Darkmod: Inspiration thread

[Goldwell]

I'm currently building my first big rainy city map so I decided to look up some rain ambients and found this one below. It's really calming but I find that helps me to focus and inspires me to build some cool buildings that go well with a wet rainy city.

 

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

Edited April 19, 2015 by Goldwell

[Airship Ballet]

I can smell it

[ERH+]

http://naturesoundsfor.me/rain-sounds

Rainy day sound generator.

[STiFU]

http://www.earthporm.com/brothers-grimm-inspired-fairytale-landscapes-photographed-kilian-schonberger/

[Bikerdude]

Looks Like this amazing FM is back in production -

 

- http://darkfate.org/forum/index.php%3Ftopic%3D3222.msg135657&usg=ALkJrhjHsWVeJlaTTrAjLUBIpYeIAWz23w

 

 

 

 

[Dragofer]

Some of the best reading experiences I can remember in a Thief mission were the collections of ghost tales, especially then when they raise the possibility that one of the apparitions could still be in the part of town where *you* are creeping in the dark right now. They can make for tense scenes even if the mission isn't a horror mission, and they can be great fun to write if you like that kind of creative writing.

 

For inspiration I offer American Folklore, americanfolklore.net/folklore/2010/07/presumed_drowned.html, set to one of my favourites so far . One thing I realised after looking at folktales from here and elsewhere is that their tellers haven't been exposed to 20th and 21st century storytelling, which sometimes results in jarring endings. In one tale, a man is tempted by a fairy to run off into the woods, but he's stopped just in time by a woman from the village. The end. Still, more than one tale really has that campfire feel.

 

Looks Like this amazing FM is back in production -

 

- http://darkfate.org/forum/index.php%3Ftopic%3D3222.msg135657&usg=ALkJrhjHsWVeJlaTTrAjLUBIpYeIAWz23w

 

Those are nicely fitting textures there. And the vaulted ceilings...

Edited May 3, 2015 by Dragofer

[Bikerdude]

JUst saw the video for the above mission

 

https://youtu.be/0UMqbOrrakY

 

Would so love to build something like this in TDM, just need somre caslte stone type textures.....

[ERH+]

"Zamkowa misja" ? Isn't it this one by Nivellen?: http://thief-forum.pl/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3578

[DeusXIncognita]

Looks Like this amazing FM is back in production -

 

- http://darkfate.org/forum/index.php%3Ftopic%3D3222.msg135657&usg=ALkJrhjHsWVeJlaTTrAjLUBIpYeIAWz23w

No idea why, but my browser is warning me when I try this link:

A potentially dangerous Request.Path value was detected from the client (?).

[Bikerdude]

Just browse direct to the darkfate forum, as the link might be wrong/broken.

"Zamkowa misja" ? Isn't it this one by Nivellen?: http://thief-forum.pl/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=3578

Yes.

[Obsttorte]

JUst saw the video for the above mission

 

https://youtu.be/0UMqbOrrakY

 

Would so love to build something like this in TDM, just need somre caslte stone type textures.....

It appears a bit empty to me by now, but it is definetely very athmospheric (the ambient rocks).

[Bikerdude]

Yeah, thats coz the guy is still working on it, and like me will do a detail pass at some stage placing all the internal bits and bobs.

[Tels]

Some random link about water, rain and rendering:

 

https://seblagarde.wordpress.com/2012/12/10/observe-rainy-world/

 

The blog is a bit hard to read, but good!

 

Also:

 

www.marmoset.co/toolbag/learn/pbr-theory

[Melan]

 

Kurt Hielscher: Albarracín, Spain, 1925

[Petike the Taffer]

Not an outright "inspiration" thing, but I've thought this could be a useful little resource for those who are building FMs with various fortified architecture:

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Fortifications

 

I think it's handy to have a mini-dictionary of sorts on the various common typologies of castles, forts and other fortifications. If nothing else, you can at least do some fact-checking about whether a certain type of fortified structure would seem realistic enough from a real world perspective.

[Melan]

 

Louise Ingram Rayner (21 June 1832 – 8 October 1924) was a British watercolor artist. She lived in Chester in the Welsh Marches but travelled extensively, painting British scenes, during the summers in 1870s and 1880s. Her paintings are very detailed and highly picturesque populated street scenes capturing the “olde worlde” character of British towns and cities in the booming Victorian period.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Springheel]

Wow, those are beautiful. I love that atmospheric perspective. The first two are especially well-suited to TDM.

[Petike the Taffer]

One style of mid 19th century housing that is mostly forgotten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_houseWhile the concept was a North American fad of the period, I suppose someone could use a variation on the octagon floor plan idea while designing some unusual housing for an FM. Probably with some of the more "Victorian" styling of TDM in mind.

[Sotha]

One style of mid 19th century housing that is mostly forgotten: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octagon_houseWhile the concept was a North American fad of the period, I suppose someone could use a variation on the octagon floor plan idea while designing some unusual housing for an FM. Probably with some of the more "Victorian" styling of TDM in mind.

 

Wow! it comes with detailed floor plans and even module building instructions. A treasure chest for a new mapper, I am sure.

[demagogue]

I made an octagon complex in dromed, you can see it in the Chain Project. Turns out to look really cool IMO. Generally you have more room to put things, but walls are still on easy to manage axes, well for dromed. For DR, you'd maybe build the angled stuff first on grid then rotate the whole bit 45 deg en masse.

[demagogue]

For all your eerie mansion needs: https://www.facebook.com/victorianhouses?fref=photo

[Petike the Taffer]

Glad to hear you've liked that suggestion, guys. I wasn't expecting this big of a response.

Edited May 26, 2015 by Petike the Taffer

[demagogue]

In case any of you thought what we're doing on Dark Radiant is a new thing. (higher res version.)

 

[Sotha]

Heh! Someone change the filter settings, I wanna see the path nodes... Did they use RITs back then or did they prefer the AI-on-rails -approach?

[Petike the Taffer]

This guy's YouTube channel about period archery is awesome.

 

I'd especially recommend watching the two-part tutorial video on making an arrow bag. It even goes to the length to explain how to build a spacer for the top of the quiver. There's even a note on the spacer's design that makes you think a bit about broadheads and how you'd store them comfortably to avoid damaging the fletching !

Edited June 2, 2018 by Petike the Taffer