Quake3World

Delirium wrote:-you need to nopicmip the sprites/decals it was quite horrid looking at them in bad quality

so i add nopicmip to those shaders? never used that before.. in the first part of the shader?

Delirium wrote:-maybe a slightly colored fog

like that which is in the regen spot? there are issues with fog and water i have not solved.. otherwise.. patches and water and fog together.. lol help me out with it and yeah..

Delirium wrote:-indead of 'add'ing the crystals, why not alpha blend them from 1 color to another?

good idea.. alpha blending required it be done vertex to vertex.. so i might have to rebuild them to cater to that.. hmm another thing i've done once.. but whew.. rusty.

Delirium wrote:-you have textures which are not powers of 2, including your levelshot

true. the levelshot is a screen reso pic.. always has been.. works fine. 1024x768, whats the preferred dimensions of a levelshot? the rest of them are powers of 2.. 128 256 512 etc...which one isn't? lol

Delirium wrote:-you included your texture folder twice

oops. you got me there lol.

thanks

like so

textures/blah/blah
{
surfaceparm blah
nopicmip
{
map textures/blah/blah.tga
etc
}
}


yea sure


In UrbanTerror I go with a 1024x1024 .tga or 2048x2048 but im a quality freak when it comes to that.
I think 512x512 or 1024x1024 would be fine.

apart from the levelshot what makes you say i have textures not power of 2?

Some textures like
beam4e
poolite2
all the e6trim* (48 is not a power of 2)

WOW THOSE TRIMS CAME FROM EVILS SETS... lol odd they were wrong sized..

as for the two beams.. unused yet. funny you saw those. soon to a final version nea you.

obsidian wrote:(Pssstt... Ummm.... that's the moderator controls, only Q3W staff see them. Also, that voice you hear... that's just in your head)

Normal members can delete messages by clicking on the edit button above their post. It may only work if it's the last post in the thread, I don't quite recall.

Doh! Haha, anyway.

Skin, I pruned the posts you had marked for removal. If you run into anymore that you want removed, edit the post and click the "Delete this post" to get rid of it.

Hey.
Funny mixture this one. Some really great elements and some not so good finishing.
The texturing and textures are an interesting choice, not to my taste, but I guess that's by the by. My main concern actually (apart from some alignment issues I'll highlight later) is that many of the textures are low res or even REALLY low res. Many appear stretched and blurry.
I had a nose around in the pk3.
I never saw anyone add a readme folder before. Actually the thing that struck me was the aas size...6 mb! Your aas is bigger than the bsp.

Ok, more detail:

Shot 1:

The model seems random and there simply to fill a hole

Shot 2:

The reds in these textures are completely different. I appreciate the whole 'trippiness' of the level, but in many instances these textures don't seem to fit. Also note the wall paper on the left, I will return to that later.

Shot 3:

I could have picked several areas for this. Texture alignment on the wood trim, and further abrupt texture transition. Obviously note the mapmedia.pk3 missing texture also.

Shot 4:

More mapmedia mayhem.....

Shot 5:

You can't really see it on my lvlshot, but the chains are z-fighting.

Shot 6:

Ah, the wallpaper, all the blue side is upside down.

Shot 7:

The brushes here either don't align, are off grid, are broken or have a caulk edge poking through.

Shot 8:

These jump pads are odd. The texture alignment changes between pads, the one shown here is particularly poor.

Shot 9:

The gothic texture just seems wrong to me.

Shot 10:

Another fugly texture transition. The meeting red/blue might have actually matched at least.

Many of the observations are opinion, you might have already fixed some of the missing/mis-aligned texture issues. Anyway, very interesting map dude, gg so far.

REMOVE

REMOVE

qer directives have absolutely no effect on a shader outside of the editor. Changing it won't affect the appearance or function of the shader in game.

ok, thanks obsidian, im cleaning up. glad this was all found.

Been at work all day sorry, just walked in and it's 10pm here in Singapore...haven't been able to look.

remove

remove

skinNCNmaster wrote:question, can levelshots be added into scripts and nopicmipped?

Levelshots can be added into scripts. I'm not sure about nopicmipped, but they should work similarly to other textures. See: (dfwc2010-0, dfwc2010-1, dfwc2010-2, dfwc2010-3, dfwc2010-4, dfwc2010-5, amt-freestyle4). They use scripted levelshots.

omg lol right so did i in pn03...

wow my memory
thanks anthem

someone please check my pk3 on a fresh install for any missing or mispathed stuff?

I hope you have your own clean install to test the maps? If not create one before asking other folks.

NOT ENOUGH SPACE on my hard drive...

and yeah apologies for asking you to look at my new map.. dont, if its too much trouble.

Looks like everything is working.. Glad you decided to lower the water

Anthem wrote:Levelshots can be added into scripts.

As said, they can be altered with scripts but that can cause trouble too, so always check if your changes affect every other single levelshot, too. I once lightened up one and thus turned all completely overbright. But otherwise, sure, no problem.

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