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if it always darkened edges the same amount it wouldn't be good, but if it took into account the angle between the faces and interpolated between vertices, it'd probably be pretty awesome.
Yeah i assume it's shaded based on angle The chandelier implies it's a housing environment, now it looks like it's asking for some more decorative elements... tables and book cases near the walls maybe? Floor rugs? Perhaps experiment with the lighting, making the chandelier the primary source? Maybe some wooden bars across the ceiling holding a secret? Just keep doing your thing, sir!
I wonder if an AO technique could actually enhance the base quake aesthetic.
Lun3DM5 has zero pointlights and 100-something sunlights. I really wish q3map2 supported Quake1 :( I think I might rely too much on "realistic" light sources (torches and lamps). Do you use fill lights often? If so, what kind of attenuation? I usually add a zero-fall or inverse light with low value to create AO effects like that.
A few years ago I modded aguirre's light.exe to support AO without hand-placing hundreds of lights. The thing is that the "sunlight 2" feature already auto-generates hundreds of lights, but the code clamps the result so that everything looks flat. If you take out the clamping and reduce the intensity of each of those lights, you actually get something that looks like AO. However you need to improve the distribution of those lights to get equal light from all directions of the sky -- the default distribution doesn't spread the lights out uniformly since it doesn't matter when you clamp the results.. Problem: hundreds of really dim lights run into precision problems, so you'd need to do some changes to the intermediate math so you don't lose a lot of precision. But it does look good. I should probably clean up and release that code.
yeah, i'd be interested in that too. i hacked in AO/GI with sunlights but I didn't change the light level data type so you'd just get integer junk which looked ok, but didn't give much control.
I would love to have a play with that light util if you get some time to release it metl!
I think the transition from wall to ceiling is a bit abrupt, maybe another layer of trim would do the trick. Especially with the protruding wall columns. Maybe lower the brightness of the wall torches a bit and push it some more on the chandelier? The torch lighting trick linked earlier might also help sell the lighting more.
This was more evident in the old shot before you put a chandelier in front of it:
The curved ceiling in the first area extends all the way down the hall, but you cap it off with just a 45 degree slope. If you used the same barrel turned sideways & intersecting, the regular square ceiling tile texture would bridge across the seam with perfect alignment. That's exactly what I ended up doing, Luaran. I decided to move on from that ceiling at that time because I have a tendency for myopia.
I have a mapping question posted in the help forum as well. Thanks This is the very first section of my map where I believe I'm ready to get advice on the difficulty and monster placement, etc. It is very short scene, but I tried to design it so that the player has a choice in how the approach the battle:
http://www.mediafire.com/download/wjznnigdhkn9shi/dom.bsp I don't really use coloured lighting in Quake, for some reason it never seemed to work as well as in other games I've mapped for, but how does this look?:
http://www.quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/colorhall.jpg I also just suck at lighting in general, which is why I usually make outdoor maps (heh, lighting Arcanum was such a pain in the ass). that looks terrible.. Subtle is a word used often when it comes to colored lights, but not here.
Tone them down, and don�t use the whole palette, i would advice you to do, maybe even strip them at all and go with fog..
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