Teh gate

I've never done any fantasy/mideval textures before. I think this one worked out pretty well, but I sense something about it that just doesn't fit... since you guys have more expertise on semi-gothic type architecture, I thought I should ask.



[EDIT] I should note, yes, this is for one specific place, not for a public texture pack or something of the like.[/EDIT]

I , uhh.. well..hmmm

looks nice cass, but extremely specific.

it would be great for a one shot deal though.

I think the problem may be that it "feels warm". some how the colors are a bit to friendly. A gate like that should be implacble and brooding rather than simply old, which is the feeling I get.

I'm sorry I can't be more specific than that turbid description.

Seems too high-contrast/intense. Like someone took the Burn tool and went crazy until the colors became too saturated. I'd mute it a little more and lower the contrast. Though it really depends on what engine the texture is for - Quake 3 handles bright white-colours rather badly, and the Savage engine kind of lowers the contrast of all textures when rendering.

The gates of hell they be! casts finger cross at cass

Hehehe, I think you guys are just TRYING to find something wrong with it.

Looks fine to me, except that desgin is kinda weird.

i think its separated from the background too much....like a hanging ornament, instead of a moulded-into-the-wall kinda thing....the "ornament" has a different color scheme, yet the same kinda material structure....make sense?....but it depends i guess on what yer going for cass.... :wink: but i like it so far man....

the column in the middle projects it outward....but no shadows behind it....

Doc B... :dodgy:

It's the Mantle of the Winged Eye, seal of the Clan of Balbaroth, and the texture is of the Dunst?n Gate of Nazsgild. I may choose to explain this further sometime, but as of now, there's no need to do so.

The kind fellows living behind this gate are not actually evil - their arcitechture is simply to make them seem more menacing, thus I did not coat it with blood or something of the like.

I spent about a full day trying to make the seal look like it moulded onto the rest of the wall, but in the end I decided it looked too strange when the lighting from the rest of the wall was applied to it. Thus, I tried to make it look like it was flat, yet the back of the seal fit the countour of the spike deals. Not terribly sure if I succeeded, but hey, that's why I ask :biggrin:

I forgot to add "Its f**king 1337" to my post. Not my style of texture (Not a fan of demonish metals), but still nontheless, the coolest door Ive seen.

My textures are almost always purposefully overburned or oversharpened because of how HL mipmaps (and I assume HL2 will as well). When at 1/2 scale, a lot of the detail is totally invisible unless the texture looks really strong.

shrug I just think it looks excellent :smile:

I have to agree, it's really good, though maybe a little noisy - looks like it's been filtered through an indoor TV antenna. Though maybe that's just the oversharpening - in which case no worry as it'll probably look fine in-game :smile:

Square doors aren't scary, they have to be arched :razz:

I can't remember any medieval maps, not that stand out from the croud anyway.

matt said:
I can't remember any medieval maps, not that stand out from the croud anyway.

coughs

"HEY!"

taps foots

"i know of at least one" :biggrin:

sighs

Whats it called.

matt said:
sighs

Whats it called.

how old are you matt?

you don't catch on very fast when someone hints, especially as blatantly as i just did.

since i was the person whom showed some indignation, looking in my profile might narrow your search parameters a bit, but even if i didn't have one, there are several noteworthy castle maps right here at SP.

adam hawkins, scary jeff, mazemaster,doc rock i think all had at least one. don't quote me on that tho, cause i really don't remember them all.

Being ignorant helps your post count! :biggrin:

Alien_Sniper said:
Being ignorant helps your post count! :biggrin:

he is only in the 400's tho... would have to remain that way for a while to amount to anything

...doh! /runs

Doc B... :dodgy:

ok cass....did yer question get answered adequately? :heee:

I'm only in the 400s aren't I?

Hey I just tried to update the URL for the map but I can't find the thread about my castle... I don't suppose anybody has the link? Also Lep the drop down boxes don't auto load the page in mozilla... I think this will work (this was on the main control panel page):

change: <select name="editmap">

to: <select name="editmap" onChange="if (editmap.value != '') this.form.submit()">

and change: <form action="redir.php" method="post" onsubmit="if(!editmap.value) return false">

to: <form action="redir.php" method="post">

If this doesn't work, onChange="this.form.submit()" will definately work, but may submit the form if somebody chooses a map type instead of an actual map (e.g. 'HL:')...

Orpheus said:

Alien_Sniper said:
Being ignorant helps your post count! :biggrin:

he is only in the 400's tho... would have to remain that way for a while to amount to anything

What can I say to that?

Obviously you tell him to kiss your ass and call it a day.

We love ya really matt. :smile:

You had better considering the amount of time I spend on this site.

I personally thought what Orph posted was pretty rude. You can't expect someone to know various maps at Snarkpit off the top of their head. It's this kind of attitude, I'm thinking, that is scaring away other people from Snarkpit (i.e. The Specialist forumers). :razz:

Anyway, back to the subject of Cassius's texture. Looks menacing, but I'll reserve final judgement until I see it in-game I guess.

Oh, don't start this s**t again. It is rather obvious what Orph is saying in his first post about much coughing and tapping of feet. I would ask the age question too in that situation, because I would only expect younger people to not get the blatant hint.

And if there are people out there who avoid the Snarkpit because they can't handle that, good riddance. The last thing this site needs is more people overreacting to typed words and misreading everything.

Oh, and to actually contribute to the thread, I think the texture looks nice, but is very limited in its uses. It's definitely a one shot use per map sorta thing. Course I'm certain it would be part of a much larger, themed wad, so that would be no big deal.

The Snarkpit being a close community is a good thing - our members include, for the most part, the best, and the best-to-be. :biggrin: The harshness filters out most of the rest.

To those of you that would whine about your mistreatment, however, I would remind you that some of the most intelligent and appreciated figures here are the ones who underwent huge amounts of general ridicule. The harshness that takes it's part in community affairs here is not meant to turn anyone away; all that counts is that one lasts it through.

MUHAHAHA!!!! BOOT CAMP!!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

Doc B........ :dodgy:

CJ has the right to his opinion guys, he also survived the trial by fire...

maybe he missed my first post.. let it rest.

sighs

No hard feeling orph :kitty: , like the new texture cassius. Its full of gatey goodness!

Yeah, but, no but, yeah but no but don't ask campaignjunkie because he wasn't even there but like yeah he's dating tina and she's like the haaaardest person in the world but don't ask her because she's a slag yeah, but, no but, yeah SHADDAP i wasn't even there!

Your avatar kindles such good memories, matt :smile:

lol

Thanks for your support, MrBen :dorky:

Mr. Ben, is that the monkey's monkey sticking out between its legs? Perhaps it could be drawn a little less anatomically correct?

Blame azelito and lep. Aze drew it and lep made it my avatar :biggrin:

si teh pensi.

We had a great conversation about this in the IRC channel one day... I don't want to repeat any of it, since it paints azelito in a bit of a bad light. And I look like a fool, too. But much less so. Ahem.

I AM A FOOL!

15:29:27 <azelito> http://www.gmcrew.com/azelito/MRBEN.gif
15:29:31 <azelito> HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!!!!
15:29:44 <MrBen> AHHH!
15:29:46 <MrBen> RX0!
15:29:53 <MrBen> Best present evr4!
15:29:57 <azelito> THERE WILL BE ONE IN POST ALSO
15:30:04 <MrBen> YEY!
15:30:05 <azelito> BUT HE GOT SMALLER PENSI!! D:
15:30:16 <MrBen> :razz:
15:31:38 <MrBen> your going to be hard pressed to get me a better present than that php monkee, kornio. Better get thinkin mate! :biggrin:
15:32:04 <KoRnFlakes^m00> lol
15:32:10 <KoRnFlakes^m00> I gave you win2k remember
15:32:23 <MrBen> Oh yeah
15:32:30 <KoRnFlakes^m00> lol
15:32:31 <MrBen> That was my present?!
15:32:33 <MrBen> SLY!
15:32:35 <MrBen> :biggrin:
15:32:37 <KoRnFlakes^m00> of course... :razz:
15:32:49 <MrBen> :razz:
15:33:36 <MrBen> not going to class rox
15:33:52 <KoRnFlakes^m00> lol
15:37:53 <MrBen> Lissening to micheal jackson rox. Eating lunch rox. Getting a hair cut rox. Thats 4 rox to no sux.
15:37:57 <MrBen> Game set match BENNEH!
15:38:32 <azelito> WELL DONE!
15:38:49 <MrBen> and i got a php monkee which is like 3 rox on it's own
15:38:54 <MrBen> so i'm in my zone!!
15:39:20 <KoRnFlakes^m00> :S
15:51:16 <MrBen> My hair is so managable now
15:51:18 <MrBen> wuv!
15:53:06 <KoRnFlakes^m00> lol
15:53:08 <azelito> Everything is going your way!
15:53:11 <azelito> HOORAH!
15:53:13 * azelito is now known as azemong
15:53:16 <KoRnFlakes^m00> boomsticks
15:53:19 <KoRnFlakes^m00> afro crabs

There is also a part with Monqeh but I could not find it.

Thank God :razz:

I don't remember what I said, but I remember it was a bit... over the top or so.

IRC Channel? Where? When? Why haven't I seen anyone in either of the Snarkpit channels before?

They've been around for a while, actually..

There's one on Quakenet and one on GamesNET. Neither really sees that much action though... (#snarkpit on both)

#kornflakes is "teh place 2 b" on Quakenet though. Fun times.

They still exist? If I were to link to one at the bottom of the page, would it be to Gamesnet or Quakenet?

Both Gamesnet and Quakenet, actually. There are usually 3-4 people idling in both. Neither ever sees that much action though, to be honest.

Stick to msn is what i say. Had mIRC once but the dumbass that i am couldn't figure out how to use it. Oh well.

Gamesnet is more popular in the US and quakenet is the server of choice for us europeans I think.

Wich means Qnet wins.

QNet is "teh r0x0r." Plus, I can't figgure out for the life of me how to auth with the GN servers...

I think I like Quakenet, because once I think I saw somebody say something in there.

Or we played Trivia, which was equally cool.

EDIT: This gate is a very very very fine Q3 gate.

Qnet Qnet Qnet!!!

I guess it could be worth linking to #snarkpit on Qnet, and from then we can direct them to #kornflakes :biggrin:

Does the link at the bottom of the page work then?