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Aazell
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 Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 1:50 am Post subject: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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OK putting other ideas on hold and instead decided to go with a player being Stormtrooper type map. First of a few maps I hope that will see you go from bog standard trooper through to ShadowTrooper with sabre and all.
Feel is much better than my last effort as this time I followed the immortal advice..."Let the textures be your guide!".
Boy is that some good advice!
Map is intended to be final combat exam for ST's but story's not too important right now. Just having some fun with the concept. Have a general look and feel sorted out for the place as you'll see. One thing I'm worried about is getting the feeling that just over the wall is nothing. Tried to get around this by placing some antennae models on the ledges to give the illusion it goes on further. Let me know you're thoughts please peeps.
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:01 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| That's a big light source to cast so little light. Otherwise, the map looks fairly good so far. As for giving the map the feel of actually having something beyond the walls, you might want to look into skyportals. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 2:38 pm Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Agreed about that lighting. I always start with minimal and then beef it up bit by bit until its about right.
The sky portal sounds perfect. I want the feel of being in a huge outdoor imp facility so am desperate to stick an atat in the background and some towers.
Is there an atat model ingame? The prefab I found is from jo days and looks awful but I know there are atat textures in the hoth set. Praying I don't have to build it myself as will be here for a month of sundays!
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lassev
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 3:21 pm Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| You can also use Mercenary's method instead or in addition to a portal sky. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Mon Jan 18, 2010 7:59 pm Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Good lord, mercenaries method seems rather longwinded.
Will try out the skyportal thing first and see how it works out. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 7:55 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Loving the skyportal!
Works very well. Now I just need to get an idea of imperial military architecture. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 9:48 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 10:48 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| Am at work and cannot but will add one tonight when I get home. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 11:16 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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I'm dying to find a prefab of a star destroyer. Not a full size one u understand but a scale model I can add into my sky portal as scenery. A docked ISD as a background would be fantastic.
Have tried to port over existing 3ds models into .md3 but it all ended rather messily with milkshape having a fit and crashing.
So prefab would seem the way to go.
Any suggestions would be most welcome. |
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 1:24 pm Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| Well, rather than a prefab, you could find an image of the side of a star destroyer (or whatever angle you want/need) and turn it into a texture, which you could fit on a brush near the skyportal. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:32 pm Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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SkyPortal pics.
I just whacked some random shapes covered in imperial shaders into my skyportal and here's how they show up in the map.
The last pic went funky but it shows you whats really going on behind walls.
Enjoy!
The shapes in the editor
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:11 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| Snipeye is absolutely right. I recommend finding some high-resolution Star Destroyer images on the internet, and using them as textures in the skyportal. They'll look the same as if an actual SD model were there--maybe even better. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 12:25 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Yah... so i got bored and...
ISD Skybox
In Radient
It needs texturing properly but figured others could use it as scenery too.
Will sort out the textures tomorrow.
Its only about twice the height of the player so good for sticking outside windows of space stations etc...
Will host the prefab when it's done unless anyone else wants a stab at texturing it?
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| Posted: Wed Jan 20, 2010 5:03 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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| Pretty accurate! Will look better with texturing, though. |
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Aazell
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| Posted: Thu Jan 21, 2010 12:45 am Post subject: Re: New Map - Join The Empire! |
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Created some more textures.
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