Random Dev. Shots

[Supertanker]

Ooo, pretty colors



Obviously this is not a player accescable area.



I really need to make my own textures. That skybox planet sucks and took forever to render :/

[your face]

very nice.  :]

[Taiyo.uk]

* Taiyo.uk resorts to using a bucket after Stannum's chopperz pwned his last pair of pants.

[n.o.s.brain]

totally leet!

just out of curiosity, which method do you use to achieve these kind of angles:

at first, i rotated, then i figured out how to use 3-point clipping, but recently discovered how to get the same result by dragging the vertices, just wondering how the pros do it...

[Survivor]

Dragging vertices is prone to error fabrication though. Most 'pros' i know use 3-point clipping. A very odd one sometimes uses patch clipping.

[Taiyo.uk]

Clipping. Vertex manipulation becomes tedious when Radiant automatically moves other vertices to keep the brush convex. Clipping cannot make a concave brush from a convex one.

[TRaK]

Survivor and Taiyo are right, vertex manipulation is annoying and I avoid it as much as possible.


However, personally, this is what I would do:

1. Clone the bottom brush in the image and place it on top of the original brush.
2. switch to side view
3. ctrl-drag the top edge to the right inclination.
4. 2-point clip/resize the rest of the brush to remove any empty spaces/overlaps between the column and the wall.

Alternately, you could take a squared-off version of the top column, split it into 3 in top view, ctrl-drag the exterior pieces, clip the edges that are sticking into the wall in side view, then merge the three brushes back together.  (this may seem confusing, I'm not being very eloquent )

This technique works quite well for me. And I'll let you in on one of my dirty secrets: I have never, ever, had to use 3 point clipping in any of my maps. Honestly, I don't even know how it works 

I must be odd I guess

[n.o.s.brain]

Thanks all!

A very odd one sometimes uses patch clipping.

patch clipping? whats that?

3 point clipping is when u click the clip tool 3 times, then position the clip points properly by dragging them in different planes until you get mad... lol

lol, trak is living proof that its very possible to make a leet map without 3 point clipping!

[your face]

(spammage imminent)

[mooseberry]

Blue...

[your face]

blue is pretty...but if you insist, ill make it green...

[n.o.s.brain]

a quick experiment with 3 point clipping.

[Rocinante]

You call that a quick experiment?  Sheesh, sometimes you mappers make me feel inadequate

Looks nice.

[Kaleo]

can 1 of u r33ly gud mpprz plz ps0t a tut ab0ut 3 pnt klippn kthnxbai

[gareth]

can 1 of u r33ly gud mpprz plz ps0t a tut ab0ut 3 pnt klippn kthnxbai

http://tremulous.net/forum/index.php?topic=7497.0

[Plague Bringer]

brain: That map's got the gloomy, industrial, pipespam feel of a Taiyo.uk. Map. Infact, aside from that door, I thought it was a Taiyo.uk map. Good job.

[Taiyo.uk]

MOAR PIPES!!1!

Don't stop adding pipes until you're down to 1fps.

[n.o.s.brain]

btw, the door was just to keep out the void, its going to be a 3 point one soon. 

and definitely moar pipes! but i get liek 60 fps on groundsource, so it will take me a while to get down to 1...

[TRaK]

Brain, that's looking quite good, keep it up

Only problem I see with it is the splotchy lighting, but that's not a hard fix.

[your face]

Total pwnage. 

(watch until it turns into a map, xD)

[Samurai.mac]

This is a little something I started working on only last night. It's actually for another game, but I'm thinking of making a version for Tremulous as well.


And now for a nice egyptian themed map, Sopedu.

[techhead]

Awesome stuff, and congrats to the topic having five hundred (and one) replies!
At the time of this post, of course.

[Zero Ame]

More coming soon

[mooseberry]

Pipes are rectangular. o.0

[Zero Ame]

not really, just GTKRadiant doesnt make perfect cylinders. Unless you do it with a brush but then they take a much longer period of time to make bends in them, and time is something Im tight on. I might go through and replace them with brushes when i release the final version.

Im actually going to release a trial version of it in a second. Its not finished for it to be beta 1 yet but I really want to see what people think.

[TinMan]

Computers don't make perfect cylinders, they make them out of polygons, you just need to add more sides so it looks smoother.

[Zero Ame]

You cant add more sides to a cylinder unless its a brush

[your face]

you're using brushes or patch meshes?

[Zero Ame]

I use Curve > Cylinder

[your face]

which = patch mesh.  cool :]