[Micky C]

Except visibility is a sector attribute and can't be applied to walls individually.

[Fox]

He didn't implied it could.

Edit: setting a negative shading for the walls seems to be working, despite that I haven't predicted using it.

[Altered Reality]

 Micky C, on 01 August 2014 - 11:59 PM, said:

my 1998 map from the DNF map

[TerminX]

I had an epiphany while I was taking a shit this morning.

[Hendricks266]

Shaded:

[The Commander]

It's still lacking something in my opinion.

[Mark]

yeah, it lacks shading

[Kyanos]

Maybe overlay opposite gradients on each half?? I dunno, but I agree it's still lacking. Looking good though.

[Mark]

For a quick test I wrapped the texture around a 3D ball model.

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[Ivan Jäger]

AK-47


Saiga-12


FN FAL

[TerminX]

The camera view jerking is way too much there... it feels unnatural, because actual human vision does all kinds of correction for sudden movements. Just like when you're in a car going down a road that hasn't been maintained in years, discharging a firearm multiple times in quick succession doesn't knock your vision away from your focal point. I wouldn't ditch the effect entirely, but I would limit it to only slight alteration of the angles.

[OpenMaw]

I'd say the effect looks alright with the Saiga-12, but the other two are way too intense.

[Mblackwell]

The logo needs stronger highlights to accent the curvature.

[Jimmy]

I always thought that CyberKeef looked like the giant Ivan Ooze from the Power Rangers movie.

[Ivan Jäger]

different angle

AK-103 (warface)

[Mblackwell]

Shift the muzzle flash to the right a bit.

Edit: I checked my own mods that have a similar view shift effect and the differences are
1) I never tilt the screen.
3) The view always shifts in the same direction and it's never more than a small shift so your focal point never changes.

I think if you just halve the intensity that would go a long way to improving how jarring it appears.

[Mike Norvak]

Yeah I think that what should move is the crosshair not player view.

[The Commander]

The guns shouldn't even give off a muzzle flash like that, it's way to big.

[Mblackwell]

Eh that part's not so bad. It's a stylistic choice. They should probably be given a transparency bit however.

Mike Norvak, on 04 August 2014 - 07:06 AM, said:

Yeah I think that what should move is the crosshair not player view.

I disagree on the only the crosshair moving, it would make everything seem... floaty.

[Fox]

Perhaps the muzzle should change sizes.

[OpenMaw]

The Angry Kiwi, on 04 August 2014 - 07:24 AM, said:

The guns shouldn't even give off a muzzle flash like that, it's way to big.

Depends. If you're going by Hollywood logic and you remove the flash suppressors. You can get some really ridiculous stuff like that huge blast on Reaper's rifle in DOOM.



Seriously, dumb-ass big muzzle flash.

[Jblade]

Games should have big muzzle flashes because there's a ton of things with firing a gun that you're never going to translate across to the player (The smell of smoke, recoil, the ear-bursting noise, .etc .etc) so having dramatic noises and muzzle flashes is a way of compensating for this.

[MetHy]

I couldn't stand the "HD weapons" replacement for Half Life (the one that comes with Blue Shift) because it made the muzzle flash of the machinegun (don't remember the name of the gun sorry) WAY too big and hid half of the screen. Like suddenly I knew why it was called "Half Life"

Spoiler

because you could only see half of the screen.

This doesn't look it's that bad though, but not quite far either. However, personally I don't think mixing such big muzzle flash with such big recoil a good idea, it's going to make shooting painful for the sake of 'realism' while the shooting is supposed to be fun, even if you want it to be 'realistic'. It's all a matter of balance I guess.

[Jblade]

A big muzzle-flash is fine for a high damage weapon, but HL's SMG didn't do much at all so giving it a huge muzzle-flash and a beefy firing sound didn't really work out (The original sound and shooting FX were fine and fit the gun well)

[Gambini]

That HD pack was so random that still today I wonder why Valve includes it with the steam half life by default (although it can be activated). They replaced most weapons and gave the characters different features, look at Gman. Of all the chances though, the one i was most comfortable with was the machinegun, it felt powerful even if it wasnt.

[MusicallyInspired]

It is not included with Steam Half-Life by default. It is available but you have to activate it manually. The default is the regular "LD" models.

[Gambini]

Unless they changed it very recently, you ought to be wrong. I remember simply clicking on the install button, then tinkering around to see how to disable it, because it was default.

[MusicallyInspired]

Ah, they seemed to have integrated it into the "Use HD models if available" option in the video options there. That's actually a good thing. It's a lot easier to enable and disable that option now than it used to be that's for sure. It just so happens that that feature is always enabled by default and always was, it just never triggered the HD pack before. Nice. Easy enough to disable, though.

[The Commander]

Look at those massive giant muzzle flashes...

[Jblade]

it's a good thing everybody has already acknowledged that guns in real life don't have huge muzzle flashes then dude!