[Mark]

Well if your's looks like mine I say to you "keep up the good work, it looks great. "

[Kyanos]

Plagman, on 24 October 2011 - 05:09 PM, said:

If you're going for rain, you should totally go for an animated normal map. I'd do it by taking the base normal map as generated from the rock, then adding random noise a dozen of times or so and cycling through them.

Could you please explain this process a bit more for me? And how to define it?

[rasmus thorup]

Pretty late that i post this. But the new texture for the floor is really nice Marked.

[Micky C]

I've been experimenting with nuclear cooling towers. IMO the vertical bits at the top look too... vertical. Edit: I don't ever recall seeing giant cooling towers in a Duke map before, probably because it's hard to have them and enterable buildings in the same area without TROR.

You know, a slicer tool in mapster would have been really handy creating these .



This one's twice as big as the one on the right.

[Stabs]

sli-cer? oh one of those, like that nifty thing lebuild has that was coded in fatmans lunch breaker?

huh wut? an amazing engine like eduke with TROR dosn't have a slicer (that could possible remember a first walls orientation *wink wink*) ?

occupy eduke movemnent

[Tea Monster]

Some really nice work here.

Marked - a lot of people use modular buildings, they make a few shopfronts, a few dwelling fronts, a few doorways, etc and just mix and match them to get a city. The great thing is that you can cycle textures around with the same models to look like you have a legion of architects at your command. That map of yours is coming along a treat. Bags full of atmosphere and character. You've nailed the whole normal mapping thing as well. Looks brilliant.

Drek - As Plagman said, you can just use a noise texture and animate it. If you are using X-Normal to bake off the texture, you can use some alpha and apply it as a 'detail' texture on top of your regular floor texture. If you cycle them in the def files it will look like the surface is 'boiling' like it does in a heavy rain storm. Not exactly sure how you animate it in the def files to cycle indefinitely through time, but I'm sure on of the regular mappers can point you in the right direction.

EmericaSkater - that has a nice visual 'vibe' to it. Looks good.

[Jimmy]

That looks cool. The only map I can think of with cooling towers is maybe Edman 2: Nuclear Seas but I haven't played that since I beta-tested it before release.

[rasmus thorup]

My map has such towers. But you probably won't be able to get into them. They're just background stuff.

[Micky C]

 Captain Awesome, on 28 October 2011 - 10:01 AM, said:

That looks cool. The only map I can think of with cooling towers is maybe Edman 2: Nuclear Seas but I haven't played that since I beta-tested it before release.

I checked it out, and they were nothing more than giant cylinders. For better or worse, standards have risen since 2004.

 rasmus thorup, on 28 October 2011 - 10:03 AM, said:

My map has such towers. But you probably won't be able to get into them. They're just background stuff.

Well I've incorporated these towers into a map, and you can enter them from the top, the bottom, and you can look at them from underground, well, one of them anyway. This'll be part of a long term project I'm working on; the outdoor area is quite large and interconnected and I want to use polymer lights everywhere, so I'm waiting until plagman does that polymer overhaul, which might be a year or two
Part of me is also hoping that one TX will one day write a new map format from scratch with larger wall limits, if possible.

[Helixhorned]

 Micky C, on 27 October 2011 - 07:45 PM, said:

You know, a slicer tool in mapster would have been really handy creating these .

 DanM, on 28 October 2011 - 04:07 AM, said:

sli-cer? oh one of those, like that nifty thing lebuild has that was coded in fatmans lunch breaker?

huh wut? an amazing engine like eduke with TROR dosn't have a slicer (that could possible remember a first walls orientation *wink wink*) ?

Something on my list, but first there are more pressing issues to be resolved, like the incredibly annoying occasional interruption of playing sounds.

[rasmus thorup]

Micky C, on 28 October 2011 - 05:05 PM, said:

Well I've incorporated these towers into a map, and you can enter them from the top, the bottom, and you can look at them from underground, well, one of them anyway. This'll be part of a long term project I'm working on; the outdoor area is quite large and interconnected and I want to use polymer lights everywhere, so I'm waiting until plagman does that polymer overhaul, which might be a year or two
Part of me is also hoping that one TX will one day write a new map format from scratch with larger wall limits, if possible.

Well. I am looking forward for such a map from you, just so you know.

[Jimmy]

Micky C, on 28 October 2011 - 05:05 PM, said:

I checked it out, and they were nothing more than giant cylinders. For better or worse, standards have risen since 2004.

Heheh, totally, however, Eddy's mapping style (in terms of detail and architecture) was rather mediocre for 2004 even.

[Stabs]

its not really diablo for eduke, i just video edited the music and voices in, all i can say is its turning out really cool and we have some cool shit planned.

made this town in 6 hours so WIP

[Mark]

Yet another cool concept from the master.

[Stabs]

love how much TROR makes you think, you research and think 2 steps ahead, and it just changes the entire way you map

[Mblackwell]

I actually immediately thought of Nightmare Creatures.

[rasmus thorup]

That's awesome Danm. Once i actually thought of making a diablo mod. That means i will have to make multiple maps and then the game will load a random one. Probably won't happen.

[Jimmy]

DanM, on 30 October 2011 - 08:13 AM, said:

its not really diablo for eduke, i just video edited the music and voices in, all i can say is its turning out really cool and we have some cool shit planned.

made this town in 6 hours so WIP

That's really cool. I've thought about a Diablo mod before, even though this isn't quite it, it looks like it'll be close enough. Can't wait to see some more.

[Stabs]

to say the very least I really want to bring this game experience that is a mash of some very solid and whilst old gameplay, except in the 10 odd years its had to stagnate unfortunately, i intend to breath new life and ideas into it hopefully with DT's genie coding that is just unheard of for a free user mod, you think we put thought into DNE?

Iam moving on, forgot the standard construction of episodes and the normal way to play levels, iam back tracking and hubbin' now lads

[Daedolon]

It reminded me of Daggerfall even before I saw the sprites, great job. Six hours is pretty fast in getting away from the Duke-feel.

[CruX]

DanM, on 30 October 2011 - 08:13 AM, said:

its not really diablo for eduke, i just video edited the music and voices in, all i can say is its turning out really cool and we have some cool shit planned.

made this town in 6 hours so WIP

Dear lord!

[Forge]

DanM, on 30 October 2011 - 08:13 AM, said:

its not really diablo for eduke, i just video edited the music and voices in, all i can say is its turning out really cool and we have some cool shit planned.

made this town in 6 hours so WIP

pretty impressive. especially the outdoor architecture and the effective implementation of the lighting. The music and sounds made me laugh in surprise. Now I want to see a dungeon.

[VinsaneOne]

Looks like Diablo will have shotguns! Great work DanM!

And now for a special announcement...


Proudly Presents...
...Duke Nukem!
He's running out of options as he wages war against this unknown, haunted and possessed entity...
...and he's really pissed off in,
COLA CONUNDRUM
If you don't find it, it will find you!
This Halloween night!!

Just got word that series episode will not be released as previously mentioned. Sorry for the mix up folks.
Think of it as just another Duke delay curse

[The Commander]

But it's already the 31st?

[Micky C]

The Commander, on 30 October 2011 - 10:51 PM, said:

But it's already the 31st?

Sure, rub it in that you're in New Zealand and get newly released iPhones and stuff before the rest of the world.

I'll be looking forward to that Vinsane.

[VinsaneOne]

The Commander, on 30 October 2011 - 10:51 PM, said:

But it's already the 31st?

Ha, yea but here it's am. I know, you can't wait to see it!

[Stabs]

Micky C, on 30 October 2011 - 10:55 PM, said:

Sure, rub it in that you're in New Zealand and get newly released iPhones and stuff before the rest of the world.I'll be looking forward to that Vinsane.

buts soon NZ will fall into the sea
on your series vinsane, heh hope its some whorehouse of horror like the Simpson story's

Forge, on 30 October 2011 - 06:34 PM, said:

pretty impressive. especially the outdoor architecture and the effective implementation of the lighting. The music and sounds made me laugh in surprise. Now I want to see a dungeon.

posted this awhile ago in the polymer thread but that's one of the more "hostile" environments planned

[The Commander]

DanM, on 30 October 2011 - 11:05 PM, said:

buts soon NZ will fall into the sea

Not a chance.

DanM, on 30 October 2011 - 11:05 PM, said:

posted this awhile ago in the polymer thread but that's one of the more "hostile" environments planned
[Video]

You need to re-record it again in better quality.

[Micky C]

The Commander, on 30 October 2011 - 11:07 PM, said:

Not a chance.

You need to re-record it again in better quality.

Yeah don't worry everyone will be fine. You'll just be floating on sheep afterwards

I don't see why he should re-record it per se; it'll be out in less than a few months and we can see it first hand.

[Stabs]

well hopefully some kind of beta, whole lotta mapping atm and not much else.

and yeh i cant be bothered with high res often, they are large and the upload speeds are so terrible here