Rad Ished wrote:This is amazing , uber bleeding edge pZoints to tZork, are those the aforementioned hunter killers on your tail??
Yes, that it is. nasty little buggers
they remind me of this bit in Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
"who ARE those guys?"
This texture blending, is it not something you can do in blender, is that how it is achieved? What is the terrain in this map made of? .ase ? .md3 (i doubt)? curve patch? tzorks extra special mad plasticine ?!?
Leap and bounds tZork, this has got me real excited for possibilities in future maps, how long did this tZake to make ?
One more request, this one i rly would appreciate: what is your workflow to create this? what apps what order? do you have to go back and forth with a separate 3d app?
Naice tzork, tzasty stuff.
Right, like C.Brutail pointed out this can be done with hightmaps and a q3 adapted terrain tool (for example easygen). you can also use 'handmade' geometry, like PoM (
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/design/maps_q3/pom.htm), and DotProduct2 blending. Its important at this point to separate the terrain mesh and the texturing.
Lets start with the blending, heres a nice overvirew:
http://www.simonoc.com/pages/articles/terrain1_1.htm
This article mainly talks aboute DotProduct2 blending, but also mentions the history leading up to it.
The mesh you use with this can be made form brushes or models, its works just as well with both, with the exception of indexmaped terrain, like the one easygen makes (and i used for the map in the vid)
You can use blender too model the map too if you like:
http://www.katsbits.com/htm/tutorials/b ... g_maps.htm
The time it took to create the map in the vid (exluding textures and mapobjects, like the vegitation and rock formations) is perhaps 2-5 hrs, its made mainly using photosop (initial hightmap) and easygen. (i dont remeber precicely how long it took, i made that map for another game based on the ioq3 engine some time ago)
HOF:
<Diablo> the nex is a "game modification"
<Diablo> quake1 never had a weapon like that.
<Vordreller> there was no need for anything over 4GB untill Vista came along
<Samua>]Idea: Fix it?
<Samua>Lies, that only applies to other people.
Sat Nov 10, 2007 5:30 pm 
MASSIVE! 
some settings change immediately, some don't, the button does the vid_restart.
