Random Dev. Shots

[mooseberry]

Simply Beautiful!

[Plague Bringer]

I notice that, as we get closer and closer to one-point-two, community mappers are really giving it their all and producing some amazing maps. Keep it up, Odin, Supertanker, Brain, and Face. To the devs, wait a bit when 1.2 is finished to release so that we can have another handful of eyegasm maps.

[Odin]

Who says they wont work on 1.2?

[cactusfrog]

  why are you such a better mapper than me. 

[Taiyo.uk]

Because he's invested sufficient time and effort in developing his mapping skills. You can too.

[Seffylight]

Supertanker and Odin working TOGETHER?! ! (looks pretty, btw)

[Kaleo]

Oooh... Super + Odin.

SuperOdin.

[Taiyo.uk]

Nein! It's t3h OdinTanker!

[Kaleo]

[Odin]

We did some new lighting(we got rid of those ugly strip lights). By the way, the green and red lights around doors tell you which ones open and which ones don't(green opens, red is locked).

New lights around doors:




Supertanker's masterpiece reactor core:


Flare test:


More shots of the reactor core base:

[cactusfrog]

cool! love the lighting. 

[mooseberry]

Very nice!

[Odin]

That's just with a test compile. A final with -bounce 8 will brighten it a tad, and I have phong shading disabled in test compiles so things look a bit rough right now. We're working on the darkness around the reactor base, but keep in mind Tremulous is supposed to be a dark game, but most players play with an increased gamma so we have to keep that into consideration(I myself play with r_gamma 1.6 just so I can begin to see in some levels). Everything is perfectly visible at a gamma of about 1.2.

[Lava Croft]

@Odin: Are you using the normal maps provided with that texture set to make use of q3map2's 'bump-mapping' feature?
If not, give it a try and see what the effect is!

[Syntac]

Good work, SuperOdin/OdinTanker!

Off-topic: This thread plays hell with my connection.

[Bissig]

Very nice style. It looks rather unique compared to all the other me-too-spacestation maps. Just don't make it eating too many resources please.

[Supertanker]

@Bissig
We have balanced computers for testing. Odin has his super ZOMFG fast rig for beautiful screenshots and compiling, and I have my midrange average rig with an nVidia 6150E for testing.

At 1024x768, maxed settings, I currently (without optimization at all in the map) get about 50-60 FPS with it capped at 60. Except for that damn reactor room, then it drops a little too low.
It'll improve dramatically when we overhaul the particle systems.

@Syntac: Hah, I have slow, unstable dialup. I know the feeling.

[your face]

looks nice  o:

but some of those last shots seemed like they had too much bloom.

[Lava Croft]

but some of those last shots seemed like they had too much bloom.

Thanks to a certain poster on a certain wall in a certain section of Transit, the usage of lens flares is questionable.

[Odin]

@Odin: Are you using the normal maps provided with that texture set to make use of q3map2's 'bump-mapping' feature?
If not, give it a try and see what the effect is!

It would probably be unnoticeable due to how low-res lightmaps are. To get anything noticeable you need to put _lightmapscale 0.1 on everything.

[mooseberry]

How big is your map going to end up?

[Lava Croft]

@Odin: Are you using the normal maps provided with that texture set to make use of q3map2's 'bump-mapping' feature?
If not, give it a try and see what the effect is!

It would probably be unnoticeable due to how low-res lightmaps are. To get anything noticeable you need to put _lightmapscale 0.1 on everything.

And given Quake3's crappy 4MB(?) limit for lightmaps, that's impossible. Too bad :<

@all coders: I think you can safely quadruple the maximum size of the lightmap without breaking backwards compatibility. Maps using the bigger lightmap naturally would not run on a 'unmodified' ioQuake3. *WINK* *WINK*

[Seffylight]

Supertanker should just make a reactor core for every map. Regardless if it needs one or not. Just saying.

OdinTanker

This thread is going places.

[Supertanker]

Oh, trust me. I will.
You'll never find a map without a reactor core of some kind in it!

By the way, update:

[Bissig]

@Odin: Are you using the normal maps provided with that texture set to make use of q3map2's 'bump-mapping' feature?
If not, give it a try and see what the effect is!

It would probably be unnoticeable due to how low-res lightmaps are. To get anything noticeable you need to put _lightmapscale 0.1 on everything.

And given Quake3's crappy 4MB(?) limit for lightmaps, that's impossible. Too bad :<

@all coders: I think you can safely quadruple the maximum size of the lightmap without breaking backwards compatibility. Maps using the bigger lightmap naturally would not run on a 'unmodified' ioQuake3. *WINK* *WINK*

Would quadrupling the limit be easy or would it mean to completely remake the handling of lightmaps?

[Syntac]

@supertanker:

[eloquent]
My eyes, my eyes! Such beauty has never before touched them in so intimate a manner!
[/eloquent]Brings up all sorts of odd imagery, doesn't it?

Damn, that's a good screenshot...

[EDIT] Suggestion: Maybe make the core deadly?

[Kaleo]

Damn, that's one hell of a reactor core.

OdinTanker you smexpots.

[Syntac]

Prepare to be sig-ed.

[your face]

   So much <3.

Actually like it more without bloom hax

[Supertanker]

Yes, I don't use bloom (and I rarely even use FSAA) with my screenshots, because my 6150E chokes to death. The reactor core is slow enough without all the settings.

Now, when I get my new 600 watt PSU installed, and slap in the new 8800GTS....

I'M COMING OUT OF THE BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTH!

Actually, I still won't use Bloom that much, because I prefer getting the effect without extra render passes.

We haven't even added pipes yet to the reactor core...