So, what are you working on right now?

[JackFarmer]

"Hidden Hands - Vitalic Fever" is almost ready - I received the missing files for the ingame comments yesterday and there is only one final problem with integrating one voice file left (see Newbie thread).

A friend of mine is working on the intro. We will meet and finish it during the next weekend. Below you can see a shot from the very first scene:

[AluminumHaste]

On 5/20/2019 at 4:01 PM, peter_spy said:

Spent some time toying with detail texture stage. Something similar was used in first Rage, but it was way, way less subtle. This is only visible when you're really close to a surface:

I really miss this feature, it was in Quake 3 but not used much. Also the old ATi Radeon demos showed off this feature.

It was poorly done in Crytek engines where you only saw it with dynamic lights like muzzle flares.

[peter_spy]

First location concept phase.

[Springheel]

17 minutes ago, peter_spy said:

First location concept phase.

Sweet!  Is that a subtle foglight creating the blues off to the right, or is it an ambient light? 

 

[peter_spy]

I think that's just a noshadows light meant to fake the light coming from the window.

[peter_spy]

Sorry to spam a bit, but I think this one has potential to look quite cool when finished. Testing scale, first tileable materials, and possible light sources. Models are simplified, I just needed to set proper scale (windows are reused as mocks). Geometry will be much more complex, not sure about lighting (all lights are static, but shadow-casting).

[NeonsStyle]

It does. Is it a dungeon? Basement? As I said the other day I think it could use some debris/furniture to break up the floor. Looks

great though.

[peter_spy]

Yeah, something like that. This is nowhere near a finished scene, just a rough sketch to figure out scale and basic proportions. These columns will probably get thicker, and I plan to have walls and floor as flat materials mixed with actual geometry, a la Dark Souls 3 and the like. Those bricks and tiles will probably be noshadows, but they should still look pretty cool. We'll see

Edited July 10, 2019 by peter_spy

[chakkman]

Very nice. Looks to me like a basement in a Builder's structure, or something.

[SeriousToni]

I must say I really love the subtle blue lighting without any harsh shadows. Wow!

[Goldwell]

 

A screenshot from Shadows of Northdale Act 5 (and my first on the new forum!).

 

Corbin will be venturing across the Northdale river to break into the infamous inventors guild.

[peter_spy]

Looks promising, a reminds me of Dunwall a bit

[JackFarmer]

Early shot from Hidden Hands: The Lost Citadel (Part I: The Weir)

The mission will consist of three parts.

[Jedi_Wannabe]

I'm excited for this Jack!

First real working area I've accomplished, a little forest meadow that leads up to some skinny trails. I hope to rival BD's forest from Alberic's Curse at least in terms of atmosphere. If I portal it properly it just might be doable and run ok. Sorry for garbage resolution.

 

How's that, Jack fixed the brightness for me.

Edited July 30, 2019 by Jedi_Wannabe

[JackFarmer]

@JW: The shot is a little dark. Please note: Screenshots from DM do not possess the gamma settings from your DM preferences. Thus, you have to adjust brightness/gamma manually via a program.

Please replace your shot from above with a brighter one.

Edited July 30, 2019 by JackFarmer

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Thanks, Jack!

Those spotlights and fog with the water outflow pipes look really great! I'm excited about it being 3 parts!

Edited July 30, 2019 by Jedi_Wannabe

[peter_spy]

I'm trying to break up the monotony of flat surfaces a bit, in similar fashion to what modern games do. Typically though, you'd need photoscanned assets or hi poly sculpts that go both as bakes for low poly geometry, and then for flat tiling materials. Since this is way too time-consuming for one person, I decided to take slightly more simple approach, where I'm just modeling shapes based on tiling material made with Substance.

The result is similar to what parallax mapping would do, except no "jelly effect" and hopefully less stretching. Good thing is that this geometry doesn't need to cast shadows, and every stone is like 50-100 triangles, so not that much. So far the engine seems to handle that without any problems, but I'll wait with my optimism until I get both walls and floor covered with this additional geometry

[Melan]

I am posting these on behalf of bikerdude (from Shadowhide's big city map). LONG.

 

 

[Melan]

Second batch:

 

[chakkman]

So he's still making maps for TDM? Nice.

[peter_spy]

That's the last thing I saw about this map.

http://shalebridgecradle.co.uk/testing/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=3012&start=15

Edited August 9, 2019 by peter_spy

[Jedi_Wannabe]

20 hours ago, chakkman said:

So he's still making maps for TDM? Nice.

Is it nice though? He was the reason I waited until this January to join and start posting. I've lurked for a decade and didn't want to come out of the shadows until he made his final exodus. I've dealt with relatives in my personal life with schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, and pathological liars and lemme tell you I can spot that shite a mile away. Watching his descent from hero to zero was sad and disappointing. His contribution to the mod and his talent and technical prowess were all marred and tainted in the wake he left behind. I'm going to make a bold statement and say my goal in time is to be better than he was/is. I've barely been mapping a few months but give me a few years. If I were a betting man I would put money down on the fact he masquerades around here under the guise of a newb. I'm sorry for venting I don't want to derail the thread; it's all been covered before. I just fear history has a tendency to repeat itself. He's still human and I'm not saying he's a bad guy that we must treat as a leper, but maybe exercise caution.

Pretty screen shots though.

And peter_spy, I really am excited every time I see new work you show off.

[snowy]

If the maps are fun, what does it matter who's behind it? If I stopped using every product because of the person behind it, I'm not sure if I'd still have a normal comfortable life

I mean, just look at some of the musicians and actors. Plenty of fine works there, but not everyone is as breathtaking as Keanu Reeves.

[Jedi_Wannabe]

You’re him. Calling it right now.

Jokes aside, nobody is as breathtaking as Keanu.

[chakkman]

2 hours ago, Jedi_Wannabe said:

Is it nice though? He was the reason I waited until this January to join and start posting. I've lurked for a decade and didn't want to come out of the shadows until he made his final exodus. I've dealt with relatives in my personal life with schizophrenia, narcissistic personality disorder, and pathological liars and lemme tell you I can spot that shite a mile away. Watching his descent from hero to zero was sad and disappointing. His contribution to the mod and his talent and technical prowess were all marred and tainted in the wake he left behind. I'm going to make a bold statement and say my goal in time is to be better than he was/is. I've barely been mapping a few months but give me a few years. If I were a betting man I would put money down on the fact he masquerades around here under the guise of a newb. I'm sorry for venting I don't want to derail the thread; it's all been covered before. I just fear history has a tendency to repeat itself. He's still human and I'm not saying he's a bad guy that we must treat as a leper, but maybe exercise caution.

 Pretty screen shots though.

And peter_spy, I really am excited every time I see new work you show off.

Don't get me wrong, i can at least halfway see where you're coming from. I can only say that, from my perspective, i didn't spend remotely enough time here, or am deep enough involved to even know what he was like exactly. Yeah, saw some controversial stuff, but, spending time on internet forums, you sort of get used to it... i don't even want to know how many people who spend a considerable time of their life on internet forums suffer from the things you mentioned. I'd say a whole lot. At least that's my impression, with all kind of wicked posts i've read.

As snowy mentioned, that doesn't have a influence on me enjoying his maps, though. AFAIC, he made some of the finest missions for this mod, so...

Edited August 10, 2019 by chakkman