[Borion]

Great stuff, people! Very inspiring

[brullov]

[Mark]

Looks good. Now I can see why you were asking earlier for maps with subway examples.
With the floor grating that wide there are going to be a lot of broken ankles and dropped cellphones at the bottom.

[Ninety-Six]

Maybe it's just because it's a subway, but that reminds me a lot of Time to Kill's subway for some reason...

[Perro Seco]

With that texture selection reminds me of that map I named in the other thread, which is great because as I said is one of my all time favourites.

By the way, will that train be a mobile sector? I ask because it looks like there's some spritework there, and if I remember correctly, the latest builds of EDuke32 also move sprites.

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

brullov, on 07 June 2019 - 09:13 AM, said:

Max Payne flash backs intensify

[brullov]

Perro Seco, on 07 June 2019 - 11:22 AM, said:

With that texture selection reminds me of that map I named in the other thread, which is great because as I said is one of my all time favourites.

By the way, will that train be a mobile sector? I ask because it looks like there's some spritework there, and if I remember correctly, the latest builds of EDuke32 also move sprites.

Yep, it's a mobile sector, train moves

[Zaxtor]

Worked on one of the hub of the Oblivion E6L2 or Temple Pyramid level.
The stone Hub.

A cool trick with platform that are heat sensor sensitive

[TheDragonLiner]

Zaxtor, on 08 June 2019 - 01:40 AM, said:

Worked on one of the hub of the Oblivion E6L2 or Temple Pyramid level.
The stone Hub.

A cool trick with platform that are heat sensor sensitive
https://www.youtube....h?v=noWqCeReID4

With such a soundtrack, jumping on platforms has never felt so epic !


BTW I think I already saw that kind of trick in DukePlus and Imperium (the latter having made a more thorough exploitation of it) .... Maybe the new Oblivion will make an even more thorough exploitation of it ?

[Zaxtor]

TheDragonLiner, on 08 June 2019 - 04:26 AM, said:

With such a soundtrack, jumping on platforms has never felt so epic !


BTW I think I already saw that kind of trick in DukePlus and Imperium (the latter having made a more thorough exploitation of it) .... Maybe the new Oblivion will make an even more thorough exploitation of it ?

probably
I love making tricks in the mod etc.

First time I made that was in Dark Temple, my second Polymer based usermap.

[Micky C]

Imperium and Dukeplus make additional sprite platforms appear with the night vision goggles, they don’t take platforms away.

I’ve never been a big fan of tricky platforming, including having to press a button mid-jump like this. I’m sure some people are though.

[Mark]

Then you must have hated putting those fancy jump pads in your WGR2 map.

[ck3D]

brullov, on 08 June 2019 - 12:10 AM, said:

Yep, it's a mobile sector, train moves

Awesome. Screenshot is looking really good. Mood is on point, normally I maybe would point out the absence of strong lighting but I'm sure it's supposed to be a dark place, and it's looking really gloomy right now. I'm loving your use of the textures, and trim work. Looking forward to playing this.

[Micky C]

Mark, on 08 June 2019 - 03:35 PM, said:

Then you must have hated putting those fancy jump pads in your WGR2 map.

The map that barely has anything in it that I played around with years ago? Yep. The pads didn’t work.

[TheDragonLiner]

Micky C, on 08 June 2019 - 02:41 PM, said:

Imperium and Dukeplus make additional sprite platforms appear with the night vision goggles, they don't take platforms away.

I've never been a big fan of tricky platforming, including having to press a button mid-jump like this. I'm sure some people are though.

Personally I don't necessarily mind tricky platforming, as long as it kinda makes sense (for instance I didn't like finding them in the first part of the Akrozis in Trequonia because it wasn't credible to me as I had explained there) and it doesn't heavily requires the use of diagonals (either voluntarily or not). If there's a margin then it's okay, like in Zaxtor's AMC maps for instance.

However I agree that pressing switches in flight can be tedious sometimes. YET, fortunately, Zaxtor NEVER tried to put a switch to push in flight BETWEEN 2 platforms, now THAT would be trully horrible to pull off !

[Zaxtor]

switch between 2 platforms would be insanely hard.
especially over death pit.


Switch and platform I made we walk at tip of platform (dock or jump straight up to press)

never jump between and mid air pressing switch.

if is a non-death pit and is to open a secret to get strong weap then is more understandable.

PS night vision thing is easier.
You select to press enter in midair and you don't need to be in certain position to press it.

[quakis]

brullov, on 07 June 2019 - 09:13 AM, said:

The architectural simplicity and clean texturing definitely help make this scene. Based on what's shown, my only issue is the monotonous lighting; a bright contrast coming off a single light source and/or have strong shadows cast if sector construction allows it could be enough to boost the atmosphere here immensely, perhaps to emphasis the lack of powered lights elsewhere or to draw the player's focus somewhere (whichever is suitable).

[Mark]

Having to deal with sprites and sectors for shading/lighting is why I chose Polymer for my first project and every one since then. Its the easy way. But if I had textures with "built-in" lighting like Redneck Rampage has I would be more likely to try the sector route.

[brullov]

quakis, on 12 June 2019 - 07:39 AM, said:

The architectural simplicity and clean texturing definitely help make this scene. Based on what's shown, my only issue is the monotonous lighting; a bright contrast coming off a single light source and/or have strong shadows cast if sector construction allows it could be enough to boost the atmosphere here immensely, perhaps to emphasis the lack of powered lights elsewhere or to draw the player's focus somewhere (whichever is suitable).

Thanks for the advice. I've already reworked the lighting of this scene. Anyway, I am still trying to find my personal style of shading, which is somewhere between realistic and dark, monotone mood.

[brullov]

So I've just discovered how to add 3d effect to images...

[Zaxtor]

Nice
reminds me of some animated gif that were posted on facebook that does the 3d animated effect etc

[Mark]

Yeah, I saw that effect done with a fat redneck woman with no teeth and her mouth wide open.

[Zaxtor]

Made a storing room that is filled with metal containers.
One are held by chains (diagonal chains)
For E1L6

[TheDragonLiner]

It looks like Borion's new voxels are already put to good use !

[pmw]

Zaxtor, on 16 June 2019 - 10:18 PM, said:

Made a storing room that is filled with metal containers.
One are held by chains (diagonal chains)
For E1L6

Sloped transparent texture, how? Is it a ceiling or sprite? Some TROR stuff?

[Zaxtor]

pmw, on 17 June 2019 - 10:41 AM, said:

Sloped transparent texture, how? Is it a ceiling or sprite? Some TROR stuff?

Is a voxel, diagonal.
used Qubicle to tilt it and also for horizontal.
has invisible sprite so when you walk on the chain you go up diagonally (like a slope)

[Borion]

@Zaxtor @Brulov
Fantastic mapping work guys! Both in terms of structure and texture work!

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Haven't done anything with Build in a long time

[Truck Stop Santa Claus]

Zaxtor, on 16 June 2019 - 10:18 PM, said:

Made a storing room that is filled with metal containers.
One are held by chains (diagonal chains)
For E1L6

God damn
It looks like Half Life 2

[Mark]

Over the last 5 years or so I have made attempts to try and learn to model with Blender instead of the ancient Misfit program I have been using. With a program called Blender for Artists I finally made a breakthrough and so far I have figured out how to do simple modeling. I never got this far other times I tried in regular Blender. BFA takes the latest 2.8 version of Blender and combines it with a more user friendly interface. Blender is still a complicated program with a half million features but at least I can figure out the basics with a little help from my old buddy TeaMonster.

I needed a small project to start with and I chose the fusebox for the HRP that still uses a sprite. I thought all those boxes were models already. This is the one that has an intact and broken version with the 3 frame animated sparks. There are 2 more boxes and some pipes and wires to make. This is early WIP. It has a couple small but easy to fix mistakes so far but I'm so happy to finally be learning Blender I had to share it.

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