Here's some new pics of HITP Swamp

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:42 pm

I was bored, so I thought I'd post a few pics.

crunch · Post by **crunch** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:59 pm

Very nice!
It is refreshing to see some new skies--I really like the "swamp-gas/foggy /filtered light" look.
It actually reminds me of Tolkien.....

Do I hear Single Player level?

I am waiting anxiously for the HITP release.

Major Pain · Post by **Major Pain** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:22 pm

Maybe you could make the bottom with riverbed[/u] and the water with canal_sludge

SlasherZ · Post by **SlasherZ** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:54 pm

i like it! looks like it came from the folks at ea

Sonsai · Post by **Sonsai** » Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:43 pm

If only the V:JW team knew how to make new foliage... looks great!

Hunter · Post by **Hunter** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:10 pm

Looks very nice

Post by **jv_map** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 2:30 pm

Fewer than 1000 triangles

m0g · Post by **m0g** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:18 pm

looks creepy but nice

reminds me of Evil Dead somehow, dont know why

lol

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:24 pm

The water is a custom murky, yucky surface you can't see through that varies in color from golden to dark brown. There are layers of mist that move just above the water and at several levels higher up. Having water you can't see into allows me to make everything below the water line caulk. Saves lots of face count. Everything is triangle brushes and reduced complexity patch mesh. Full vis takes 4 minutes, but doesn't accomplish anything.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:23 am

Looks great, we could learn from this, maybe you will put the map file in the final release for learning purposes.

Well done mate.

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:20 am

Hi sumo. Hey, you should know I always make all my map files available to anyone who wants them.

small_sumo · Post by **small_sumo** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 1:55 am

Balr14 wrote:Hi sumo. Hey, you should know I always make all my map files available to anyone who wants them.

Eh what was I thinking.

Say um how do I make my boat look good, like its too big to build a world around and making an ocean around it, I am finding to be near impossible as well. Sillly me. I may have to put it in a ship yard kinda thing.

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:41 am

A shipyard or dock would be my choice. Maybe a loading crane and tower you can climb and run across to get on the ship.

Balr14 · Post by **Balr14** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:01 am

(Mr)Sonsai wrote:If only the V:JW team knew how to make new foliage... looks great!

Huh? Well I'm confused. I recall making some comments about texture formats in your forum and being pretty well told to butt out because this person (Liege, I think it was) was the team texture artist and skinner and he pretty well knew everything there was to know about textures and shaders.

Then I saw images of some of your prefabs and frankly they are awful. Yet your mod team has never gone looking for texture artists or static model/prefab creators. So, I figured you must be happy with what you have and just don't choose to show anything good.

Anyway, my texture, prefab and terrain library has been made available to another Vietnam mod. Sorry.

Post by **Bjarne BZR** » Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:06 am

Small_sumo: How about making the sea surface out of patch mesh, and bend it downwards at he edges to create the illusion of never ending water... just an idea, but hard to do if you have VERY little space left at the end of the ship... maby try to rotate it 45 degrees to get more space at the front and back?

I used the bent patch mesh tecnique on the cloud layer in "Vemork approach" to give the illusion that the clouds just went on and on (combined with some fog).