Jellyfish Anyone?

HypergripHypergrip SuspectGermany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
in NS Customization
<div class="IPBDescription">Mapper needs something for a water tank</div> Hi Modellers

I'm currently working on my map ns_plato.
One of the hives is the "Bio Lab" and has some water tanks in it.
For the large tank behind the hive I'd like to have some things in it like plants weaving from side to side.

I just got the idea that JELLYFISH might be perfect to fint into the "slimy" ambience of an alien hive room.

You can see shots and infos about the map here:
<a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=29168&st=15' target='_blank'>ns_plato (Mapping Forum)</a>

A small animation would be perfect.. something like "puping" themselfs up a small way up and then sinking back down... goind up again and so on...
so that i have some "living" inside the water tank besides the few bubbles.

Thx

Hyper
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  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    Dunno about the jellyfish, but there are waving underwater plants in HL already that you could use. ( Look in valve/Pak0 with HLMV..

    perhaps not exactly what you wanted, but it's an obvious easy solution, they're already animated and everything.
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    yup, i know of them and will propably use some of them.. but in fact i wanted soething special for the map that can't be found in the regular HL.. and some (maybe glowing) jellyfish would just look cool and fit the setting, too.

    I thought about just using and animated texture, but that would just look way to flat.

    Hyper
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  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    One slight problem might be that Jellyfish tend to be translucent, almost transparent in some cases and HL models don't do transparencies yet.

    Although I seem to remember reading that'll change soonish..

    Maybe you could achieve a suitable effect using func see throughs set to a middle value?

    ( Not touched Hammer for ages, and never really used world models in it, so I'm a little fuzzy on the subject..)
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  • CronosCronos Join Date: 2002-10-18 Member: 1542Members
    Perhaps a stingray instead? Stingrays are graceful creatures, I wonder how it would look in HL, or to be more precise, NS for that matter...
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    Ok, most jellyfishes are partially transluescent, others aren't (just do a <a href='http://images.google.de/images?hl=de&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=jellyfish' target='_blank'>quick image search on google</a> and you'll see lot's of different colors and levels of transluescy).
    So it would be no problem to have let's say jellyfish-models textured in light blue and white, or red and so on.
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  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    Attack of the Hastily Sketched Jellyfish Monsters <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--CrouchingHamster,HiddenElvis+May 8 2003, 02:59 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (CrouchingHamster,HiddenElvis @ May 8 2003, 02:59 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> Attack of the Hastily Sketched Jellyfish Monsters <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    yo da man <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    edited May 2003
    sorry 4 double post >_<
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  • zerg_overmindzerg_overmind Join Date: 2003-04-21 Member: 15724Members
    there was some in cs in a water level
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  • CrouchingHamsterCrouchingHamster Join Date: 2002-08-17 Member: 1181Members
    edited May 2003
    A quick wireframe job.

    No sniggering at the back. I only started using Milkshape last night.. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
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  • BlackPantherBlackPanther Join Date: 2002-02-11 Member: 197Members
    You can make the jellyfish partially transparent by changing the render mode and FX amount of the entity that you'll use to put it in, most likely, you'll use monster_furniture and a scripted_sequence to target a nice idle anim.
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  • DuckDuck Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9195Members
    It's from another mod, but it should work...
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  • DuckDuck Join Date: 2002-11-18 Member: 9195Members
    and here's an idle plant
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  • Relic25Relic25 Pixel Punk Join Date: 2002-01-24 Member: 39Members, Retired Developer, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    I had a small shark-like model in de/flf_deep6. I also had a simple jellyfish. The shark just sort of 'swam' in-place (like a nurse shark can do when it's stationary on the bottom). The jellyfish just bobbed up and down.
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  • HypergripHypergrip Suspect Germany Join Date: 2002-11-23 Member: 9689Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
    <!--QuoteBegin--Duck+May 8 2003, 06:01 PM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Duck @ May 8 2003, 06:01 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin--> It's from another mod, but it should work... <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
    Well, it does look ok.. not too bad, but not exactly what i was hoping for.
    And the animation is not that good, too... as the name says it only "bobs" up and down... I'd really like some movement in it.. like contracting to got up.
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