AD&D_2ed_Planescape_Campaign_Setting.jpg
http://uo-planescape.wdfiles.com/local--files/quartiere-signora/City_Court_by_Tony_Diterlizzi-02611_%281995%29_TSR_AD&D_2ed_Planescape-The_Factol-s_Manifesto.jpg http://uo-planescape.wdfiles.com/local--files/quartiere-gilde/Great_Gymnasium_by_Tony_Diterlizzi-02611_%281995%29_TSR_AD&D_2ed_Planescape-The_Factol-s_Manifesto.jpg very evil art by the Unspeakable Vault maker: http://www.goominet.com/lovecraft/#c16
http://www.empireexhibition1938.co.uk/html/01/gallery.html
This time's architecture was the best. Disregard the circus stuff but look at the actual buildings. After this came the war and the British Empire crumbled. http://picasaweb.google.com/DChase.NeelyDales/Roundhouse#
Building has a lot of charater. Here's my favorite shot: http://lh4.ggpht.com/_lHfCu8f1Wuw/Si_YRYKbOMI/AAAAAAAABBY/QlhbzaEfaQw/IMG_3335.JPG The Buda Reformed Church
URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/buda_reformchurch/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/buda_reformchurch/dscf0325.JPG I always try to take a ton of pictures of places I visit and this is one church I have loved since the first time I saw it 2 years ago. A beautiful church with an unusual floor plan crowned with vibrant coloured tiles and various architectural symmetry lines. I have been wanting to create a photo album for this church for some time, but only recently got all the background information I needed. The Great Market Hall URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/buda_market/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/buda_market/dscf0462.JPG Carrying on with my fascination of Neogothic Hungarian architecture is the Great Market Hall. Even thou it has been repaired recently it still looks awesome with richly coloured brick patterns and classic Zsolnay tiles. St. Elizabeth Church URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/buda_elizchurch/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/buda_elizchurch/dscf0087.JPG Here is another hidden treasure of Budapest which I found while wandering around the streets looking lost. What surprised me the most about this church is that it was built by Imre Steindl who is more famously known for building the Hungarian Parliament. http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/expo_03_15/e17_22453693.jpg
http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/expo_03_15/e20_22453701.jpg http://inapcache.boston.com/universal/site_graphics/blogs/bigpicture/expo_03_15/e28_00000016.jpg http://c0573862.cdn.cloudfiles.rackspacecloud.com/1/0/128/105955/xenakis_5.jpg Berlin Aquadom
URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/berlin_aquadom/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/berlin_aquadom/dscf0029.JPG A tranquil home for 2600 fish and 56 species swimming around in over 900,000 litres of seawater. The feeding of the fish and the cleaning of the fish tank is performed daily by a pair of full-time divers. Pergamon Museum URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/berlin_pergamon/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/berlin_pergamon/dscf0308.JPG The Islamic Art Museum is housed in the upper part of the Pergamon Museum and contains a wealth of fabric and ceramic exhibitions including the famous Mshatta facade. The ceramic pray altars were a breathtaking sight of beauty constructed from uniquely designed glazed tiles perfectly locked together. The Hungarian Parliament Building URL : http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photo/buda_parliament/apage_1.htm IMG : http://www.simonoc.com//images/photo/buda_parliament/dscf0663.JPG This magnificent landmark is the crowning jewel in the architectural landscape of the city of Budapest with a symmetrical Neogothic facade, a sea of windows on all sides and a towering dome in the middle. (Plus it is free to get inside if you are from the EU) That Berlin Aquadom is sooooooo damn cool. Anymore stuff just like it?
The others are good too, but that Aquadom just fits with a project I'm working on. http://www.rochesteravionicarchives.co.uk/
The old stuff is best as nowadays everything's solid state. I found the Aquadom a long time ago on the web and was planning a trip to see it for ages. I don't often bother much with modern buildings, nothing new seems to have any architectural soul for me.
I found this last night and made me laugh Personal gardening taken too far? :P http://www.simonoc.com/images/photo/van_stanleypark/image01.jpg surprised the lightning did not toast it when it was still a twig in the dirt:O
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?s=688f445428ec54335ca99415a82e888f&attachmentid=979456&stc=1&d=1274168707
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?s=688f445428ec54335ca99415a82e888f&attachmentid=986565&stc=1&d=1275003972 http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Aznbreaker203/leadinglightjunglev2revisioncopy.jpg Anyone read "Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark" as a kid?
http://kidicarus222.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/scarystories_stephengammel-702253.jpg http://lh5.ggpht.com/_tUzRAhpJFjc/Rf4Y6Cg-T9I/AAAAAAAAAyQ/saqlMTFtqb4/front-cover.jpg http://www.vincesear.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sc27zy8.jpg http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/6095/brushjm7.png http://img171.imageshack.us/i/doggyce7.png/ http://img374.imageshack.us/img374/6254/sc31vi3.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_uS_YK1D5mN0/SsnveBe3z1I/AAAAAAAABWk/0gAcOeTlxUc/s400/gammell1.jpg http://timmsuess.com/chernobyl-journal/chernobyl-journal-the-pictures/
unfortunately all pics were ruined by photo editing software. "unfortunately all pics were ruined by photo editing software"
Catch up gramps, we're all waiting for you. No, not towards the light, gramps, nooo!!! I'm not against processing photos in general, but in this case the result doesn't fit well with the theme.
Catch up gramps, we're all waiting for you. No, not towards the light, gramps, nooo!!!
I'd rather stay in the past if photos in the future look this horrible. Oh, save the tears.
Seriously, with the amount of crying you guys do around here we could supply the oceans for centuries. :) Seriously, with the amount of crying you guys do around here we could supply the oceans for centuries. :)
Says Willem. Seriously, with the amount of crying you guys do around here we could supply the oceans for centuries. :)
oh really A lot of photos that use HDR look amazing. Things just pop out and make the pics look that much better. Saying something like I'd rather stay in the past if photos in the future look this horrible. is just a lazy blanket statement based off a small set of photos that look bad. Sure, we all make lazy blanket statements, but it's true in this case.
i personally prefer stuff without any processing at all beyond levels tweaking. i like to see stuff the way my v1.0 eyeball sees it, i guess.
however i'm not going to act like a cock because people disagree with me
You obviously know nothing about posting on the internet. Also, your mom, and stuff. really nice demos:
http://www.effectgames.com/demos/canvascycle/ Something of my homekitchen...
hello earth... Hall, will you please open that cargodoor! http://members.home.nl/gimli/tb05.wmv http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=8147497
I believe it's my job to make the player feel smart for figuring something out, rather than making myself feel cool for outsmarting the player. I've played way too many games that followed the latter philosophy to make that mistake. Something similar can be said about excessive difficulty, btw. and also,
Just trying to figure out how to reach a certain ledge or room was often hours of gameplay. Surprisingly, we found that this approach to design still works in 2007. The guys from Crystal Dynamics are pretty good with this sort of stuff, the game does have developer comments for every level, sometimes several, as a bonus feature, which can probably be found on youtube. They were sometimes pretty insightful. a Cubrik?
http://members.home.nl/gimli/GarEmaxton.jpg a Brewkick? http://members.home.nl/gimli/GarEmaxto0.jpg Oh no, nothat! http://members.home.nl/gimli/GarEmaxto1.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y1Nd1qtk1Go&feature=player_embedded#!
Kind of reminds me of a level from that Might&Magic fps. Awesome scenery and its screaming for a source engine map to be made from it :) what the fuck, that's is insanely cool. :o
and that little settlement or whatever at the end with the stream going between the two sheer cliff walls with all the broken stone at the bottom... oh em gee! also, i absolutely loved the cliffside village that you're talking about. dark messiah, it was. Awful music but beautiful canyon images.
http://vimeo.com/13888708 i switched on my sound in the middle of the movie and it made me laugh, because it really is so hilariously bad. awesome.
could be used as controlled prison islands, when one gets too full just open the floodgates to lessen the population of that island, pump the water back out, and restock.
Some early RTS talk and gorgeous free tiles: http://www.lostgarden.com/2005/03/game-post-mortem-hard-vacuum.html
Those aren't high res at all, the quality is horrible, best to check out the remastered version from the bluray:
http://www.cinemasquid.com/blu-ray/movies/screenshots/2001-a-space-odyssey?movieid=526 http://haukerehfeld.de/blog/2010-09-23_trelleborghavn-texture-reference
more to come. Where do I post this for more interest? These guys really make me stimped with my wide eyes of remarkability compared to my poor creative attitude.
Found this thread on conceptart, really diggin this guy's stuff
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=93197 http://englishrussia.com/index.php/2008/02/25/abandoned-frozen-ships/
Reminds me of this book cover, one of the cooler/creepier images I've seen, a real 'ends of the earth' feel: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Arthur-C-Clarkes-Chronicles-Strange-Mysterious/dp/0002176181 those are great! man, i grew up with tintin... would have been awesome if herge had penned some of those... :P
I saw that 1st one somewhere, I was blown away!! I totally thought it was some crazy real book I never knew about, hahaha!
This is so delicious that I might actually be inspired to lay a few brushes:
http://chan.sankakustatic.com/data/db/ee/dbeecdc3cad113d496e509bf51f9f40f.jpg Reminds me a good bit of Piranesi, but I think it is a modern work. just load the page again after seeing "403 fobidden" and it seems to come up.
copy the url manually.
and yeah, that's pretty awesome. but it would be a nightmare to compile, i suspect. :S pretty intimidating idea though! I've been too blocked to even map a hallway lately!
http://c4.sankakustatic.com/data/sample/9b/70/preview9b70a78e96d069268b4f6458f9fdc913.jpg
oh, i halfway did make that map... and it didnt compile, yet... I wrote myself a "set national geographic's photo of the day as desktop wallpaper" script some time ago and it is such a pleasure.
http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/303/custom/30327_1600x1200-wallpaper-cb1292269806.jpg those must be powerful spotlights to illuminate the whole place... i mean, look at the size of that cavern. o.0 it's mind boggling.
when I was in Vietnam and I've been tempted ever since to go back just to do that bit.
I did go to Tham Lot in Thailand though, which was pretty cool - didn't seem as amazing as this though!
I'm kind of worried about how that dude's gonna get down off of that rock... thing some greek guys did in their basement in 2009...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=myz9rZEmmg4 Hiding simple things with generous effects can still look cool. didn't finish watching, it started very promising up to the motorbike and weak guitars came into the picture
If cars were stroggified:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ac/1966_Mercury_Comet_Cyclone.jpg Studying US automobile design is not meant for the weak-eyed... http://nottinghamcavessurvey.org.uk/
some of these videos are really cool. they're recording the interior of caves in nottingham with a laser scanner. that is awesome. i live near the castle; it's crazy to think i've walked past/above some of those hundreds of times not knowing of their existence. cheers for posting!
Gorgeous pixel-art from the development of The Dig, warning, lots of images; http://home.comcast.net/~ervind/digbm1.html
They're just enclosed circular stairs. Albeit cool ones. Some of those pics are amazing though. I love the sheer style of the trees-into-railings.
was some of the most awesome architecture/industrial photography I have e....tits!
But seriously, that's 5 pages of awesome right there! That was one of the craziest!
there was a link in the comments on that blog (awesome find btw), apparently it's the house monument of the Bulgarian communist party: http://www.archdaily.com/101626/forgotten-monuments-from-the-communist-era-in-bulgaria/ 3 artists, similar style, same person?
http://luckgaki.web.fc2.com/c76.html Same three,higher res: http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/index?tags=mitauzo http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/index?tags=magu http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/index?tags=matsuda%20scenery Different style but really cool, more "high fantasy." http://chan.sankakucomplex.com/post/index?tags=ucchiey if you have a pixiv acct: http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=440448 http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=72759 http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=19421 http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=607224 "I will draw a huge, detailed and impossible city scape. Now... I can rest. No...wait... its missing something... ah! Yes, anime school girls within a millimeter of juicy pantie shots."
Might be petty but shit like that really takes me out of a picture. Not that western fantasy crap doesn't do it too. They draw a wonderful landscape, set a great atmosphere, then put in a crack-whore wearing what must be the world's most painful set of underwear. Vote Giger etc etc. "I will draw a huge, detailed and impossible city scape. Now... I can rest. No...wait... its missing something... ah! Yes, anime school girls within a millimeter of juicy pantie shots."
Might be petty but shit like that really takes me out of a picture. Not that western fantasy crap doesn't do it too. They draw a wonderful landscape, set a great atmosphere, then put in a crack-whore wearing what must be the world's most painful set of underwear. Vote Giger etc etc. Quoted for truth. I used to be rather fond of the Anime style until it started cropping up all over the place. A few months back I was searching for good tutorials on creating character concept art and 99% of my results pointed to shitty off-scale line drawings with tiny cheerleader uniforms and giant watery eyes. I also recently visited a primary school and as I walked down the main corridor all the art boards were covered with anime faces drawn by the six and seven year olds, so I guess we can expect the same rinse and repeat rubbish for another eighty years at least. /rant Pretty awesome, limited visibility but it might inspire you
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=57257 The principal port town, Val Pariaso.
I like the 'stray dog' special event, perfect for games. There's strays all over the place in Chile in general. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckDlq-Eu_48
There is a South America level but I'm not sure where it takes place. Great stuff.
Some of the jumps looked pretty impressive and the sense of speed was there the whole way. Some particle accelerator pr0n, awful quality thanks to sucky phone cam.
http://hannes.enjoys.it/stuff/desy/ That's some of the shut-down HERA. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hadron_Elektron_Ring_Anlage Appropiately that unit's purpose is to widen or tighten the "beam".
http://community.livejournal.com/ru_abandoned/1035910.html?#cutid1
this is testing device for space equipment near moscow, russia http://www.webbaviation.co.uk/lakes/BroughamCastle.jpg
Seriously though that's not far from where I live - about 20 minutes walk from my house infact :D man I totally bum those old airbrushed covers. I'd love to see a game that tried to capture that style. Especially the alien landscapes.
in an old book in the biodiversity library:
http://biodiversitylibrary.org/page/11033261#page/426/mode/1up the skill involved is impressive, but the theme not so much. :P
still, i'm in awe at all the detail the guy put in on all that stuff. i just found out from a work colleague that wollaton hall in nottingham will be used for exterior shots of the wayne manor in 'the dark knight rises'. couldn't find any official news verifying it but it's an awesome looking building and would seem like a great fit:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=wollaton+hall+nottingham&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wi&biw=1680&bih=937 i had to check! very similar style, different shape & setting though: http://lucianogalasso.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/bb-house.jpg
The lack of huge motherfucking stairs infront of the house should have given it away :) Silly me
I'm pretty sure I posted this before, but in case people forgot/missed it, this subreddit is pretty spectacular
http://www.reddit.com/r/ImaginaryLandscapes/ Castle Hexen in Minecraft.
around five years ago, it appears to be much more complete now from the google images than it was then.
It's in Slovenia. Damn missed it. Have to go back to that country for at least a week.
but it makes me really envious.
http://www.decoist.com/2011-07-06/steampunk-themed-office-space-for-three-rings-design-office/ It annoys me to think just one of those dusty old books is probably worth more money than everything I own.
Insane Asylum Plans
http://www.oobject.com/category/insane-asylum-plans/ Weird things in general http://www.oobject.com/ If you have some free time do dive into the game screenshots at http://deadendthrills.com/
If I was making a game, I would hire this person to make screenshots. Gorgeous art. http://www.derivative.ca/Events/2011/AmonTobinVSquared/
An old buddy of mine from high school was one of the lead programmers on this. Super impressive stuff, fascinating technology. These shots are awesome, despite they look like giant flying jellyfish... :P http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/01446/jellyfish_1446980c.jpg
Came across this, figured might interest some here, not sure if its been posted before, too lazy to search :
http://thefunambulist.net/2011/07/26/guest-writers-essays-05-learning-from-doom-by-viktor-timofeev/ I skimmed over that but remember zero valuable information in the article, is there anything in there?
yeah... i remember that article too. He went to a lot of effort to document stuff that he basically doesn't understand, so there's not much insight to be had.
Which isn't a very good game, but it is very pretty. I've been taking screenshots as I go through for my own reference, but if anyone else is interested here's my Steam folder. I haven't uploaded all of them yet.
My Steam Screenshots Teaser I have a load more shots btw will upload them soon. The game stresses the engine and crashes quite a bit (and load times are immense) :E
Also for some reason it stops taking screenshots after a while. Kinda annoying. The last level is pretty awesome though :) I watched Everest B.T.L series 1, 2 and 3, Touching the Void, K2 the Ultimate High, Alive. During reading on google I found this:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/72/Annapurna_from_west.jpg Meant to be the most dangerous mountain of all. A lot of mountains are known in local folklore to be the homes of gods and evil spirits. This is not the best reference, but it contains a load of names for Mount Everest, and their meanings: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20080501034357AAuxrt3 Could be a good theme for a map - evil mountain spirit. Although I think Necros probably already won that one! I mean they die on their expedition. They go onto the mountain in that instance, and perish the very same trip. 1 in 3. That's a lot. The mortality rate for females climbing everest is (or was anyway) 100%. Something like five women atleast, all died.
At least the people doing it usually know the risks though.
got some nasty sharpening on most of them too, but i'll forgive it as it's more chernobyl porn for me ;)
For those who don't know, Sedlec Ossuary is a very popular burial spot, so popular that bodies had to be exhumed to make room for new burials, and the bones of the deceased are used to decorate the place.
http://www.google.com/search?q=sedlec+ossuary&hl=en&client=firefox-a&hs=zAZ&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&prmd=ivns&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=xeVfToWGEbSKsALM-7Uf&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=984&bih=1037 Would be sweet if you could specify a design you wanted your own bones to be placed in.
"Could you arrange me in a sort of pile with five bones poking straight up? Make the middle one taller too." It's not much to look at right now, but with a little more drab and less lighting it could be a pretty cool area.
http://imgur.com/gallery/wlVmr Massive concept art dump, lots of which can be found at other places but still a cool thread
http://fuckyeahconceptart.tumblr.com/ Jerry's Map http://www.vimeo.com/6745866
a blog with lot`s of game related stuff, very nice illustrations and designs.
http://fabiensanglard.net/ Yamato and Musashi. Yamato museum in Kure city, Hiroshima prefecture.
http://homepage3.nifty.com/tompei/YamatoMuseum.htm AFAIK they used ship model kit greebles in Star Wars models. Really, really cool. Reminds me of Blood for some strange reason, possible the UI design.
Haven't read this yet, might be bollocks, might be good: http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/10/19/boss-design-tips-from-a-combat-designer/
Anyways, be careful with that link. There are multiple game design related posts by different developers each day and you can lose a lot of time. read it and I recommend it if you care about boss monster design (should have mentioned the topic above). interesting tidbits.
I admire Giraud a long time. His strips are realy outragious, and cumbers on the edge of imagination.
Oh yeah I love that guy's art. :) I have his airship stuff on my phone, never saw that castle of the damned pic or whatever. That is awesome.
http://www.duneinfo.com/unseen/moebius/ Oh, what would have been. Not that I don't totally dig Lynch's version of Dune.
http://naturewantstoeatyou.tumblr.com/
Did you know that the moray eel actually has a second set of jaws http://bigpicture.ru/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/1694-990x660.jpg
(from Vondur/Zwiffle's links) No wonder people used to believe in god (I know some people believe in God, I just mean that a cloud formation like that totally looks like it could be a big angry god-like entity) http://www.spiegel.de/fotostrecke/fotostrecke-75824.html Check 1, 7 and 9.
So here's a crazy thought.
Every level designers/artist have their own process for making maps. My self test a lot of ideas which I never finish. Somestimes there is an idea which I like and it carries over to another map and then I try to make that idea better. Most of the times I never finish my maps. For me it's a big task which takes up a lot of my time. I'm probably the slowest level designer in this community. However, I know that I get inspired by looking at other peoples work. Be it finished or unfinished. So I've uploaded 2 of my unfinished maps for the community to do what ever they want with. Ignore it or get inspired is up to you. I don't consider myself the owner of the maps anymore so go ahead and do what ever you want with them. I just wanted to give something to the community and test this crazy idea. The maps can be found here: ziffon1.zip ziffon2.zip Bunch of photos from a Russian rocket factory...
http://lana-sator.livejournal.com/160176.html#cutid1 (probably been posted to #tf for a week already, though, knowing vondur) how the heck do they get in those place?! that looks amazing-- like it'd be the best map ever, even. :P
..but I guess you level designing buffs may get a kick out of this:
http://www.scoutingny.com/?p=4765 except for the boots, which look a bit Anime-silly to me. I realise original Quake guy has massive boots too, but he can pull it off. :P
Frank; Because when I was a child I wasn't allowed to sleep at night.
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jYhHwGfSmVY/TpnswHI9lRI/AAAAAAAABGE/b5Sbmd_GfyQ/s1600/Frank%2Blooks%2Bfor%2Bthe%2Bexit%2Bcopy.jpg http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-QRgd8FKyEPc/Trnfx8o5LYI/AAAAAAAABH0/SLjNAq1QqLY/s1600/tending-the-machine.jpg http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6191/6095454489_6a96a286c6_o.jpg http://robot6.comicbookresources.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/Frank+and+the+Faithful+copy.jpg http://guy.com/a/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/jimWoodring_2.gif http://cdn.comicartfans.com/Images/Category_8799/subcat_35879/woodring.jpg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLkOvBpPpU8
I love the lighting effects more than the architecture but I am sure someone here will dig the pipes and stuff. This site is amazing. Just started up a few weeks ago and they add a new concept artist almost every day. TONS of environmental eye spooge in here.
http://www.conceptroot.com/ I think I just decided to stop living in reality altogether. I am going to jump into the internet through my monitor and live in that website.
power plant in moscow that uses siemens generators.
http://chistoprudov.livejournal.com/91792.html#cutid1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centralia,_Pennsylvania
This was a world where no human could live, hotter than the planet Mercury, its atmosphere as poisonous as Saturn's. At the heart of the fire, temperatures easily exceeded 1,000 degrees [Fahrenheit]. Lethal clouds of carbon monoxide and other gases swirled through the rock chambers. - David DeKok (1986) I think I saw a documentary about that place, or at least somewhere very like it; one scientist remarked "we mined to get resources to bomb other countries, and what can you say, it ended up destroying this place too."
This is just some iOS skateboard game, but I like the use of color, texture and lighting in these shots. Kind of reminds me of a cross between Mirror's Edge and Team Fortress 2:
http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/screenshot_01.jpeg http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/screenshot_03.jpeg http://toucharcade.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/screenshot_04.jpeg I could see a quake 3 map looking really nice with this sort of look. This room and the mechanics inside are just fucking ace: http://i.imgur.com/Twzvg.jpg (e4m2)
really? i didn't like the way there were just contrived things there to allow you to reach places, like those thick beams and that suspended platform.
just reminds me how eye-gougingly bad much of the brushwork is in episode 4.
Putting r_fullbright on in that room is the Quake equivalent of opening the curtains for the morning light to illuminate whatever happens to be sharing your bed after a particularly brutal tequila party the night before. But in both cases, whilst you can barely remember playing with it, you just know it was fun at the time. necros: That's what I love in Quake. Screw realism.
------------ Interesting write-ups about the creation of de_dust, de_dust2 and de_sienna (Counterstrike maps): http://www.johnsto.co.uk/ http://petermccready.com/
Got some nice reference stuff using 360 degree camera points + industrial sound! interesting concept with the 360+sound.
it's quite immersive, in fact once an image loaded with my 'back' to some dudes and when i panned over to them it kind of creeped me out how they were frozen in time yet the rest of the place felt alive. shame there is a very audible looping and some of the samples are extremely short (< 4 seconds). also, it helps zooming in one mousewheel 'tick' because the fov it's set at is a bit high unless you a pro gamer. :P' thanks for that link! I clicked a Shambler link and didn't want to instantly sear my eyeballs out with hot pokers.
Nice pic. needs more WIZARD METAL ONE TWO but otherwise that's an awesome use of the swampy wizard theme. In fact the transitions from wiz1_4 to wswamp2_1 work better than expected.
http://www.reddit.com/r/BookPorn - Not all of them are library posts, but here are some from this subreddit
http://i.imgur.com/sJ1tH.jpg http://i.imgur.com/j7ax3.jpg http://i.imgur.com/SBmW5.jpg http://i.imgur.com/D3L1h.jpg http://i.imgur.com/vynDv.jpg Also, almost all the SFWPorn subreddits are great. It is not often I see modern day level design (block-outs and scripting) on forums and explained in detail as well.
http://www.mapcore.org/viewtopic.php?f=57&t=1552&start=9285#p317400 i just see a bunch of screenshots of the scripting.
Also, why did he choose to copy the single most boring thing out of rage? :) http://spaceghetto.st/?q=content/india-part-1-some-buildings
Click there. Then get mapping your fucking asses off. another game, but still cool to see:
http://media.curse.com/CommunityServer.Components.PostAttachments/00/00/79/36/28/Rift%20Darkening%20Deeps%2002.jpg Snatched from the rmq forum. Partly psychedelic, partly go-map-at-onceish. http://www.effectgames.com/effect/article.psp.html/joe/Old_School_Color_Cycling_with_HTML5
those Darkening Deeps would realy make a fine map. Definitely worth a try!
Those are for a project of mine: http://imgur.com/a/vCTUs#0 (made by a artist named Ilya, just in case...) i wonder what technique they used for those sand dunes? splines i guess and then connected between them?
like your other models.
I can already imagine it as new floating in the air squid like foe. http://members.home.nl/gimli/lossless-page1-430px-Werwolf_tif.jpg
http://members.home.nl/gimli/The_King-Victor_Nunnally.jpg Amazing how they made it and how close the colours match to the quake pal. gorgeous lithographs http://scrap.oldbookillustrations.com/tagged/travels-to-scandinavia...
Found in an old PC-Zone 1998.
Actually it are two games and a book. http://members.home.nl/gimli/Cthula.jpg http://warby.bitproll.de/misc/ww_eyes.jpg
re: sidenote on the bottom... I know Doom3 had dynamic IK for feet and I'm sure it wasn't even the first to do that. Yeah, I'm sure plenty of games had dynamic IKs before Uncharted (Doom 3 is one of them). It was fairly rare at the time of Wind Wakers release though I think (which came out before Doom3).
Still that post is an interesting read. Some free-of-cost PDF mag about modeling and art: http://www.artbypapercut.com/
http://imgur.com/a/nX5Z3#0
Porth Wen - An abandoned tile factory in very picturesque surroundings on the Welsh island of Anglesey. Which Island Is That?
I'll admit my post was rather ambiguous on that point, but I will leave the riddle there for your discovery, as befits my whimsical and mischievous nature. First look at Chris Weston's Akira storyboards
http://chrisweston.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/first-look-at-chris-westons-akira.html#!/2012/09/first-look-at-chris-westons-akira.html I think I already posted this, but I uploaded the original high(er)-resolution files to archive.org:
http://www.haukerehfeld.de/blog/2010-09-23_trelleborghavn-texture-reference http://www.haukerehfeld.de/blog/2010-09-24_moensteras-texture-reference These however are new: http://www.haukerehfeld.de/blog/2012-10-03_lahnstein-texture-reference The Quake universe is real. Just look at this article, about the bloody Aztec sacrifices. Would be awesome to teleport there, at that time, with our rocket launchers and stuff, heheheee...
http://news.discovery.com/history/skulls-aztec-rituals-temple-121008.html An aztec petroglyph I saw on Tv that depicted them piling up eyeballs and tongues, or something like that.
History channel, after a big battle apparently. And there's always the bloodiest stuff related to Xipe Totec: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xipe-Totec This is fun, and sort of relevant:
http://www.smspower.org/Maps/MontezumasRevenge-SMS?gallerypage=Montezuma%27s+Tomb http://www.darkplaces.org/Home.html
Pictures of Castles etc. Unfortunatly it seems only german and french are available as languages. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OzJVVUEeCc
trailer for the new game by a friend of mine. I'm pretty obsessed with atmosphere, so out of all his games (Nexuiz, Capsized, and the aborted Zymotic) this one looks the most exciting, since it creates a sense of place but does so with what looks like incredibly fast fluid action. Maybe just my feverish state of mind, but this seems like the website that never stops giving. And it's a bit of a descent in to madness: http://butdoesitfloat.com
Musings on Successful Multiplayer Maps by Eric Schwarz
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/EricSchwarz/20121012/179335/ christ, some of the texture work there is spectacular. I'd love to see their workflow on some of them.
PSA: The images in the post are resized by your browser which might look really terrible. Click on them for full size. Stupid blog editor!
Megatexture my ass? http://s3.amazonaws.com/polycount/halo4envart/jm30c.jpg http://s3.amazonaws.com/polycount/halo4envart/jm402.jpg Halo 4 looks exactly like Doom3. I don't say I don't like it, but Halo3 was much more original.
My random collection of Quake fan-art: http://www.quaddicted.com/quake/fan-art/
If you are bored, sort it! :) Warning: 11MB of thumbnails. http://imgur.com/a/TUGto#0
Pong, rebuilt using original schematics. There are descriptions below each image. There is also a video of it in action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WS8JTAK34Fg .. I know somebody in my company that will spend his week-ends to resurrect this :D Electro-geek home-made game are fun !
http://spaceghetto.st/?q=content/friday-january-11-125454-pm
Warning: NWS COCK at the end but a huge variety of coolness before that. heh, i thought he was kidding and it would be like a rooster or something. -_-
there is coolness though: https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-WLaGUeGV6gU/UPBLmvGDhOI/AAAAAAAAFyY/OfCAWbwxd9o/s800/3Pjr4.jpg great post about platformer enemy design: http://www.frogatto.com/?p=1253
Very self aware design and disection of the why's and wherefore's.
And this comment from the article it links made me laugh: If video games exist to make you feel like a rockstar, then power-ups are the nosecandy that fuel you and alter your world for a short time until it all comes crashing down. And then you will do anything to get another one. Because it's exactly fucking right. I thought the blog was poorly formatted and could have easily had some graphics to demonstrate the point. I also found it hard to read as a huge wall of text and I am sure it will turn away a lot of people.
Besides the formatting the thought about monsters acting in pairs is a good idea that is already used in plenty of different types of games. Introduce monster A (melee only) and then introduce monster B (range only) and then put them together to create something more challenging for the player. Probably the most important aspect of monster design is how they are initially introduced to the player and having specially design levels to highlight their abilities is what makes them challenging. Without solid examples it's just a block of words to me :E
Also I agree with Sock's comments. He's viewing enemy design as creating creatures to suit the environment they have in mind, rather than creating environments that do new and creative things with existing assets. Fine if you've got artists that can churn out the new stuff like they appear to have though. The article it references?
Sorry, no pictures, but much more concise. It interesting that you both take different things from the post as well. This is certainly the article to read, the one spirit has linked is terrible.
http://www.egometry.com/gruedorf/a-penny-for-your-thoughts-a-hundred-for-your-life/ @ijed, I wondered what you were going on about, yes the 'real' game design article is good, well thought out and for the love of god readable! text in a browser can be adapted to your reading preferences. eg using the accessibility layout in opera. I read it on my mobile with great success.
you guys sound like you haven't played the game itself which might make the post less understandable. It's high quality free software, go get it! Warren Spector lecture 08 - Tim Willits
Got some nice information about the history of ID and he talks about Rage/ID tech 5. is, despite all his accomplishments, a really unlikable man. He just makes me want to wipe that smirk off his face.
Also, he forgot to bring the funny. I'm amazed he wasn't let go after Doom 3.
Him being the design lead is a relic from the times where the general assumption was "a good mapper = a good lead designer". True story: Once upon a time long ago on a dark and crunch filled night, Tim Willits was getting a snack from the vending machine in the Raven break room, and I entered the break room also in search of snacks. I said "hi" as we passed, nothing special I didn't know him other than who he was, and he didn't even so much as grunt a reply. I wasn't much a fan of his maps to begin with... but yeah, unlikable I think fits.
I can't listen to this guy anymore. It's a shame, I would have liked to watch more, but his way of talking, his unfunny jokes and the way he goes on about how he thinks Romero's an asshole make it unbearable.
I enjoyed the talk, I thought it was interesting from a game design point of view. He talked about MP/SP design elements, ID structures and gave some cool advice to the students at the end.
All the sessions are available as videos btw, eg here http://www.gameupdates.org/details.php?id=2265
Actually reminds me a lot of the fat guy from Seinfeld.
http://www.bluesnews.com/miscimages/jasontim.jpg If I had the chance to be at any of those talks I would have loved it! Besides the looks and humour, I thought the talk was cool, but I am a fan of any Id products/lore, so I am bias.
Gabe Newell: Reflections of a Video Game Maker
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8QEOBgLBQU Listening to Gabe Newell shuts down any productivity.
It impossible for the stuff he talks about any the way he describes things to fade into the background like a podcast or whatever. the locals at QuakeOne chased me out of town for giving brutal honest feedback and telling me I am childish
This is the best thing I've read all day. It's blinkered hubris to even think that your own vision of what you're making is infallible.
I think there's two main reasons why feedback is struggled with; 1. It makes you change your view on things, something most people are just not prepared to do - when people feel especially threatened they'll start making jokes at the commentators expense or just calling them names... 2. It's often hard to understand - you need to both read between the lines and extrapolate what the complaint or comment really is, at the same time not going off on a tangent. ---------------------------------------------- I'm in the post beta phase on something now and having to fight against the 'we only do high priority feedback and ignore everything else' attitude. That could even work, but often this sloppy approach means that the feedback isn't interpreted either, so what's listed as high priority isn't really. And probably eclipsing several other pieces of feedback that are much more intrinsically valuable. http://i.imgur.com/5ehed8Kh.jpg
I love old castle, they have such character and style. The bricks are like rings inside of a tree, showing age, style and construction methods. The image above is a perfect example of different brick types added over time. Often people building castles use to knock down other buildings to get more materials, hence why the walls often had different brick styles. But typically you're not talking or listening to the audience directly. I think the above quote is for within the team structure itself.
Definitely agree that catering for all gives you bland food though. I think the articles is trying to say, listen and let people get involved. A designer does not need to implement all feedback but listening is big part of the process. Just like reading a book, watching a movie or going somewhere can inspire you, so can feedback. A designer still needs to filter feedback but they should never stop listening.
Ijed, it sounds like you need more feedback to confirm if your priorities are right. If you want some fresh eyes to check out what you are doing, drop me a mail. But that'd breach my NDA :)
In any case, already solved the issue - by getting everyone involved and listening, pretty much. This guy's backdrop art is amazing
http://albertomielgo.blogspot.be Some great environmental conceptart
http://crayonboxofdoom.blogspot.com/ Even though it is painting style, it warmed-up my imagination and gave me some cool ideas for my (completely stalled) current Sci-Fi Quake map project.
Great find ! I would love to play this in a game...
http://andreasrocha.deviantart.com/art/Medieval-Town-304050019 actually there's a lot more to see in this thread:
http://forums.tigsource.com/index.php?topic=31526 Then this might be a useful source of UI elements:
http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2010/08/27/free-wireframing-kits-ui-design-kits-pdfs-and-resources/ none of you guys have one of those, do you?
Here: http://www.theonion.com/articles/find-the-thing-youre-most-passionate-about-then-do,31742/ none of you guys have one of those, do you? What a terrible thing to say, as if your time is somehow more valuable than anyone else here!
Guy makes miniatures for sci-fi film/TV
Red Dwarf: http://www.modelminiatures.co.uk/dwarf.html More Red Dwarf: http://www.modelminiatures.co.uk/dwarfx.htm Moon: http://www.modelminiatures.co.uk/moon1.htm HGTTG: http://www.modelminiatures.co.uk/hitch%20links.htm Main site: http://www.modelminiatures.co.uk/biography.html I love the look of this game, I am dubious about it ever being properly completed though.
Fifth: yeah, it's a 2 man team and they did almost all the tech from scratch. I wonder how much time they would have saved had a mature Unity or UDK be available at the time they started.
About the furries... yeah I totally hate that stuff usually. But in Overgrowth it somehow doesn't bother me. Seems more in the way that hieroglyphs or fables have anthropomorphic characters, not anime eyes rabbit manchilds with a double-d :P That game is a mess. It's trying to do far too many things... not just for the small team they have, even with a huge team it would be a mess.
If they focused it down to "3rd person combat" or "platforming/traversal" as a core, instead of "giant fucking maps where you bounce around with no goal or purpose and sometimes fight things for no fucking reason", it could actually be cool. Their procedural animation system is good, and either focused core could be an amazing game polished up. Instead they've spent several years on a prototype, and as anyone who has ever finished a project will tell you, it's the last 25% that takes the most effort. They aren't even 50% of the way. Not sure if I follow? The game is virtually done at this point. They just need do the missions and tie the story together.
hasn't it been like that for months? I followed the updates for a while in 2011 until I lost interest by the slowness.
Yeah, it's slow as hell. But it seems like people are expecting progress to mean 'more features'. Dunno, I think it's a similair thing that happened with Rage. The devs come out with some potential features and could-be scenarios and the community interprets those as the game design. OG was simply meant to be an improved version of Lugaru. Which is a very simple game. In that regard it has already far surpassed the original.
Also creating a game engine from scratch can take several years for a single person working on it full time. There's plenty of examples of 1-2 persons working on a 2D game for multiple years. So yeah, it's been slow, probably slower than could have been, and the game isn't anything groundbreaking. But at the same time I don't think they deserve some of the harsh criticism they get. Maybe I have somewhat of a soft spot for them since they seem like awfully nice guys? (shrug) spiney
They started accepting pre-orders in exchange for access to early builds many years ago so it's their own fault if people are expecting something willem
I have preordered, I've got weekly updates and 3 of their new games for free. I'm not sure what exactly people are expecting, it's not like they've ever promised a quota. People don't pre-order games to get weekly updates of, "I added a new rock mesh and tinted a few textures".
Hell, I pre-ordered a copy so I could show it off at a company meeting of level designers The game has been in development for a looong time and doesn't appear to be anywhere near finished. If they want to take people's money years in advance of delivering anything, that's fine, but they need to be clearer about it IMO. Most people expect something to arrive within a year or so of pre-ordering at the outside edge. People don't pre-order games to get weekly updates of, "I added a new rock mesh and tinted a few textures".
Most people expect something to arrive within a year or so of pre-ordering at the outside edge. And where are the statistics of all this? You're just generalizing your personal opinion with statements like that. If they want to take people's money years in advance of delivering anything, that's fine, but they need to be clearer about it IMO. Yeah sure but I'm wondering whether they're even aware some pre-orderers are discontent? They offer refunds on the pre-orders if you're not satisfied. Nothing personal or anything, I just have trouble following your argument apart from 'progress is too slow for my liking' which I mostly agree with. They've got a lot of people's money so it wouldn't harm to be seen to be developing with a little more urgency. Pre-ordering from an indie dev is a great show of support and I'm sure a lot of people are just happy to have done so, but common decency (if nothing else -- consumer rights are understandably sketchy in these cases) dictates that they should deliver a complete product to those customers within a reasonable time-frame. Obviously there's no absolute definition of what constitutes a 'reasonable time-frame', but from what I've seen of this project they've gone beyond it -- but that's for every individual to decide for themselves and ultimately it only matters what the developer considers to be reasonable.
Basically nobody can authoritatively say whether they've done bad by their customers or not, but it's got to a point where I think those self-same customers are fully justified in feeling worried if not offended. Obviously refunds are possible, but it's a shame that the dev's have let it get to that stage. Never heard of this guy before, but his architecture is really impressive:
St. Ludwig Saarlois http://www.flickriver.com/photos/johannjm/3156098826/ More stuff http://www.kunstlexikonsaar.de/artikel/-/aspekte-die-kunst-unverwechselbar-zu-sein-tradition-und-innovation-im-werk-gottfried-boehms/ Haha, this is awesome, I love the oldskool gui:
http://youtu.be/wpqC12YvZ3I This one goes on the blogroll...
http://anime-backgrounds.tumblr.com/ http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/03/13/174203234/pacific-island-bigger-than-manhattan-vanishes
And what about the reverse? ... but this can be an useful collection and index for references.
http://stronghold.heavengames.com/history/cw/index_html Yeah discworld. I should read those...
I love this expression also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down Interesting to see that Oz magazine cover. I bought the Oz magazines from issue one. Their covers were always 'of their time'. I sold the whole collection for a lot of money earlier this year.
http://i.imgur.com/jaBPUlw.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Vp3GCqV.jpg "Saint-Michel d'Aiguilhe is a chapel in Aiguilhe, near Le Puy-en-Velay, France, built in 962 on a volcanic formation 85 metres (279 ft) high" That's like something right from the first Unreal.
Wondering if there chapel is just the tip of the iceberg and there are catacombs going miles deep inside the volcano. Wondering if there chapel is just the tip of the iceberg and there are catacombs going miles deep inside the volcano.
I bet there probably is :} If that's not the epitome of "omg sum1 needs 2 map dat", I don't know what is. Speaking of quakeable churches in France, I give you The Black Cathedral (actually it's called Clermont-Ferrand Cathedral) http://i.imgur.com/tdaUARQ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/1jt62CZ.jpg http://i.imgur.com/kITGs50.jpg The reason it looks like some kind of Elder God shrine is because the town of Clermont-Ferrand is surrounded by volcanoes and the entire cathedral is built out of black lava stone. long ago, some heretics decided that cheese fueled mappery. these renegades were most decidedly wrong, but their propaganda lives on
Clearing out an old hard drive I came across these from a quick trip to Barcelona a few years ago.
I reckon that if Gaudi had ever played computer games, Quake would be his number one! http://postimg.org/gallery/5xqdbaky/ Castle Swallow's Nest in the Ukraine -
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-LrNGXac-Slc/UK2MUJz_yoI/AAAAAAAAQPM/_TsZ3sMDHr8/s1600/Scan.jpg http://pixdaus.com/files/items/pics/3/19/546319_2cee621219feddd5c981ab67643ea45c_large.jpg http://gallery.yopriceville.com/var/albums/World/Swallows_Nest_Castle_Ukraine_Wallpaper.jpg?m=1367051533 would make for great looking terracotta map -
http://www.placesmustseen.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/portofino-italy.jpg stuff being built in minecraft makes me want to try and be a better mapper -
http://24.media.tumblr.com/9091efa1c04676dbc885de4ef4389118/tumblr_mo28l3CuCS1qzgutpo1_1280.png Seeing that really makes me want to re-install Minecraft, but if I do that I'll be its slave for weeks. Dilemma.
They're still milking this thing? Lol.
http://youtu.be/tlAS6ZF5nJs http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_4hJGWduDVjw/SOYobyZEpxI/AAAAAAAAA7k/th8G737eIB0/s1600/Photo-Fort-Boyard-1.jpg you'd think that the modern square/utilitarian book shelves would look gross in a elaborate gothic setting, but it actually looks really good. i love that contrast.
and now I can't help but think that there may be an underground lair under every city -
http://robinmbrowne.tumblr.com/post/54849063141/hidden-architecture-as-part-of-an-advertising http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2748/5792750617_8af94dbb23_o.jpg
http://m1.paperblog.com/i/56/569209/bernie-wrightson-frankenstein-L-DlPUKb.jpeg http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/6896/sfrankensteinpage9.jpg http://m1.paperblog.com/i/56/569209/bernie-wrightson-frankenstein-L-8qI_wX.jpeg http://img213.imageshack.us/img213/5213/sfrankensteinpage27.jpg http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m7wmc41y7p1raq7d6o6_1280.jpg Found these, very useful reference images...
http://tumblwip.tumblr.com/post/55964557437/i-felt-like-drawing-some-buildings-this-morning From the incredible Building Technology Heritage Library: Sketches & suggestions for house painting (c. 1890) (including cute children's drawings everywhere)
Is the name of the gathering of tunnels in the mountains in the second photo in #2091.
Is the one i like the most from those photos. I recommend searching for more of them, as that photo only show one of the castle's outposts. this showed up in my google searches today, it's cool:
http://download.ultradownloads.com.br/wallpaper/280917_Papel-de-Parede-Paisagem-da-Hungria_1920x1200.jpg I like that many of those concepts show the spaceships as they would be rendered by a failing graphics card with stretched polygons flying out into space
http://0x10c.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/akByX.jpeg
One of Notch's projects got a community fork. I like the simple edge hightlighting on the flat textures. Also, lofi Quake models need some more UV 'bracketing' alongside the pointfiltering I think :P a pita with qme tho. Should try that... sometime... http://0x10c.com/ food porn kitsch?
http://ideals-about-food.tumblr.com/ I'm sure this must have been posted before?
http://www.stahlseite.de/ Examples: http://www.stahlseite.de/galeriekrivoy1706.htm http://www.stahlseite.de/magnitogorsk919.htm Is impressive but only shows lathes/revolves from edge detections, they haven't shown a single example of a non concentric shape, which is a much harder problem to solve.
Like so,e levels from hitman. painkiller also had so,e funky eastern stuff in some levels, although it was more Babylonian / ancient Persian.
http://static5.depositphotos.com/1001977/453/i/950/depositphotos_4534237-Old-metal-door-in-old-town.jpg
I could imagine a whole texture set and architectural style being extrapolated from just this door. picture from post 2111 reminded me of the old San Francisco Embarcadero Freeway project that was stopped midway from completion. There was a decade of freeway's to nowhere while it was fought out in the courts. They eventually were demolished and are why you have to use city streets to get to the Golden Gate Bridge.
The freeway was a blight to the waterfront though so I get why it was stopped. The Nimitz collapse alone is a good reason as to why that design is a bad idea and there's only one remaining freeway like it (280 from the 101 split for about a mile) that I know of and every time I drive it I'm always hopeful that no major earthquake happens right then. Yeah, yeah. I'm a San Francisco native (and old), so sue me. you'll like this
http://vimeo.com/7809605 http://www.goodtextures.com/ looks like a very nice source for free textures.
Complete with an underground palace and churches.
http://whc.unesco.org/pg.cfm?cid=31&l=en&id_site=32&gallery=1&&index=13 Tenth one of twentyfour is my favourite. I was close to make an speedmap similar to that on Sm173 For once I can say "I've been there" too. Funnily enough all I could think about whilst I was in there was "This is really Quakey".
How about this?
http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/castelo+andrade/interesting/ http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/monasteriodecarboeiro/interesting/ http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/mosteiro+monfero/interesting/ This one is man-made, by Romans, to extract gold. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/montefurado/interesting/ This is some sort of big educational park two rich brothers made 120 years ago for every one, filled with caves and strange things. Use the second link for more photos. http://www.flickriver.com/photos/tags/parque+pasatempo/interesting/ https://www.google.es/search?q=parque+do+pasatempo&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:es-ES:official&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=TAZ5UuPkC6m70QXT-ICQDQ&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ&biw=1920&bih=951 Those are the only ones i could think right now that aren't famous enough, but can be interesting in photos. Sorry, but they are in Galician, not in English. He's done concept work for Guildwars...
http://theoprins.blogspot.be/ Glaciers, crevasse, arctic: http://www.dianeburko.com/polarinvestigations/?p=181 (check out the rest of the blog)
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Historic Architectural Plans, Details and Elements
Reprint of a book originally published in 1923, so there's nothing modern in it. Well made, durable construction. Bought my copy from Barnes and Nobel back in 1998 and it's held up very well. About 140 pages. Pen and ink line drawings on the right hand page with brief descriptions on the facing page. Lot's of stuff to draw inspiration and potential ideas from. Probably should be able to find a decent used copy for under $5 including shipping. that's cool, i actually have this related book at home:
http://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Dictionary-Historic-Architecture-Dover/dp/048624444X/ref=pd_bxgy_b_img_y http://www.flickr.com/photos/dasnewten/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/kwi-chang/ Oh boy, I'm a sucker for this To hammering the blocks together and hunting around for the last sloped one needed to finish the masterpiece.
Friend showed me this stuff. Never heard of it before but it looks cool and chunky:
Brutalist Architecture https://www.google.com/search?q=brutalist+architecture&newwindow=1&safe=off&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=m8yVUsGyLMbNsQSk24HIBA&ved=0CAkQ_AUoAQ This guy does great architectural photo collages
http://www.filipdujardin.be/ Have an example from my own city: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_5vHkkGhIRXc/TN8x8PaHnbI/AAAAAAAACys/gKfRNRM03U4/s1600/dworzec.jpg
Old train station, been since demolished and rebuilt in the typical 21st century glass-and-concrete "style". Probably for the best, though, since it literally smelled like piss. I can appreciate the aesthetic.
But concrete doesn't hold up very well in wet/cold climates. I really like Ando Tadao, though he's less constructivist and more minimal. I think brutalist architecture probably works better in quake than the real world :-) (can't stand it, myself)
worth a try.
Actually look pretty nice. The blue is an unusual choice.
Is it a multi-mod pack? I can see Wraiths, Gremlins, Vomitii, Night Gaunt and the Qtest core, as well as some magician I don't recognize... Just realized the background is redone as well, how extensive is the whole set? Quick assembly job
Warning: 6MB image! http://i.minus.com/ib08zCg5Rm6vbS.png Kenneth Scott is such a greeble freak, haha Ha, I had no idea there was a word for that stuff. I have heard of the expression "guts on the outside" though.
Stop motion film
http://youtu.be/ge18Ieyi9bI when I gaze out of my office window. It belongs to the Berlin Institute of Technology.
http://i.imgur.com/8KMFhS7.jpg
from a serious of weird old pics which aren't really reference-y... http://imgur.com/a/hZ3H2 http://cyber-hell.tumblr.com/
There might be some odd nsfw titty in there. I didn't look too closely. z-axis baby
(youtube) Reminds me of a cross between one of the maps from CS but also seems a bit quakey.
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Casa-de-la-Julianeta-Portal-de-Molina-Albarracin-438984962 Remind me a lot the small Italian city named Dolce Aqua (i.e http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Dolceacqua38_-_Panorama_del_paese_vecchio.jpg )
Basically, it is a medieval city with this kind of small streets with alots of interconnections... Indeed very quakey :) There some decent night scenes on Google Maps/Earth and some interactive panos here:
http://www.albarracin.es/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=91&Itemid=497 to have atmospheric/lit control over fog like this in quake would be great too
[ http://www.thehundredth.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/2.jpg ] [ http://www.cuded.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/Michal-Karcz_4600_600.jpg ] [ http://31.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwx9emSqP81r90ca4o1_500.jpg ] Or, any engine even? (last two are Michael Karcz: http://karezoid.deviantart.com/gallery/) I've never seen any game engine treat fog for what it is, which is the interaction of light and airborne particles. Generally the best you can do is hand-author colored particle effects to simulate the reality, which is lighter, more opaque fog near light sources, and darker, more transparent fog in the shadows.
NS2 does it I think (not sure if it's in the final game?) looks really moody.
http://youtu.be/PJMf7-HKw6A?t=1m3s Linear god rays are a special case, one you see a lot more often because they're based on an exploitation of render buffer blurring, IIRC. You've probably seen games where the god rays disappear when the sun goes off the edge of the screen. They're basically bloom with a radial blur instead of a gaussian.
Global fog comes from just masking in a color based on the depth buffer, and volumetric fog (like quake3 pits) also just masks in a color but based on the difference between two depth buffers (the front and back of the volume). what metl and I are wishing for doesn't (yet) have a cheap implementation afaik. Raytracing will do it, but certainly not in real time, and piling up billboard particles slaughters you on fillrate. paging lordhavoc. Well, you can just take the light entity position and use that as origin for the radial blur, so you don't need to blur bright on-screen pixels a la bloom to get the effect. It's just less cheap that way.
A cool compiler trick for Quake might be something that builds a shadow volume during build and does some texture magic to avoid hard edges. Could then simply (cough) be rendered as an additive mesh ingame. Of course it wouldn't be truly volumetric. Another way I've seen them done is by billboards (taking slices along the length, bit like the shadow volume concept) and particle systems (point sprites scaling up in a cone like structure). The scientific term for them is "crepuscular rays" by the way, if you feel like Googling. Team Blur has also added them to their engine. http://www.moddb.com/games/overdose/videos/overdose-vidoc-light-shafts#imagebox For that kind of things, search for the oldest parts of portuguese cities, for example Porto or Lisboa. Valenca do Minho provides very good environments too, but of another type.
I know generally that the inspiration thread is for places but this guys character designs are so incredible I had to share -
http://tahra.deviantart.com/gallery/ These are the most valued resource on Fodrian and the inhabitants of the planet will die to protect them. Many of the tomes are written by human hand, although their original authors have most likely passed from the realm of the living. Others were driven mad by their discoveries or are unaware of the destination of their work. Many more of these somber volumes are the product of alien acadaemia; some are written on strange parchments of no earthly type, some on flayed skin, still others on bizarre metal alloys of indeterminate age and origin and some lore is even recorded in the medium of vividly colored liquid.
Some recent Kawaiik concepts from Niklas Jansson.
http://androidarts.com/kawaiik/Quake%20bunny.jpg http://androidarts.com/kawaiik/Quake%20bunny%204.jpg Mario 3 level design discussion:
http://www.significant-bits.com/super-mario-bros-3-level-design-lessons Could be monster_demon2, 3 etc.
Although the one with it's balls hanging off its face looks a bit suspect. http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111022183423/men-in-black/images/d/d7/Ballchinian_alien.jpg I saw those the other day and for some reason assumed I had gotten the link here, thus didn't post.
others prefer to build out of toothpicks...
Still pretty awesome though http://toothpickcity.deviantart.com/art/Bob-s-Toothpick-City-410042952 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1DQtHtzyGmk
It is more impressive if you have played with this toy or other similar when a child. I would like to see the city where this toothpick modeler lives, that's is some peculiar layout and architecture for a city. Kind of quakey, in that these are atmospheric and otherworldly interior spaces with no apparent human purpose. What unknowable creatures lurk down long brass tunnels with looming cyclopean valves?
http://www.behance.net/gallery/ART-DIRECTION-INSTRUMENTS-FROM-INSIDE/340016 These are really good. The second photo (inside the guitar) reminded me instantly of one of the Gaudi buildings in Barcelona where there is lots of plain brick-work, with corballing and fluting, and curves and stuff, and effective natural lighting shining through small openings.
On a photographic level these are inspiring. Nice find. Another angle, whoaa!
http://blog.kristianirey.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/IMG_5780%28pp_w775_h1162%29.jpg
https://www.flickr.com/photos/llewellynthefist/14013581124/in/photostream/ http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/2e/Kizhi_church_1.jpg http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/67/Malm%C3%B6_synagoga_2.jpg http://www.fotothing.com/photos/e22/e224f0c471d9f1ec0f0bb4de74dbb1ab.jpg There's some good stuff on r/architecture and r/architectureporn from time to time. http://i.imgur.com/RLgGKD3.jpg
Think of the level design possibilities: 1. hide behind it for cover 2. jump on it to reach high ledges 3. break it open to collect goodies 4. push it onto a floor switch to open a door 5. drop it onto an enemy to kill it. My game isn't going to have crates.
Maybe wooden/metal boxes, or square rocks, or pallets of bricks, etc... The tower of dodecahedron brushes
http://www.fubiz.net/2014/05/06/platonian-tower-architecture-project/ http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=30443&st=0
http://forums.sonicretro.org/index.php?showtopic=28302 http://www.lead-adventure.de/index.php?topic=57390.0 but i do think they can be interesting. And lastly, to excuse myself for the triple post, a bonus photo. http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/42618230.jpg Doom in the title does not refer to the game. This a blog with the aim "to post [...] architecture that is often seen as bleak/gloomy/forbidding/desolate/unfortunate".
http://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com/ It seems like every US university has its own "Quake2 Skybox Building" on campus somewhere: http://architectureofdoom.tumblr.com/image/85837429148
The Humanities building at UW-Madison and the main library at Northwestern are similarly planar draconian blocks. unrelated: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/5a/Moon_Knight_1cover.jpg Glad you liked them.
About your question: If you are asking where they are placed, well, you can see it if you look at the url. If you are talking about how i got to find these, i have been lurking at those forums for some years, in the case of the Sonic forums i visit them from time to time and sometimes to remind myself of what its going to be shown on SAGExpo each year and in the Sonic Hacking Contests. ... for close encounters. and also mid-range and long distance encounters. basically all encounters. it's a sweet gun is what i'm saying.
this game looks sick, I love the victorian-esque setting.
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2014/24/1402480256-bb-keyart-full.jpg http://www.allgamesbeta.com/2014/06/sony-and-from-software-announce.html how to design a nuclear waste dump so that humans in the year 12000 understand not to dig it up
http://downlode.org/Etext/WIPP/ concept art at the bottom. amusingly, it's basically "evil part of a game world concept design 101: put spikes on it" fuck... now I want to figure out what book it is I own that has those same images in it but not as photocopies scanned into JPGs
The book credits the design concepts to Michael Brill, with the illustration by Safdar Abidi. That paper does too... I think these illustrations in the book are just cleaner copies compared to that PDF
Really nice tutorial on making metallic textures (the dude has more tuts as well):
http://cgi.tutsplus.com/articles/how-to-hand-paint-convincing-metal-textures--cg-1765 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Into_Eternity_%28film%29
(with greek subtitles here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8uh9UNHbzA) These are awesome, it's from a WIP racing game called U racer.
I used to love making skyboxes in unreal. And I used to love terragen before it became really difficult to use. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ik4n1iz6qY Google being one of them.
But in this case is easier. Take a look at the url. if we're all done not getting each other's jokes i would like to submit the train of cover art on vondur's music blog as highly quakey inspiration
http://wp.vondur.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/infernalcurse.jpg http://wp.vondur.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/heresiarch.jpg http://wp.vondur.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/here.jpg http://wp.vondur.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cruc.jpg http://wp.vondur.net/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/cruc7.jpg http://wp.vondur.net/ since lunaran mentioned cover art i post on my so called site, here's link to a couple of artists that make it:
http://cargocollective.com/nickbkeller/Album-Art http://www.graphic-noise.com/zbigniew-m-bielak http://www.riddickart.com/ http://payload145.cargocollective.com/1/6/221619/5216681/BloodBecomesFire1_NK_o.jpg
ohhhhh myyyyyy godddddd /me begins vibrating I saw Alien the first weekend it was released in theaters. Even after all these years I've never forgotten the first time I saw the Nostromo landing on LV-426.
Gotta disagree with that though, Alien 3 is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. It does have killer visuals though.
Alien: A great horror film and a great scifi film. Along with Aliens, Star Wars, 2001: ASO, Blade Runner & Star Trek, Alien is a corner stone of scifi art. 90% of scifi design is derivative of the films I just mentioned.
Aliens: Another truly great scifi film and one of my favorites of James Cameron. While not as refined and cohesive as Terminator 2 (IMO, James' most matured and polished work, but not my favorite) it boasts great story, pacing and set pieces and shows us Cameron's great eye for composition and practical effects. Alien 3: I wouldn't say it's "terrible", but it's not exactly good either. It's flaws are more subtle than, say, Alien Resurrection. The film had a difficult production, things happen. The idea of Aliens coming from non-human hosts was neat. However, going back to the single alien, mysterious horror route is a hard road after the hardcore alien porn that is Aliens. Alien Resurrection: Terrible. Some neat ideas, but very poorly executed. This is the first time the alien franchise had a "movie", the previous installments are "films". AVP: Fuck you. Get out of my house. Prometheus was another film that's allegorical of modern society: insipid and pretty.
As the Alien blog linked in that imgur gallery reveals, a lot of the ideas that went into Prometheus were envisioned and cut for Alien/s/3. The big pyramid, the heiroglyphs, the mixing of DNA, etc.
Trouble is they were all kind of thrown into Prometheus at the same time, and "integrated" by the master of throwing shit at the wall and hoping you won't notice what sticks, Damon Lindelof. The crew in Prometheus is also incredibly stupid, even the space truckers on board of the Nostromo are way smarter than these idiots.
My wife and I laugh about that crew all the time.
"Oooh, an alien creature! Touch it, quick!" I mean, ZERO scientific discipline. Not a single ounce of self preservation instinct That said, I don't hate that movie as much as my nerdy peers do but I think that's mainly because I really liked getting some background on the space jockeys and what they were about.
I thought mind reading and clarvoyance, I donno. It just works.
I use VMware. I wrote all 130,000 lines inside the operating system. It has all tools -- editor, profiler, grep, merge, compiler, assembler, unassembler, shitty partial debugger, graphic sprite creator.q BMP-movie-maker. BMP support. Boot loader. ISO9660 ISO file creator. My BMP movie creator is kinda banned. I want no multimedia, but I use it personally. I'm not serious on a ban -- orther prolly want to make movies, but it's a step down the road to hell. I generate my website natively. I have a html creator. That's kinda just for me and doesn't belong. What if other want to do it? I'm chagrinned -- I'm not thinking of any uses. Oh! I normally do hymns, but VMware killed music. Hymns are a legitimate thing I do. Video animations with music melodies and bouncy ball words. At the time of the Commodore 64, it was not used for COBOL applications. There were mainframes that banks and businesses used. This is not what my operating system is for. I made 100 applications and demos that show what it is for. Does yours have sprites in source code? The RedSea filesystem will do only whole-file reads and writes of contiguous block chunks (or just let you do raw block access). I demand that Linux and Microsoft and VMWare support RedSea on hard drive and CDROM, so I can remove support for ISO9660 and FAT32. God's temple must be perfect. http://www.davidstubbsphotography.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Peckforton_castle_wedding_david_stubbs_photography0001.jpg
http://s0.geograph.org.uk/geophotos/02/05/81/2058191_d8f5dc8e.jpg http://i1.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/incoming/article620441.ece/alternates/s615/C_71_article_1424202_image_list_image_list_item_0_image.jpg http://crismatthews.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2012/01/DM-Wedding-0426.jpg And inside - http://www.guidesforbrides.co.uk/clientmedia/gallery/14620/peckforton-castle.jpg http://www.dobegephotography.co.uk/blog/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/230808-145(pp_w900_h622).jpg If you like slopes and cliffs...
http://cruisingoutpost.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/IAT-Europe-Faroe-Islands.jpg http://collectingwonderdotcom.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/lake-sorvagsvatn-faroe-islands-1.jpg?w=630&h=945 http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/Beinisvord,_westcoast_of_suduroy,_faroe_islands.JPG http://i.imgur.com/0McDmqF.jpg http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_uPxJ6cfR4Lg/TF8AaqeaZAI/AAAAAAAAAaA/AUDzW3X8AQg/s1600/Nature+-+Faroe+Islands.JPG http://www.jonathanandrewphotography.com/data/photos/232_1mulafossur__gasadalur_scaler.jpg http://cdn.surf.transworld.net/files/2011/10/faroe-islands.jpg http://www.jonathanandrewphotography.com/data/photos/233_1big_view__vagar_scaler.jpg cute iglo architecture: http://unusual-architecture.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/kvivik-igloo-kvivik-faroe-islands-main.jpg grassy roofs: http://www.yukiba.com/upl/server/uploads/1282932194-saksun-Faroe-Islands-Europe-Saksun.jpg http://www.redorbit.com/media/uploads/2013/08/Faroe-Islands-thinkstock-152174017-617x416.jpg pyramids: http://www.utaot.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/faroe_island_pyramids.jpg dear esther,
i have burnt my belongings, my books. my letters to you are scattered across this island... looks good now but clearly Mr Simmons has been abusing the carve tool... and we all know how bad that is.
Recently Lun(?) talked about how adding tracers to the shotgun makes it feel much more powerful even if it isn't, this is an awesome video in the same direction. I highly recommend watching it if you have any interest in creating anything animated yourself (not just games): Juice it or lose it - a talk by Martin Jonasson & Petri Purho
@Spirit, I have a mod which replaces all the shotguns with projectiles and particles effects. Awesome stuff, the shotgun feels crazy good.
I always felt like having bullets being really fast projectiles (vs hitscan) feels more powerful somehow. A GDC talk by a Bungy employee on weapon balance talks about being able to see causality unfold over time being more convincing. Think there's something to that. Also, information captured in a still frame. Recently did some particle modding for Tremulous, clearly visualizing splash radius and adding trail effects to projectiles to show direction (even in a single frame) seem to be a Good Idea in general. Viewshake (subtle) and impact sounds are another two.
Quake could benefit a lot from all that stuff, imo, maybe need to look into the particle systems of some ports. Unfortunately the more traditional engines don't seem to have them. Tried DP particles a couple of times but that particle system really feels like an afterthought to me. FTE looks a bit more promising but haven't checked it. About juicing-up presentation, really good presentation. In the end it's all about applying basic animation principles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/12_basic_principles_of_animation Antoni Gaudi's cathedral design, La Sagrada Familia in Barcelona is amazing.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5lYdrhYYWpg Check out the balconies and walkways many stories above ground level. There's a pretty cool photo on this page (scroll way down) that shows his method of calculating angles for an arch using weighted bags hanging from chains. here's more of that
http://www.reddit.com/r/EarthPornGifs/ here's the sauce for lun's gif
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUNVA7XAONs Have you ever danced with the devil in the light
of a pale moon? http://ppcdn.500px.org/76599039/07d1e6dfe027be7e8f4ee945d96c5a68c91ddbb6/2048.jpg Over a couple sleepless nights with the new kid. Almost unbearable when on a 32 inch tv rather than a 3D IMAC screen. So frustrating, so much potential, so many stupid cliches and logic gaps and plot holes.
That movie.
When you leaf through the 'Art of Prometheus' they dwell on each of the new things in it and all the stuff that was designed for it, and describe exactly how this or that evolved from an idea that did or did not make it into Alien. Presented in that format, there are no bad ideas in the bunch and it all makes a perfectly natural kind of sense. You could see all that and grumble "boy someone should take all this cool shit and make a movie with it" (which I think was the first thing I said about Prometheus on the drive home from the theater) but my takeaway now is that when you're creating something so huge and expensive, where you have no idea how it's really going to turn out until it comes together at the very end, it's easy to have nothing but good ideas and still not be able to predict how they might fail to assemble. Which is exactly the same 'bubble' game development teams work in. (however, if you could blame any one thing directly it would totally and absolutely be the screenplay)
http://www.truthfeed.net/newly-found-megalithic-ruins-in-russia-contain-the-largest-blocks-of-stone-ever-discovered/
Check them out before the orthodox Russian powers try to nuke them or something... You guys may have already seen this, but it's pretty interesting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV-YSLbidzo Tronyn plz: http://www.ryanmillarddesign.com/GetImage/dz0yMDAwJmg9MjAwMCZDYXRJbWFnZT1jZGQ0YmZiNi05YmVmLTRlYTktYmRlMS0xNjZiNzdlMTA2NWUuanBn0.aspx - http://www.ryanmillarddesign.com/Portfolio.aspx
Also cool: http://petermcclory.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/peter-mcclory-level-colour.jpg - http://petermcclory.com (Reminder to self) pure awesomeness: https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=1259&bih=903&q=fantasy+castles too little too late for the ikwhite jam: cool Iranian architecture photographed with really annoying lenses!
http://www.fubiz.net/2014/08/01/colorful-iranian-architecture/ Haha, when I saw "Lands" I directly thought about those Lands too =) many MTG cards are such a good inspiration for environments.
Agyrem is an environment I planed on doing for a good while now for Q3. Might be my next project. http://archive.wizards.com/mtg/images/daily/stf/stf54_agyrem.jpg Now that you mention it, i have some scraps based on this. The second and fourth swamp card, more precisely.
I think that Ravnica is the more Quakeable of the realms in MTG, with realms like Mirrodin being the least. Also things like the fouth island in the picture is nearly impossible for Quake. In fact, i bought some thousands of cards for a dozen euros several years ago when i was still in that world, just for inspiration, and to look at the pictures for personal pleasure ;) I mean jesus harold christ look
The "angry owls" from the last picture in the previous link are explained here. They are actually called scissor arches. I rather like how they look.
http://www.wellscathedral.org.uk/history/historical-highlights/scissor-arches/ And here a lot more pictures. https://www.google.fi/search?q=scissor+arches&tbm=isch So what i did in the library of my jam2 map is called like that. Good to know.
I almost deleted that part because it didn't look right to me. And i still think that. It won't probably be in the complete and finished version. i hate such massive so called "hdr" in the pics, it totally destroys the image :( when people will stop doing that...
Rule number 1: don't use HDR to try to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear.
It was a snapshot to begin with; probably someone's holiday snap that will bring them wonderful memories for years to come. Unfortunately, for the casual viewer, it's just another jungle shot with nothing to distinguish it from countless others. It portrays nothing about time, place or circumstance. And over-applying HDR did nothing for it. (If you want the sky a bit darker, add a graduated filter or a bit of contrast) ... builds little paper cities and houses that he dusts with flour, then allows to mold like crazy:
http://www.danieledelnero.com/p/after-effects.html https://www.facebook.com/pages/FZD-School-of-Design/108523839206118?sk=photos_stream&tab=photos_albums
all albums are worth a watch, damn.. i've kept a tab with those bridges open since you posted them... god damn they are awesome to look at. :)
vondur tested his new sound system http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0018-exclusive-new-pictures-inside-mystery-siberian-crater/
https://pay.reddit.com/r/warshipporn frequently has incredible sub porn.
FYI onetruepurple & mfx.
That was filmed in Iceland... Some crazy as all balls landscapes there... Puffins too. http://3.bp.blogspot.com/--BSdzcubMCY/VIMJC-znMRI/AAAAAAAAAXk/e-VRdecg5gw/s1600/styxscene.jpg
Should be easy enough to recreate a scaled down version in Quake. Goddamn, I was totally born 4 billion years too early :(
Unironically jelly of far future sentient life in our galaxy. Vertical structures rising 1.6 mi (2.5 km) cast jagged shadows over Saturn's B ring
http://photojournal.jpl.nasa.gov/jpegMod/PIA11668_modest.jpg ... impressive thing is the fact they have been able to shape so big stones with so high precisions...
How have they do that ? especially the scale. Seeing it in person is seriously amazing. Same goes for the egyptian stuff and Angkor Wat. Hopefully I make my way to Costa Rico and Mexico for the mayan stuff next year or soonish.
Necros - was a mixture of combat and light puzzle solving required to locate each of the three crystals that were needed to restore power to that machine?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O2KtYpnmqWk
it's in a casino at niagara falls... and it's called 'tesla fountain'. no lightning though. Not sure if posted before http://goo.gl/NVE9Yb
clearly designed for mappers -
https://31.media.tumblr.com/9e898dcfe69ab9e6b3ff119b090b35ec/tumblr_nhcj0naoaC1rnnsbeo1_1280.jpg I got a nice edition of Paolo Soleri's _Arcology_ as a birthday present, and I've been posting sample pics on twitter. Arranged in proper chronology here:
https://storify.com/joel_k_baxter/snippets-from-paolo-soleri-s-arcology One problem with Storify is that it crops images, and also doesn't show all the images from a multi-image post. So you'll need to click on each pic.twitter.com link to see the full things. (Unless there's a way to make Storify behave better w.r.t. that? I dunno, first time I've tried it.) Twitter compresses the heck out of the images, so if you'd like to see the full-sized originals, they'll be available for a while at https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11690738/temp/arcology.zip Just some quick photos from a handheld camera though, so don't expect too much in the way of framing, lighting, focus, etc. :-) (Also please don't share that link outside of this forum.) Scampie also pointed out http://lvlworld.com/review/id:1787
The trick with Twitter is manual URL editing:
https://twitter.com/joel_k_baxter/status/552323541631520768 -> click image -> copy image URL -> change large to orig -> https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B6o_VZCCYAAN6tN.jpg:orig But I thought it was neat
http://weburbanist.com/2014/12/23/1-building-per-day-crafting-paperholm-a-working-micro-city/ 1 hour nightflight over Tokyo with proper music https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-piJDO9txzg
http://cgimg.s3.amazonaws.com/cg/g10/105510/105510_1248348043_orig.jpg
http://features.cgsociety.org/newgallerycrits/g58/500158/500158_1343850804_large.jpg http://cgimg.s3.amazonaws.com/cg/g85/467485/467485_1349632942_orig.jpg http://cgimg.s3.amazonaws.com/cg/g74/370074/370074_1326924619_orig.jpg http://cgimg.s3.amazonaws.com/cg/g74/370074/370074_1306273156_orig.jpg Holy shit, Lunaran. To reiterate...
http://cgimg.s3.amazonaws.com/p/g56/93456/93456_1148924666_orig.jpg O_o Pretty neat, painting a bunch of modular pieces and then making a collage out of them. Almost feels like mapping.
http://youtu.be/HAhEZysdEHM At least according to reddit NSFW
http://imgur.com/a/Odzmz Those "drawings from someone suffering from psychosis" look like the sketchbook of that one angry kid in everyone's art classes who's just trying to shock his teachers by throwing the imagery from all his favorite doom metal albums back at them.
They're cool, they're just probably not by a psychotic. They'd make fucking great centerpiece textures in a Quake wad They'd make fucking great centerpiece textures in a Quake wad
Good ol' unused elwall textures... I was making a blue map a long time ago that used those textures. I lost it though but it was shaping up to be quite nice. I will have to revisit the theme at some point :)
Contract Revoked 3000
http://imgur.com/gallery/goByg https://image-store.slidesharecdn.com/6f661ade-cfef-4c58-b491-32d71ec9ca0e-medium.jpeg
Would be hard to design this in Quake I guess Professor Indellkoffer, speaking at a dinner of the California Astronomical Society, expressed the opinion that the explosions on Mars are undoubtedly nothing more than severe volcanic disturbances on the surface of the planet.
Severe volcanism on tectonically inactive Mars of a strength that could send plumes of smoke into space, is hardly worthy of a 'nothing more than.'
At twenty minutes before eight, central time, Professor Farrell of the Mount Jennings Observatory, Chicago, Illinois, reports observing several explosions of incandescent gas, occurring at regular intervals on the planet Mars. The spectroscope indicates the gas to be hydrogen and moving towards the earth with enormous velocity. Professor Pierson of the Observatory at Princeton confirms Farrell's observation, and describes the phenomenon as (quote) like a jet of blue flame shot from a gun (unquote).
http://leray.proboards.com/thread/3634/inspirational-thread
Lots of inspiring images, not sure why they're in a Q2 thread though :P Hahaha
Third, even if the theme were the same if it is interesting enough, why not repeat it? And those buildings are impressive enough to inspire. Fourth, i wrote too much considering the lesser importance of this topic. Because, well, the probability of this jam happening is almost zero. * Fifthelephant Lots of inspiring images, not sure why they're in a Q2 thread though :P Reasons? First: why not? :D Second: being Quake 2 doesn't mean they can't do some medieval themed maps, in fact there were some of them in the previous contests, and at least one mapper is doing one with for this contest. Third: it can serve as direct inspiration for a base castle. Forth: it can serve as inspiration for lighting or layout, not only for theme and brushwork. Fifth: yes, i'm bored By the way, are you planning on sending a second map for the contest? Do you believe you'll have the time? "make it like a particular style of medieval architecture popular in country X during the century Y - no, stop, your arches are all wrong!"
Is a bad idea for a map jam. apart from the last 2 pics, the remaining ones are all examles of persian architecture since the buildings were built by the moghuls.
So lun wins :) But Arab (theme used mainly in the maps in jam 2) isn't Persian. Saying that would be like saying English are the same as Italians. :P
Nah, a bit of trolling from my part aside, truth is that no one can win that one, make it like a particular style of architecture Errr An exception to that Autoquote: not for their their rules, but the maps submitted Now that i think about it, its something that happens a lot, like what some teachers i had in college said: show the students an example of what they can do for the subject's work, and at the next class they'll bring works cloned from it. He was right, that happened with most of them in every generation, and the rest were clones of previous generations' works, which is the same. Because of that issue, this thing i said before (Autoquote:Third, even if the theme were the same if it is interesting enough, why not repeat it?) is a very bad idea. Is http://jessevandijkart.com/ the same as the Jess Van Dijk who made https://www.quaddicted.com/reviews/rdefull.html ?
look at this
http://www.virtuelnimuzejdunava.rs/upload/images/gallery/Golubac_Fortress/IMG_9938-.jpg it's even got a little tunnel at the base omg squee this one's okay too but it doesn't have a tunnel afaik http://opusteno.rs/slike/2012/05/despotovac-slike-14698/manastir-manasija-resava-18.jpg no-one used to give a shit about health and safety eh?
"I created this new fangled personal locomotive device, I call it an automobile... it runs on highly explosive liquid" If this actually inspires you then you should probably get help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2BAeh8wZLI +1000000 for Lebbeus Woods. Viktor Antonov was definitely browsing his work when he sketched a lot of HL2 concepts.
the Alien isolation UI design is ridiculously good, love that 70s aesthetic, and that Total Recall Aphex Twin video is amazing too. Link since it's on the 3rd page:
https://vimeo.com/46922196 Simon just tweeted these, Blade Runner Modeling Madness, those were the days.
http://imgur.com/a/mv8qf#141 https://fanbojizycie.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/beksinksi14.jpg
I love that style. I got to visit Mont Saint-Michel a few years back and it really is spectacular. It's a Quake level. It really is. Everything is medieval and chunky. It's gorgeous.
I went there with a school trip way back when. I really wasn't old enough to truly appreciate how amazing it is.
Would love to go back there now! All the touristy stuff in it makes it feel a bit Disney-landish now, but yeah it's still a really amazing spot.
Right, you have to fight through the tourist town at the base but once you're inside the abbey itself it's really pretty amazing.
Removing something from a scene is easy, because you're replacing it with empty background nobody is looking at. Putting something in the scene very much isn't, especially a character that's supposed to be performing. Rather than put the expensive weight of a lot of CGI behind creating a character everyone would be focusing on, they just used it to remove the puppeteer instead.
Beats the hell out of tennis balls on sticks. So the sun is closest to greenland, canada and britain... makes sense considering how hot those places are... and australia is furthest from the sun, that icy tundra of a country.
Other than the Tower of Babel, does anyone have any neat reference of a "tower of stairs"? Stuff like Tatlin's Tower:
http://worldhistoryconnected.press.illinois.edu/11.1/images/croizier_fig06b.jpg or things of that ilk. Tall, and a little out of control. Not quite the same, but campaniles are weirdly absent from Quake.
https://www.google.cl/search?q=campaniles&rlz=1C1KMZB_enCL575CL575&espv=2&biw=1680&bih=965&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=nmcdVbqeFYKkyAS_pILICQ&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ#tbm=isch&q=medieval+campaniles I couldn't see of the crumbling examples though. Climbing up the inside of one is pretty hair raising, because there are no internal floors (at least in the one I went up). For the laughs: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Ribart_Elephant_triomphal.jpg
Peter Cook: http://crad.visualdeer.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/archigram.jpg Just google Erich Kettelhut. Do it. Bonus staircase: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-WBYSELQPeo8/VRlsOYsILXI/AAAAAAABBHQ/d6UMcNmqMRA/s1600/tumblr_mtfs7n3ZzQ1qgpvyjo1_1280.jpg Extra bonus: Micromegas leakage by Liebeskind: http://libeskind.com/wp-content/uploads/leakage-2280x1798.jpg No wooden stairtowers except Lebbeus Woods atm. you know them i guess.. Tatlin is pretty unique, i post when i find some.. Second row, third from left: I used to use a very similar one of these comptometers, made by Burroughs. I used it to work out discounts like thirty-three and one third % plus ten %, which is 40%, not 43.33% of course. More complicated discounts were not so obvious and needed a machine to work out.
Those were the (non-decimal) days when men were men and pin tables were the Quake of the day. enjoy your nightmares
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photo-of-the-day/adelie-penguin-antarctica/ Modern architecture discovers trisouping:
http://lionglie.com/images/HA_Liong.Lie.Goudsouk.5574-.jpg saw this in some design mag the other day
http://www.designboom.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/oma-ole-scheeren-the-interlace-singapore-designboom-02.jpg http://cdn3.spiegel.de/images/image-107216-galleryV9-kdva.jpg
There is saying in cologne that goes like this. When they started rebuilding the city after war, they said to themselves: "Lets build it ugly this time, so it doesnt hurt that much should it be destroyed again." Cologne has some really ugly post war buildings. How to make a google image search link not look like shit: delete everything except "tbm=isch" and the search terms, since that's all that's necessary to get the default GIS results.
that wouldn't help with MFX's link since that looks like the url you get when you "search for an image related to this image" (like when you hit "75 more" in one search and go into another). also f u spirit 2 hours by plane.
There is a giant ash cloud that's made the air even worse and full of super heated pulverized sand (ie. particulate glass) and cancelled a few international flights though. the key to daz's heart is two big long pipes
http://cintapinta.com/en/item/433/MISCELANEA-exhibition.-Opening-April-8-at-20-00h/ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1iNSQIyNpVGHeak6isbP6AHdHD50gs8MNXF1GCf08efg/pub
Scroll Back The Theory and Practice of Cameras in Side-Scrollers By Itay Keren, creator of upcoming game Mushroom 11 Some shots from the Wolfenstein DLC that made me think of Quake
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00007.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00008.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00009.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00010.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00011.jpg https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/WolfShots/2015-05-10_00012.jpg My glossary is different from his; currently I'm using these:
Look Ahead / Behind -> Projected Focus / Physics Smoothing / Target Focus Look Box -> Camera Window Camera Spring -> Lerping Points of Interest -> Cue Focus Camera Collision -> Edge Snapping With camera shake pending. Building a camera I try to have as few components as possible, but have them interact well to produce a more complex behaviour, which is why some of my terms seem to overlap a few of the ones he names. I'm still missing camera shake and what he might term 'Target Focus Return'. Platform snapping is a very interesting solution - I'd forgotten about that one. Warren, those are your shots? Look awesome. And the stripped skulls beg many questions. this related post is awesome too... people often see prints and photos of famous paintings, but rarely get to see how thick and textured the paint actually is
http://twistedsifter.com/2013/07/detailed-close-ups-of-van-gogh-artworks/ Naff choice of textures, but this house in Essex looks like a quake:
http://i.guim.co.uk/static/w-1920/h--/q-95/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2015/5/18/1431949996034/Grayson-Perrys-A-House-Fo-009.jpg brutalism: architecture that looks great as a tabletop model, looks great in the portfolio, and in application inevitably just turns into a grimy soviet parking garage
nevertheless the vid is a great visualisation of said architecture, especially the beginning, the middle and end.
Saw this and though it was cool:
http://firsttoknow.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/odd-case-17-1024x1024-1024x1024.jpg That alien art looks like it's partially in-engine, it's a cool effect. Too bad there's no geometry variation for the player in the game :o
I do tend to post stuff I find here on it but also stuff I come across too :)
http://amazinplaces.tumblr.com/ I love this mod and more people should release for it including myself.
I can see why more people don't, it's not 100% clear on a lot of features IMO and as far as I know no-one has made an fgd for it. I could probably spend a day making an FGD for it, I am familiar with the format now :) Hell I might do it soonish. It's the worlds largest wooden staircase -
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=fl%C3%B8rli&safe=off&es_sm=122&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0CAgQ_AUoAmoVChMIm_7EkMCWxgIVgqfbCh0OAgCd&biw=1280&bih=561 Wow!
googleresearch.blogspot.com/2015/06/inceptionism-going-deeper-into-neural.html that sad part is, clickbait is so much a part of internet landscape now that even legitimate stories/articles/blog posts still use that style when writing their headlines.
For anyone wondering, yes, you guessed right, it's the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
If you haven't seen the images yet, here is the actual source (which Ricky could have found at the bottom of teh worlde truth crap......): http://ralphmirebs.livejournal.com/219949.html ... looks like it has been abandoned a century ago... and this would make a nice base map idea !
never saw this before: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=se26Ux9QD44
Documentary: Troll A natural gas platform- Placed in the North Sea 1995 So disappointed that url does not read http://hongwrong.com/hong-kong-dystopiong
Shamelessly stolen from ericw's posting in #tf, but this street is awesome (The Shambles in York)
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b5/The_Shambles_Overhangs.jpg The old center part of york is very cool.
At one point i was trying to take a photo of a cathedral but I couldn't get a good shot because another cathedral was in the way. you know, that daikatana textured one. I think you posted a shot with a similar vantage? An entrance into a dungeon beneath rocky snowcovered terrain
that one turned into a legend told within legends, only to be told by legends, that where... yeah yeah yeah
...fried hard drive (the usual story). I do have everything backed up but am using a crappy little notebook at the moment. As soon as I get another gaming rig I'll be back into it. In the meantime I've been kept busy out of work hours with stage shows: Sound of Music, Ma Baker's Tonic, My Fair Lady and in 10 days time War Of The Worlds. I'm inspired by some of the level design recently so I don't think it'll be too long till I'm back in the saddle.
... such hard times that we live in and I really could do with a loan. Now I wonder if there is anyone out there in Gotcha land that may be able to help me. It could answer all my prayers. I guess I'll just have to keep wishin' and hopin' and prayin'.
The website http://www.dezeen.com regularly posts pretty interesting architecture, usually really unique buildings and whatnot. I end up faving their stuff all the time!
Here's a new way to approach game play.
The level is upside down, figure out how to move around it. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZO5_Cv21KsQ Been done by the sda guys years ago with some maps. I also flipped e1m3 for a sm session once I think. It's incredible fun!
Reading this about a place I was just in and took a bunch of photos of is pretty confronting.
Then again, I know I like this stuff just because architecture is cool, and seeing it broken or overgrown adds a layer of environmental storytelling to it. No idea what non-mappers get out of this stuff. High-res book version on archive.org reddit delivered.
https://archive.org/stream/descriptiveillus00lynd#page/90/mode/2up Water On Mars
Nice. I think I'm prepared anyway. The trick is to duck to avoid the tentacle arm attack, then spank him with the shotgun whilst crouching. Everything else is easy. what I like best about those is that the monsters only seem dangerous.
Sure there are a few where the person looks like they are going to be eaten. But we don't *know* that they are dangerous. I would love to see a quake map that incorporates that oriental architecture style.
except the perspective is all warped. It looks like a photo that has been taken with a fisheye lens and then cropped.
a dark souls style game with these anthro knights -
http://kekai-k.tumblr.com/post/131067976683/inktober-2015-first-set By considering the observational constraints on dust clumps orbiting a normal main-sequence
star, we conclude that the scenario most consistent with the data in hand is the passage of a family of exocomet fragments, all of which are associated with a single previous breakup event. There was talk about blue lava in another thread. While such things probably don't exist, there is a volcano in Indonesia that comes close.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-does-indonesian-volcano-burn-bright-blue-180949576/ The blue color comes from burning sulfur. And there's your justification for putting blue flames into your maps now. @FifthElephant regarding this style: I'd love to see some escher-esque mapjam or something. Bizzare, yet functional geometry. Perhaps the obj2map will help mappers on this front.
dead space
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/EYgm2 wherein a space station is taken over by a sentient (and delicious!) squid risotto I prefer the reeling in body parts mechanic - it's a lot more The Thing than the final enemy design, which was basically 'shoot the glowy bit'.
it was only some enemies that had glowy bits, though. There were a lot of standard enemies that just had non-glowy normal limbs that you could cut off.
And applying rope / spring physics to all the enemies would be pretty tough to get right.
My favourite enemy was the one that you could cut into bits, and then each bit would attack you independently. And I think be able to rejoin the main body if left alone as well. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJFeSzuODyI My high school mates are still calling me Boomer after a particularly bad drinking incident.
We've all nearly got our MA's now. In one year [Domery] devoured 174 cats (not their skins) dead or alive; and says, he had several severe conflicts of interest in the act of destroying them, by feeling the effects of their torments on his face and hands: sometimes he killed them before eating, but when very hungry, did not wait to perform this humane office.
https://www.google.com/search?q=louise+bourgeois+maman&tbm=isch
I linked to Google Image Search because you get photos of it in different places :) Someone found a voreling in their back garden! :O
http://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-weird-mystery-alien-thing was a concept artist for the MIC in the 70`s-90`s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDjE9ME452c Thought this might be of interest here, some really cool ship designs, and some mind expanding thoughts as well. Maybe it is all disinfo, probability is rather high on this one. Somehow this reminds me of Quake, but I can't decide if it looks like Ranger or a Scrag:
https://i.imgur.com/XBbkiwk.png https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KhlJp1VZMB8
At the 9 minute mark it starts making some weird music. Kraftwerk? i had an idea to make a map that had a big gasoline engine in it... i think running around inside a giant machine would be awesome.
reminds me of the Jedi Knight level where you have to wade through huge fuel tanks and if you accidentally shoot the fuel the whole room gets engulfed in a huge fireball.
Good times. I'm trying to find downloads for the old Prydon Gate mod. I was able to find the demo version, buy I recall there was also a 1.5 version release, along with the Curse of Korweh and The Dark Age add on, none of which I can find. If anyone knows where any existing mirrors for these files may be, I would you forever.
Found the missing files linked from the old Prydon Gate website. Big thanks to Spirit for hosting them here:
https://www.quaddicted.com/files/mirrors/ftp.telefragged.com/inside3d/prydon/ The newer progs mentioned on the old Prydon Gate website news are still there at: http://www.insideqc.com/prydongate/prydonprogs.zip Enjoy! I also found this odd as in never seen before content hosted on this Github page here: https://github.com/Nekrofage/QuakeModPiPrydon Not sure if its all original or modified, but might be worth a look. reminds me of a place I visited in Alabama called the Ave Maria Grotto:
http://www.capecentralhigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Ave-Maria-Grotto-10-2013_5956.jpg http://orig13.deviantart.net/d566/f/2007/233/a/9/ave_maria_grotto__3__by_meirles.png Hah! I know the feeling. Some friends of mine used to run a farm down there and they'd heard about it, so when I was visiting them we all took a trip. That place is surreal
ignore the clickbait bullshit headline (I clearly didn't, and what happened next left me stunned!)
http://www.ilovenature.world/gravity/2015/12/9/this-castle-was-abandoned-in-1932-after-a-major-fire-the-inside-is-hauntingly-beautiful-video I don't want the detail, I don't want the high resolution. I just want atmospheric fog.
Leave everything else at blocky Quake resolution and limits and give me glowing layers of fog. Current mapping music.
https://play.google.com/music/m/Boq5fztwlr2msqwnhayye2exk74?t=Dark_Jovian_-_Amon_Tobin Zdzisław Beksiński
http://imgur.com/a/0ql0j I can upload a huge collection of of his work (admittedly with some duplicate entries) if people are interested. "I can upload a huge collection of of his work (admittedly with some duplicate entries) if people are interested."
Beksinski is boner inducing stuff http://imgur.com/a/R2b11
http://imgur.com/a/n84gr 2nd album has a bunch of dupes and non Beksinski but its still pretty neat stuff so I saw no reason not to include it. only got into beksinski recently, long time fan of barlowe, though.
would like to find similar art/artists. there's giger, but, eh... Kuksi is similar to giger/beksinski. I had a bunch of dark surreal art similar to these artists bookmarked somewhere.
So, googling for the answer just throws up unhelpful rubbish so I'll ask here.
Here is a picture of part of Csesznek Castle in Hungary. See those wooden beams just sticking out of the walls, making it look like a gritty, next-gen version of KerPlunk? https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/32/V%C3%A1rrom_%289806._sz%C3%A1m%C3%BA_m%C5%B1eml%C3%A9k%29_7.jpg My question is: what the heck are those beams for, and is this an architectural feature that has a name? I have a few guesses.
Could be simple rafters for some kind of awning. Or, could be reinforcing whatever interior structure's going on in there (like maybe a staircase?). OR, could be the remnants of a hourde: Scroll down to Hourdes Also check out that cute picture of the dude sittin on the beam with a hammer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvsK2WEY34
How far behind can a proper Quake editor be? This looks awesome. don't go crazy, i forgot my password and this device does not have it saved like "they" want it.
so im mfx, you know me. http://www.studiolum.com/wang/rhino/durer-maximilian-triumphal-car.jpg better version I was struggling to find the level design inspiration in these but if anybody COULD build a level based on these - it would be you, mfx
http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/throne.jpg
http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/ksbd46r.jpg http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/KSBD55color.jpg http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/WON10r.jpg http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/Thronerevisited.jpg http://killsixbilliondemons.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/WON45-46full.jpg http://brutalism.online/
This site has been created by two obsessive fans of Brutalist architecture looking to create a single, central resource for all things Brutalism. Brutalism would have been a lot more successful if they'd painted them all white. Exploratory geometry is great, but people disliked brutalism simply because concrete is fucking ugly. Old stained concrete more so.
(except in video games.) my favorite brutalist architecture: http://bit.ly/1J1wCTT
lun3dm5 + lun3dm1 = https://www.artstation.com/artwork/8m3QQ
Reminds me of http://brutalism.online/component/content/article/14-brutalist-buildings/usa/324-freeway-park-seattle-washington for some reason
ADHD jam
"Ok, I think I'll start this map with a nice rectangular brush - omg this song is so cool, brb I'm gonna download all their tracks...holy shit KITTEN VIDEO! SQUEEEEEE!!! Fuck, we're getting THREE Prometheus sequels?" 200K? That's insane. I can only imagine it's one of those scummy sales where they pitch it real low to get a million people to view it, and then it just turns into a massive bidding war and then it's effectively an auction without them saying it's an auction.
I've dealt with enough estate agent twats like that. Or it's been deemed unlivable unless you do several times that much in renovations to bring it up to code.
Well we'll see. I've passed that link onto my dad - sounds like something he'd be interested in viewing.
a proper castle
https://www.google.com/search?q=Spis+castle&tbm=isch back when they built them on promontories and crags and shit, not floating skyrocks or whatever the kids are into 2 different characters named Lunaran have already died in my playing of Darkest Dungeon today. Let's see how high that tally will go.
the washington post's headline was "THE MAN WHO KILLED PLUTO WANTS TO REWRITE YOUR TEXTBOOKS AGAIN WITH ANOTHER PLANET"
the washington post can fuck itself but what about the man?
what about him? https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--hWBkLaZy--/18a61ap7wxea8jpg.jpg Half of those are nice hotel rooms that you would never want to actually live in, and the other half are ikea furniture and a nice coat of paint on the wall.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgEfY4ZB8YY
The most obvious feature of the house for cats is the many opportunities for humans to fall down and break their neck so cattens can feast upon their flesh. The most obvious feature of the house for cats is the many opportunities for humans to fall down and break their neck so cattens can feast upon their flesh.
It's like a mousetrap for hipsters. has some really inspiring designs...
http://leogriever.tumblr.com/post/138140507369/darkest-dungeon-the-ruins https://www.tumblr.com/tagged/darkest-dungeon From the Dark Souls III concept page that was shared elsewhere
http://image.noelshack.com/fichiers/2016/04/1453983496-5.jpg why not? surely the mdl format can handle a tree. Or you can make the trunk out of bsp using phong shading, and add branches as models.
Can we do alpha textures in
If so, Could you not make trees from sprites?
Or even better, use the bsp model function in quoth or AD and it shouldn't have a super big impact on performance (as is my understanding) would still look cool as a barren, rocky landscape with a few dead trees, kind of like jam3_mfx
Trees kinda suck in Quake cuz you can't light them properly... I have a bunch of misc_model trees at that start of necrokeep in AD... they don't cast shadows, and are lit by whatever lightmap is underneath them so you can't even fake shadows without also turning the black.
But even if you took the models and converted them to brushes, you'd have the problem of trying to light all the faces well without any sort of bounce lights... something like phong shading would help blur the edges, but you're still likely going to end up with some odd black faces and will drive yourself mad just trying to light all your trees with pointlights! Sprites kinda work. They aren't great though. Mdl based is limited...mdl + alpha brushes, sure could work. Pine trees could be done without alpha though...lighting can be faked with the skin for self shadowing.
And vegetation.
http://louismanning.wix.com/ijed#!rift/p0w7a I crashed things a lot and got frustrated quickly. But with a bit more time and patience I think it could work. Justin Owens crushing it
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/XdaXL You're not allowed to finish that if it is to be your last project. Who do you think you are, Quentin Tarantino?
For the Berliners http://www.roberthenke.com/installations/deepweb.html
Daya, at the time of those pics, that is literally a dystopian residential block ruled by gangs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponte_City_Apartments The Bone Church
Holy damn, I want to build this in a modern game engine https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/161473/Misc/TheBoneChurch.mp4 I certainly love how the themes of the game (Bloodborne) are handled from the players POV. It doesn't bash you over the head with "WOOOOO LOOK, IT'S LOVECRAFT MOTHERFUCKER!!!!!!" but it lets it sit there in the background tormenting you and generally being terrifying and un-knowable, which is how Lovecraftian themes should be handled imo.
http://riccardofederici.blogspot.com
Now that blog is messy italian style i cropped some here: https://imgur.com/a/6KmQV All rights reserved? Pffft, it looks like you could easily climb over the bit to the left, but I but there's just a solid clip wall there if you try.
What I was needing to read:
https://medium.com/@SaraJBenincasa/real-artists-have-day-jobs-d99ad0026876#.8rkutgng7 I wonder if there's a way of prototyping this kind of stuff?? Would it be worth doing for quake?
https://skfb.ly/L7zB Just use lots of detail brushes, and accept the fact that older PCs will choke.
To be fair it looks a bit less open and a lot less detailed than some of Tronyn's stuff. This is a site with free drawing lessons. It goes on a bit deeper than what the name suggests.
http://drawabox.com/ Fantastic location, I just wish the pictures were higher res :( http://abandonedplaces.livejournal.com/2685516.html?thread=31955276
http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/livin-on-the-edge-the-precarious-architecture-of-7-european-cliff-cities
"The Precarious Architecture of 7 European Cliff Cities" He has some Doom monster sketches and pictures of (physical) models on his feed.
https://twitter.com/GPunchatz Among other things, he designed the original Spider Mastermind. This is his WIP for 2016 remake he is making for "the pure joy of revisiting DOOM !" https://twitter.com/GPunchatz/status/703953743495110657 So, if you jump over on the mapping help thread, you can see that I have been asking lots of questions. In the end, I made a map. But, it's not very good. So, if someone could reference me some basic but good quake DM maps, that would be super helpful.
Ty. since it's remade in every arena shooter ever and is regarded as one of the greatest dm maps ever constructed : aerowalk!
Some other very good ones : ZTN series, dapak, plpak. There are many more, but I don't really play Quake multiplayer so I've forgotten most of the names ;P The main goal I want to earn from this is learn overall level design, but I want the maps to be fairly simple so that I can understand how they work. If I ever become experienced enough, I'm going to make a Quake level design tutorial thing with documents and map segments to explain how these map segments work, and how they are effective in DM. There aren't many tutorials on map design (specifically for Quake 1), so I feel it might be a good idea. Of course, I'm not at that skill level yet, so it's gonna take a while.
A simple layout? Simple geometry? Simple to learn as a player? You will have to be more specific :)
I list Aerowalk because it's considered by the overwhelming majority of Quake players to be "the best" duel map created. If you're going to learn from something, learn from the best! Then look at some of the worst dm maps, and work out why they are the worst, so you can avoid those mistakes :) "Simple" in the way that I think you mean it, is a fallacy. You should take the best maps, and then abstract them yourself into "simple" maps that you can understand.
E.g. take Aerowalk and ignore what's unimportant right now (brush detailing, texturing etc) and focus on what is important - i.e. layout and item positioning. That's great you want to make some map design tutorials. I agree, in terms of things like youtube video tutorials and such, they are a bit lacking. You can dig archives and piece things together (How I did it). but it would be nice to have some more current easy to reach material.
I have been heavily considering making some basic Trenchbroom editor tutorials so people interested in mapping may not feel so intimated at first glance. What I could describe as simple is this: Imagine that the map I want to achieve in finding is fun and balanced. Now imagine being an absolute map creator noob like me; could you easily recreate this map, and easily understand what each part does to balance everything else out? That's what I mean by simple. To show you my current skill, download this map I made:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/nam3zj2wzhgkcs0/vertig2.bsp Yeah, that's another reason why I want to do that. It would be modern and user friendly, but I wasn't thinking about a video, but rather a document with diagrams and commentary.
I just Googled "what makes a good deathmatch map" and got about '6,643,000' hits. The first five all had short articles on layout, placement and flow ( I did not go further).
But if you play DM, surely you must know what you like and what you do not like. Don't design-in elements that you do not like to see in a DM level. And don't expect to ride your bike no-handed until you have learned to keep the pedals turning. And don't worry, I couldn't create a DM level to save my life - I haven't got a clue, hence Google. In the end, I made a map. But, it's not very good. So, if someone could reference me some basic but good quake DM maps
Looking for reference dm maps and possibly gaining inspiration from them? I don't know :P Yeah, that's it. I may not get the lingo for "reference" though, because from what I'm seeing, I'm using it wrong. And, yes, I want to gain inspiration and experience from these maps.
Yeah most good DM maps should be fun/useful to study... the best ones are not real complicated in any case. aerowalk and ztndm3 have been copied to so many games that there must be something to them. :-)
It could also be interesting to go off the beaten path a bit, with maps that may not be the current flavor of the moment but were and are considered as good DM maps. Including those that are more FFA-flavored, as opposed to duel maps only. I mean there are so MANY good Quake DM maps out there that you might as well do something a little interesting/quirky. (ultrav comes to mind, alk08dm, trimp...) Still way too many to mention, if I really got going. To come back to the original question though, it's neat to try to think about what the _simplest_ good DM maps are. Hmm. Maybe stuff like pkeg1 by Mr. Fribbles, or edc and aggressr by Tyrann. I'm tempted to take a walk through a lot of the "small" and "tiny" maps listed on Prominence to see if anything else jogs my memory. Bonus points if they can get the job done with minimal or no teleporters. Dark Souls locations in real life: https://youtu.be/LEnCz6goaB0
Feel inspired by my awesome cosplay: https://twitter.com/khreathor/status/708483756823289856
I was addicted to Everquest for a long time. It started when I picked up a copy of Ruins of Kunark from a cardboard display near the checkouts in a CompUSA.
I played for almost 6 years, was paying for two accounts and multiple characters at the level cap. Being in a big guild and having to go on long drawn out raids finally turned it into more of a second job than a game. One day I decided to just stop playing. I took my main character and my favorite alt to a little hill near the library in Plane of Knowledge, sat down a logged out. Never went back. A year or so later I started playing LotRO, but eventually I realized what a ridiculous waste of time mmorpg games really are and quit that game also. I haven't played anything but single player games in over five years. Same but with Guild Wars.
Although I still look back on it as probably the best game experience I ever had (Vanilla, GW Prophecies, that is - before they just made it a massive n00b-fest full of win-the-game buttons) Santuario de las Lajas is very nice!
https://www.google.pl/search?q=Santuario+de+las+Lajas&tbm=isch http://www.thisiscolossal.com/2016/03/glas-glassblowing-documentary/
Give it some time, it's short and the second half is interesting. is pretty awesome
Outside - https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8a/Rylands_Library_Deansgate.jpg Inside - http://pconf.co.uk/i/K5M/5FCP_H.jpg http://ilovemanchester.com/media/427064/John-Rylands-Library.jpg http://luckypolls.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/lucky-polls-blog-libraries-you-have-to-visit-before-you-die-rylands.jpg http://www.martincrombie.co.uk/weddings/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/29-7504-post/the-place-hotel-wedding-in-manchester_0079.jpg i wanted to say: that guy shoots forest well, which i seldom see. But then, I scroll through the pictures, and yeah, EVERY forest shot has fog in it. probably serves to prove that you cannot do forest without atmo tricks.
http://i.imgur.com/zZjWhOq.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/iSxWOuu.jpg Kinda cute and not too complicated to map, so, errr, go map? This stuff screams "map me!"
http://www.kostuikgallery.com/?section=Artists&a=30&artist=Jim++Kazanjian&page=Artworks go map?! ;)
When a dog is chasing a car, it's more fun when he doesn't get to sink his teeth into the rear bumper. You'll want to cock around with the colours/brightness/contrast as they will be too washed-out for quake as-is.
oh yeah, i remember those from like 10 years ago. I love the hand-painted style. They'd probably lose all their character at quake resolution, but if you packaged them as high-res replacements i think they'd work well.
Decreasing the brightness a bit and increasing the contrast and I am sure you can get it looking fine.
I went on a twitter rampage posting pictures from that book a while back: https://storify.com/joel_k_baxter/snippets-from-paolo-soleri-s-arcology
Doctorow's photos are pretty good quality though! If you want to get higher-quality versions of my pictures, then I occasionally have them sitting in my public Dropbox: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11690738/temp/arcology.zip https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/a3/Geological_Dike_Cross-Island_Trail_Alaska.jpg
no env artist would create such thing, im sure. Still its there. Exfoliation joints wrapping around Half Dome in Yosemite National Park, California.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/90/Half_dome_yosemite_nationalpark.JPG https://i.imgur.com/QqC2iwH.jpg
i think this showed up here before, i only stretched the image to make a nice background. Or so. Colour palettes made from movie stills:
https://twitter.com/CINEMAPALETTES func_illusionary: Creates brush that appears solid, but isn't.
http://www.gamers.org/dEngine/quake/QDP/qmapspec.html https://twitter.com/nbsparth/status/744752938455732225
Wonder if we will see some weird abstract level-design done this way someday, or maybe rough idea-prototyping. Reminds me of Chappie movie in some extend
http://t1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRyiMieeP976GMk_zLPnMiqZWuNFLKs4YHbV-22o7rsK16-ufUZ Interesting to see Unity has apparently progressed from something to use if you want to make a flappy bird clone that turns your iphone into an egg-frying hotplate....to that.
Is there stuff that is NOT low-poly, but still very much has the quake vibe?
scenery, monsters, weapons, What I'm saying here is you should spam-flag all that guy's posts if it is kinda on-topic in this thread.
hmm yeah... technically this stuff is on topic but it should have been one post with all the links in it, also the pictures aren't that remarkable.
Cool looking castle,
...it took seven years and $4.1 million to build... and apparently castle building is a lucrative business these days. Or maybe someone left out a decimal point. also, the asking price for a house doesn't necessarily mean that there are buyers willing to pay that much.
Yeah, those are really good points. The listing says it's sited on 75 acres. That probably accounts for a lot, and it's down to 32 million now. Definitely a bargain.
Man, what I wouldn't give... Hey.
Does anybody knows is it nowadays possible "free" to use monsters from Abyss of Pandemonium? I especially like one of the enemies which would add a bit more gameplay for id base maps. #3512
the mistake people always make with that stuff is too many staircases for main thoroughfares, whereas in fact in a real-life fantasy medieval city you'd want to ride your horse around in it. Pyro, where is this place? It did give me inspiration for a map and I'd like to search for more of it.
I didn't check if it was posted somewhere around here, and it's not about architecture, but I hope you can forgive me.
http://www.geek.com/geek-cetera/11-lovecraftian-monsters-that-arent-cthulhu-1632991/ Kinda disappointed in gugs. This person has spent the last few years drawing every half-mentioned creature in the entire anthology:
http://yog-blogsoth.blogspot.co.uk/ btw where's our Cthulhu icon? I'm sure it's been posted several times here already, [url=http://www.simonoc.com/pages/photos.htm]but it's just so awesome.[/url] Sock's personal reference gallery.
Been rocking these down the clubs a bit recently
http://dangerousminds.net/comments/cthulhu_approved_high-heeled_tentacle_shoes <https://dlc.library.columbia.edu/catalog?f[lib_project_short_ssim][]=Hugh+Ferriss+Architectural+Drawings>Hugh Ferriss Architectural Drawings</a>
Someone gave me a wetransfer link at work and the background image on the download page just happened to be this:
https://backgrounds.wetransfer.net/cintavidal/3_v1_1920x1200.jpg That led me to find this artist: http://cintavidal.com/ Interesting... not sure about his backgrounds, though. In the pic you linked, I love the stairs that lead nowhere, near the bottom left.
I clicked a thing, then found related searches and wound up with this epicness:
https://goo.gl/Kcffhh Here's the portfolio of a guy who replied to the original ad from the latest post in the Jobs thread: https://www.artstation.com/artist/malex
He makes beautiful stuff and some of it feels very quakey. I just deleted 75% of the map I am working on and because of it I now have more motivation and confidence to create exactly what I have in my head.
I believe Necros said that iteration is a necessary evil in map design and sometimes that problem is the very thing you do not want to remove. You scratch in every place but the actual source. I had a huge central landmark that I was initially happy about. Since I spent so much time on it, I was stubborn on modifying it and tried to build my map based around said landmark. It resulted in numerous uninspired rooms connected to said structure. Inspiration can come from a blank slate, a more refined outlook on your projected visions for a design. Sometimes you have to scratch that itch directly at the source and then some! I know the feeling. As a composer, I have more unfinished bits and pieces than actual listenable tracks. Don't throw that landmark away, though: it's very possible that at a later date you'll find the inspiration that presently eludes you. I have some stuff based on very old ideas that I couldn't resign myself to throw in the bin.
Sometimes it is better to remove everything and visualize parts that worked together well, instead of trying keep that "own baby" alive too long, it also helps if you're already "dead inside" then sacrifices like those will not matter at all. In many cases the end result might not be the most awesome looking, though it really helps if you're about 50% of design and 50% visuals, those will lead to some compromises to be made during the mapping.
Sometimes it is good to let the visuals speaks, those are often what makes the map memorable. Then in the other hand design can keep it fun/interesting longer than just the brushwork itself. Challenge is something really hard to pull off right, especially since that difficulty level has been changed a lot from 1996 to these days, by that I mean it is not just the map's design or your own vision what to follow alone. Quake's enemy AI doesn't like complex shapes, and loves simple straight hallways.. that way something boring looking might turn into something that just "feels good", it is more important that the map feels good "mostly" than just looks good. it is more important that the map feels good "mostly" than just looks good.
That's a good way to put it NewHouse. I don't think my previous iteration "felt" good so thus we begin anew. Of course it is good to try out new things. I personally loved your first release, it felt like a little venture. Sure it was a bit small map, but had so many memorable elements in it. All I'm waiting is something in a bigger scale really, since you already have that your own personal touch there and there.
Those are colors you don't see in Quake very often. Maybe someone should make a texture set like that.
Wow, that's an amazing reference pic for medieval maps! What's the name of this abandoned village if I want to look for more?
What's the name of this abandoned village if I want to look for more
I believe that would be MovieTowne, in the county of Hollywoodshire. The buildings are known for their particularly well-preserved styrofoam walls. All those intersecting sand brushes are causing that beach's BSP calculations to really do some work.
I believe that would be MovieTowne
Upon closer inspection, it does have that slightly too-good-to-be-true look of a movie set. Still an awesome reference, though. "Upon closer inspection, it does have that slightly too-good-to-be-true look of a movie set."
That photo is near the end of the page linked in #3615, which is how I found the video linked in #3617. It was apparently part of a movie set used for "Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters" at Babelsberg Studio in Berlin. You can see more of it in that video. Again I faced a massive overhaul on my map. Last time I took away 3/4 of the brushes...this time just an entire room has been altered from top to bottom.
It is a bit uncomfortable to knock down walls and base structural brushes but just like last time I am 5 times more satisfied with the result! Do not be afraid to scratch that itch! Not quite the same scale, but a nice contemporary shot
http://www.bath.co.uk/wp-content/gallery/baths-historic-buildings-and-architecture/pulteney-bridge-at-night.jpg I almost signed up to help build a similar type of house with a team of volunteers one summer a couple years ago.
I was walking to work today, from service station. Different route than I usually go (by car) and I stumbled across this piece of concrete, covered with fog: http://khreathor.xyz/photos/concrete_fog_01.jpg
Now I see where they got the idea for Kaldwin's Bridge.
Might also be a great idea for a Quake map. So, I was perusing some brutalist architecture and it somehow struck me as something that could fit quake 1 quite well, maybe applied to the idea of the ruins of the monolithic alien city in At The Mountains of Madness...
Artists interpretations of this city : http://bit.ly/2fI8ScX http://bit.ly/2gbhHdQ http://bit.ly/2fdGZFP and now the relevant barren cold brutalism : http://cnn.it/2fRDXsp http://bit.ly/2gaKxLI http://bit.ly/2gyiTeZ http://bit.ly/2fuwsXY I can well envision being chased by fiends through such a landscape. The simplicity of the brushwork could be a good base for a quick jam ? Pic #3 looks awesome! #1 looks like one of these 1970's video effects where one half of the image is mirrored on the other half, except someone really built this.
wanna live there : http://i.imgur.com/cylwvUH.jpg
These are pretty cool, even though they are just sandcastles. Brutalist Marcher Fortress ? http://hellpainter.com/
Japanese Model Site with lots of interesting, detailed monster models and more Example #1 feels more Doom than Quake IMHO but #2 would make a great replacement for our botched zombie. And Astaroth is just awesome! I would love to see him as a boss. Wait... Dutch over at QuakeOne is trying to raise a project of monster pack, he needs to see this! BTW, if there's any modeler/animator interested in his project, it happens here: http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-mod-releases/works-progress/12520-quake-monster-pack-wip.html
http://imgur.com/gallery/t73eDA0
Mostly just feather/bowling ball dropping, but the beginning seconds are cool. Holy shit, that door! One has to wonder what the hell do they need a 5-storey-tall door for...
well, if you have a 5-story tall chamber, you probably want to put really big things in it. Otherwise build a smaller chamber.
No it's not a prison: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/large/17201238.jpg
It's a wierd concrete building on the University I went to: https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/0d/24/35/0d2435fa0dc7920a59b9fcfb144cb975.jpg Horrible layout too, to get to the other half of the 2nd floor from one half, you either go down to the 1st floor, leave and re-enter on the other side then go up to the 2nd floor, or you go up to the 3rd floor, across, and back down to the 2nd. Horrible layout too, to get to the other half of the 2nd floor from one half, you either go down to the 1st floor, leave and re-enter on the other side then go up to the 2nd floor, or you go up to the 3rd floor, across, and back down to the 2nd.
In other words, a perfectly normal Quake map... ;) Rejoice! You can LARP Quake in your uni, not many people can say that. https://www.google.pl/search?q=Alexandra+Road+Estate&tbm=isch
Other side (from railways) looks like a wall of megacity or something like that: http://vertexmodelling.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/7.jpg http://imgur.com/gallery/aI2sa
and album of Austria from the same guy http://imgur.com/gallery/08CPy I opened a new account in pinterest, add me and ill automaticly let you have priviledges to add items to the architecture folder.
https://www.pinterest.com/naitelveni/ https://www.pinterest.com/naitelveni/architecture/ Small mall album I started, will probably add more to it. These are from the Century III mall in Pennsylvania? I think.
http://imgur.com/a/iSNAc Popped up on recommended videos on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_zzTQFV3o the circular floor in the big room is really cool. Popped up on recommended videos on youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe_zzTQFV3o the circular floor in the big room is really cool. I actually was in Hamburg last April. It was a great place for inspiration, especially in the Speicherstadt.
https://scontent-arn2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12924519_1993862860838408_4420453250580896374_n.jpg?oh=6c8c65977dd57bf9a0ffec043b6fe5ca&oe=58D6AD61 https://goo.gl/maps/VADvKfyTRR42 You should have drained the canal water, and when the police come to arrest you, spank them with a two-height mixed frontspawn, and a cheeky delayed backspawn.
Rover "Opportunity" for scale.
http://i.imgur.com/nnQzbzc.jpg Strikingly beautiful picture. Is that frost at the bottom of the crater? I'd love to see the same pic without the yellow boxes.
is pan-spermic ooze, inherent in all matter. in the end. we call it bacteria, sometimes.
of the Lechuguila cave featured in BBCs "Blue planet"?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lechuguilla_Cave I want to go there in the near future, but im afraid my claustrophobia puts an end to my plan.. "Finally, the executioner, Samson, said to Monsieur Le Breton that there was no way or hope of succeeding, and told him to ask their Lordships if they wished him to have the prisoner cut into pieces. Monsieur Le Breton, who had come down from the town, ordered that renewed efforts be made, and this was done; but the horses gave up and one of those harnessed to the thighs fell to the ground. The confessors returned and spoke to him again. He said to them (I heard him): 'Kiss me, gentlemen.' The parish priest of St Paul's did not dare to, so Monsieur de Marsilly slipped under the rope holding the left arm and kissed him on the forehead. The executioners gathered round and Damiens told them not to swear, to carry out their task and that he did not think ill of them; he begged them to pray to God for him, and asked the parish priest of St Paul's to pray for him at the first mass.
"After two or three attempts, the executioner Samson and he who had used the pincers each drew out a knife from his pocket and cut the body at the thighs instead of severing the legs at the joints; the four horses gave a tug and carried off the two thighs after them, namely, that of the right side first, the other following; then the same was done to the arms, the shoulders, the arm-pits and the four limbs; the flesh had to be cut almost to the bone, the horses pulling hard carried off the right arm first and the other afterwards. "When the four limbs had been pulled away, the confessors came to speak to him; but his executioner told them that he was dead, though the truth was that I saw the man move, his lower jaw moving from side to side as if he were talking. One of the executioners even said shortly afterwards that when they had lifted the trunk to throw it on the stake, he was still alive. The four limbs were untied from the ropes and thrown on the stake set up in the enclosure in line with the scaffold, then the trunk and the rest were covered with logs and faggots, and fire was put to the straw mixed with this wood. "...In accordance with the decree, the whole was reduced to ashes. The last piece to be found in the embers was still burning at half-past ten in the evening. The pieces of flesh and the trunk had taken about four hours to burn. The officers of whom I was one, as also was my son, and a detachment of archers remained in the square until nearly eleven o'clock. "There were those who made something of the fact that a dog had lain the day before on the grass where the fire had been, had been chased away several times, and had always returned. But it is not difficult to understand that an animal found this place warmer than elsewhere" (quoted in Zevaes, 201-14). https://www.reddit.com/r/creepy/comments/5nsa98/these_three_cages_that_were_used_to_hold_the/ here http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=870&start=3559
(the reply in #3560 was mine), but I didn't know the story. These Catholics knew how to have fun! Islamic terrorists are amateurs by comparison. Then again, religion brought this https://www.pinterest.com/pin/332492384959599186/ to the world, as well as many other splendors.
Not sure if it's already been linked in this thread but there's lotsa crazy stuff in here: https://www.pinterest.com/ntizainersstudi/architecture/
https://www.bodiesinmotion.photo/
It's a pay site, but you can access preview sequences in lower resolution for free. The sequences show people doing things--athletics, martial arts etc.--which animators and artists often want to represent in their work. If not, it would be useless for my planned custom content, and I'm not interested.
I spent days searching for a way to make *.bvh files compatible with Blender or Max without result.
It would be such a perfekt way to animate entities into qmle if they could be imported as bvh, and make the references attached. animstreet So how this guy is doing it in blender isn't what your trying to do? https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=7vb6OqcjpkM
First pic is not real, it's a photoshop of the Bourges Cathedral in France. One might wonder who built a bridge in the middle of a church nave like that.
"Postcards from a post-human city: Stefan Hoenerloh's abandoned spaces" (quote from twitter)
http://www.hoenerloh.de/en/gallery.html https://medium.com/intuitionmachine/the-alien-look-of-deep-learning-generative-design-5c5f871f7d10
Some examples of what happens when you use deep learning AI techniques to design physical objects. https://youtu.be/0g9SazeaeK0
It's a nice Quake review and on top of that I got inspired for mapnames. Pls watch! I personally think that custom single player map names are pure poetry. I wonder if anyone thinks the same. When I was mapping, I used to take pictures of churches because I always thought the general architecture had a place in Quake. There's something about arches:
http://imgur.com/a/43Ncz And yes, I dropped the highlights, lifted the shadows, and added some grunge to make it look Quakey. Would anyone help me make a texture wad, if I shared them?
too long
also, a bunch of shit in that site: https://thoughtmaybe.com/joystick-warriors/ ugh... 18 minutes in. a bunch of bulshit overthrowing third world nations and redrawing their borders in the shape of the letters CIA.
"Drove 6 hours in traffic and ran 2 miles with my camera gear just to have 30 minutes of sunset at the Gateway to Heaven" That he mentions two miles of walk pretty much proves it's an American. :-)
And it's too bad he didn't even try to have a composition :/ Nifty. Looks like it's from this artist: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/olGzz
#3790
It'd be really awkward if you accidentally started walking up the small stairs bit instead of the proper stairs, and then kind of tried to save face by looking like you meant to do it, so you go back down again by sort of sliding down the slope in a deliberate "cool slide lol" way instead of reversing down the steps. I'm sure the planners and contractors has some interesting discussions during its construction...
before or after it is done ? If Id Software ever make a proper Quake 1 sequel/remake, I hope they model the ogre in this style.
and it will end like this: http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/angryogre.jpg - lol
Nothing wrong with the original design, as long it is not one of those generic designs used almost in every modern fantasy mmorpg. We need more lovecraftian designs for Quake.
Piranesi's dungeons and other fantasy ruins have always been a favorite of mine: https://www.google.de/search?q=piranesi+dungeon&espv=2&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj-ppyngMDSAhUKEiwKHdrPAAUQ_AUICCgB&biw=1440&bih=732
Remind you of Honey? I need of rubber, or in lack of it some engineers came up with this idea:
https://i.imgur.com/6c3Fv7B.png http://www.oldbike.eu/museum/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/WW1-Germasn-Bicycle-Victoria-Springwheel-091.jpg 1st is car tires, 2nd one is for a bike. as is obvious. If a building is a "listed building" then it has to be maintained as much as possible. You can build around or in the structure but you can't alter it.
No, that is not quite right. If a building is 'listed' it is not under any kind of preservation order. It simply means that you have to apply for permission to undertake certain works, and that permission may or may not be given.
Listed buildings can be demolished (with approval), which is why unscrupulous owners actually stop maintaining them in the hopes that they fall into such disrepair that demolishion becomes the only viable option. You will find many ruins in the UK that are listed but they will continue to deteriorate and will eventually collapse simply because the cost of renovating them outweighs the value of the property. There will be no onus to rebuild if it collapses naturally. You will also find many examples of buildings remaining empty for years only to suddenly suffer instananeous combustion, and miraculously a block of flats appears almost overnight in its place! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZFipeZtQM5CKUjx6grh54g/playlists
These vids provide some great insight into general cosmology and theories like Dyson Spheres/Swarms, faster than light travel and general Fermi Paradox problems. Megastructures, a possible space elevator, transhumanism, Kardashev-scale civs, colonizing planets, the Drake equation, the Alcubierre drive and wormholes. Even the Simulation Hypothesis by Nick Bostrom gets a good treatment. Mindblowing stuff, subsribe now! Isaac has a weird pronunciation because of a birthdefect(? i think), he cannot pronunciate the "R" as normal people can. All vids have subs though, it is more easy to follow him this way. "As I said, human beings are 70+ years into an on-going experiment to see if they can adapt or evolve to handle their weapon's technology. So far, so good. But let's remember that we are a long way from the edge of this tightrope. These might not even be the most powerful weapons we are creative enough to invent. And the systems we have in place still have human beings involved, which is one of those variables that makes it tough to think that we can go another 100, 30 or so years, and have the human story end with the words '...and we lived happily, ever after.'" Dan Carlin
I just found this site. Click on the first picture on the upper left. This is Quake1 in real life !
http://www.thelongestwayhome.com/travel-photography.html ...I have just been looking at this thinking "inside a large cave with lava flowing instead of water and hordes of zombies chucking gibs at the player as he tries to ascend the cliffs"
http://imgur.com/a/637Zc After traipsing around umpteen parks and going on every ride I could fit on, and doing it all at least twice each day on 14 day tickets, and taking at least a million photographs, what was where becomes a bit confusing.
All I can say is give the Harry Potter 3D ride a miss if you have just had lunch - I for one will never play Quidditch again! I was gonna post a double noice in response to #3851 but I felt I really had to log out and use the name field to get the triple noice to really do it justice.
It has been done Minecraft, but the main problem would be the floor plan. Aestetics could be ripped from the films. I bet that most of the necessary textures e.g. wood and bricks and stuff like that already exist.
This kind of art I can get into...
http://www.matiklarweinart.com/en/mati-klarwein-landscapes.htm Imagine this was a building: https://www.space10.io/journal/space10-open-sources-the-growroom
... an abandoned underground parking lot as a Quake map. Apart from that idea being a lame setting in a corridor shooter, I think nobody has ever made Quake map with such theme. Anyone know of concrete-, asphalt-, cement-textures for Quake? I found some stockfootage as an example. https://www.pond5.com/stock-footage/53645/underground-parking-lot.html
I think nobody has ever made Quake map with such theme
I wonder why :P In all seriousness, it doesn't get more boring than a cement room with a few pillars. You could take this concept and make a little more interesting and fun: scale up the pillars like the mines of moria or add tiered platforms strung together with bridges like the ewok village. I think something like that would be more deserving of your time and energy (and the player's, for that matter). Just my 2 cents. Kingpin textures would work. You could make it slightly more interesting with liberal use of breakables. I would probably only include it as a section of a map rather than the whole thing.
Also cars are hard to make in quake so that'd be fun. I already figured that rebuilding a parking lot isn't so interesting so adding a surreal touch would be necessary. Maybe some satanic imagery to mark the territory of Quake. Maybe the parking lot is only the aestetic, combined with surreal architechture.
I've been there a few times and it's so beautiful. These shots are a bit saturated. I don't recall it feeling that blue. But one of the things about this pool is that it is so forbidden. Since this is a museum I would imagine very few people have been able to take a dip. Sort of tragic no one can enjoy it.
also q3dm18 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CtziE7zzJ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VcXb2P7BHAk
probably the most labor intensive way to do it, but very awesome nonetheless. https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/images/images/003/533/226/large/wadim-kashin-switchtek.jpg?1474736846
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