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  1. DeTeEff

    Mapping while listening to Sothas soothing voice with his lovely finnish accent, explaining how awesome modular building techniques are :)

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    2. Sotha

      Sotha

      Please do! TDM accent-o-galore, for great justice!

       

      Serves them native english speakers right... :D

    3. DeTeEff

      DeTeEff

      Not gonna happen with mapping, but I might stream some TDM missions and use a phat swedish accent, littered with finnish curse words though! ;)

    4. Sotha

      Sotha

      I look forward to it! ;) For that purpose, I should make you a special mission full of unfair insta-kill traps, teleporting flaming (area damage effect) revenants, deadly jumping puzzles and a save functions disabled. "Pärkkele, finne!" ;)

  2. DeTeEff
    ...and patch splitting...
  3. DeTeEff
    Possibility to resize models??? Greebo, you are an ACE!
  4. DeTeEff

    Been away for some time again and thought some mapping would be nice; Question from a modelling noob: Is it possible/an easy/quick task to select a bunch of models/func_statics in DR, export them to an external modelling software like Blender and then save it as one model and put it back to DR? This of course to save entities.

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    2. Obsttorte

      Obsttorte

      You can export brush and patchwork using the DR ASE exporter. But you can't combine worldspawn and models.

    3. DeTeEff

      DeTeEff

      Okay, but is it an easy task to (in Blender) to import the same model, say several bottles and then arrange them to look like a bunch of bottles, on the same z-plane and then save it as a unique model? Instead of using up several entities in DR...

    4. Epifire

      Epifire

      Yeah, you can totally do that with Blender easily. Though it can be slightly problematic to get smoothing right on a prop with a lot of hard edges. I've found you really just have to split edges manually for it to translate over correctly. Which can be kinda a pain if you don't use Blender often.

  5. DeTeEff
    And in my current city mission, I build more like a person playing the mission, meaning no plan more than a general idea of what kind of section the player will encounter/walk into (will this be an alley, a small town square, a garden?). Then the mission expands as my mapping goes on, as a player who is exploring, with no idea of what he will encounter. I haven't even any direct idea of where the player will start. But I guess that can easily be fixed later when I add guards and lock doors and stuff... This building tecnique may not be the most efficient, but sometimes I struggle with the motivation to build and I believe it's better to build these things I find interresting than to just give up. A small citysection can always be modified/adjusted to accomodate lots of different mission approaches; follow this NPC, go to that nice house and break in, escape the city, or just roam around like the FM Business as usual. Perhaps I feel like building a nice mansion interior, okay, that can be added to the city, too bad my city section is rather slummy (which is another "problem" I run into from time to time; Try to keep to one class (slum, average, noble etc) as I believe the people of this day and age didn't mix classes too much)
  6. DeTeEff
    Some interresting/frustrating thing with my mapping style (that could perhaps be fixed by proper planning) is that I often end up with a nice looking house with some decent interiors (not furnished yet) and then start to wonder..."Hmmm, what should this building be for? I had a tavern in mind but the layout isn't much tavernish..." Also I tend to hollow out more than I planned to do..."Oh, look! This house looks nice...Hmm, this is a nice place to position some pipes so the player can get up to that window...Let's hollow out the house!"
  7. DeTeEff
    For the record, it was this entity atdm:moveable_holder_tall_plus_candle3
  8. DeTeEff
    I noticed that the smoke that emmits from a snuffed candle is bound to the candle. It follows as the candle is moved about. Is it possible to unbind it just as it goes out?
  9. DeTeEff
    Hehe, yeah I see what you mean Yes, but I don't know exactly what to add to break up the monotony... It's not a place you can reach (as for now) It's a noclip-photo as to speak.
  10. DeTeEff
    Some pics from the current project...This is some of the best looking pics I could get to try to render some boost... None of the images are from complete scenes. More details/junk/patches/crap will be added later...
  11. DeTeEff
    Okay, but even if the bug doesn't get more attention/fixing, aren't your small fix better than nothing?
  12. DeTeEff
    Hehe, some people are just more nitpicky than others Just that I wanted a gritty and dirty and unforgiving sewer with lots of the good, brown stuff, and it's a bit jarring that the water is totally clear at just the surface... Is your fix going to be included in any future updates?
  13. DeTeEff
    If I understand correctly, to create murky water you create a body of water, add a coloured patch on top, add a fog light in the water and then add underwater_gui guis/underwater/underwater_greengrey_thickmurk.guito the water body. The problem is that the "camera/eyes" of the player reaches under the water before the game recognize the player being submerged and the murky gui kicks in, so if the player just slightly dips his head in the water, the water is clear. Is there any workaround for this? I have tried to put several layers of the coloured overlay like 1-2 units below the surface, but the effect in unsightly at the water edges where you can spot the layers...
  14. DeTeEff
    Don't know if it's my wobbly fingers or anything but sometimes it's so frustrating to open the popup menu with the right mouse button; the work area just slides around like a scared rat with oily feet... A shortcut for 'Convert to func_static' would be much appreciated. Maybe it already exists??
  15. DeTeEff
    city_streets01_loop_z used on an ordinary green speaker - Slow bug sound city_streets01_loop_z used the zoning system - Slow bug sound city_streets01_loop used on an ordinary green speaker - Correct sound city_streets01_loop used on the zoning system - Correct sound (No popping what I've noticed) I think I'll stick to the shaders without the Z then Thanks
  16. DeTeEff
    Painfully beautiful, especially those interior parts! I guess you have built them in a "real" modelling software and not "just" DR? I particularly like the softness of the edges. Like the years and wear and tear have shaven off the clean edges.
  17. DeTeEff
    Now here we go again! Last night the high pitched sound was there again. I didn't record it but when I started mapping today I found yet another strange sound error. It seemed like the game didn't want to play certain ambient correctly. It sorta played it in a lower pitch/slower tempo... I have recorded proof This is the ambient city_night04_loop_z first played in darkradiant and then in game. What is going on?? https://ufile.io/f0121 And this is city_streets01_loop_z played first in darkradiant then in the map https://ufile.io/aa241
  18. DeTeEff

    It's so difficult and frustrating to create nice looking city sections!!!

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    2. demagogue

      demagogue

      Open up good city sections in DR and study them.

      They're often angled skybox walls (making the area squashed polygonal) with portaled kiss points out, a surrounding layer of tall buildings, and on an angled z-axis ground. Those features alone will get it started off looking natural and lead to interesting architecture.

    3. DeTeEff

      DeTeEff

      I don't understand this: "making the area squashed polygonal"

      And "angled z-axis ground" Do you mean different heights of the ground?

    4. demagogue

      demagogue

      Sorry. For "squashed polygon", I mean if you're looking down at the street in DR, there are like 6-10 skybox "walls" of different lengths so it looks squashed into an oval. It instantly gets away from 4-wall boxy. And by the ground, yes I mean different heights, but mostly I mean the ground is sloped with patches & stairs. That's what I learned from looking at great city missions.

  19. DeTeEff
    Reminds me of the Arcane Sanctuary from Diablo 2 Needs more impossible geometry though...
  20. DeTeEff
    Wrong quote...
  21. DeTeEff

    Using Darkmod as a guide to plan a scratch built IRL-shelf...

    1. Bikerdude

      Bikerdude

      Niice!

  22. DeTeEff
    The problem was solved for me when I found another update-file. Check (in the same directory as tdm_update.exe) for a file named _tdm_update.exe
  23. DeTeEff
    WOHOOOO! I read about the improvements of DMAP-time and A Night To Remember takes between 5-10 minutes on 2.03. (Strange since it's a relatively small map. BikerDude said bad monsterclipping could be to blame). I tried to DMAP it now and it took about 30 seconds! I was so happy I DMAP:ed it again with the same result
  24. DeTeEff
    I cannot get the update to work. The tdm_update.exe says a new updater needs to be installed and when I press Continue it just loops... Also the ingame updater says the most recent version is 2.03... I found another file; _tdm_update.exe and now it works! Thanks for all the effort you've put into this boys and girls! And also It's good to know that I'm ahead of the game
  25. DeTeEff
    I read about that after my post. Interesting stuff, that SEED...
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