What are you working on?

[mankrip]

Barnes: That's stunning, and I also love the effect that mimics the swirly texture of the water.

Hogsy: I love that style. It's like the best parts of Turok 2 and Daikatana mixed together.

And I've managed to upload some screenshots. Even though there's still much to be improved in the code, these particles are a lot faster than my previous (flat) particles. It improved "timedemo demo1" tests from 95 fps to 99 fps.

[Spirit]

The lighting on the player model in shot 2 is awesome, looks like some artsy image filter.

[hogsy]

[toneddu2000]

Very cool effect Barnes! Maybe making water a bit more reflective could be even better

[ceriux]

Mankrip I really really like those particles. I wish dp and fte had particles like that. Instead they have those neon blob particles... :-[

[jitspoe]

Getting started on a map for the Quake 2 Cafe mapping contest. More WIP stuff will be posted here... if I have time to get around to it: http://leray.proboards.com/thread/3632/ ... -wip-stuff

[mankrip]

[jim]

jitspoe: I like the buildings too. Someday I want to make some textures/stuff like those...

Animated my CookieRaider. The flying & swimming monsters also got some more up/down movement.

http://media.moddb.com/images/games/1/3 ... ed_002.jpg

[jitspoe]

The sunlight in arghrad bothered me. It was set up so everything that had line of sight to the sky was uniformly lit with an "ambient" value. This ended up causing things to look very bland and incorrect. Reflected light would make areas that should have been darker actually lighter.



So I set about using the DeWan tools as a base to create better sun/ambient lighting. Sadly, it was in a pretty rough state to start out with:



Not sure how things came anywhere close to working with the way the sun light code was handled, so I scrapped it and eventually ended up with:



All was well and good, until I tried to use it in a real map I was working on:



Turns out hint brushes were casting shadows. Oops.

I do have the source of my changes so far up on sf.net's cvs: http://paintball2.cvs.sourceforge.net/v ... tools_src/

[Spiney]

Sweet!

[Spirit]

Jitspoe, check out the more recent posts in http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60967 , there is fancy new sunlight in Q1 tools.

[Irritant]

[toneddu2000]

[ceriux]

[Spirit]

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