DM_Forest

It's about a quarter of the way finished. I plan to put most of the elements of my other unfinished maps into it to finish off all the open maps I have.

The ground will extend a bit further on the small side of the river.

http://www.dimebowl.com/maps/forest2.zip

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Screen me, man. Then we'll talk about downloading.

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you know the routine m8, no pics no clicks :razz:

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Exactly...

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okay, wait til I get home. I'll get you some screenehs.

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Blister, that is such a kewl pic!

Yeah, downloading without screenies require guts and some degree of foolishness.

It's like someone handing you a small white pill at a party, and say "Here. Take it".

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Hahah satchmo, I don't think downloading a random map will leave you date raped and groggy in the morning.

I like how 11 people have already downloaded the map and and none of them has commented.

Come on, if you downloaded it: give feed back!

Get working on those screenshots.

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Man, I've tried to upload them TWICE now and it's given me a big middle finger.. I will remotely link them now...

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LOL... Thats what my back yard looked like this morning when I woke up. There was a freaking monsoon event happening. Did all that rain make it up to Mountain View too?

I must confess, until you get some pictures that I can view in less than a minute I think I'll stick to the 1st one only.

Nice trees.

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I know that's mostly displacements and models, but it looks good :smile:

It looks more like a cemetary than anything else at the moment though. I also doubt you could keep the models up to do an entire forrest (maybe with some very clever placements)

Keep churning, see what develops.

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I've got trees rotated in every direction! It'll be good. Also, It is mostly disps and models, I know. But soon enough, I'll have the castle ruins placed and there will be a dungeon system that connects to the cave that you see. I've got some good plans.

Oh yeah.. And i also got the Alpha reversed on my whole displacement ground... so, it will have the grass sprites to liven it up..

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So far, massively cool man. Gives me some ideas for my map...

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Seems more swampy than foresty at the moment. Maybe some more hills... its all rather flat right now.

I dig the stream - very well done there. Obviously the mixed up blend
material (so annoying that bug) is making things look a bit wierd, but
its a good looking start. Check out screenshots of "Elder Scrolls IV:
Oblivion" for ideas on making good looking forests, as theirs are
awesome.

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Looks very cool. Good atmosphere, just keep going.

Either post my alternate screens links or the deals OFF!

I swear, I'll let Mephs have his way with ol' mommy.

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Looks very seksy so far, somewhat spooky and post apocalyptic. Kinda
like a forest in a biohazardous area. The borealis skybox add to this
sensation. Adding the rain was a great idea too, really goes well with
the over-all theme. BTW, don't do the mistake of making the whole map
as dark as it looks now. Shooting blindly into the dark is anything but
fun (or is it just my monitor?).

I just checked it out, and though it's indeed more swampy than foresty,
it looks good. Has a nice athmosphere (but it really needs a rain
sound! :wink: ).

If you want it to look more like a forest, add bushes. It lacks low to medium sized vegetation, it's trees and some grass and
that's it.

I like that cave/tomb like entrance. With some candlelights or torches it could have a really spooky athmosphere. :smile:

Any idea's about the layout already, bytheway?

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A swampy forest is cool with me!

I was thinking about putting blurry lights in the air. in the trees. They would move randomly and just act as some ethereal-looking illumination. like ghosts or something.

The cave/tomb will go into a sort of dungeon that connects to the planned castle/manor ruins that will hopefully bring a lot more atmoshpere to the place. One side of the map will end in a foggy lake, the other side will be blocked off by rocks, cliffs, or castle walls in various places. I dunno what I'll do about the sides yet.

Underdog: http://images.dimebowl.com/underdog stop whining you old coot!

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Nickel, this has got some good atmosphere. I think it'd be a waste to have it be 'some' swamp. It has a real "Grimm" feel to it. It'd be really cool to see (at least in a different version) some implementation of fairy tales. It'd be cool.

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I like that moving lights idea and a castle or monastory would fit
great here. I'm looking forward to the next stage of this map. :smile:

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I have not seen any quality rain maps in HL2 yet so I think I'll post this question here to see if it has an answer. Can rain be made intermittent?

I mean, rain hardly ever falls consistently the same for extended periods. Except in the tropics maybe.

Anyway, nice shots. I forgot to look, is there a download link yet?

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He could have the entity managed by a logic timer (or something like that). If the entity doesn't support on and off, you can quite literally, remove and add the entity at certain times (using a logic timer, or something like that).

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Crono said:
He could have the entity managed by a logic timer (or something like that). If the entity doesn't support on and off, you can quite literally, remove and add the entity at certain times (using a logic timer, or something like that).

You're doing it again. Reminding me how dumb I am. That quite literally made no sense at all.

But, its not as important that I know as that if you say its possible maybe Nickelbag can use it as a suggestion?

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Yeah -- that makes sense, it might work. It's worth trying.

I've never personally done it. But I know you can kill and spawn entities at will ... so ... that's always an option if the entitiy doesn't need to be in a special state.

Yes, I'm sure Nickel has some idea of what I'm talking about ... whenever he gets around to reading what I said.

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Is it possible to do that to a brush-based entity? Anyway, I was thinking about adding the proverbial "Path" that we hear about in all the stories.

The forest path from Hansel and Gretel
the bridge from The 3 Billy goats Gruff
the Cave from multiple stories
ruins from multiple stories

What do you all think about some fog?

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Go for it. It'd allow you to keep FPS UP and it'd make a handsome solution for the 'edge' of the map issue.

I just thought of something to make it confusing, but cool. In places of INTENSE fog, you could have some teleport entities to take you to another part of the map that is fogged up, thickly. The map would seem to go on forever (hopefully).

But, that's just an idea for it's use.

No, it can't be brushed based. But, rain isn't ... is it?

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Crono said:
Go for it. It'd allow you to keep FPS down and it'd make a handsome solution for the 'edge' of the map issue.

Old habits. Intensely hard to break them.

In the old days it was "Keep r_speeds down" Now its "Keep FPS up"

Does fog really increase framerates? Nice bit of info to remember.

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I don't think suddenly stopping the rain has a good effect, rather,
it'll make it appear fake. A subtle change between rain intensities is
needed. I don't know if that's possible, so if it's not, maybe doing
what Crono suggested while still keeping a rain entity active to mask
the sudden transition somewhat?

To keep fps down, you can limit the render distance, don't know exactly
how this works as I haven't had trouble with it so far, but it's
possible, and fog is a nice mask for it then. However, i find dense fog
on open area's to be more annoying than really nice. I think hiding
teleports would then only make it more confusing. Maybe it works and
it's fun, personally I just don't like it. But it surely makes the map
harder to learn.

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Is it possible to have two rain entities (of different intensities)
working at the same time? You could blend the weather that way...
or you could just have one cut off and the other (either more or less
rainy) start right up where the other entity left off. Maybe?

rain is brush based.. and unfortunately, if you have one rain entinty inside of another, they cancel out.. I tried in DM_castle a long time ago, I wanted more rain to pour down at the edge of my roofs, and it cancelled it out...

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Oh, well. Scrap that then, unless there's input options to change intensity.

Uh ... up. Sorry, I'll change that.

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I think you should put some func_dustclouds in some low areas the add a
special fog effect. Perhapes even add some wolf howling sounds in
the backround for some atmosphere.

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Oh, I've got some sounds planned out. and some good light FX too. Don't wanna give it all away, luv!

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Okay! I finally got somewhere with this! I've added/changed the following.

• The name is now DM_Tempelwald It may be changed yet again before the end, and it means Temple Forest in german for those of us who don't speak german.
• The perimiter is set.
• I added some of the ruins
• I finished most of the Displacement work.

Next I'll work on lighting effects and the underground segments.

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I'd love to see some updated screens.

Lol, you posted while I was taking them!!! Download the map and tell me how much you loved it! :biggrin:

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It's shaping up nicely. Haven't downloaded it or anything though.

I'm wondering if your permiter set up will actually work well or not. It doesn't look like it from the images. But that's a 3d-skybox issue or something like that :smile:

It'd be really cool to see some more forrest and hills and stuff in the skybox.

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Yeah, its a lack of diplacement surface in the rear of the map.

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