[ck3D]

Started a new map using textures made 25 years ago by Necrobitz (820 sectors right now).

[Ninety-Six]

Very rare to see ck use non-vanilla textures.

What's the story with these textures, by the way?

[ck3D]

Ninety-Six, on 21 January 2025 - 09:18 PM, said:

Very rare to see ck use non-vanilla textures.

What's the story with these textures, by the way?

They were shot on digicams around the north of Spain and handmade into an .art file in the early 2000's by Duke4 user Necrobitz. It resonated with me because I remember doing something similar with cheap webcams around my hometown around the same time period although in my case the intent was to capture the architecture and style of the surfaces to mimic in Build, and so not to downright make tiles (one map that benefitted from that was Downtown Ride - shame the level is quite poor but maybe it can be sensed in the visuals nonetheless that they were helped with references). Plus to me the style is just perfect. It's not that rare anymore that I use new .art, I've done that quite a bit now especially last year churning out levels for Alien Armageddon, just said .new art has to be good and inspire designs I can vibe with.

Necrobitz these days is working on DukeTEK which they intend to be an EDuke reinterpretation of Tekwar with high res art and less of the bad Tekwarisms.

(1100 sectors now, by the way.)

[Mark]

More recently TeaMonster took some photos and a few were looking good enough to convert them to seamless and in game. Finding and taking a proper photo isn't as easy as it sounds. Lighting, camera distance and angles have to be considered. Lots of photos don't make the grade.

[Sangman]

Just AMC things

[Ninety-Six]

I love the colors in the first one.

pretty lights