I just don't know what to make of the world anymore. 

http://www.geneticrose.com/rewired3_130904.jpg 

looks nice new with the thinner railings like we spoke about earlier tonight. good work. 

We need more inspiring shots like such in here 

Yes, looks nice... but just a question: what the "yellow logo" on the platform ?? Is it a lightning effect or something else ? 

Never mind; found it. nblights.shader missing from the pk3. Still, better than the previous beta - I forgot the sky... 

nonentity:
The screenie looks quite nice, I just can't say anything about the ceilingdesign because it's a bit dark up there...

One thing that looks quite odd to me is the railing. I don't like how it's seperated into three parts (bended one at the platform and two for each stair section). Imho it would look better if it's one continuous railing. I hope my babbling makes sense to you...

JPLambert:
That "yellow logo" is a glowing rune, something quite common in D3... 

Thank you... I didn't know glowing rune, because I still haven't found time to buy Doom3 :( ... but it will come sooner... I hope... 

Yeah, it's one of the large set of runes in the decals folder.

And happens to be being used as my RL marker 

http://www.kolumbus.fi/ville.nieminen/storage.jpg

Old shot, looks better now. Honest. Crates. 

Nice one, certainly tis' a large area, larger than most in D3. Good style. Brown is the new brown. The crate entrance looks ominous. This one is looking good. 

Nice stuff there. Like sham said thats larger than most indoor bits in D3 that I can remember. Keep it up. 

looks good mostly, but i see the same problem with the lighting that i saw in some of the id maps -- you have a large area lit by a whole bunch of really small lights, and the result is that the screenshot doesn't gel as a whole. We see a bunch of little bits of architecture, and assume they are connected, but to me they look like they are all sort of swimming in this black soup or something. Like they're a collage put together from various screenshots.

Fewer lights that stretch farther would solve this problem, but i understand that there is a tricky balance with how many light volumes overlap and how many passes there are on a surface. Anyway, that's my complaint.

P.S. I noticed the alpha labs and levels in that part of the game seemed to have the worst problem with this, and starting with the delta labs things seemed to improve a lot in this regard. Not sure if it was just a different mapper or what.

Anyway, if you want more info about this, i can try. It seems like a pretty important part of getting lighting to look good in doom3, but it's hard to explain exactly why it looks wrong when you don't do it. 

And i've taken some measures to fix the issue already while doing light optimizations. Color of the day is GREEN and lots of it. Using huge lights with flares up at the ceiling and then illuminating the floor area just with one non-shadowcasting light gives quite good illusion of proper radiosity lighting. Especially when beefed up with shadow casting local lights at logical places. This of course won't keep lightcounts in the red, but careful planning keeps them at least in the green zone. The walkways surrounding the lower area are actually much worse offenders than the pit, pillars or ceiling, but it's not that apparent from that (old) picture. 30FPS at worst at this point.

Btw, ID kinda cheats and uses fog in almost all really large spaces. And go totally overboard with lightcounts at times. 

...but better. (levels adjustment done in photoshop for those unlukcy ones with shitty dark monitors)

http://www.kolumbus.fi/ville.nieminen/progress.jpg 

If you're using D3Radiant, how do you align textures nicely? I've only played with it for a bit, but it seems overly reliant on fit-to-brush. Not being able to move textures texel-by-texel is irritating. 

Shift+arrow moves the texture unit by unit to desired direction. Works best on single faces. Rotate with 1 or 0.5 degree increments and then adjust the texture. Scaling is broken on angled textures tho, so you have to do proper scaling before you start to rotate (If you need scaling, that is). 

You can also use FIT to get texture to fit (duh) on slanted faces that don't encompass the entire lenght of the texture. like those warning stripes. FIT 0.75 vert there i think. Then just fit the straight part with 0.25 and see how they line up perfectly. You might have to do some flipping if texture is mirrored. 

Shift+arrow moves the texture unit by unit to desired direction.

I think I've broken something in the config; shift+arrow moves in grid-size unit increments.

Scaling is broken on angled textures tho, so you have to do proper scaling before you start to rotate

This was what was confusing me, I think. I hope the patch fixes the editor as well as the game :\ 

I think I've broken something in the config; shift+arrow moves in grid-size unit increments.

That's a nice feature nb, get used to it and it will save you a lot of time... however, if you don't like it that way, look for an option like 'texture increment matches grid' in your preferences. That way you can use whatever increment setting you like all the time.

It would be worth getting used to changing grid sizes as needed to more or less finely adjust the texture using the arrow keys, its pretty fast considering that you can just use the 1-9 keys to quickly adjust the grid setting. It will save you time in the long run. 

however, if you don't like it that way, look for an option like 'texture increment matches grid' in your preferences.

Since I'm using D3R, such a preference doesn't exist. I figured that the num-keys were the best thing to use; certainly easier than hammering []. 

some testers for a Q1SP beta. System requirements are fairly high for a Q1SP. Please post here or email me (netgames@netdp.com), as I'll need to make sure the public finds the map playable before I release it. 

nb, just memorise 1/(2^x) for x from 1 to 8 

I am up for it. 

email me with whatever.