Outpost teaser

[steve]

Just a single pic (the area it is from is also still very much W.I.P).

It's going to be quite a large br/dm map.

I will have more to show very soon (once I finish modeling up some new props).



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[ReD NeCKersoN]

Seems you're full of surprises. Looks interesting... nice texture blending. Did you use a terrain generator?

[Allied]

Very nice looking, indeed!

[LuckyGenDago]

great done!

[steve]

[ReD NeCKersoN]

I guess I meant to say terrain "editor" not generator. (I've tried a few generators & didn't like the results either.) I do like EasyGen though.

I find myself wanting to ask more questions about your preferred techniques, but I'll just wait till you upload a beta. What I observe in game should at least answer a few questions & save us some typing.
As for the external high-res lightmap question, Joe Kari is our resident expert in that field.

Thanks in advance for the NetRadiant stuff!
Looking forward to checking out your level.

[Joe Kari]

Hi,

For high resolution lightmap, look at this blog note :
http://sgq3-mapping.blogspot.com/2009/01/using-hi-resolution-external-lightmap.html

Also, look at this forum thread if you can't find some issue in my blog :
http://www.smokin-guns.net/viewtopic.php?t=1921

[steve]

LONG IMAGE LIST AHOY!

Here's those updated preview images.

You might notice some of them are still a little bland, those tend to be from places where the level is still living in the block-editing stage.

There's not terribly much 'mapping' left to do, quite a bit of prop modeling (especially lighting sources).

Currently the level never dips below 70fps on my computer (It's old, I'm talking AGP4x and a Pentium 4 single core old)






Note in the first pic how the dynamite hole wont cast a shadow, what do? (_cs/_castShadows won't seem to work...)



The sign is a reference to a map I based this ones visual style from.



Depth sorting fail in the first pic (not sure on the fix yet...)

[ReD NeCKersoN]

Looks very, very impressive. Am I imagining things, or do I detect bump mapped textures here & there?

_cs 1 should work, to a degree, for func entities. Unfortunately, you'll have to choose whether you want that sunlight to be present or not before compiling. No real time lighting in the SG engine at present.
http://www.smokin-guns.net/viewtopic.php?p=14694#14694

[Allied]

That is an absolutely magnificent piece of work, excellent job! The lighting and modelling is superb.

I can hardly wait to try it out.

[Joe Kari]

Yeeehaaa, first mapper that use massively texture made by my bro'

Good work !

It looks like you have used few models, don't you ? If so, have you made them by yourself ?

[steve]

Thanks for the reply's chaps!

I just can't seem to get _cs 1 to work on that hole, I can't actually seem to get it to work on any brush entity's... I just think that it would look quite a bit better with the shadow (assuming that the hole will be filled the majority of the time).

Aye, there has been a bit of modeling so far, a mix between bsp-ase conversion THAT I LOVE and for more complex objects (or objects where polycount is rather important) I've been using my regular modeling tools.

ReD - There are a couple of bump mapping attempts, I think I'll need to up the lightmapscale+bumpmap depth to make them more apparent though.

Joe - You must tell your brother that he is quite a talented texture artist!

[steve]

Another small update.

I'm quite happy with the fire effect I managed to achieve.

About half way there I think...

[dbozan99]

This is looking quite promising! I can't see all of the pictures though...Is that just me?

[Juaro Juarez]

THat looks so unbelievably nice!
YOu really see there how much work you got into it