What game is that? Potions, zombies, trees, looks great.
REAlly liked the Quake shot as well; Cyclopean for sure. Loose stones are a nice touch. 

cool! I think this is going to be a good year 

Looks like Angkor Wat 

Foliage is the hot new stuff it seems.

The maligned and yet mighty {

And just as EricW starts putting together lighting models that are especially suited to open terrain. 

hypnos - that looks hot! 

crisp, crunchy, old school foliage, fits with the aesthetic whilst progressing it in a way that's perfectly cromulent to quake traditionalists imo. 

 

Foliage was pretty much possible all the time, with oriented sprites. 

Oriented sprites won't work for anything other than grass tufts or maybe flowers. 

also they don't take lighting.

rubicon2 originally had sprite-based metal grates, and i tried to make it work better by having the LD choose the lighting level (by setting the skin index) but it still didn't look right almost ever. 

.spr for anything environmenty always looks like pickled arse.

.mdls do also, but to a lesser extent. 

really wish autosprite2 was vp parallel upright :/
maybe there's an "autosprite3" on the horizon... 

rags do look ugly in sprites.
They are only usefull in caves at distances. The ones 5th_elephant uses are better but static.

rag.spr 

on .mdl files would be nice. I don't know how feasible it is though. :)

That way you could make rags/spiderwebs that can move with the wind etc :) 

I'm looking at the same problem - I want thin fenced stuff with alpha that can blow in the wind and has lightmaps applied.

I can kludge it with some entities, but really a hierarchy (eg. bones) is needed for this type of stuff. 

#define MFH2_HOLEY (1u<<14)
set that bit in your .mdl header's flags field (hex editor? 78th(#77) byte becomes 0x20), load it up in fte, marvel at palette index 0 now being alphatested (that's the theory anyway).

or if its an iqm you can just provide your own shader while playing with the model's bones via csqc. lightmaps is less easy, although iqm does support vertex colours, while mdl would need to bake it into the texture itself.
I guess this stuff needs some new light util tweaks. 

A zoo een mooie vis 

Pretty much starting over with that rainy level as the visuals keep evolving.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/129414687@N03/16585062198/ 

 

 

 

 

 

absolutely love it! Perfect texturing, and what looks like nice dirtmap lighting... and the transparent textures too! Great example of using new techniques but keeping an authentic quake feel. 

love the sense of scale and atmosphere in that first shot.

second shot looks properly damp and dreary too.