 News | Forum | People | FAQ | Links | Search | Register |
Log in |
|
|
I try to avaoid the use of 45 degree angles all together, because of the texturing issues, but sometimes it can't be helped.
You shouldn't because stuff like that is what makes your map stand out. Look at a Than map for proof. Inertia is right, trimming adds realism. It makes your map more believable and much more pleasing to the eye (if done right..). And come on, is it really that hard to rotate/scale a texture? Just imo :) Wow, really nive shots ! Did the Hell forces invade Earth or what ? Nice ambience in anyway ! Keep it up !
I am a lazy bu and use them. Luckily Quark has the "fit texture to face with minimum scaling". Some multiplication here and there (as too over-/underscaled textures look pretty bad) and taaadaaaa.
Awesome screenies Method.
Is it for a particular project, or just to show off? :P JPL: The atmosphere is inspired by a French movie The City of Lost Children. One of my favorites on the list with Dark City.
Text_Fish: It's a project codenamed Method's Hideout. My goal was to create a texture set for my themes of level design which are urban, industrial and abandoned. Then it became a design study, to show what I can do with Doom 3 engine. You can find other design studies here: http://www.methodonline.com/temp/meth_test.htm The water I used was actually a hack. It's a shader that distorts any diffuse map. If you jump into it, you'll fall through :( -Method wow very nice shots and very interesting textures. will you release them before/after your project?
PuLSaR: Thanks. The textures will be released to the community once I'm done with the pack, unless of course I'll make a SP level. In which case it should take longer. Here are some of the examples of textures I made:
http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison1.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison2.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison3.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison4.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison5.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison6.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison7.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison8.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison11.jpg http://www.methodonline.com/temp/comparison14.jpg Most are 512 x 512. -Method I see what you mean now.
I'm actually using that method myself (shrinking), it kinda seemed natural. Is there a formula concerning how much textures are stretched at what angle? I actually thought you meant the rust texture on the side of the left pillar/air duct? thingy, which is chopped off without anything to cover it up. But yeah, it's clear now. in basic trigonometry, if the horizontal texture scale is 1 and the texture is stretched upwards to 45 degrees, it travels sqrt(2) [sqrt means square root] or 1.414 units along the surface now. So the scaling must be 1/sqrt(2) = 1/1.414 = 0.7071.
If you have a 27 degree slope (aka "czg curve" ie 0:1 1:2 2:1 1:0) the stretch factor is 0.89. (cos 27 or rather more explilicitly cos(atan(1/2)) ) But a bit depends on the qbsp settings (ie -oldaxis) and map program settings... Yeah it prolly doesn't make sense without pictures and also possibly doesn't work in the editor or final map. Man, you make good stuff, too bad the engine wrong way shininess somewhat detracts from it.
2003... could someone do an improvement to the engine? "unless of course I'll make a SP level. "
Looking at those sweet shots, that course of action should be obligatory. I've been working on this for the last few weeks. It's a map from 2002 that I've touched up, sealed, lighted, and compiled. Just eclipsed 4000 brushes. For the sake of anachronism, I've been editing it in the same ancient editor (quiver!) I used to use back then. Textures are mostly rtgnosis and rtarbor, with a few unreal and kingpin sneaking in. I'm pleased with the lighting so far, but it is not perfect. There is no progression of objectives yet, nor many things to kill. I've not decided whether to just throw some keys in and release it, or save it for something much larger.
Oh right, it's some kind of medieval city for Q1, currently I'm using Nehahra entities. This part is very old and unchanged: http://img260.imageshack.us/img260/1153/grahfsp00wi6.jpg dense narrow streets: http://img458.imageshack.us/img458/5127/grahfsp01ys6.jpg you can go inside the buildings: http://img146.imageshack.us/img146/818/grahfsp02gs6.jpg I'm aware that this lighting is rather flat: http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/3136/grahfsp04ty2.jpg Oh, very nice !! I love the medieval city atmosphere.. It remind me the "Petite France" in Strasbourg :)
Keep it up, and release it soon please !
|
|
| You must be logged in to post in this thread. |
|
| Website copyright © 2002-2024 John Fitzgibbons. All posts are copyright their respective authors. |