Veil. A Screen.

KungFuSquirrel · April 2003

Yes, it looks like Eclipse. It's a sequel. I've got more stuff in the works, but can't show you at this stage. The new stuff looks different. You complain about it looking like the Eclipse theme, I kill. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

With that...

<img src='http://planethalflife.com/awmaps/pics/veilb5_4-25_1.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Enjoy. New version may be complete this weekend if all goes well.

RotA_Plague · April 2003

Very nice, I don't have any complaints at the moment.

Umbraed_Monkey · April 2003

Well, I guess I get the honor to be the first to drop my jaw to the ground...

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo · April 2003

It sho is perdy!

Dr_Shaggy · April 2003

Times like this I wish I could swear on these boards and say something like f'ing nice without having to truncate.

chalupamonk · April 2003

I cannot wait. Seriously, I'm on my way over to your house now. Prepare yourself...

Redford · April 2003

KFS again exceeds his own expectations in map map, complete with a glowy screen sporting a custom texture lighted so perfectly I would be certain that it was actually a screen (and not a texture lighted face, respectivly).

Cagey · April 2003

</span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (KungFuSquirrel @ Apr 25 2003, 07:02 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>Yes, it looks like Eclipse. It's a sequel. I've got more stuff in the works, but can't show you at this stage. The new stuff looks different. You complain about it looking like the Eclipse theme, I kill. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'>
Me likey lots. Do the status cameras on the screen update/change with map events?

<complaint>It looks like the eclipse theme tho--just thought you should know that.</complaint>

PRIMER · April 2003

Is there a bar...? If not, I could settle for some dropships.

MrBen · April 2003

I hope the vent/hole above the screen is accesible for some good skulking.

Mazy · April 2003

omai~~i dig~

Dread · April 2003

It is beautiful.

Let me suggest making Eclipse and Veil have the same theme but with different lighting. For example Eclipse could have Red-Green theme and Veil could have Blue-Red theme.

BuGi · April 2003

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>
It looks great, especially the lightning of that area.

pielemuis · April 2003

tone down that blue a bit, it looks a bit too blue to me s:/ Also add some supports to those pipes on the ceiling (if you can afford them), having long pipes like that without supports looks a bit odd.

Cronos · April 2003

Too much blue?! BLASPHEMY! There can never be too much Blue! It's the best colour in the universe!

Oh, by the way KFS, <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'>

Fam · April 2003

I hate that screen texture KFS.

<img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'> (I'll get you some more as soon as is humanly possible)

moultano · April 2003

Quick! get it off the front page before people see it and never want to post a shot again! <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'>

It seems a little 'clean' for NS but its very pretty. The blue lighting seems a bit intense to be coming from a screen that people are supposed to read. But it looks cool anyways.

BlackPanther · April 2003

/me likes.

KFS: I've seen that you put a lot of attention on CEILINGS... yet seem to neglect floors when adding details. A few loose tiles or floor grating would make it even better.

Rufas_the_Red · April 2003

oooooh aaaaaaaaah

magnificiant

blueman · April 2003

blue! yeah more blue i want to see more blue in Veil! (j/k)

Really nice work, as always Andrew.

Supernorn · April 2003

well, i think it looks really neat, but make it a little worn and torn in places, hehe. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'>

Nazul · April 2003

how ugly

did you know I always lie <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'>

Scythe · April 2003

How can you lot say that veil will cause you to soil various parts of your clothing with varyous bodily outputs upon seeing one shot of it?

Sheesh...

Well if Elcipse is anything to go by, veil with look pretty damn kule.

--Scythe--

realityisdead · April 2003

As I already mentioned, this area looks gorgeous. I love what the screens do to the feel of the room. My only gripes with it right now are:

- The blue light coming from the monitor looks a bit pale to me. It certainly shouldn't be a deep, rich, dark blue or anything... I think you're definitely on the right track with the shade and tone there, but I think it just needs to be a little deeper somehow. Though, that could be a personal preference.

- The wall with the two arched doorways back there looks like it'd be a great place for a bit of extruding wall detail architecture or something. Looks a bit flat/featureless right now.

Again, though, it looks wonderful!

Liku · April 2003

VERY SEXY! Ohhh! Must have!

Mouse · April 2003

Nice screenie. My only real gripe is with the monitors, they are too bright and clean looking, and don't really fit in with the rest of the room.

Hrm, square ceiling pipes. The secret of Andrew's ability to stay well below all compile limits is revealed <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'>

Gimpy_Doodly_Doo · April 2003

BLUE!!! Don't listen to these hypocrats, you know they like the blue but are too affraid to admit it <img src='http://forums.clan-dg.net/html/emoticons/rofl.gif' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

ssjyoda · April 2003

-KFS, yer work is great. I would go onto your site and look at some of your other work. But usually when I do that, I find that the mapper isn't as great as I thought, and had only that one big work. So, i'll just watch what you put on here. What I have seen looks great. Now, could you explain how you get that lighting, the techniques. I'm **** when it comes to lighting, in my opinion. <a href='http://www.existence-mod.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard.cgi?;act=ST;f=3;t=7' target='_blank'>Ex_Condemned of Existence HL <--Mine</a>

Revenant · April 2003

The area is very nice...probs is it looks small and confined, I don't know whether its where you took the shot from but I hope there is alot more behind that area. I agree with BlackPanther...the floor in that room could use something done to it. On the whole nice work.

KungFuSquirrel · April 2003

This area is directly opposite this area, pictured before, right around the center of the map:

<img src='http://planethalflife.com/awmaps/pics/veil_beta5_peek.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image'>

Each doorway in this shot leads to one of the sides of the area at the beginning of this thread, with a hallway from either side meeting in between. The Eclipse-style doorway leads to a stairway down to a lower hallway that eventually leads to the south hive. You may find that one slightly familiar when you see it...

There's really no reason to bother with the floor. Floors are designed to be walked on, to be flat, etc. Gratings are rather useless as long as the potential remains for structures to fall through entities as can be noted in ns_nancy in particular.

Veil does have much more of a blue hint to it due to the number of screens and whatnot strewn about the map. To me, I picture it in a monitoring sector of the facility, where screens and terminals keep the staff up to date on the entire facility. The blue/red contrast is a lot stronger than in Eclipse, which holds more of the orange/red theme. The orange is still present in Veil, of course, but the color shift should keep things just different enough while keeping the theme the same.

This map has taken far too long. Then again, Eclipse took far too long. *shrug*

Liku · April 2003

I like! I like! But, that Slanted Pillar in front of the monitors doesn't look realistic, I don't think they'd build that, it'd be hard to look at the monitors! ^_^ !!! I'm and idiot, don't pay attention to me.

Veil. A Screen.

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