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The point of jam themes is to give some basic direction to go. Though I might recommend just going for the second half only because 2 weeks is less time than you think! Simple plans work best.
3:27 AM - negke: haven't thought about anything yet
3:27 AM - negke: i might try to make something though 3:27 AM - Scampie!!: jam6_negke HYPE!!! Just wanted to say that last night was awesome. Multiple people streaming and everyone chatting it up. Was a lot of fun.
Felt like the old days again, only higher tech. :) Fun! Love stuff like this that focuses everyone on the same game/goal... based off of http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme2.jpg
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/jam6_terraintest.jpg max + warren's obj2map. gonna see how far I can take this before it stops compiling... it's really fun not having to deal with brushes. ^_^ Chaining Castle of the Dark Ages and 5 Rivers Land would fit perfectly
necros
REALLY nice. Love how organic it feels. I can't believe that all collides correctly. Do you take any special steps in Max? Like, making sure everything is triangles and snapped to a grid or anything like that? The max obj exporter has an option to export all faces as triangles, which is what I use. Other than that, I'm using basic box modelling techniques, extruding edges and faces and moving vertices around. I'm not paying any particular attention to grid:
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/jam6_terraintest_max.jpg There are currently a few collision problems (and a few missing faces) but I suspect that is because the map is currently unsealed, so the backs of the spike brushes are still being compiled which I'm sure is causing problems with QBSP. Once the map is sealed, those problems should hopefully go away, at least mostly, although that really will be the make or break test: if faces are still missing and collision is too broken with a sealed map, we'll know that this method doesn't work. :P I've run into problems doing it so you might want to seal sooner rather than later so as to waste as little time as possible if it implodes. :)
Going to be trying some rocky geo tonight myself... yeah, that's probably the smart thing to do. The real danger is running out of planes. IIRC, there are a limited number of unique planes that you are allowed to have and terrain, for obvious reasons, uses up those planes quickly. otoh, I'm doing this in bsp2, so I have no idea what the limits are. I might be fine.
Wicked stuff..
I think you're safe with planes, but leafs are limited to 65k in several engines (qs, markv, fte) in spite of bsp2. Others have unlimited leafs I think (rmqe, dp?). I should port the unlimited leafs from rmqe to qs some time. If you're BSP2, I wouldn't worry about it. The compiler/engine will break LONG before you hit the wall there. :P
1- W O W!
2- About collision, making it all func_illusionary and caulking with clips wouldn't solve it? I might do the reverse and have func_wall skip textured brushes if there are only a few collision problems.
Switching compilers also helped, I was using some older ones based off of aguirre's original txqbsp modification. I swapped to use ericw's tyrqbsp (since I was using his light util anyway) and it got rid of all the visual glitches as well as some of the collision ones, so I'm pretty positive about this working out.
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