So, what are you working on right now?

[Geep]

The update to "Away 1 - Air Pocket" is now available as Beta 2/Release Candidate 1. Now with fewer bugs, more stealth playtime. Links are here.

[ERH+]

I was thinking how far into industrial era the consumerism starts to drive some big numbers of major group society. Mass-producing of cheap things from celluloid (combs, kitchen utensils, etc.) making modern marketing and advertisement spread around streets and people's minds. Child labor and 12-hour shifts, seven days a week is one thing about factories dominating the world, but putting  more modern image of a human in basically dark age grounded society needs some serious rethinking of the whole world set.

 

And for now, a tank. With no context.

 

Edited January 9, 2020 by ERH+

[Melan]

I have no idea how the treads could ever work, so I am content to describe it as

SORCERY!

[peter_spy]

The wall / window piece is now complete:

[HMart]

Very professional peter_spy nice job. 

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Been falling in love with decals of all sorts this past weekend. Grime, dirt, moss, and slime. Took areas I once considered boring and drab and really elevated them to a new level. I get the jokes when people say "needs more grime"; because it really does add layers of depth and atmosphere.

 

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Sorry I can only manage to get two decent screens per post.

Really enjoyed toying with the shadows from statues and placing blood decals.

[peter_spy]

About that white wall, I think that the material tiles too often. Either break it up with more details on geometry, or decrease texture scaling.

Edited January 14, 2020 by peter_spy

[Jedi_Wannabe]

The white bricks? Yeah I agree. They need alignment anyway. I’ve held off on fixing that because I’m still not sure if that’s gonna be the final texture. I toyed with stucco and plaster but they didn’t look right. Gonna try a few more cobblestones and bricks.

[JackFarmer]

@Jedi_Wannabe

You have added trees in the corner and additional bushes close to the walls, very good idea.

Did you "SEED" the hassocks?

 

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Nothing SEEDed yet. That’s next on the agenda to learn. I’d planned some alternate routes through my forest, but my entity count is around 7000 so oh well

[Geep]

Release Candidate 2 for Air Pocket is now out. Links here . The "one-way" cannon-ball hole, considered a bit too weird by many, has been replaced, and there's more sly light-fingering fun. If no show-stoppers, this release will go official in a week. Coming shortly: a few more new mission screenshots.

[Geep]

...such as these.

[Jedi_Wannabe]

Perfect timing on the rat posing.   
edit: Missed his shadow the first time I looked, now I like it even more.

Edited January 30, 2020 by Jedi_Wannabe

[Geep]

Glad you pointed out that shadow, I missed it too... wasn't obvious in the original before I brightened it.

[JackFarmer]

On 2/1/2020 at 4:42 PM, Geep said:

Glad you pointed out that shadow, I missed it too... wasn't obvious in the original before I brightened it.

Any updates on the release date?

[Geep]

Feb. 7th it got released.

[JackFarmer]

On 2/11/2020 at 11:17 PM, Geep said:

Feb. 7th it got released.

Hm....too late!

[Amadeus]

A screenshot from my upcoming FM "A Good Neighbor"

[Geep]

Added my first TDM Wiki topic, "Video Briefing".

[grayman]

Yay!!

[Geep]

Another wiki topic added:

Your Mission - From Beta Testing to Release and Beyond
with links from the endings of:

• A - Z Beginner Full Guide Page 6
• How to pack your Mission

The material here will be largely obvious to old hands, but worth stating explicitly for the benefit of newcomers. From the Introduction:
This article elaborates typical steps for beta-testing a mission beyond its packaging, namely: distribution, forum presence, and testing. This process continues to Final Release and any updates. Consider this a follow-on to -
* A - Z Beginner Full Guide; and
* How to Pack your Mission, which fully describes the vital process of packaging and testing a .PK4 archive.

[Geep]

Still another new topic, from 2019 work:

Objects Floating in Water

This covers func_bobbing and moveable methods at a tutorial level, with pointers to other methods. By tomorrow, I'll add links to it from other relevant pages.

[JackFarmer]

... and here we have the proof: "Vitalic Fever" reactivates even the higher brain functions in the undead!

[Geep]

I've just posted a full rewrite of this stylistically-challenged wiki page: Playing ROQ Video Files

While use of RoQ is deprecated for new FMs, the article's general approach is still of some interest. I plan to eventually situate it within a set of examples that (on a separate page) include more modern video formats. I've kept the historical aspect of the article, while adding pointers to newer treatments of RoQ files, for anyone who needs to maintain them.