DM-Aly (RC1)

stevelois · ...

RE: DM-Aly (Beta 1)

Thrallala · Level Designer

Export the wood texture to .tga / .bmp, open in some image editing application and rotate it there!

stevelois · ...

I don't have that knowledge mate.

Beside it's something that seem so basic to me that I want to know how to do all that withing the editor.

I did a search on Epic but even it is supposed to be a piece of cake, it doesn't work.

I want to do exactly that, no big deal.....

http://forums.epicgames.com/showthread.php?t=678336&highlight=rotate+texture

stevelois · ...

Did some progress on the building lower level.

What do you think dudes ? Do you think it's acceptable now ?

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Looks good!

stevelois · ...

THX but there is something that bother me & I can't put my finger on it !

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

You're not thinkin it's to dark r ya? (in relation to it being in a tropical area)

stevelois · ...

Well, no, I don't find it to dark, do ya think ?

It's just that there is something bothering me in the meshing & I don't know what damn it !

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Looks OK to me!

stevelois · ...

LOL

You see, there is something wrong...

I want it to look awesome, not just ok :p

But THX anyway my Lord ;)

stevelois · ...

I'm finalizing the map & RC1 will be available today, at last ! :D

Expect the dwn link in around 2 hrs :)

stevelois · ...

RE: DM-Aly (RC1)

Lord_PorkSword · Connoisseur of Bourbon!

Damn...how did I miss this!! cry

Downloading RC1 now!

EDIT:

Latest build looks a treat and runs great!!

Shadows are a lot better than previous builds and contrast very nicely across the many surfaces within the level!
I'd be surprised if this isn't another map highly liked by the community!! smile

Great design, great looks and great gameplay!!

-- Edited by Lord_PorkSword on Wednesday 2nd of December 2009 11:01:11 PM

rathalos150 · Monster Hunter

Hey, I just had an invite from Bl!tz so I thought i'd join and make a post. The map looks just as good on UOF as Epic forums :P

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

lol...nice avi bro, welcome aboard ;)

RC1...RC1....hmm....damned.....did i miss something too??!!??...oioioioi...where are my pills?

stevelois · ...

@Lord

THX mate, I'm happy you like it & that you post also on my blog, I appreciate mate :D

@rathalos150

Welcome aboard dude, happy to see you join the old farts gang & to had make your first post on my map :p Ho and it's the same version everywhere dude so it won't look better from here lol

@Blitz

Damn monkey... stop teasing me & give me your thoughts so I can make the map final with no remorse lol Hope you like it cousin !

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

lol bro....was the true...dunno how it was possible but i really hve miss it :p

all is fine to me except thoses 4 details:

-when u stand before the lift (bottom level) if u watch "up" u can see tiles which seem underscaled to me and not really according to the other materials (looks brand new in a ruin)

-around the mushroms BV arent well adjusted and u just cant walk on the grass and no reason to not do it ;)

-i think u have "overuse " thoses white lamps and even without adding thoses leaving on the floor i see them everywhere...imho so many lights hurt the nice contrasts generated by the sun

-i still thinking that this map is too rich: too many textures and too many details

good job on vegetals (not the flat ones but the others on the wall with thoses "stone tubes") and on the BV

thx for ur nice work mate keep it up....

stevelois · ...

THX for the check cousin Blitz :)

For the things you comment :

- I know the tiles your talking about, in fact it's the same as all other ceiling & in that corner of the map, if you notice, the rock / brick walls & even the floor don't have any moist on them, so that is why I just leave the material clean as the surrounding corner. I'll see if I can make it look older instead of more complex ?

- Yeah, I notice that. The BV are a bit rough. I'll open the area a bit so you can dodge behind the baskets.

- The lantern at the bottom level is what is light the map or else it's damn dark & there isn't any contrast at all. I have no choice mate. If I reduce the number of lanterns I can't leave the lighting as it is, it won't be logical so I will be in obligation to raise the light radius to compensate that lack of light source & since I want the lighting to be credible I must put light source or else you will have a crappy lightning like in B1.

- I reduce the material complexity. Shame it's again to much :(

THX for checking it out cousin :D

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

np bro and srry for late testing haha

nothing is really important it looks good and appart the BV it s only about personnal feelings ;)

stevelois · ...

I like your honesty cousin :D

BTW, the BV on the ground floor is done, it's cool you can hide behind the baskets now he he :)

stevelois · ...

A little question for my fellow mappers...

By trying to found a fonction inthe editor, there is a fonction in the left bar icons, it said you can make torches with that ??? I fool around with the tool but it look more like a "banana split" to me damn it !!!

So, any idea is this thing is good, I would like to experiment a bit more since maybe some of the fart gang have the answer for something very awesome & I just don't know how to use it ?

stevelois · ...

Damn.............. no answer since 21 hours for this simple question.... where are you mates !

Anyway, look like there is no interest anymore so I'll make the map final this w-e.

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

Damn.............. no answer since 21 hours for this simple question.... where are you mates !

lol...perhaps mappers just havent a decent answer to provide...haha^^
i m personnally looking for a decent flamme emitter to add on my demeter torches

i have seen several nice flammes on custom maps....i m gonna try to open them

Anyway, look like there is no interest anymore so I'll make the map final this w-e.

ROFL.....how many posts in this threads here and on Epics? what can we add old uncle ? how many pills to build the complete lighting? or.....thoses white lamps leaving on the floor are not rea**

......

i think all was said...nah? gl for final ;)

-- Edited by Bl!tz on Friday 4th of December 2009 11:45:48 PM

Diesalot · Drinker of too much beer

Hey elder uncle.
The torch thing was for older bsp materials before we had particles.
You align a flame material to it to look like a torch.

EDIT. In ut99 for example. They didnt change the ed layout i guess.

-- Edited by Diesalot on Saturday 5th of December 2009 12:40:37 AM

stevelois · ...

@blitz

I don't look at the post counts tbh since I'll my threads have a lot of post reads. I just think people like to read my bablabla & it's almost always the same few dudes who post in the first place. Stevie's corner on Epic is a good example, more than 50 000 reads but still, look at my Nano final thread, only reads by 3000 & just few posts, it's very deceiving & it's nothing to my eyes. I got a lot of reads depending of the subject. I do like the fact I have some reads, it's not that, it's just that I don't look post counts as a "guiding sign" for Interest.

And it's a good thing you stay on your position, monkey's have "la tete dur" lol :p or else, you wouldn't ne a true one ;)

@Diesalot
Ha, so it look like they just put that function for old style mapping lol

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

stevelois wrote:

@blitz

I don't look at the post counts tbh since I'll my threads have a lot of post reads. I just think people like to read my bablabla & it's almost always the same few dudes who post in the first place. Stevie's corner on Epic is a good example, more than 50 000 reads but still, look at my Nano final thread, only reads by 3000 & just few posts, it's very deceiving & it's nothing to my eyes. I got a lot of reads depending of the subject.

ut99: rank 186 359players/day     28596min played/day

ut2k4: rank 78    1024players/day    96492min played/day

ut3: rank 134      663players/day      49022min played/day

....haha are u sure that "only read by 3000" is so bad?

I do like the fact I have some reads, it's not that, it's just that I don't look post counts as a "guiding sign

????ahhh....u re probably the first to tell me that !

....for me it s really a guiding sign lol^^

stevelois · ...

Cousin blitz, I don't see the relation with your ut's ranks & the read posts ? I think I'll take my "better understanding knowledge pill" now lol

Well, post counts aren't useful if the author as made 90% & more of the 500 posts like in Stevie's corner on Epic & my CTF / VCTF thread I delete on Epic lol

Bl!tz · ...ǝp¡s ɹǝɥʇo ǝɥʇ uo

lol i just mean that ut3 is more dead than ut2004 on rankins...it s not my rankins dude it s ut3 rank in the online fps games rankin...
for comparation cod4 is rank 2 with 78859players/day and 7870005min played/day

..i just tell you that on a dead game 3000 views are not so bad...nothing more haha

the stevie s corner isnt really a good example it s a "personnal thing" ; on a map thread u can say that 50 % of the posts are from you ...lets tell 60% to be sure so 40 % are showing the interrest of other peeps.... ;)

nothing important...

stevelois · ...

Ok, now I understand you cousin ;) You see, I'm slow, but I finish by understand with explanations :p

Thrallala · Level Designer

Was a bit too hard to jump to that platform from here, I'd probably lower it very slightly.

Rock looks a bit stretched out.

I think you should add something here so that people know they can't go in there

Took damage too soon here imo, also I think that you shouldn't die until you're close to hitting the floor/ground

The dmg you take when you fall outside the map should kill instantly imo, but you should fall a bit before dying.

Other than that, I think it's ready for final. Couldn't really find anything else, I still dislike the white/grayish wall mesh/material though, but you already commented on that.

Top notch work mate!

stevelois · ...

Seem like pics #1 & #4 aren't showing ???

For the two pics I can see ;

Pic #2, I think the diameter is just smaller than normal. Anyway, I'll check that mesh.
Pic #3, yeah, I didn't found nothing to block the player & in the other and I like the little scenery there. I'll try something.

I think I'll tweak the physics volume a bit. But it's not clear what you mean. Do you mean that instant kill would be better than inflict damage & die after like it is actually ?

THX for the comments mate :)

Thrallala · Level Designer

Hmm ok, pic 1 was of the Tighpads platform, and the fourth pic was a place where you could fall out from the playable area but I thought I took dmg too soon.

About the physics volume outside playable area, yes I think you should die instantly, but I also think you should fall for a bit before dying instead of taking the damage as soon as you enter the non playable area. I also found it kind of wierd that you had this overly bright PP volume in the non playable areas.

And the rock, it's well scaled badly. I think you've set the height of the mesh to like 1.5 where as the sides are scaled to 1.0 which is why it looks a bit stretched out.

For the hole in the wall there, I would probably add the fence found in HU_Buildings (don't know the exact package)

-- Edited by Thrallala on Monday 7th of December 2009 11:41:00 PM

Thrallala · Level Designer

found the missing pics

4

1

-- Edited by Thrallala on Tuesday 8th of December 2009 12:48:30 AM

Bane the Zergling · crocodile dundee

Did this go final already and I didn't even know?

Nope is hasn't just looked at first post.

-- Edited by Bane the Zergling on Tuesday 8th of December 2009 12:31:13 AM

stevelois · ...

A little update,

- The hole you mention will have some wood plank since it turn out nice when I try it out.
- The 2 stretched rocks corner will look better when I'll be done.
- The tights rocks as been lowered so you can collect them rom both ways instead of just the lift level.
- The kill effect will be instantly instead of taking damaged. I will lower the physic volume closer to the ground so if you fall, you will see the pp effect & then die. The pp effect represent the blowing sun so that is why it's so bright & I like it that way.

THX Thrallala for the added info, your making me working more on this map so eventually, it will be a more polished version :D

-- Edited by stevelois on Tuesday 8th of December 2009 06:25:19 PM

stevelois · ...

The final is there biggrin

On my site, Epic & here smile

THX for all your help mates. Your all mentioned in the credits.

Cheers !