[Kawa]

I know how it works. I'm just wondering how something is "easy" with that many nodes.

[Roma Loom]

That's easier if we are talking about normal/parallax/spec workflow. There's no need to make a model to get the normal and height + photoshop work. And the texture occupies like 10Kb on disk.

This grass for instance is only 14Kb:

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[Tea Monster]

If I want to get that kind of detail, I have to start pushing polygons and the file size zooms up pretty quickly.

[Mark]

I must have missed something. How can that roughly 800 x 800 grass texture be only 14kb?

[Hendricks266]

Procedural generation instead of a bitmap.

[Mark]

You don't get something for nothing. Is the info being generated by the game engine instead of a texture file? Is that better or just a shell game with asset size? Or is my question too general for a complicated answer? I suppose a Google search is required for me.

[Micky C]

So what, is it literally coding up a texture?

[Mark]

Thats what it sounds like

[TURBOKID]

[TURBOKID]

New card switch

[HiPolyBash]

Is it just you doing the art? Will the aspect ratio on the Ripper be fixed?

[TURBOKID]

HiPolyBash, on 24 November 2016 - 09:59 PM, said:

Is it just you doing the art? Will the aspect ratio on the Ripper be fixed?

I am the main artist (and more than likely be doing the whole expansion myself)
I might commision comic style remakes of the title screen and story boards (Like Duke Advenced)
And as soon as i figure how to change the aspect ratio that will be fixed, deagle needs to be a bit bigger as well (and should probably be translated on the Y a bit too as its a little low on the screen) Also need to figure how to add more weapons.

[Tea Monster]

Micky C, on 24 November 2016 - 01:54 PM, said:

So what, is it literally coding up a texture?

Noodling up a texture

[Mark]

The new switch is a good fit for your art style. I would suggest making the top and left edges darker.

[Kawa]

Speaking of noodles, I've tried some procedural texture tools within my budget (none) and the best I've found, NeoTextureEdit, for some reason won't load what it saves. Any suggestions for other such applications?

[Tea Monster]

Substance Designer is available for a 1 year free student/teacher license.

[TURBOKID]

Blazing a tasty spliff getting ready for a day of cranking out the graphics.
Today ill be doing some more busty poster girls, some babes (pod and others), some inventory items, and some textures. If any mappers are interested I'm looking to make some improvements to the maps (windows and rooms in the buildings etc) PM me

Update

[xMobilemux]

I'm still no sprite artist but....


Judges?

EDIT:
Looking good Turbo!

[Kawa]

It's a bit off-center. Makes it hard to judge.

[TURBOKID]

xMobilemux, on 26 November 2016 - 11:57 PM, said:

I'm still no sprite artist but....


Judges?

EDIT:
Looking good Turbo!

Thanks bro

Update, still working on the mod but dividing up the time between Duke and my Doom Project

[Jaap]

I'm back!

I started working on modifying the AI of Ichwill and got to the point where I was able to make AI controlled hostages that will follow the player. Hostages can't jump as high as the player and don't want to fall so they walk around where I jump up and down.

[Mark]

ugh, that reminds me of an old girlfriend that stalked me after our breakup.

[Jaap]

Mark., on 27 November 2016 - 02:41 PM, said:

ugh, that reminds me of an old girlfriend that stalked me after our breakup.

Yeah, women tend to do that :-P

[Micky C]

Jaap, on 27 November 2016 - 02:37 PM, said:

I'm back!

I started working on modifying the AI of Ichwill and got to the point where I was able to make AI controlled hostages that will follow the player. Hostages can't jump as high as the player and don't want to fall so they walk around where I jump up and down.

https://www.youtube....h?v=pLGG_4cr_bw

Cool, how did you do that? I know Dukeplus has something where the player leaves a trail of invisible sprites for the enemy to follow, but this seems a bit smarter?

[Tea Monster]

Why is the pathfinding in your mod better than some of the AI/pathing that I've seen in modern games?

[Richard Shead]

Mark., on 27 November 2016 - 02:41 PM, said:

ugh, that reminds me of an old girlfriend that stalked me after our breakup.

Well, at least you then know you did something right...maybe?

[Hank]

Another weekend's work. This is for a map. Basically replacing 'borrowed' work from real artists with my own hobbiest work.

Before

after, with the lights on


Before, with superior work from Redneck Rampage


after, with Genetica ,

added
Did not like the look of the second image to be honest. Below is then my very first wall in polymer.

[Jaap]

Micky C, on 27 November 2016 - 02:53 PM, said:

Cool, how did you do that? I know Dukeplus has something where the player leaves a trail of invisible sprites for the enemy to follow, but this seems a bit smarter?

I use an A * (ish) algorithm based on sectors in the map. There are a few rules when going from one sector to another the wall can't be too high/low and the wall can't be blocking etc. There is still a lot of room for improvement but so far npcs can move around relatively okay.

I have seen other mods with AI bots that follow you around but they tend to get stuck behind walls or just straight on run off a cliff :-P

P.S. I haven't checked out Dukeplus, gonna do so soon because I am curious now.

[Micky C]

So it doesn't require any sprites to be manually placed in the maps, working purely on the sectors?

[Jaap]

Micky C, on 28 November 2016 - 03:01 AM, said:

So it doesn't require any sprites to be manually placed in the maps, working purely on the sectors?

Exactly, just sectors. I did use sprites in Ich will (where this all started) to sort of guide bots to take a certain path. I would put up an alpha but I am currently using a con command to remove a range from an array that isn't (yet) part of the standard commands of EDuke. (I have asked Hendricks266 to look into making it part of EDuke).

Using just sectors does have some limits but I still have some ideas on how to get around that or improve on it.