So, what are you working on right now?

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huh, finished it

 

sorry for the amount of posts, bloody 500 kB limit

 

I continued working on this after a two week pause now and I am about 25-30% finished

outdoor areas will be added later on

 

I made very much use of the procedural building technice mainly discussed by sotha and tels and I must say

 

- it's fast

- it's error prone

- it rocks

 

so I hope I can finish this mission before christmas so santa can knock on your doors and say:

"It's on taffer, go cod some watchmen!"

[RPGista]

Those are some really cool shots, I particularly like the heavy usage of structural elements that give "texture" to the spaces and the diverse environments. Now all you need is an interesting storyline - I would suggest studying the conversation system so you can make the npcs more alive.

[nbohr1more]

Good work Obsttorte.

 

Solid visuals though some areas could use more ornamentation or clutter.

[Midnight]

Looks like a City Watch Station, nice! Love the glass ceiling <3

[Obsttorte]

Looks like a City Watch Station

 

pssh ...

[SeriousToni]

Some areas are a bit empty - was this for performance?

[Obsttorte]

as I said it's only about 25-30% finished

 

there are lots of details missing

 

btw.: performance is great right now

 

also I noticed that dmapping is much faster, although I dont know if it's an effect of the procedural building style or if the long dmapping time in my first mission was a result of my terrible building technique there

 

for comparission:

- dmapping OLD HABITS took about five minutes in the and

- the current map is dmapped within less than 30 seconds, although the brush and patch amount is nearly the same

[Bikerdude]

for comparission:

- dmapping OLD HABITS took about five minutes in the and

- the current map is dmapped within less than 30 seconds, although the brush and patch amount is nearly the same

That will be 1.08 at work :-)

[Obsttorte]

I will test it tonight by redemapping OLD HABITS

 

if you're right someones get a hamper

[Bikerdude]

if you're right someones get a hamper

I nominate Grayman!

[someTaff]

 

Some screenshots from my first FM

[Melan]

That looks neat - simple but effective construcion, high performance, and a good use of lights/colour!

[nbohr1more]

Looks like some good vertical game-play there. Keep up the good work someTaff!

[someTaff]

Thanks!!

[Mortem Desino]

Very nice, someTaff! I'm that you're experimenting with colored light. Some FMs super-saturate color to the point where the colored lights look unnatural or even comical.

 

Your last picture is brilliant : Warm orange torch, pale green tree, cool blue moonlight.

 

In your second-to-last pic, note how the orange "pops out" against the blue ambiance It helps with gameplay, too--it's a nice subtle way of informing the player "Hey! There's something worth investigating up here!"

[Theothesnopp]

 

Some screenshots from my first FM

 

Love the lightning! what skybox is that?

[someTaff]

Love the lightning! what skybox is that?

Skybox is still lowres and non polished(top is not matching). Can povide terragen file though

[SeriousToni]

So you guys might know that I've already made some new content a year back when I was working at "Sneak & Destroy". This time I'm gonna try helping Springheel to update the TDM heads for the stand alone progress.

 

This is where I'm at, at the moment. Do I need to keep something in mind when creating a head for TDM?

 

What does this mean for you? Well, when I'm building heads, there won't be anybody who'll create tasty german beer bottles, so I guess that should be done by someone else then.

[Springheel]

This time I'm gonna try helping Springheel to update the TDM heads for the stand alone progress.

 

Well, I appreciate the effort, but I've already replaced two of the three and I'm more than half-way done the third one, so I don't mind finishing the last one myself now that I've got a good workflow going. Besides that, replacing existing heads (and making them look similar to the original) is WAY harder than just making a new head from scratch. If you've never done this before, making new heads might be the best place to start.

 

Do I need to keep something in mind when creating a head for TDM?

 

You have to keep the proportions and position of the mesh the same as our existing heads so it can be accurately rigged to our head skeleton. Best advice I can give is to open up some existing head meshes and see what they look like; you can even copy the teeth and sock directly over to your model (we don't want more than one version of those to save load times).

[SeriousToni]

Cool - so this is gonna be a new head

 

Thanks for the advice!

 

EDIT: What do you mean with "sock"?

Edited December 12, 2012 by SeriousToni

[Springheel]

The sock is a mesh attached to the mouth so that when an AI opens his mouth you don't see through the back of his head.

[Theothesnopp]

Working on multiple (fairly) ambitious missions atm, here are some pics from my favourite map so far. its about 20-30% done. still going through a couple of ideas, planning and so on.

Ive also started playing more with sounds, something i have realized adds SOOOO much to immersion. Still cant figure out the zone system, i only manage to give myself a raging headache :S