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Thanks! And for the marriage - it's not really the marriage itself which is going to change my life. We're long enough together (7 years....) to know how to share time between us and our own hobbys. The thing that will shake my life is actually the next step - children. We don't want to be "modern" and we're going to have a "team" - not just only one. That will be time consuming for sure...

Thanks for both: feedback and advice! Yes, that's what I had in my mind while doing them. You can see there one model at the beginnig and one other multiplied 3 times. Length to width of a module is 2/1, so you can easily add some branches on the left and right. My intention is to build some city docks environment, but I'm not at that stage yet. But we could try some open areas as well...

Some new models to show: two pier platforms (can be also used for scaffolding etc.) and 6 poles. Poles are quite long, for deeper water than the example one. I wish I could show you some more models, but I'm getting more and more busy in RL. In next two months I'm getting married, so you understand what I mean... Any advice from those of you who are married already on how to share a time between the mod and family would be much appreciated

Just by practicing... Good looking maps take months or at least weeks to finish... Not from Tuesday to Monday...

I like those TDS screenshots too! BTW: I didn't notice that TDS book had that interesting normal map...

Thanks, Greebo The Flash!

Is this intentional: when I Select Touching I get selected even items, which are filtered out? I'd expect them to not be selected - that's why I made them invisible...

or it would look even better with some alpha map to achieve rough edge between ashes and grass.

I thought it was picture... (the upper one) it was the flame and those stools that destroyed the illusion.... Great job!

As soon as I'm synched I'll upload them. I will also change back chain_d to chain1_d in material shader cause it's diffrent kind of chain. BTW: chain texture exists only as diffuse one, there's no chain_local nor chain_s - I can make them - I'm currently using that texture for one of my models.

Sneaksie - I'm not sure if the projected light is a good approach for this. What about just decal patch on a wall on which you want to have caustic effects with animated translucent map with ADD stage only. It would require more work for non-flat walls (f.e. with some beams) but should be possible I think. That's just from the top of my head, never tried this. And I'm not sure what way Dram has made his caustics in his mansion map... That cloudy texture was for testing purposes, I suppose, so with more caustic-like texture it would look even more believable. http://www.rit.edu/~photo/IFS/index-photos...er_caustic2.jpg http://www.sfu.ca/~elfreda/film/caustic.gif

Maybe just animated texture? I mean several frames animation - not scrolling or rotating. I know - someone has to make it... I don't know why lighttexture with zeroclamp off looks bad. Any screenshot..?

Thanks folks! Please keep me motivated! BTW: Recent models are already on SVN. (I'll update the gallery after weekend).

Unique texture for every surface - that is something new for sure. If it's exciting, I don't know.... It will take decades to make a game in the future if it goes in that direction...

Ha ha! Good joke! I'm still learning and getting experience. (BTW: I had to look for the meaning of that word, cause I'm not that familiar with Star Wars... )

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. Yes, that's true. I'd say even that dead objects add a life into a map...

I've just finished boat models. There are three of them sharing two skins. The last one took me a while... plenty of f*** (read: lovely) UV unwrapping and mesh optimization. It has 930 tris (the other ones have: 278 and 318).

Here's improved light texture: the previous one was really ugly... thanks Dram for your ruthless criticism!

Yep, thought about it already not necessarily. You can make a map for ADD stage, where only glass is lit leaving the wires black. Actually I prefer to make it on one texture, so the effect is more subtle. I'm at work now, so I can't post screenshot, but you know what I mean - when you see something thin against strongly lit surface it partially disapears. You can't achieve that effect with separate layers. (not in real-time engines, I mean... )

Thanks, I'm glad you like it. I've spent a bit of time on it... Yes, you're right. I wanted to make wires overlit (is this a right word? ) by light, but that wasn't convincing. Texture is already improved, but I'll post a screenshot later. Now, before I go to bed, here's some small boat plus oar. Another variation is modeled already but not textured yet. And some other skins are on the way as well. That's what I'm currently working on

I haven't posted any stuff for a long time, so I decided to break the silence. Most of the models and textures I work on are at not_to_show stage, but I decided to post that one prop, which I've just finished. Just to show you, that I'm still active OK, here's kind of ship lamp - the one that usually goes at the end of the ship. There are: hipoly model, low poly model (1002 tris) and two versions (lit and unlit) taken from game. Hope you like it

They must be floating over the table (on the screenshot), aren't they? I didn't include polys for the bottom of statues, cause they're never visible when slightly hidden under the ground level but for small models like those, we might want to have them. Since doomengine computes shadows only for backfaced polys, there's very often visible gap between model and its shadow, which for some reason happens very often. Not to mention, if we want to have them moveable.

I'm not sure but it looks like you're applying dromed's units for doom editing. I'm not very familiar with inches and feet units system but our AI are about 70-80 units of some kind, not around 6, as it was in Dromed. I also work with Max and from my experience 1 cm in Max is 1 unit in Radiant. And BTW it's good to make all models which you can put some other models on them (like tables, chairs etc.) with dimensions snapped to the grid in 3d application, since all models have to be snapped to the grid in Radiant as well. If they're not, then any models placed on other models will float over or clip into them.

Yeah, really good work, Ozi! I love those details. I'm eagerly waiting for some environment and/or furnished interior! P.S. the only thing that keeps nagging me is the scale of textures - especially bricks and roof tiles. I think they're too large, which makes the building looks smaller than it actually is. P.S.2 - and don't hesitate to apply for betamapper position (unless you know you don't have really time for this)

I'd say H S B stands for Hue, Saturation and Brightness. So 65% would be rgb 0.65 of _white.tga... Right - you can't minimize Doom3 while in fullscreen. Does your shortcut to Doom3.exe look something like that? E:\Doom3\DOOM3.exe com_allowConsole 1+disconnect +set r_gamma 1 +set r_brightness 1 +set r_mode 6 +set r_fullscreen 0 +set r_multiSamples 0 +set fs_game darkmod. And don't worry - there's plenty to discover yet