Changes be afoot!
KungFuSquirrel
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
<div class="IPBDescription">/me looks around nervously</div>You're going to hate me. All of you. Except those of you who don't care. Which is probably all of you... So no one hates me! Yay!
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Drop dead gorgeous, Andrew. No complaints from me. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->
I was thinking that the walls could be lit with a little more contrast in mind, but look at the picture as a whole. Or just the walls there. The monitors are the source of contrast. Very bright against the darkish walls.
The lighting as a whole is definitely varied. The red, the pale, the bright, the ultra bright monitors...
The back wall there might be lit sameish, but I think the monitors break it up nicely.
/me looks for something to criticize so he doesn't look like an over-praising fool..
<!--EDIT|ken20banks|May 13 2002,13:39-->
Oh, and it seems no one caught onto the "changes are afoot" and "you're going to hate me" parts. Phew.
<!--EDIT|KungFuSquirrel|May 13 2002,14:54-->
What are you getting at??
If you scrap t3h gl0ry, I'll not only hate you... I'll kill you.
/me wishes you the best of luck and assures you his understanding if this is the case
Regardless, I'll still kill you.
<!--EDIT|ken20banks|May 13 2002,14:26-->
Ken's hit the nail on the head. Eclipse 2, may you be more successful than the first.
Oh, and it... ah... will be. Trust me on this one. And don't kill me.
/me grumbles and wishes KFS the best of luck.
I'm gonna join Ken in rending you limb from limb.
Seriously though, I think know pretty much how your thinking, sometimes a restart is needed ...
<b>*Hides the three complete rooms of the new Caged*</b>
But I'm not... I'm mad.
Where, exactly, do you live again? Nebraska? That's only a couple hours drive... And how would you like to die today? I could pick up whatever is needed along the way...
<b>Remember:</b> there are people that get things done, and there are people who talk about what went wrong to prevent them from getting something done. Make sure you're in the right category.
If I kept restarting NS every time I thought I could do it better if I restarted, we wouldn't be in playtest right now!
New level looks nice. Grumble.
However, as the current state of things was going, I hadn't touched the map in over a week. I'd tried, but I never saw anything worth touching. Motivation was slipping. I came to a point where I had two choices: 1) Rebuild the map, implementing all the things I now felt were lacking or 2) Let it drift aside and never be finished.
It's summertime, I have nothing going on from day to day, and I'm on a mission. I won't let this map slide off into oblivion like Veil, and it's that determination that's the reason for this in the first place. It's not like I'm completely starting from scratch -- I have a vision of the direction I'm going to take and I still have the full layout. Things should progress much faster this time than before.
(Oh, and it's the southeast corner of Nebraska. Beatrice. Only Weldon in the phone book. Probably about 6-7 hours, at least from the last time I went to MN.)
(Also, I'd... ah... like death by prostitution... <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->)
(And wow, that smiley face is WAY too happy seeming. /me kills)
<!--EDIT|KungFuSquirrel|May 13 2002,16:16-->
I'm pretty satisfied with the new ns_shadow so far. There have been at least 10 maps I've done previously for HL/TFC/CS/othermods that I started over a few times or never got done due to loss of inspiration. It's a thing everyone goes through, everyone does (I'm talking about us mapping folk).
I mean, it looks great, and you know it. Hopefully now that you're out of school, you'll be done after a couple weeks of sleep deprivation?
Actually, who else here is thinking that motivation (or the lack thereof) is the killer? I do. It's what's killing me right now. Not that he didn't think the level was good enough... there's just a seemingly large lack of motivation. He even mentioned the word.
/me hopes he can get "TALD3: Where's my motivation?" written up some day soon... It will hopefully help mappers move forward through times of motivationlessness (heh), and discuss how others can help them along with it.
Someone should make a new ladder texture. Every time I see that horrible, ugly, out-of-place, looking ladder texture (sorry to whoever made it, but you made lots of great texture too!) I want to puke. I really think a new ladder texture is needed but you are not me :)
I guess for me that was the whole point behind me doing an ns map. To start a difficult task and see it through the highs and lows and find myself on the other side with completion as my reward.
I think Flayra is right. I say that reluctantly, as I know how many times I hav come close to throwing away all of ns_elysium, only to instead rebuild massive sections and carry on. What slows me now more than anything is just fear. Fear that I'm no more capable of finishing than any other guy, and if I put a lot of time into my map, it'll be just that much more time lost.
<!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo--> I think I'm rambling.
I don't know what to say. I just can't imagine doing all this without this forum and the experienced advice and friendships it brings. We are the unofficial mapping team of NS. The unoffical part doesn't make us any less of a team. Hang in there! I look forward to playing the maps many of you are working on, and I say that with all sincerity.
KT
Indeed. I couldn't agree more.
i respect your decision (especially as im finding it hard to even get out of bed and go to school these days let alone do anything worth showing in my map. on another note: im bludging school today because i couldnt be bothered going.)