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Very nice shots, indeed. The contrast seems a bit high, but that may onle be on the screenshots. Looking forward to the release :)

 

Thanks! That is one of my bigger concerns actually. I cannot increase the brightness of the ambient light much further considering it will be too bright and hard to hide. This map has too many open areas looking into each other, that's a disaster concerning proper visportaling the map (I'm sure the original dev's didn't concern themselves with visportals haha). Adding more lights to brighten areas is also a challenge considering the big open areas cause light to bleed resulting in performance issues. I'm in the process of turning some static props into models in those particular sections, maybe then I can add a bit more light without the sacrifice of performance.

 

Nice shots, refl3ks! :)

 

Thank you!

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I think the lighting looks great but if you need to tweak things, please remember that the new "ai_see" spawnarg was added in 2.04

You can add little local ambient lights (or even normal lights) with "ai_see" "0" which can give a lift without lighting the player up like a Christmas Tree.

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I think the lighting looks great but if you need to tweak things, please remember that the new "ai_see" spawnarg was added in 2.04

You can add little local ambient lights (or even normal lights) with "ai_see" "0" which can give a lift without lighting the player up like a Christmas Tree.

 

Something I did not know, thanks!

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GUNS???? NO Definitely DO NOT want guns in TDM. Then it just turns into a shooter. It's unnecessary, and I see no gain in it at all.

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These IdTech4 volume shadows, I've been trying to use this for a guard with a torch. How is it done? I've done it accidently in places, but

when I try to reproduce it for this, it's hit and miss.

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Guns aren't great all over the place for the vanilla game, but there are times they'd be good for specific AI in specific FMs. So having them as something mappers can use is good IMO.

 

The other reason they'd be good is it makes it easier to use the engine as a platform for other genres and time periods. With guns somebody could make a western, noir, war, cyberpunk, or scifi map just with some new textures and static objects and modifying the models.

 

Even then I think they shouldn't change the gameplay to a shooter, but I don't think people in our community are interested in doing that anyway or they wouldn't be here.

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Guns aren't great all over the place for the vanilla game, but there are times they'd be good for specific AI in specific FMs. So having them as something mappers can use is good IMO.

 

The other reason they'd be good is it makes it easier to use the engine as a platform for other genres and time periods. With guns somebody could make a western, noir, war, cyberpunk, or scifi map just with some new textures and static objects and modifying the models.

 

Even then I think they shouldn't change the gameplay to a shooter, but I don't think people in our community are interested in doing that anyway or they wouldn't be here.

 

You're right Dem, I over reacted lol

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Yeah, the panel looks awesome. Very detailed. Good work, mista.

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Yeah part of the design behind the electrical box is that it houses an adjustable internal receiver. Still keeping to the design of charged air particles, the smaller gear is designed to be used with a wrench for tuning the reception plate (the one with all the fins and wire coming off it). Much as tuning lugs work for the design theory on the arc_transformer, this is just a different variant of the method. A lot of Dishonored and T:DS references during the construction of these as they were my main inspiration.

 

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Well done Epifire, you have a real strength for creating and texturing machines. That said, when you pull off something as madly detailed as this I'll be properly impressed ;)

 

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Well done Epifire, you have a real strength for creating and texturing machines. That said, when you pull off something as madly detailed as this I'll be properly impressed ;)

 

I hadn't forgotten :P I think that's my other project aside from the Castle Lab demo that I haven't tackled yet. Rest assured my off season is coming up soon and I'll be working full time towards game assets and beefing the living hell outta my portfolio.

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itchy fingers ... wanna play

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Very creative.

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