So, what are you working on right now?

[Geep 217]

@Dragofer, although there's no inherited spawnarg starting with "accel", there is "decel_time". I changed the default value from 0.2 to 2 seconds, and sure enough, I can use a speed of 60 without AI damage. Let's crank this baby up and see what she can do!

[Geep 217]

With 2 second decel_time, speed of 120 is no problem for AI. That's brisk enough for me.

[Geep 217]

BTW, for anyone wondering about how tall the elevator is, here's a DR shot of the elevator-only test map. You can see the silhouette of the guard on the upper level.

[Dragofer 1286]

You can never know what treasures you might find in the depths of SVN:

(Such as a wrecked ship hull by Dram. Clearly it was never intended for the player to walk inside it, so there's still a lot of work left to make this playable.)

[NeonsStyle 563]

Found a way to stop the bobbing boat drifting by just removing the very well hidden door_slider lol Works great now

[Goldwell 2427]

The new rain in 2.08 is so fucking awesome!

 

 

[Amadeus 339]

Beautiful work Goldwell!! Only you can make rain look oh so good

[Melan 1807]

Blade Runner Blues plays faintly in the background...

[chakkman 363]

Looks awesome. 

[pusianka 82]

Hi there, I picked up blender a week ago(having a little bit of experience with modelling in the past) and I am trying to recreate a building from my home town.

[EDIT UPDATE SCREENSHOT]

I wouldn't mind some tips on keeping clean topology like straight lines and stuff like this... It actually drives me nuts.

[EDIT] Also I am still thinking how to deal with the lower level brick sculpting, would love some suggestions.

Also congrats on the updates, I haven't been here for years but you guys really haven't been just sitting on your asses all this time Really nice to see all that.

Edited July 28 by pusianka

[PranQster 453]

On 6/29/2020 at 12:04 AM, NeonsStyle said:

Found a way to stop the bobbing boat drifting by just removing the very well hidden door_slider lol Works great now

Aah. Sorry I never got back to that. Glad you fixed it on your own.

[thebigh 95]

So here's the starting area of my first mission. As yet unnamed, it's a short mission set in the streets of Bridgeport in which you have to escape the City by finding a way past the city wall and a bunch of irate Watch guys guarding it. I'm still finding my way around with DarkRadiant but I think I captured the feel of the grimy back alleys of the City pretty well.

 

 

I dialed the ambient up high so you can see everything. In actual play I will be using a combination of a very dark ambient and the "night vision" technique shown by Sotha in his "Bakery Job" tutorial videos.

 

I'm really slow at mapping and I fuss over everything so, with luck, I might have something beta testable by the end of the year.

Edited August 5 by thebigh

[Obsttorte 1487]

Nice job for a first attempt. Note that there are models for windows, supports etc..., so you don't have to build everything from brushes. That adds a bit more detail and speed things up a bit (you have already used some as I see, but there is really tons of stuff). Some of the windows could use frames, though.

[thebigh 95]

Hmm, yes. Good point about the window frames. I'll put a few in now.

As for brushes v models, I bet that'll become a lot quicker when I'm more familiar with what's available and where it's stored. Right now I'm scrolling through lists, looking at things and going "nope, nope, nope, maybe, nope nope, hmmmm, nope, yuk, nope, nope, YES"

[grayman 2953]

13 hours ago, thebigh said:

Hmm, yes. Good point about the window frames. I'll put a few in now.

As for brushes v models, I bet that'll become a lot quicker when I'm more familiar with what's available and where it's stored. Right now I'm scrolling through lists, looking at things and going "nope, nope, nope, maybe, nope nope, hmmmm, nope, yuk, nope, nope, YES"

Most list dialogues in DR provide a search function. When the dialogue is your active window, type a search term. 

[Melan 1807]

That's a nice shot, and it does have a good atmosphere - well realised. I also like the premise of the mission; these "escape" missions always tend to be fun.

Don't worry about your unfamiliarity with the asset library. Things will fall into place through practice. Also, very often, less is more - you can achieve good consistency with only a few objects, and that's good for mood as well.

[Springheel 4613]

21 hours ago, thebigh said:

Hmm, yes. Good point about the window frames. I'll put a few in now.

As for brushes v models, I bet that'll become a lot quicker when I'm more familiar with what's available and where it's stored. Right now I'm scrolling through lists, looking at things and going "nope, nope, nope, maybe, nope nope, hmmmm, nope, yuk, nope, nope, YES"

This might be helpful: 

 

[Epifire 784]

On 7/27/2020 at 2:48 PM, pusianka said:

Hi there, I picked up blender a week ago(having a little bit of experience with modelling in the past) and I am trying to recreate a building from my home town.

[EDIT UPDATE SCREENSHOT]

I wouldn't mind some tips on keeping clean topology like straight lines and stuff like this... It actually drives me nuts.

[EDIT] Also I am still thinking how to deal with the lower level brick sculpting, would love some suggestions.

Also congrats on the updates, I haven't been here for years but you guys really haven't been just sitting on your asses all this time Really nice to see all that.

Older post I know, but my recommendation (from the modeling aspect) would be to use tiling materials for the large faces and model/bake out unique details for pillars, frames and corners on a single UV texture. What you basically could have is a three or four texture building that way, you only would want to focus on the cool detail bits as unique and then use a tiling texture for the upper and lower portions where the wall changes color/features. 

Otherwise it's an easy project for burn out if you don't prioritize what should be left as unique details and what can be fudged with tiling materials. I like to think of it as, frame the thing in with hand crafted details and fill in the gaps with tiling. Very cool building nonetheless, I do hope you push that to completion because it's a very unique and interesting design.

[Goldwell 2427]

[Dragofer 1286]

In a swamp, somewhere:

[grayman 2953]

Tres cool!!!

[STRUNK 270]

I have a BAT !!

Bat Video

Bat Video 2

Edited October 2 by STRUNK

[grayman 2953]

Nicely done!!

[AluminumHaste 1018]

That's freaking awesome

[STRUNK 270]

In the following video you see a little white cube that's a func_rotating on the x axis, randomishly triggered by a trigger_timer to invert rotation. Bound to that is the red square plane, that's also a func_rotating, but on the z axis. Bound to that is the little blue cube, that's a sliding door (auto open auto close) named Target.

Bat Mechanics

The Bat itself is green in the video and is made up of two wing shaped atdm:mover_door's (auto open auto close) bound to a func_mover named Bat (the body of the bat). With 2 little scripts, activated once by atdm:target_callscriptfunction's, the Bat is following and turnig towards the Target:

void MoveToTarget()

{

	float min = 10;
	float max = 20;
 	float rand = min + sys.random(max - min);
    $Bat.time (rand/30);
    $Bat.accelTime (0);
    $Bat.decelTime (0);
	$Bat.moveTo( $Target );
    sys.wait (0.1);
	sys.trigger($ScriptMove);

}

void LookAtTarget()
{
	vector direction=$Bat.getOrigin()-$Target.getWorldOrigin();
	$Bat.setAngles(sys.VecToAngles(-direction)+'0 0 0');
	sys.wait (0.1);
	sys.trigger($ScriptLook);
}

If anyone wants a bat flying around in their mission, just pm me for the model and stuff : )

Edited October 2 by STRUNK