http://scampie.net/etc/wip/jam6_thepot.jpg 

 

Do you like the railings czg?

I STOLE THEM FROM YOU. 

I'll be away for a few days, so I'll have to make my map very short (if I ever stop procrastinating). 

Aw man, I'm so behind now. I've been pretty sick the past week so I have nothing new to show since the last rollcall shots I sent last week� Weaksauce. Hope I can still build some semblance of a finished map! 

http://www.twitch.tv/ionous

Quake mapping.
Black metal.
Me yelling at my dogs. 

CustomShambler: you know, this is kinda fucking cool
CustomShambler: got a stream from a skinny brit playing a load of trance, a stream from an expat yank in fucking hawaii with a bunch of dogs playing mellow black metal, both working on similarly themed but entirely different and good-looking maps for a 20 year old game that still rocks 

You can add a yank with a baby playing ska in Germany. :-p 

amazing. 

Was up till 4 am late Sunday mapping and got in another 5 or 6 hours yesterday. Finally it's looking "not too bad". Sadly, the week is getting shorter and what yet needs doing seems a lot.

http://quaketastic.com/files/screen_shots/rk_jam6c.jpg 

I've been enjoying the progress guys. Keep it up! 

Oh this looks pretty nice! Love the design of the tower and bridge supports. The fog doesn't really match the environment but it still works somehow. 

 

Yeah, know what you mean about the time... Won't get too much time this weekend so will likely just have to cut things short and toss 1000 monsters inbox something. 

yeah, I think I am trying to do too much, and then Daz gave us more time and I decided "oh, I can do some extra unique things!" rather than actually accomplishing the original plan that was already too much :D

Should be able to get everything done, but the ending and such may suffer. 

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Heh, though the fog and lighting probably needs a little more tuning it looks really cool in the game, probably better than you think, and it was inspired by photos of real lava.

I was just able to spend another few hours on it, but I think at this point all I can promise is around 1200 brushes and maybe 20 or so monsters to kill.



http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/09/20/photos-of-lava_n_3950497.html

(check the 8th one down in particular) 

The numbers output in qbsp - the left column is the total sum in your level and the right column is the total maximum that the compiler supports? 

Good question. Despite having made Quake maps for nearly 20 years, I have no idea really, but I'm pretty sure it's not a maximum. It may be size information of the listed data. 

Me or Worldcraft screwed my level. Lost almost a day trying to fix a "mixed contents" error. At 11PM I finally managed to run the map. There was an infinite wall in the middle of the level. I'm sure you already got those, it's caused by brush faces without normals. Then I opened the .map in WC (not the .rmf), spotted and deleted these infinite brushes.

The level works again, but I lost all texture alignment and all visgroups.

If I had to hurry to deliver something by this weekend, now I'm pretty sure it won't happen at all.

There are bright sides: for the first time I got courage to make something organic with brushes and I'm very happy with results. I had a very nice and simple idea for a map to use these rocks. If only I had this idea three weeks ago... Also, I improved my method. And since the textures are all f*ked up anyway, I dropped WC and moved to Jackhammer.

I'm gonna try to finish until the last minute, but honestly I don't think it's possible. Good luck everybody. 

That happened to me early on. It is why I have shied away from more complex geometry since. I had to move away from Trenchbroom, Obj2Map and Worldcraft early on and just focus on Jackhammer.

That sucks. 

Re-align the textures and keep rolling.

Just as a note, every mapper should have a backup plan. Before I start the editor, every time, I make a back up copy of the map, and after every pass through the compilers I keep a copy of that map. Periodically, I thin out some of the unnecessary copies, but save one for long term about every 10-15 versions. I have something like 500 MB of Wish 13 copies going back to 2010.

Lately, when I make a backup after compiling, I've found it useful to add a short comment to the map's file name as a reminder of what was changed for that iteration. 

Yes, I have iteration backups. But last iteration was one whole day of work (almost) finishing the bigger room. I didn't think I was doing anything dangerous, the rocks' prefabs was already working (even posted screenies here). Don't know what caused that. Don't have this infinite wall problem since... what, 1999? Since I learnt to respect brushes and stopped manipulating vertices like there's no tomorrow.

It's cheaper to realign the whole crap again, but it will take another night. And the schedule was already tight before this big setback. I'm sure gonna try it, though. 

shit happens.

I found rebuilding crucial things is done quick, a day of lost work was redone in 2 hours for me, knowing what was already in place sure helps. Also things profit from being touched twice and more often in general.

Go map! 

I think jackhammer does a backup when you save or run map. I'm seeing extra files in my map folder with date / time appended.