Hi. I'm kinda new here ... -- but I'm working on a map called "inferno." A very simple HL DM map. My profile has 2 snapshots if you are interested.
(sadly, I'm only 7 percent done... beta shots indeed ((I kinda hide the skybox)) ) =D
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That's the spawn area -- so yes, I'm deffinetly going to have grating over the lava. Also, because it's a 800x600 shot, the area looks a bit small. I think it is big enough to put atleast 16 spawns in it --- ?
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[addsig]I meant that the roof seems too low, it looks like it's just barely above the player's head.
[addsig]I had to stretch the lava quite a bit --- left at 1.00x1.00, it does not tile very well :/
I took an oil texture from the HL liquid wad, and basically used the "red" pallete in wally. Blend. Repeat. =D
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About the skills: How are you going to implement them into the map? It seems more like a singleplayer thing.
But if you can and it plays well, I'd really admire it...
As for textures, they're not so impressive. The area doesn't seem like it's a real environment, it doesn't give me a strong sense of place. Well, maybe that's your aim... but I presonally don't like walking around in a brushwork level, instead give me a city/jail/factory/island or whatever place, as long as I can discern what it is.
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Hey Captain P.
Ah yes -- the textures and skills.
I'm not very good with texture work -- so I try to edit existing ones to look like how I want them. (thank God for blend buttons! =D ) I'm pretty prepared for my textures to look like crap. (I need more experince in it - so I guess you could say this will be more of a "brush" level than texture level. Most of the textures I am using are coming from the TEXTURES file, asosiated with Quake.) =D another cheap trick developed by me =D =D
The skills: I could really use some suggestions here. But here's a major problem I see with it:
All the "weanie" players wil go into the nightmare section, take all the armor and gauss they can find, then run back into the spawn zone and start spawn frying the oblivion out of everyone. The only way I may be able to get out of this is to make a "drop weapon" thing that makes you drop all your weapons when you pass through the field (is there even such an entity?) Or atleast, drop everything except your crowbar and 9mm.
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[addsig]I don't know if weaponstrip works in multiplay.
my suggestion is to make it impossible to get back into the spawn area once you have left it. Also, if you wanted to make the player start the game weaponless, I'll bet an empty game_player_equip would do just that. You'd start with nothing but the HEV suit.
GOOD GOD MAN!!! I was going to say somthing about the blue text as well, but that is a little harsh.
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SMASH!
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[addsig]| ? posted by ReNo |
| You know you don't HAVE to use your own textures right? Its perfectly acceptable to use textures made by other people, including the default half-life ones. There is no need to modify them just for the sake of modifying them. Also, what did you mean by "Most of the textures I am using are coming from the TEXTURES file, asosiated with Quake.) =D another cheap trick developed by me =D =D"? |
Due to the fact that AS just color blinded me, I will now be typing in multi color =D
Quake never had a wal or wad file, like half life. So, WC 1.6 does a "TEXTURE" extraction from any game with no textures. This creates a TEXTURES.wad that only contains textures from Quake1. What I do is take the textures out of TEXTURES, load them into wally, darken them and add a "noise", then load them into my cs_forever.wad (the wad I'm using.)
(cheap because I'm doing no real texture work -- I'm only "adding a noise" and "darkening" the default texture.)
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