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Here's some new pics of HITP Swamp
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:42 pm
by Balr14
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 4:59 pm
by crunch
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.
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:22 pm
by Major Pain
Maybe you could make the bottom with riverbed[/u] and the water with canal_sludge
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 6:54 pm
by SlasherZ
i like it! looks like it came from the folks at ea
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 10:43 pm
by Sonsai
If only the V:JW team knew how to make new foliage... looks great!
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 12:10 pm
by Hunter
Looks very nice
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 2:30 pm
by jv_map
Fewer than 1000 triangles
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 4:18 pm
by m0g
looks creepy but nice
reminds me of Evil Dead somehow, dont know why
lol
Posted: Sun Aug 24, 2003 8:24 pm
by Balr14
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.
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:23 am
by small_sumo
Looks great, we could learn from this, maybe you will put the map file in the final release for learning purposes.
Well done mate.
Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:20 am
by Balr14
Hi sumo. Hey, you should know I always make all my map files available to anyone who wants them.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 1:55 am
by small_sumo
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 2:41 am
by Balr14
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.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:01 am
by Balr14
(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.
Posted: Tue Aug 26, 2003 3:06 am
by Bjarne BZR
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).
