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making the whole of episode 1 in one map... maybe that'd better fit a turtlemap theme though.
Like have a room of each e1mx. :) A medley. yes, why not. though one would have to think up something more intricate to avoid all maps from being equally generic. the future doesn't always have to be base - in this respect, what is the timeline of the quake sets?
So time travel would cover all the potential possibilities:
-> present -> past -> present -> present -> future -> present -> future -> present -> past.. etc i'd have to disrupt the space-time continuum to make it more interesting...
I'd go back in time to aprox. 1942, kidnap a certain actress, go forward in time to steal a duplicator machine, come back to the present and start up an escort service of Rita Hayworth clones.
Don't take the theme away from me. It's all I have down here!
Seriously though, I like that idea. it's like that JF Gustaffason (orwhatever) map. .. Daikatana already used the space-time concept... and it was not really successfull... though...
Sadly, no. I mean, i've got other things. Like a very interesting real life, right now. Just want to keep one finger in the quake community. That wasn't meant to sound so dirty.I know you liked it though.
Neg!ke, I am going to have to pass on SM124 but, if you get a theme together soon enough, I swear I'll take a shot at SM125 :)
Thx... neg|ke i will not have time to make my ship :\ boss is pissing me up all day... FUCK!!! can the dead line be changed for next week???
i think this theme is very nice! and we might have more maps if it come to next week, but maby u already got 2 or 3 maps... let us now! trinca, do you think you can manage to map tomorrow? i don't have a problem with waiting one or two days, but delaying the pack for another week is kind of bleh.
so far, i only got one spaceship map (mine) and bam's sad easter one. of course you can also make a spaceship one and send it in for the next pack... generic, sm125 theme is "timelimit". maps that have to be completed in a limited amount of time (gameplay-wise) - if the player exceeds the limit, he has failed and cannot finish the map, or at least will have to do it without weapons/items and other annoying things... drew will never play quake again. :\ is the chinese chicks take him all the power...eheheh
i will try negke but tomorow is holly day in Portugal... if my kid give me some time to map i will try for sure i promiss! so, any luck at overcoming holiday lethargy? shall i wait some more?
looks like it's going to be a pretty meager pack again, even though i've done another small map (which sucks, but at least served as good exercise to see how kell's void lighting technique works)... man i start it :\ but my wife was pissing me up do help her clening home... so i quit when i had a few wall�s :\ i realy just can map at work were nobody piss me up!!!
then i'll just release the pack now and you can finish your map without pressure until next week.
btw. i already told you several times: get rid of her, by any means necessary! :D ...you are thinking of is Sky Palace iirc. The
(which sucks, but at least served as good exercise to see how kell's void lighting technique works)...
out of interest, what is kell's void lighting technique? how does lighting a brush you've put partly inside a skybrush do anything to lighting values in the void? Maybe I've misunderstood, but I don't get why any of those steps was done (heh, apart from upscaling the textures on the black textured brushes)
Models in quake are lit by reading the lightmap value on the first solid ( non-entity ) surface directly below them.
Flying monsters can therefore be floating very far above the ground, yet are lit not by the light level in the air around them but by the light level on the ground far far below. While it isn't a problem for non-flying monsters, for flying monster this can create a visual discrepency, the most marked difference being in void/space maps. Usually, a mapper will want the lighting on the architecture to fade to black down the sides towards the void, disguising the black brush at the bottom. This bottom brush has very little or no light hitting it. Preferably, as in "He Falls Like Lucifer", an actual skybrush will be used for the bottom of the void, which is even worse since sky texture has no lightmap at all. In either case, monsters flying out over the void will be lit with a lightmap value of zero, making them appear as solid black silhouettes. This looks bad if the surrounding higher-up architecture where the monster actually is has light sources here and there, and is really noticeable when a flying monster will move from above a lit surface out over the void. For example: in "Lucifer" the scrags might appear appropriately lit while hovering over one of the wooden walkways, but then drift slightly so they're now above the void; a drift of perhaps a few units but enough to change them to black silhouettes. As well as looking crap, it makes them a bastard to shoot. Placing a blackbrush inside the skybrush means that: 1. there is a lightmap under flying monsters even when they're out over the void 2. the brightness on that lightmap can be controlled by the mapper without affecting any other surface in the map 3. that lightmap will not be visible; a black void will remain black 4. the sky texture will remain visible, and will swallow projectiles that are fired down into the void HTH
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