Uh, I have to go to a banquet tonight.. I hate dressing up but my girlfriend really likes it... which I don't mind because I am madly in love with her!!
So, no mapping for Dark tonight. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> But I did try to compile my map last night... eh, it didn't go well but that's mostly because my new PC isn't properly set-up for mapping with all my custom WADs etc. Plus BSE's likes to terrorize me.
I'm also in need of some hive ideas... check back a few pages to see the first one. Any input on that hive or another is very much welcome.
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edited April 2005
<!--QuoteBegin-DarkATi+Apr 1 2005, 05:41 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkATi @ Apr 1 2005, 05:41 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Plus BSE's likes to terrorize me. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Like OMG, mad cows are terrorising DarkATi <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/style_images/TSA_Skin-975/icon5.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Getting ideas on hives posted in this thread would work so much better if you put a small back story in the 1st post so we can put our minds to work on that idea making thing yaknow...
The Vargus disaster is as much a mystery to you as it is to I We have our top men working on this case, here are the station transfer logs we recovered I hope they make sense to you, they don#39</span></b>
Space Station Vargus ===== Transfer: 1 Protocol: AB9t-6 Reference: Sarro Project
Dr. Reagel,
We've been succesful out <span style='color:red'>here</span> in Grenar 2-26. The conditions are fantastic! I'll be sending my latest subject your way <b>via</b> Cargo-Freighter. It's best we keep this where it belongs - out of the way of the TSA. ***
*()1
The freighter's <span style='color:yellow'>tag ID</span> is: <b>B-16486</b>, the pilot's name is Ben, show him your clearance tag and he won't give you any trouble.
Cheers, Dr. Richard Stronk, Grenar 2-26 Research Development HASH: 835-63685775-967582-8888----- -- STOP -- <> exit console ... ... ...
+++++=+++++=+++++= PERSONAL LOG board meeting, reeson, 006375
STOP READING YOU SHOULD BE WORKING... -------+ ----+++---++- +++++++++++++---- ---- ---------- + ____________
That's when it started, the nightmares, of course.
Never had I felt like leaning <i>to</i> close to the edge, never <b>had I this</b> compulsion for disaster and destruction <a href='http://www.turnerlearning.com/efts/species.970730/manatob.html' target='_blank'>http://www.turnerlearning.com/efts/species...30/manatob.html</a> and <span style='color:yellow'>blood</span>. Never, well, maybe once. <b>But not like this.</b>
<i>AMONG other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no ficticious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a work-house; and in this work-house was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.</i>
<!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Apr 2 2005, 12:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Apr 2 2005, 12:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The glasses make that picture so win. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Yeah, my glasses hate me, they never fail to make me look stupid!
<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> you use batch compile because im geting very mad about cant config that.
<!--QuoteBegin-DarkATi+Apr 2 2005, 01:23 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (DarkATi @ Apr 2 2005, 01:23 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> <!--QuoteBegin-Swiftspear+Apr 2 2005, 12:16 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Swiftspear @ Apr 2 2005, 12:16 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> The glasses make that picture so win. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd--> Yeah, my glasses hate me, they never fail to make me look stupid!
FYI, those ARE my REAL glasses. Grrrss.
~ DarkATi <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> LIES! Your glasses make you aware of offending microscopic material, and allow you to chase small children away and scar them for life! Never have a leeter pair of glasses been worn by a person!
<!--QuoteBegin-Steel Troll+Apr 4 2005, 11:59 AM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Steel Troll @ Apr 4 2005, 11:59 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Get square ones, dye your hair reddish and get a six pack and we can call u gordon!
Hows the map doing? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> Gooooood. I hope to have some new picehs ASAP. I'm working on a creepy desolate medical area right now.
And I might post more of the "story" later.
Speaking of which, does anyone have any comments on what I wrote earlier? I'm hoping to unveil more and more information leading up to the release.
Those pipes look a little dodgy, as if they are just placed there by pure randomness and not for a purpose. On the first screenshot give that little green monitor a bit of light and make the floor or ceiling texture different. The first screenshots is no where near as good in quality as the second, which looks pretty damn neat.
From a gameplay prespective, that diamond shaped hallway kind of worries me. At the steepness of that angle I would imagine that marines slip down to the center if they try to climb up on the sides, yet skulks won't have that problem. Basicly you are restricting marines to one by one single file movement in only back and forth directions, while skulks because of thier wallwalking don't suffer any consequences at all.
It is definately a workable peice of architexture, but if those effects weren't intended it would also be fairly easy to fix by decreasing the steepness of the banks and widening the walls on either side to fill the extra space left.
<!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> oni slow down hallway?
I was thinking of the lack of variation and bad aligning and resizing. I'm TRYING to come up with some concrete examples but I'm getting... distracted. <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1112661058.jpg' target='_blank'>Lets take it in reverse order, newest to oldest. Hallway.</a> Pipe on the left appears to be accidentally split in two, which is either detail in damaged objects, or an error you've probably fixed anyway. Large pipe in the ceiling has dull texturing on the rim. Monitors aren't shining unlike most others. Pipes in general have blah texturing. I think I'm the only one who ever bothers to align those properly. It's just too bad I'm too lazy to actually finish any of my maps...
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1112661018.jpg' target='_blank'>Medical something.</a> It's clearly extremely WIP, so I'm holding off until you post an updated shot.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098944483.jpg' target='_blank'>Slightly tweaked fanpipe room?</a> Ceiling using same texture as the floor is a no-no. My compliments on the rail thingey though. Monitors, again not using any shiny overlays. Door seems cut out of wall, add some sort of edge('fraid I can't think of a better way to phrase it). Pipe rim again... wall high up right next to the pipe isn't aligned around the corner. Same grey walltexture constantly? :/ Floor could use some resizing. Good work on the panels in the background to the right.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098602589.jpg' target='_blank'>Greeny hive.</a> Looks really nice. Except for(again) the blah floor. And the stairs could be resized around a bit. The ends of the pipe need to be more uniform(ie, solid metal grey with no random edges streaking through). You could clip all the outer walls in the room right along the upper edge of the monitor set and use a different texture there for a less repetetive look. Maybe some infestation in the far corners?
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098592596.jpg' target='_blank'>Delicious.</a> All that could be changed for the better is to give the Maintenance sign a light of some sort so it's clearer. Though the supports could also go under the catwalk in order to look more support-y. And be thicker and farther in-between. And something to support that heavy computer on the left. Pipe texture alignment could use a work-around too of some sort(ie clip it and use a different texture like vent2 on it to make the edge unnoticeable), if you don't feel like aligning it alot.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098592564.jpg' target='_blank'>Different angle showing hueg dawr!</a> Add rim around door and you're set.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098423137.jpg' target='_blank'>Whoa. Steamy!</a> Terribly dark in that corridor, but the water doesn't have the same light level :'(. Possibly add one of those alieny green lights so it's not darker than the hive itself?
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1096697086.jpg' target='_blank'>Older shot of above area but from a different angle. I guess.</a> Nothing much to add that hasn't been said already, but the lift texture ends very suddenly in two directions.
<!--QuoteBegin-Align+Apr 6 2005, 08:34 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Align @ Apr 6 2005, 08:34 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> I was thinking of the lack of variation and bad aligning and resizing. I'm TRYING to come up with some concrete examples but I'm getting... distracted. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd--> The only thing I notice from screenshots is the 2nd one of the latest set, floor nearest the view bottom of the shot sticks out like a soar thumb. Low res texture, overstretched.
Aye, not one comment on these new pics? <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->
<!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> heeh flatness, ceiling and floor. you can do better. more color in light still bland. need shadows.
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So, no mapping for Dark tonight. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad-fix.gif' /><!--endemo--> But I did try to compile my map last night... eh, it didn't go well but that's mostly because my new PC isn't properly set-up for mapping with all my custom WADs etc. Plus BSE's likes to terrorize me.
I'm also in need of some hive ideas... check back a few pages to see the first one. Any input on that hive or another is very much welcome.
~ DarkATi
Like OMG, mad cows are terrorising DarkATi <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/style_images/TSA_Skin-975/icon5.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
Getting ideas on hives posted in this thread would work so much better if you put a small back story in the 1st post so we can put our minds to work on that idea making thing yaknow...
<span style='font-size:8pt;line-height:100%'>^Long sentance alert!^</span>
The Vargus disaster is as much a mystery to you as it is to I We have our top men working on this case, here are the station transfer logs we recovered I hope they make sense to you, they don#39</span></b>
Space Station Vargus =====
Transfer: 1
Protocol: AB9t-6
Reference: Sarro Project
Dr. Reagel,
We've been succesful out <span style='color:red'>here</span> in Grenar 2-26. The conditions are fantastic! I'll be sending my latest subject your way <b>via</b> Cargo-Freighter. It's best we keep this where it belongs - out of the way of the TSA. ***
*()1
The freighter's <span style='color:yellow'>tag ID</span> is: <b>B-16486</b>, the pilot's name is Ben, show him your clearance tag and he won't give you any trouble.
Cheers,
Dr. Richard Stronk, Grenar 2-26
Research Development
HASH: 835-63685775-967582-8888-----
-- STOP --
<> exit console
...
...
...
HASH: 467-83763234-977323-1112----
<i>retrieve center...
logging in...
verifying...
welcome Syra</i>
request <>
<> end <>
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+++++=+++++=+++++= PERSONAL LOG
board meeting, reeson, 006375
STOP READING YOU SHOULD BE WORKING...
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That's when it started, the nightmares, of course.
Never had I felt like leaning <i>to</i> close to the edge, never <b>had I this</b> compulsion for disaster and destruction <a href='http://www.turnerlearning.com/efts/species.970730/manatob.html' target='_blank'>http://www.turnerlearning.com/efts/species...30/manatob.html</a> and <span style='color:yellow'>blood</span>. Never, well, maybe once. <b>But not like this.</b>
HASH: 999-84697502-186988-1117----
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CHAPTER 1
<i>AMONG other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no ficticious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a work-house; and in this work-house was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.</i>
__________________
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<b>REAGEL
WE NEED YOU 8:00 A.M. SHARP.</b>
- BRENNeCK
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~ DarkATi
Yeah, my glasses hate me, they never fail to make me look stupid!
FYI, those ARE my REAL glasses. Grrrss.
~ DarkATi
*goes back to work*
~ DarkATi
Yeah, I use batch.
~ DarkATi
Yeah, my glasses hate me, they never fail to make me look stupid!
FYI, those ARE my REAL glasses. Grrrss.
~ DarkATi <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
LIES! Your glasses make you aware of offending microscopic material, and allow you to chase small children away and scar them for life! Never have a leeter pair of glasses been worn by a person!
Hows the map doing?
Hows the map doing? <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Gooooood. I hope to have some new picehs ASAP. I'm working on a creepy desolate medical area right now.
And I might post more of the "story" later.
Speaking of which, does anyone have any comments on what I wrote earlier? I'm hoping to unveil more and more information leading up to the release.
~ DarkATi
~ DarkATi
~ DarkATi
It is definately a workable peice of architexture, but if those effects weren't intended it would also be fairly easy to fix by decreasing the steepness of the banks and widening the walls on either side to fill the extra space left.
I've re-worked the hallway... I'll post pics later.
~ DarkATi
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1112661058.jpg' target='_blank'>Lets take it in reverse order, newest to oldest. Hallway.</a> Pipe on the left appears to be accidentally split in two, which is either detail in damaged objects, or an error you've probably fixed anyway. Large pipe in the ceiling has dull texturing on the rim. Monitors aren't shining unlike most others.
Pipes in general have blah texturing. I think I'm the only one who ever bothers to align those properly. It's just too bad I'm too lazy to actually finish any of my maps...
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1112661018.jpg' target='_blank'>Medical something.</a> It's clearly extremely WIP, so I'm holding off until you post an updated shot.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098944483.jpg' target='_blank'>Slightly tweaked fanpipe room?</a> Ceiling using same texture as the floor is a no-no. My compliments on the rail thingey though. Monitors, again not using any shiny overlays. Door seems cut out of wall, add some sort of edge('fraid I can't think of a better way to phrase it). Pipe rim again... wall high up right next to the pipe isn't aligned around the corner. Same grey walltexture constantly? :/ Floor could use some resizing. Good work on the panels in the background to the right.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098602589.jpg' target='_blank'>Greeny hive.</a> Looks really nice. Except for(again) the blah floor. And the stairs could be resized around a bit. The ends of the pipe need to be more uniform(ie, solid metal grey with no random edges streaking through). You could clip all the outer walls in the room right along the upper edge of the monitor set and use a different texture there for a less repetetive look. Maybe some infestation in the far corners?
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098592596.jpg' target='_blank'>Delicious.</a> All that could be changed for the better is to give the Maintenance sign a light of some sort so it's clearer. Though the supports could also go under the catwalk in order to look more support-y. And be thicker and farther in-between. And something to support that heavy computer on the left. Pipe texture alignment could use a work-around too of some sort(ie clip it and use a different texture like vent2 on it to make the edge unnoticeable), if you don't feel like aligning it alot.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098592564.jpg' target='_blank'>Different angle showing hueg dawr!</a> Add rim around door and you're set.
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1098423137.jpg' target='_blank'>Whoa. Steamy!</a> Terribly dark in that corridor, but the water doesn't have the same light level :'(. Possibly add one of those alieny green lights so it's not darker than the hive itself?
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/uploads/post-4-1096697086.jpg' target='_blank'>Older shot of above area but from a different angle. I guess.</a> Nothing much to add that hasn't been said already, but the lift texture ends very suddenly in two directions.
The rest I believe are too old to comment on.
The only thing I notice from screenshots is the 2nd one of the latest set, floor nearest the view bottom of the shot sticks out like a soar thumb. Low res texture, overstretched.
~ DarkATi
~ DarkATi
~ DarkATi
Wicked Awesome, Dark ATi.
Only qualms are that aliens might not have enough cover. Maybe a box or a gap in the ceiling? I dunno. Hey Dark, check your PM's I gotta request.
you can do better.
more color in light still bland.
need shadows.