Darkmod: Inspiration thread

[Springheel]

How easy would it be to import into into DR..? along with all the textures etc

 

Depending on the format it wouldn't be difficult at all. Making it actually playable would be quite another thing entirely.

[Springheel]

Just a question, whatever happened to this guy, I've never seen him in any mission so far and I cant seem to find him in DR? I really like that model (the brown priest)...

 

Yeah, that's an early inquisitor model. He still needs to be rigged to the new skeleton, and some adjustments made. In the meantime, the acolyte (which wasn't in that shot) will be included in 1.08).

[Springheel]

You could even say the gear is a mark of some sorts of Builder-manufactured armour.

 

I'm not sure builders would be in the armour-making business, but there's nothing to say that everyone with a religious symbol on their armour has to be a builder. Plenty of knights had cross designs in their armour or herald without them being part of the clergy.

[Melan]

That's right. Although I could also imagine the Builders, as a warlike and industrious group, supplying a lot of arms and armour to the authorities.

[Bikerdude]

Been Playing Batman: AC and some of the environments are right up our street.

 

[Baddcog]

Alright Shadowhide

 

Nah, that does look pretty good

[Springheel]

One thing I notice in those shots is the unified colour scheme. I wish there was an easy way to desaturate textures in the editor.

[Baddcog]

Yeah, it helps set the mood some, but i think it's a bit boring. TDM has much more of the colorful original feel which people like. T3 had the Batman look and it was one thing people complain about alot.

 

I think using the locations system to change the hue of the ambient light could work pretty well for that.

[Bikerdude]

One thing I notice in those shots is the unified colour scheme. I wish there was an easy way to desaturate textures in the editor.

Yeah, thats something Melan and myself have been wanting for ages.. But BC's ambient idea should work to a point.

[New Horizon]

Aren't there some values that can be placed on textures in the mtr files to change their color / desaturate them on the fly? Not sure if it's possible to add those by way of the editor, but if so...it would be cool to have a little preview window to make those adjustments in real time.

[Baddcog]

there's _colorme

 

and you blend color in with it, but I don't know about desaturate. might work good to blend in dark grey on textures that stand out too much in your map though, might also help to kill some of the color.

[New Horizon]

We also have some settings left over from JC Denton's work that allows us to desaturate the entire scene if we want to, but that would be a post process effect covering everything in the map.

[Baddcog]

That could be cool for 'flash back' scenes, or time shift scenes, or for recording intros, etc..

 

Can that be triggered in game?

[Andrey]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_IKqjb9TRY

[Baddcog]

Pretty, nice shadows too. Couple funny things, they have door stopper models, and yet the unrinal takes a massive pipe and valve to flush. The spelled Energy wrong.

Mirrors are fuzzy and when the player jumped on the couch half the screen was blocked by, i don't know, hands? shoulders?

[demagogue]

Looks great. I'm still happy we have our engine with the open source & unified lighting (as opposed to an earlier version of the Cry engine), but I can acknowledge things looking really good on other engines. But credit goes to the guys that mapped that. They did good work even for a WIP. Good-looking mapping is always inspirational to see.

[Tels]

That could be cool for 'flash back' scenes, or time shift scenes, or for recording intros, etc..

 

Can that be triggered in game?

 

Oh, yeah, can this be dynamically modified in real-time? Effects like desaturate, shift hue, adjust brightness/gamma, these would all make for cool special effects that could be used in a lot of situations esp. if you can access them from a script or SDK code for each frame.

[jay pettitt]

I'm guessing that's a yes - D3 does it and it might be one of the things that TDM uses to fudge underwater scenes.

[Bikerdude]

Uts very very realistic, at times it looks like your walking through a step-by-step photo of the iside of a real ship.. but whats with the motion blur, you dont get it in real life so why do mappers insist on using it..

[Komag]

actually we do get it in real life, just not that much. It also masks low frame rate a bit

[pusianka]

damn at some points you could post a picture of that and say taht you own a hotel. Thought I'll never say it but this looks like real.

[demagogue]

It's not exactly a hotel though. The first time they showed the stairs near the beginning I knew it was the Titanic.

[Tels]

It's not exactly a hotel though. The first time they showed the stairs near the beginning I knew it was the Titanic.

 

Never seen the titanic or the movie, but I would have guessed it is some sort of ship (even tho the exteriour seems not to match), and my first guess would have been something from the titanic era.

 

Btw, why oh why do they ruin a perfect video with the useless text about changing the wood color? Who cares about the wood color and wether they'll update it later?

[Melan]

demagogue: It is the Titanic? Ha! I only watched the start of it, but I was saying to myself that grand staircase was just like you'd see on old photos of that ship. (Never seen the movie.)

[Glyph Seeker]

It is a Crysis mod the purpose of which is indeed to replicate the lush interior of the Titanic.