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I liked unreal
It was scary. Unreal 2 was too juvenile and felt completely on a rail. It just sucked. was phenomenal for its time. None of its followup games have even approached that level of ambition.
(seriously, I remember getting out the prison ship and looking down at the water fall took my breath away. And then I realised I could jump into the lake...)
Who DOESN'T remember that! Even crawling along at 10fps with loading pauses and hitches on my woefully out of date system didn't ruin that moment for me, definitely up there in my top 5 gaming moments ever. Unreal 2 totally missed the point in my opinion, where was the exploration? The wonder of the environments? and the uneasy push forwards into the unknown... Epic failure (to coin a phrase!). the dude (one on the right) I've been working on tonight --
http://mortisville.quakedev.com/alien3.jpg is inspired by the Berserker from Quake 2. I've always thought the Berserker cut a great figure with those high hips and long legs. Instead of hammer and half of a scissor attachments, this dude carries around a pair of missile launchers. I will need to change the design of the missile launchers to look more missilelaunchery. The missile launcher combo makes him look somewhat like the heavy MJ-12 troopers in Deus Ex. I got hammy with the edge loops tonight; I may rebuild him from scratch. It depends on how well he deforms during animation. A double rocket launcher wielding mech soldier departs too far from the theme (alternate dimension alien). I've thought up an alternative idea, he'll wield double needle guns that spread out like fans when he his ready to attack to allow three needles per round, similar to the Hell Knight spread fire. The needle guns can double as m�l�e weapons in close combat.
Me like cool monsters..... Me see many polygons and fear DP dependency....
the only true unreal sequel si fan-made mod called operation na pali. imho it is even better than unreal itself. and it free. unreal 2 is short and borring.
Overview:
http://img114.imageshack.us/my.php?image=industrialoverviewyn7.jpg Download: http://www.zfight.com/misc/files/q3/industrial.rar ~45MB Thread with screens, http://quake3world.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=37440 that map is pure class, easily your best gameplay map and the looks are as usual quality. Scale feels just right and plenty of nice trick jumps too.
If I get some time over the weekend, I will give this a whirl with a mate to see how weapon and item layout is. why is bot support so bad? nothing in the layout that should warrant it IMHO. Just a couple of ideas from looking at the mesh, but the first thing I thought wasn't missile launchers but that the end of the arm would extend on a rail and then slam back, like a piston, as a kind of mechanical punch attack. Maybe a bit close to the original CC only enemy.
If you remember the Robocop2 bad 'guy' you'll know what I mean. Mind you, if you're wanting that netherworld alien vibe then maybe the splinter cannon things could work with those blade-looking edges being a slice of the same crystal that the weapon fires, used as a cutting edge. Mind you, if you're wanting that netherworld alien vibe then maybe the splinter cannon things could work with those blade-looking edges being a slice of the same crystal that the weapon fires, used as a cutting edge.
That's a pretty cool idea. I could put some blue or blueish green colors in the palette to represent crystal surfaces. Me like cool monsters..... Me see many polygons and fear DP dependency.... I got carried away with the hands as I always do because they are the most challenging part of the anatomy to model. However, I'll scale those back and it should fit the Quake 1 limits fine. I'll test in both ToChris, a nice software rendered Quake, and also FitzQuake. They are both Quake standards compatible, whereas GLQuake isn't. At first I was thinking of Q3 type reflection shaderfx, but a nicely painted crystal would work on its own.
Polytrails! Bloom! ->It's Quake! Heh. Polytrails! Bloom!
Yeah, this one is going to be completely retro (I'll include 24 bit targas non palette converted files for all of the model skins, and textures as a seperate down load for those who want that), just some additional smoothing, higher polies since no one still uses PII's and gyro physics in the game play. It is really the heart of why I started this little project. Working title for it is Ferocity, FWIW Mortisville is still around, but I'm moving it over to Quoth and using the assets for something else in the works. http://lunaran.com/images/maps/lundm1_1.jpg
thread at some icky other forum: http://www.quakeworld.nu/forum/viewtopic.php?id=3076 beta: http://lunaran.com/files/lundm1g.zip Mainly looking for gameplay feedback, because inertia and I have polished it up as far as a filename that ends in "g", so a wider base of opinions would be helpful. But a few comments:
1. Sound for the lift is b0rked. 2. Maybe *too* friendly towards slope-jumping, i.e. some of the slope trim makes it a "go anywhere" map and could reduce navigation challenge. 3. Rivets on the orange texture are ugly, and there is perhaps a bit too much orange texture. Smaller rivets and perhaps another texture might be nice. Other than that I think it's cool. Good design, good build, good theme. Quad placement is genius. Looks very "fast and furious". Hmmm. What are good bots these days?? I would rather ask for a server where the map is downloaded: any QWers interested ? I like when people kick my ass on QW... I'm not that good in DM you know :P
The lift is silent intentionally, because when it was the only thing in the map that made a lift sound it was really easy to gank anyone using it in a tournament.
And it has less orange than efdm9 which was not too orange for anyone! reminds me of TF2 maps for some reason. I think its the panelled buildings and various windows and angled roof parts that do it.
Looks nice, if I still had quake 3 still I would give it a try for sure. I thought a modern version of "The Doom that came to Dunwich" Fingers made back in the day.
I could load it in Warsow, but then the weapons wouldn't all work :( Is blender a free program? I remember reading something like that a while ago...
How is it compared to 3dsmax?
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