Anybeans - here is a picture I made to show the basic theory behind building things to follow arbitrary gradients - note that they will typically only be approximately the same size as their orthogonally built versions, but it's worth it just to make things all line up neatly on grid.

http://i.imgur.com/XHRW16V.png

You can have fun working out the scale relationships for different gradients - I will leave that as an exercise for the reader. 

The important thing to remember is that the original ortho-built geo needs to be on a coarser grid than the target rotated geo - you have to think how the ortho grid maps to the rotated "pseudo-grid" - e.g. for 45 degrees, 4 ortho grid units maps to "3 up and 3 along" grid units, so the original geo can't be built on a grid lower than 4.

For a ~27 degree rotated object (so the geo follows a 2:1 gradient), like the picture I just posted, 2 ortho grid units maps to "2 up and 1 along" grid units, so you only have to make sure the original isn't built on lower than grid 2. 

 

See czg's Honey? Those crazy rotated broken bridges were built using this method, but the scale-then-rotate technique was applied twice in succession- in different axes - to get them looking really funky.

If you are going to rotate an object like this twice, the coarseness of the grid of the original object needs to be even higher - again I will leave that as an exercise for the reader. 

Thank you, Kinn.

And thank you, Scampie. 

 

Is on my todo list for TB 2.1. That would make such things a lot simpler. 

Been looking for these handsome skyboxes you guys been using. Only found a graveyard of broken links (poetic). Where are they? Where are the coolest skyboxes these days? 

From post #730 I see that a map allows a maximum of 4 different info_intermissions. Does the camera swap between them depending on engine (EzQuake / DarkPlaces seems not to) or is there a way that I can cause the view to autoswap every x seconds? (spz1dm2ftk in Screenshots & betas is the basic map but way out of date detail wise by now) 

http://lvlworld.com/review/id:2023

http://www.simonoc.com/pages/artwork.htm 

Or make your own.

http://planetside.co.uk/products/terragen3 

Quake's normal qc code just 'randomly' chooses between the cameras (technically it's bound to your playtime, but for all intents and purposes, random). You can't, outside a mod, change which it chooses or make it swap to a different one every so often. 

Yes, I've seen lvl and Simon's skies. And I used Terragen about 10 years ago, it was awesome already. I just don't have time to make one for Jam6. I've seen people posting "look, my new skybox" and got curious, wanted to see something different. But thanks for mentioning Terragen. 

Do you know Kell's skyboxes? https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/kell.quaddicted.com/ 

https://www.quaddicted.com/webarchive/kell.quaddicted.com/skyboxes.html 

http://www.redsorceress.com/skybox.html 

I don't make claim to the art work for these skyboxes. That credit goes to other talented people who allow you to use their wonderful skyboxes.

That's nice, but what would be even nicer is if they actually gave credit to said "talented people". I recognise at least some of sock's skyboxes on that page, but there is no mention of his name anywhere.

I had a look, and there seems to be just the same generic note included in each one:
This skybox is free for use but can't be sold for profit or altered in any way.
Those are not the terms under which sock has shared his work: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/ (and I'm willing to bet the same applies to the other skyboxes on that page).

But license or not, it just seems like common decency to at least credit people for their work. 

Sorry if I overreacted, and I didn't mean to come across as an asshole to PyroGXPilot. 

You can killtarget intermission cameras so that there is only one left in the map to force the game to use a specific one. 

is a feature in socks new mod. :) 

It was Kell's I was looking for! Thanks! 

 

Glad I was able to help someone out for a change. :) 

Something I don't know, -light (as used in worldspawn), -minlight, and -gate, numbers are talked about, but I don't remember ever seeing what the range was. For example, if -gate 5 is set, what does that mean? 5% or 5 on a scale of 0-255 or something else?

Confusing because -gate default is .001, that seems like an awfully tiny amount. I've used as high as 30 without seeing much difference. 

gate means that when light goes below the level specified, it is set to 0.

this is to stop delay 2 and 5 lights from going on forever.

make a box map with a regular light with brightnes 200 and try different gate settings to get an idea.