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kingsal
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Hello thieves,  the other day I realized my last Volta release was in 2017! Time really flies.  After years of fiddling with this project, I'm ready to announce the remaining missions in the Volt

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Added some temporary lights to FM that is just entering beta - I guess there is not much to show if all lights are off in your mission...   http://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/19886-fm-marsh-of-rahena-

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Got back to DR and added a few rooms to my WIP ...          

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Springheel

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Well, since I had a good workflow going for replacing head models, I took on one that has bugged me for a while. The original builder head was the first one Oddity ever did, and I know he wanted to replace it but never got around to it. It's looked more and more out of place over the years. I think I've kept the features and expression, which I've always liked, but brought it up to the standards of our other heads.

 

After this, it's back to mapping for a while.

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Moonbo

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Thanks again for everyone's answers on the newbie mapping thread. Still chipping away at the map; updated the starting section with feedback from Bikerdude and finished up a second section:

 

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Melan

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These are all tasteful, detailed scenes. Bravo!

 

(If you are a stickler for realism, the ceiling in the second shot would have to be vaulted or made of wooden boards since individual bricks couldn't support that weight... but let that be the greatest mistake. :))

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

SeriousToni

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Nah - wrong thread - sorry

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Moonbo

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Thanks guys :-). Melan, I see what you mean...but I don't think I'll change it for now :P , we'll see how many people complain about it. Bikerdude - about to respond to your PM.

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-Sun Myung Moon

 

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Mortem Desino

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Nice work, Capela! I often struggle trying to make more interesting geometry than simple rooms and corridors. You could make those vaulted ceilings even more interesting to the eye with a different choice of texture.

 

Just be careful about letting too many of those patches cast shadows.

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Sotha

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Nice work, Capela!

 

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Just some minor things I noticed:

 

Behold the floors. The texture scale is high and the stonework looks inhumanly large. Who laid so large stones?

 

Patch inspector and fixed tessellation might help you save some tris on the arches and the columns. Just reduce the numbers so you get nice looks with minimum tris. Overall, learning the patch inspector is helpful for future patch working, too!

 

Deeper recesses in the walls would make the scene a bit more organic, just a meter or two. Larger recesses would give some nice gameplay effect, giving some space to hide in.

 

Some z-dimension details would help: see how the floor level is constant for the totality of the scene. Just a small elevation change gives a more organic feel. Maybe a small step from the doorway downwards to the larger room. (I learned this one just recently myself: often the mapper gets stuck in just the x,y-plane. Adding some height detail helps a lot!)

 

Just some suggestions, if you feel playing with them would be nice.

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Melan

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Returning to my small mapping project:

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Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

Melan

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A combination of

  • models (the generators in the foreground, the steam whistle thing, pipes),
  • brushwork (the tall machine in the centre) and
  • textures (the rectangular machine face with a bunch of dials -- I think this is part of core TDM as of 1.08, and is found in metals>machine).

Come the time of peril, did the ground gape, and did the dead rest unquiet 'gainst us. Our bands of iron and hammers of stone prevailed not, and some did doubt the Builder's plan. But the seals held strong, and the few did triumph, and the doubters were lain into the foundations of the new sanctum. -- Collected letters of the Smith-in-Exile, Civitas Approved

Obsttorte

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These are mod models. You can find them under mechanical.

 

Machine models can be found under mechanical. :D

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FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter

RPGista

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Melan - Nice little room, the only thing I would say is that IMO some of the water textures just look terribly bland (like the one being used), I would suggest to everyone the use (almost exclusively) of this one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyxDtYiuIzk

 

Or this one:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErA4GDzViR0

 

I think the reflections would work quite well in this room, though to be honest, I dont even know how to get that effect going.

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Obsttorte

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water_reflective texture is the way to go. Anyways, it has a high impact on performance.

FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild

Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches

Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models

My wiki articles: Obstipedia

Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter

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