What are you working on?

[goldenboy]

Spirit; Iron sights? Good idea.

[leileilol]

Clamping shaders work for me.

by the way
darkplaces iirc only supports up to 2 stages

[andrewj]

[mh]

That's most likely inherited from the original Q3A. One problem I can see right now with supporting more than 2 layers is that it can lead to visual differences - as a 2 + 1 multipass blend will clamp the result of the two, whereas 3 layers won't.

[Shpuld]

I've been doing some mapping for my mod:


(Ignore the precache errors please...)




Note: the map is using basic Quake 1 BSP, unchanged palette. All the textures are made from scratch.

[Spirit]

Nice but flat flat flat! Add some varying floor levels and it will instantly go to new heights (ha!).

Something Half-Life ish? Sweet!

[Shpuld]

I did make one map before this (left it untextured) that had 2 levels, the Quake's default AI navigation had some problems with it. I ended up scrapping that. Gameplay > Visuals/aesthetics.

[goldenboy]

Can't you simply use ramps and have the floor levels vary just slightly (like in Doom)? Can't imagine the AI has problems with going up a ramp.

Anyway, nice start. The floor tiles are maybe too thick. I look forward to more shots once there are some details. Remember to put a focal point in each main area (crane, bridge, generator, helicopter, etc) so players can easily tell them apart. Basically each area should have something unique to it.

Also perhaps put some dedicated choke points in for gameplay.

Looks good, textures seem to work fine. Remember functional lighting.

http://www.worldofleveldesign.com/categ ... enssen.php

There is a package with free mapmodels here - perhaps useful for decoration if your mod can use mapmodels (misc_model or similar).

http://www.md2.sitters-electronics.nl/

[Spirit]

[mankrip]

[Shpuld]

[CocoT]

It looks quite nice, Shpuld. Is this going to be for "regular" Quake1, or PSP?

Frankly, I don't mind the flat look of it as this point of development. I'm all for trying to get a mod out the door relatively early (maybe just a couple of "demo" levels?), and then you can spend some time polishing things up for a later version. I prefer that to spending too much time on it, becoming bored/frustrated and never finishing/releasing it

[ajay]

[goldenboy]

When =peg= (a veteran player) playtested one of my maps a while back, a reoccurring complaint was "I can't see anything". This in spite of the map not being really dark, or so I thought.

Requiring players to go where the darkness is, instead of where the light is, might seem to make sense conceptually. On the other hand, I'd wager that people's instinct is to go towards the light, which is where the rule of thumb probably comes from.

Try it like you said. Then see what playtesters say.

[Shpuld]