Posted by BlisTer on Tue Oct 26th 2004 at 1:04pm

thx a lot for the input tracer bullet, ill reply to the different comments

*as u see rspeeds are high in the outside part, thats indeed why i left the grond flat, but also other things like nulling the sides of those groundlights for instance, hence i couldnt extrude them.

*for the inside part you indeed struck the place with the highest rspeed peak. i thought about visblockers but they would ruin it a bit im afraid. anyway, there wont be enemies/fights there so, myeah

*the doors are gonna be switch triggered in the final version, so i couldnt bother

*good point about the silence @ the fusion reactor, ill look around for a good sound

*i'll try a compile with the -dscale

*overall: as mentioned, all the places where you can "go out of the map" or fall, or go in the water, are all gonna be blocked by func_blockplayers, so no worries

Posted by Orpheus on Tue Oct 26th 2004 at 12:21am

? quoting Tracer Bullet

^ Why is all the text screwed up in that last post?

critiques are not as easy, as people think are they??.. i am always editing them, sometimes scrapping them and redoing them..

my long critiques, should be treasured.. perhaps its my own idiocy making it hard though, so i am not complaining..

[addsig]

Posted by Tracer Bullet on Tue Oct 26th 2004 at 12:04am

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:So, I?ve had a run-through and?



This is gorgeous. very grand and imposing, exactly the sort of attitude you want to set for the interior which is to come. It?s unfortunate that the ground is so flat, but you can?t really afford the r?s. My only real criticism here is that I think maybe those pillars should taper a bit more before they produce those metal towers.


I think theses lights need to be either recessed or extruded. the just look wrong being totally flush with the ground.


r_speeds are a bit high...



Oops... I fell right out of the map... you really ought to kill the player before something like this can happen.


There are an awful lot of light sources here for not much light... You either need to increase their brightness, or decrease their number to make it look realistic.


Very pretty


Also very pretty, but those r_speeds are killer. Don?t be fooled by that 59 FPS reading. I think it was lying to me because this was a total slide-show for me.


Another place where I ought to be dead.


These doors do not open synchronously as they should. Give them both the same name, and then use a trigger_multiple to open them in unison from each side.


This ought to make some noise. The silence here was weird.


I fell out of the map again?


You can walk straight through this wall and right out of the map, and there are many more like it. I guess what I?m saying is that there are large accessible areas that are totally covered in NULL. These ought to be clipped off.


Overall I really like it but there are a few general problems. I know you want it to be dark but I think this is a bit much. Even in areas that were supposed to be bright it felt dark. I suggest you use the ?dscale switch on hlrad to globally adjust the brightness of direct lighting. In this way you can easily brighten up the areas that are supposed to be, but also leave those nice murky corners. The other major beef I have is the r_speeds. You?re really pushing it there, and my computer did not run the level smoothly. Add more visblocking. [addsig]

Posted by Spartan on Mon Oct 25th 2004 at 11:01pm

Posted by Spartan on Mon Oct 25th 2004 at 10:32pm

I like it. Although you could improve the lighting some more and add more detail to some of those rooms and hallways. Other than that though I think it looks good.

I really like the 3rd big pic. It reminds me of Doom III.