i've still not voted, so i don't know how the numbers stand. if flatshading is a contender, would someone please say whats the best option for me to vote against it.
this could have been a lot cleaner if it was individual yay/nay polls on each of the above options.
| ? posted by KungFuSquirrel |
| remember - if you're using flat colored textures, you have no need to maintain texture scale. You can scale to your hearts content, and provided you use the appropriate hlrad flag to prevent lightmaps from scaling with the texture (flashlight, rocket trails, etc), you can save a decent bit of polys on larger chunks of geometry. |
Pardon my idiocy, but what flag is that? 
| ? posted by KingNic |
| Fishy & Cassius, I thought like the both of you about flatshading, until i decided to try it. Try creating a quick map with flatshading before making your mind up. |
too late.
tbh, i was 100% against the idea until you posted your pics. they softened me up a bit. but i realised when Reno mentioned that they were 'the most realistic' so far that it was the realism in them that i liked. lots of grays like lots of realistic cement. and how much nicer they could look with even the simplest of textures to embelish them. so as it wasn't the flat shading that i liked after all, i'm 100% against it again [as a basis for a competition].
my eyes hurt just thinking about some of the maps that could come out of this.
What if the contest theme was to be abstract/realism?
That pretty much covers all corners, with the flat-shading falling into the abstract category?
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There ya go Not all of them are flat-shaded though...
[addsig]It may sound dumb after 6 pages, but what is exactly flatshaded ?
I mean is it like rendering a map without Rad (or Vis) ?
| ? posted by Kain |
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It may sound dumb after 6 pages, but what is exactly flatshaded ? I mean is it like rendering a map without Rad (or Vis) ? |
Your not the first to ask. Put your 3D view in VHE to flat and you'll get the idea. Also, look through this thread and the other comp thread and look at the pictures.
Or look at the following textures:
crete3_wall
oxy (plain one)
fuel (plain one)
[addsig]Flatshaded would be cool...especially if there was a flatshaded sky to go with...and flatshaded models...etc
/me votes for flatshaded
In fact, flatshading is the only way I could possible do this map and get the skybox to work well, as it needs to represent a huge expanse of water and a realistic look would never look static like the flatshaded sky does. I must say that the weapon models and player models do look horribly out of place in the map though!
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