So, what are you working on right now?

[Bikerdude]

Well just about finished doing the 1.08 update to Return to the city along with another round of bug fixes and minor tweaks to the perf and thought I'd share some cool cityscape vista's....

 

 

 

 

Enjoy.

[RPGista]

Very cool, many complex roofs and small details like the smoking chimneys - lots of lit windows though (= everyone is at home and awake, which is bad for thievery ).

Edited October 24, 2012 by RPGista

[Bikerdude]

Starting building a small map to learn RITS (random interesting things) and got a bit carried away, 5 hrs later....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadilljgQQg&feature=youtu.be

[nbohr1more]

Nice work Biker!

 

(where's that fixed-up rttc...?)

[demagogue]

In case anybody doubted a person could basically make a small FM in a day.

[Radiant]

@Bikerdude: Nice placement of objects.

 

@demagogue: Yes, a 24h speedmapping contest would be although interesting... and even if we get a ton of (excuse me) bullshit in the end, it might give some people new ideas.

[Sotha]

Starting building a small map to learn RITS (random interesting things) and got a bit carried away, 5 hrs later....

 

Cool! If those were made into modules, a layman could create such an apartment (or a whole mansion) layout in just a few minutes, using the high quality pieces you have created there. Just don't delete that map. I might want to look if those pieces could be modularized at some point, but I've been busy for the time being.

[Melan]

I'd find more reason in

• a one-week contest (you can kinda-sorta build something like Fauchard Street under that time if you stay up at night and on the weekend;
  
• a good, clean, Komag-style box contest ("build anything within this area")
  

24 hrs would be crazy, not because of the building time, but quality control issues.

[pusianka]

Have I told you guys, how freakingly, amazingly creative you all are? Just felt like saying this.

[Bikerdude]

where's that fixed-up rttc...?

Thats what the rits learning is for, I just wanted to give the guard, the cook and the nobelwomen something simple to do

In case anybody doubted a person could basically make a small FM in a day.

Well I imagine with the remaining 19hrs I could add a sewer, basement, attic, garden and backgrond city facades.

Bikerdude: Nice placement of objects.

Hey, it was only supposed to be a bacic placement so I can learn rits, but as mentioned I got carried away.

Just don't delete that map. I might want to look if those pieces could be modularized at some point, but I've been busy for the time being.

Im going to uploaded to the wiki to the rits section, so mappers have a map they can learn from rather than pictures. And talking of rits I may need help at some point.

24 hrs would be crazy, not because of the building time, but quality control issues.

+1

Have I told you guys, how freakingly, amazingly creative you all are? Just felt like saying this.

We do it because we love doing it. :-)

[SeriousToni]

Great work and good idea making a random path tutorial map! You could also place a commoner with some random path points and animations and set it all to a new layer. So the beginners can downlaod the map - look at how it should be done and then hide the layer and build their own path network (while checking the original network from time to time).

 

That little house looks sweet!

[Melan]

This is the first screenshot from the small FM I am currently working on:

Don't expect anything big or particularly complicated, but expect it reasonably soon (within a few weeks).

[grayman]

Lookin' good.

[Springheel]

Love the organic feel!

[Sotha]

Nice atmosphere. You could cut it with scissors, bag it and sell it to fellow mappers in price per kilo.

[Bikerdude]

Don't expect anything big or particularly complicated, but expect it reasonably soon (within a few weeks).

Nice, but one comment on the cobblestone texture, hopefully it looks better in your FM than it did in Thiefs den.

[Melan]

Bikerdude: in what respect? I don't know about the problem with Thiefs Den.

[Bikerdude]

I will check, but from memory that particular texture is too bright and overly specular.

[RPGista]

Melan = realistic architecture with nice gothic details; organic, irregular street surface; and most of all, a strong feel of proper scale and atmosphere - Im VERY interested in seeing the complete map.

[STiFU]

I will check, but from memory that particular texture is too bright and overly specular.

I agree, but I don't think it's the same texture here. That looks more like my cobblestone texture, which does not have too much specular. The normalmap is no masterpiece however, but it would've been very tiresome to do it "the manual way" for this texture.

[Bikerdude]

I have just spotted one issue with said texture with is probably what i was refering too, if you look in the shadows part of that scene, the specular/highlighted part of the stone cobbles you can see that are too bright it almost looks as its wet. IMHO we need a better version of that texture.

 

if I beta this for this, I will see one way or t'other for sure.

[New Horizon]

Reducing the specular should help. It drives me crazy when there are still people out there going on about how TDM looks plastic like D3 when the specular is toned down so much. There are probably textures that don't even use specular. Just goes to show that when some people get an idea in their head, they can't see anything but that idea.

[Melan]

Point taken. There are two versions of the texture, one with specular (for wet stones) and one without. I will just do a replace.

[Obsttorte]

Just to keep this thread alive I'd like to post some images of my next mission

 

they are still alots of details missing (and some texture misalignments I have to check for )

but I hope you'll like it

 

 

 

 

 

[Obsttorte]

 

 

 

 

Edited November 12, 2012 by Obsttorte