Screenshots

[jal_]

Some steampunk textures I'm working on for a new map:

It's just a simple test room btw
Like my other texture sets, they'll be made publicly available on my website when they're done.

I love it. This should be in wsw :P

[jal_]

Nice. Is the MT restricted to z-plane mapping or can you do it on other axes as well?

The screenshot itself has lots of vertical and good looking planes

BTW, Who was talking about cgtextures a few posts ago? Does the road ring a bell?

[obsidian]

ETQW terrain (as in the example posted by o'dium above) is UV-mapped in a modeling app the traditional way, with z-plane megatextures layered on top. ETQW cannot use megatextures along any other axes. Hence the question.

id Tech 5 is supposed to remove this restriction so that virtually any world surface can take advantage of megatexturing.

[Silicone_Milk]

How exactly does megatexturing work? I tried finding something of some sort of value to read but can only find tutorials on how to make them.

Is it texture streaming through the use of a quadtree or something along those lines?

[o'dium]

Two parts. One is the creation, which is a large part of the mega texture. Its made using a whole range of variables you can update in real time that blend the terrain textures into the correct places, so that hills blend into rock, with grass blending between the cracks and what not. This is done using a combination of awesome code, distribution textures and angle vectors.

The second phase is getting it working ingame, which is done by loading only whats needed at a given time, streaming if you will.

So far we have managed to compress our MT's down to about 8x smaller in file size over standard .tga with zero difference in quality, but we can go much further still, so thats where the tests are coming in. The first test for us was getting it there, hence the ET:QW terrain. The second test is actually making it all, from scratch, with our own media, which is going quite well. High poly sculting of terrain is a right bitch though :P

[fKd]

give us a render of ya player models already go on, you know you want to

[o'dium]

I honestly can't right now They are pre-zbrush stage so they dont want them out just yet

[fKd]

[lvlshot]http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7471/13478958.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/13478958.jpg/1/w1024.png[/lvlshot]

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just to prove im not slacking off very VERY early shots of 1 of 2 new maps im working on...
q3dmp11 - Tech Edge.

here is the pk3 if ya wanna take a wee look, im sure textures will be missing as mappacker has a tendency to do that

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=b674 ... f6e8ebb871

[nitin77]

unreal background? that brushwork style reminds me a lot of UT levels

[sumatra]

...that brushwork style reminds me a lot of UT levels

Yes, same here. And I have an UT classic background. That looks very Ut-ish... (which is nothing bad IMO)

[fKd]

ha indeed i do have a ut background used to have a site on planetunreal back in the day lol

[o'dium]

Meet The Team - Marauders

In order left to right - Drone (Grunt), Locum (Medic), Scout (Recon), Technician (Engineer) and Infiltrator (Field Ops.).:

[nitin77]

fkd/sumatra,

what levels? I love classic UT

[fKd]

ummm ctf-433 was mine, as well as ctf-sublevel17..there were a bunch of others but these 2 were prolly the best from me.

[R. Tetzlaff]

Meet The Team - Marauders

Nice! They look like some sort of renegade zombie Strogg.

[sumatra]

fkd/sumatra,

what levels? I love classic UT

Sent you a private message...

[seremtan]

We got a certain something working in OverDose... Can you tell what it is yet...?

that's pretty shit-hot. the fact that someone can make something like that without having to manipulate every single vertex and then paint the entire bastard thing by hand is also pretty shit-hot. having painted terrain meshes in UT2K4 (ZZZzzzzzzzz.......) i can appreciate this

[dichtfux]

Meet The Team - Marauders

In order left to right - Drone (Grunt), Locum (Medic), Scout (Recon), Technician (Engineer) and Infiltrator (Field Ops.)

Second one rather looks as if he needs a medic.

[Kaz]

Working on something newish, please ignore as-of-yet un-sourced yellow spotlights:

[lvlshot]http://student.cs.appstate.edu/freemancw/junk/shot0003.jpg[/lvlshot]

[tehSandwich]

*poke* *poke*

I am tehSandwich (AKA CyberSirius) and I'm a former Unreal Tournament mapper.
I'm new here and, after reading many tutorials and did many test maps, I started making a Q3 map.

[lvlshot]http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/4311/shot0000yaz.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/3127/shot0001q.jpg[/lvlshot]

This is obviously far from complete.

*runs away*

[Kaz]

You might be doing this already, but you should "miter" the edges of your angled brushes. I'm specifically referring to where the wall pieces next to your stairs are going upward... these should be skewed slightly instead of completely vertical. A little sketch:



Also, I think it'd look better if you alternate between a stair trim with a light and one without, it's a little repetitive as-is. Looks good!

[tehSandwich]

Slightly more progress!

[lvlshot]http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/6272/shot0002qvk.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/830/shot0003d.jpg[/lvlshot]

Next thing to work on, the sky.

[o'dium]

Looks quite nice for a Q3 map!

[tehSandwich]

Unimportant update!

[lvlshot]http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/7620/shot0004tby.jpg[/lvlshot]
[lvlshot]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/237/shot0005r.jpg[/lvlshot]

Apparently, my texture detail level was not maxed in my previous screenshots.
Now, you should see lunaran's textures at their full glory.
Currently with a temporary sky. It will be darker than that.

EDIT: Here's the sky. Made using Bryce 5.5.

[lvlshot]http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6541/shot0006i.jpg[/lvlshot]

[fKd]

yay another ut mapper! welcome! looks interesting, waits for beta