Mreq: "creeping" Infestation Model

tommy14

<div class="IPBDescription">a moving model of a thick infestation</div> Mapping req:

can someone make a model of "thick" infestations that move, perhaps creep out and then go back? something like a thick blanket that pulses? a "blob" perhaps?

MalambisBZ

Of course a modeler could make it.. but a mapper would have to put it in their map.

Delarosa

and people would have to D/L it WITH the map...

coil

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My guess is, he's asking for it for a map he's doing. (; Don't be so quick to jump, guys.

tommy: we're gonna need more info for what effect you're trying to get, exactly. Right now you're asking for something a little too vague.

kyliegirl

i remember ollj made a mapping skin of alien infestation which moved and seemed to throb, i dont remember the title but it looks pretty cool

MalambisBZ

Ooops, I shoulda read the post closer.

Provide us with more details about what exactly you want.

Yamazaki

There's other ways of doing it without resorting to models. Remember the jump blisters from HL SP? Those xen-like bumps on the ground that inflated and sent you skyward? No model there, just some clever map entities at work to make it puff up.

A model is probably the more visually appealing method, but it won't have a proper collision system. A puffing up blob will not actually push players around, so it will look like they're clipping into it.

Ollj

That jump effect needs at least 5 entities.
Animated infestation Textures need at least 5 times more texture Memory (and Flay says stay below 4 mb).
Models just need e_poly and much work, once created they are unflexible and repetitive.

Im still waiting for the map ns_origin that includes the fungus-plant:

tommy14

yes, you would have to clip it, but it still would look like players are clipping into it, or players are hovering over it. so what? i know you don't get perfection in HL engine....

i just thought this would be a way around some NS limits, the texture and the entitys. animated pumping wall textures eat texture limits, and making them move with entitys eats those limits. i was hoping a model would solve the problem.

my mental concept was the thick fungus scum i found in my frig, jiggled on liquid base - and then i flashed back to the old movie "the blob". <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

so it could be something that sits in place and pumps like a heart, or a slimy blob that moves in a small circle.
i was going to put a presence entity over it targetting a trigger hurt, so if a human touched it or got next to it he would be hurt. (yeah, i know, 2 more entitys.) i am sure your artisitic imagination can outdo anything i could.

i CAN do without it, not crucial, but i thought i would ask. decor/surprise helps. but if it is a no, that is ok too.

<i>oh, and ollj, that is a nice mushroom. but i never saw it before - did you release it in the mapping forum so people know it is out there?</i>

SkinnY

i see no problem with a model to bring the map abit to life... as long as that model looks "Kharaa "-like...

Mr_Headcrab

i got some tenticles done if
you want them...

Pod

that mushroom is like the pbpimple.mdl in the ns/models/ folder. and you could always make a null brush aroudn the object to make to "solid"