itt: sel begins unwrapping cliffs, makes shitty map better

now I know what they say when they say

noobinator is bad :(

You still need those terrain textures?

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Originally Posted by Disaster

You still need those terrain textures?

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As far as I know, con is going to be doing them, but thanks a bunch for this placeholder, keeepin betas presentable :)

all these good maps and i can't play them T.T why god why

Yeah, I think its the frc.

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Originally Posted by Selentic

now I know what they say when they say

noobinator is bad :(

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fix it
nao

It's staying.

Much like you on the couch.

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Much like you on the couch.

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Yeah, just like my couch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kEryR5wj9o

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Is it just me or is it stretched quite a bit vertically?

yeah its a FOV of 120 to show everything

Starting to come together Con :)

If that sky was a woman I'd take her out to a nice dinner.

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If that sky was a woman I'd take her out to a nice dinner.

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No, you'd get shot down, and then I'd let my child fuck her and have a kid.

Looking great as ever con :O

I'm still not really digging the inside band of the Ark. I'm not so creative so I can't really say what would go there... maybe some gaping interior that holds tech involved in the ring's construction? It looks so... dull compared to everything around it.

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I'm still not really digging the inside band of the Ark. I'm not so creative so I can't really say what would go there... maybe some gaping interior that holds tech involved in the ring's construction? It looks so... dull compared to everything around it.

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quotin dis

but make sure it's distinct from halo so as to avoid confusion or clutter

Agreeing with the aforementioned idea, thus turning it into your current directive - whenever three people who actually know what they're talking about agree on a design decision, you MUST follow it.

You'd think you'd see atleast one of the Ark's fins, aswell. :eyesroll:

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Agreeing with the aforementioned idea, thus turning it into your current directive - whenever three people who actually know what they're talking about agree on a design decision, you MUST follow it.

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Cool..New rule?

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You'd think you'd see atleast one of the Ark's fins, aswell. :eyesroll:

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haven't made those yet!

edit: still to do
fix turds in the near cloud
fix edge colouring on halo (no longer over a blue background)
make the ark inner edge sexier
fix the sun
lower ring mirroring
make highcharity stick out less
compression
atmospherics and balancing
core clouds
ark fins missing

edit2: incase there's any question, yes, it's ingame

A Little to much of a "drawing" look to it.. but its very very awesome!

holy shit it's beautiful

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holy shit it's beautiful

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quotin dis'

Put a little more emphasis on the orange gas. Way too white and clear right now, and way too little.

Also, two things:
1. High Charity on the ring makes no sense at all...unless this map miraculously takes place in the extremely short span between the time you activated the third tower and the time of the "two betrayals."
2. It looks way too clear. With the haze, that should be WAY more concealed, like it is at the end cutscene of The Covenant (you can just barely see it).

Also, why do the clouds seem low-res and stretched?

Best sky evar.

Conna is da best

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Put a little more emphasis on the orange gas. Way too white and clear right now, and way too little.

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ok

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Also, two things:
1. High Charity on the ring makes no sense at all...unless this map miraculously takes place in the extremely short span between the time you activated the third tower and the time of the "two betrayals."

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I think you mean on the ark. Yes, it takes place right after you activate the third tower. I don't think there's a problem with that.

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2. It looks way too clear. With the haze, that should be WAY more concealed, like it is at the end cutscene of The Covenant (you can just barely see it).

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I'll see what I can do, but I don't want the haze to be overwhelming.

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Also, why do the clouds seem low-res and stretched?

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You mean the clouds around the core right? It's just the big black turds that makes it obvious. I'm hesitant about making the textures any bigger since the sky tags together are over 20.8 mb. In fact, I should go back and see where I can use compression or 16 bit textures.

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[those pics]

edit: still to do
fix turds in the near cloud
fix edge colouring on halo (no longer over a blue background)
make the ark inner edge sexier
fix the sun
lower ring mirroring
make highcharity stick out less
compression
atmospherics and balancing
core clouds
ark fins missing

edit2: incase there's any question, yes, it's ingame

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WOW that looks nice

Actually jcap has a point. High Charity was only in the sky for a few seconds.

The problem with High Charity is that it looks like it's on a different layer than the rest of the sky. Looks like it somehow crashed without intersecting with the Ark.

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The problem with High Charity is that it looks like it's on a different layer than the rest of the sky. Looks like it somehow crashed without intersecting with the Ark.

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I agree. It looks out of place, kind of like its way to bright compared to the rest of the image.

wow you got that galaxy integrated well, nice job. Only crit - high charity.

Any updates on the level itself besides the sky?
im curious as to how it looks now with the new textures.

Highcharity looks like it's floating ontop of the ring, not at all like it's crashed. I know you're going to try and fix that up, but might I suggest some way of linking the two parts together? perhaps there are flood tentacles tieing it to the ring?

I really have no idea how long HC was crashed (never played that far into H3 vOv), but something like that is needed to bring the two peices onto the same level.

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Highcharity looks like it's floating ontop of the ring, not at all like it's crashed. I know you're going to try and fix that up, but might I suggest some way of linking the two parts together? perhaps there are flood tentacles tieing it to the ring?

I really have no idea how long HC was crashed (never played that far into H3 vOv), but something like that is needed to bring the two peices onto the same level.

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Yeah, this is the one thing kinda bothered me, otherwise looks great.

Oh and by the way, we are making the fuel rod gun super powerful to throw off the game, just for noobinator,

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Yeah, this is the one thing kinda bothered me, otherwise looks great.

Oh and by the way, we are making the fuel rod gun super powerful to throw off the game, just for noobinator,

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STOP
DO NOT TROLE

I'm not trolling, I'm entirely serious

fr gunners + snipers to spot the fall

improv indirect fire artillery

suck it, n00b

wow u guyz :saddowns:

I would like to point out, that no one can match mine and conscar's blazing efficiency of our support kommande structure.


Also, artillery would be really cool if there was a way that it could be set up and work nicely :\

Didn't snaf's mod have an airstrike gun? (the binoculars)?

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I would like to point out, that no one can match mine and conscar's blazing efficiency of our support kommande structure.


Also, artillery would be really cool if there was a way that it could be set up and work nicely :\

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Like I said: a sniper acting as a forward artillery spotter, coupled with a tank, Wraith, or FRG. All you need is a solid, in-tune team and you're laughing.

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wow u guyz :saddowns:

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Yeah the F Rod will be as strong as the one on casualty_isle. 1 hit kill

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Like I said: a sniper acting as a forward artillery spotter, coupled with a tank, Wraith, or FRG. All you need is a solid, in-tune team and you're laughing.

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We do have a spare vehicle slot; I'll consider it, and maybe give it a bit of testing.

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Yeah the F Rod will be as strong as the one on casualty_isle. 1 hit kill

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:smithicide:

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We do have a spare vehicle slot; I'll consider it, and maybe give it a bit of testing.

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GET THE CMT ONE
it makes me jizz in my pants just looking at it (and I'm only talking about the one from their last coagulation)

If we used CMT's vehicles, we would need their entire vehicle set, otherwise it would look pretty out of place with the stock vehicles :\

ignore the odd line/seam, it only shows up in max for some reason. It's fine ingame. I also fixed the ark fins not showing up ingame; all I can say is use the mirror modifier on faces and not tools>mirror. The latter made the mirrored object go missing whenever I tried for some reason.

Also, this isnt a good representation of how things are located in the sky. The camera in the render is much lower than where the level would be.

Awesome.

Looking Good. +rep

That's awesome man, nice job.

fix the flat clouds

:aaaaa:

shame we cant play this on a gamenight!

rams is a big meanie!

Just posting to say that this sky looks dead amazing ingame. SO much better than anything you've seen so far.

Beta or it didn't happen.

(Just because I haven't seen it in game so it cant be the best thing I have seen in game.) Wai.. I think. :)

well tell rams!

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I take my words back. THATS AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!

its making me look up all the time! D:

http://con.modacity.net/skytest/10sc...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/3scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/6scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/7scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/9scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/8scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/1scr...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/17sc...t00%20copy.jpg
http://con.modacity.net/skytest/20sc...t00%20copy.jpg

still to do:
-change the nebula a bit
-make the strato-sentinels less bad!
-try modeling the mountains

what the fuck

Pretty damn awesome, can't wait to play!

some pics



Sky looks awesome ingame btw.

oh yeahhhh plasma all on ur face

so no map to go with this sky yet?\]

And holy shit guys, this is going together so fucking well.
http://i293.photobucket.com/albums/m...__by_crula.gif

Now if only teh_lag would work on the waterfall.....

That sky is so awesome, I Lonely Island first hit single'd.

Uh, my game keeps crashing after trying to get out of the base. Wtf. :|

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Now if only teh_lag would work on the waterfall.....

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quotin dis cuz im down

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Uh, my game keeps crashing after trying to get out of the base. Wtf. :|

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specs?

8800 gtx
Quad core extreme
Vista 64 bit
And 8 gig ram...

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http://con.modacity.net/skytest/20sc...t00%20copy.jpg

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Protect and release this map.
seriously.
I've never lol'd so hard while jizzing in my pants so much.

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Protect and release this map.
seriously.
I've never lol'd so hard while jizzing in my pants so much.

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hey

object_set_scale (list_get (players) <#>) <scale> 1

heh, nvm. Thought it was some scripting bs.
Didn't look at it but now that I look at it that is obvious.

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like that means anything to him.

At least, it means nothing to me.

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It's a console command for changing player size.

heh, nvm. Thought it was some scripting bs.
Didn't look at it but now that I look at it that is obvious.

Easily the most beautiful skybox I've seen for a custom map and a damn sight better than most I've seen in games. Absolutely top-notch work, Con, and I'm saying that because I honestly believe it, not because you're a mate and I'm too soppy to offend mates. :downs:

It's what we (the Support Kommande Structure) do ross :downs:

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev1.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...els/rev2-1.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev3.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev4.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev5.jpg

http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev6.jpg

If I can't work on this, I can try to make my laptop catch fire...

Lul at single digit fps, isn't your computer able to run crysis, oh wai- that's your labtop.

Sky looks awesome!
but why are you only get like, 15 fps? thought you had a better card... Is that on your laptop?

Are those light maps supposed to look like that?

Also wtf is wrong with the glass?

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Sky looks awesome!
but why are you only get like, 15 fps? thought you had a better card... Is that on your laptop?

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Yeah, I am :X

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Are those light maps supposed to look like that?

Also wtf is wrong with the glass?

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The sky and lightmaps don't actually match, go figure, but I'm not going to spend hours waiting for this piece of shit to pump out low quality lightmaps.

Also the glass shaders are still being worked on. They don't seem to render properly on either of my computers, so I haven't even tried to fix them :X

Use the default b30 shaders for the glass if yours aren't working properly.

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Use the default b30 shaders for the glass if yours aren't working properly.

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Those ones didn't work properly either.

lmao

Is the texture custom? If its not then that doesn't make any sense.
You should get dee to light map this too, would look cool, but I see you still need to finish populating it and finishing the bsp.

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Easily the most beautiful skybox I've seen for a custom map and a damn sight better than most I've seen in games.

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its nice, but i think Portent still has the best skybox... i love that aurora :o

Go into the glass shader and make sure it is not set to BUMPED CUBEMAP at the bottom it should be radiosity bumped or whatever. That causes the rainbow shit.

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http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev6.jpg

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The top of those doors should have a bit of wall between them and the upper edge of the room's frame.

Fix it.

That is all.

What's going on with Halo in the backround? The ring looks like it's going up and then, there's a messed up intersection where it looks like it's tipped to a diagnal angle. /:| is that supporsed to be where it broke and is floating in mid-space?

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What's going on with Halo in the backround? The ring looks like it's going up and then, there's a messed up intersection where it looks like it's tipped to a diagnal angle. /:| is that supporsed to be where it broke and is floating in mid-space?

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You obviously haven't kept up with this thread, let alone played Halo 3. It's The Ark (Installation 00), a massive foundry that constructs the Halo network, and also acts as a master control.

Make your laptop catch on fire please.

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You obviously haven't kept up with this thread, let alone played Halo 3. It's The Ark (Installation 00), a massive foundry that constructs the Halo network, and also acts as a master control.

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I've tried to keep up, but I don't own Halo 3, let alone want to play it until it comes out for PC. Pardon my unawareness and thank you for letting me know. +rep

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I'm not going to spend hours waiting for this piece of shit to pump out low quality lightmaps.

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I want this map to look as good as possible. I might be willing to run lightmaps for you, if nobody else on the team is going to bother. As I always say, proper lighting can make or break a map.

Have you fixed the clipping yet?

Did someone say clipping?

Describe ye issue.

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I want this map to look as good as possible. I might be willing to run lightmaps for you, if nobody else on the team is going to bother. As I always say, proper lighting can make or break a map.

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I'm going to run them for the final (or use aether), but my laptop would take ages to pump out even low quality ones, so I'm not gonna bother.

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Have you fixed the clipping yet?

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Did someone say clipping?

Describe ye issue.

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The map clips, fuck portals.


Also, Sever, I'll do that.

Why do the UVWmapped textures look so bad?

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http://i93.photobucket.com/albums/l4...odels/rev3.jpg

Ewww

Maybe, Malloy, it's because they're sitting with placeholder textures all around them?

Your post wasn't very descriptive after all, so I can not tell what your issue is with them, or whether you are trolling me, or if you're serious :allears: