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Slowguy

that's the original, outrage's pyro

Slowguy

Thanks Skyalmian. I just tried it and yeah only the terrain renders for me... heh heh. I was hoping wireframes would render in room view, but oh well.

Slowguy

Am I imagining things, or did there used to be a command line you could use to set D3Edit in Open-GL mode? I seem to recall reading something about it a long time ago...

Slowguy

np, thanks for hosting

Slowguy

Sorry for the long delay, hopefully there's nothing wrong with this version (but if you do find something, let me know!) Get it here: http://www.koolbear.com/Descent/levels/d3/eleldee11.zip or here: http://www.gameedit.net/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=27 ================ Changes...

Slowguy

Thank you!

Slowguy

Thanks Diti :) and I know how you feel, I'm also on 56k :( Alright, so the lighting finished, and I'm happy with it (I updated screenshots, they look the same as the old ones though, just minor differences), but today I discovered another problem with the level. I was really hoping to upload today b...

Slowguy

Yeah I'm aware of the file size difference... Hopefully the file wont be too huge after lighting is done. There does seem to be a difference between lightmap spacing of 1 and 2. I've only really noticed it in the round rooms. The lighting seems to blend better in those areas. I could be wrong though.

Slowguy

It's alright, I'll just let it run. Just gotta keep that fan going.

Actually I checked this morning and the lighting is going much faster now, it may even finish late tonight or tomorrow.

But who knows, it might slow down again...

Slowguy

I'm running the lighting on my laptop, it's gotta 2.2ghz P4 and 384mb ram. It's not too bad, but I have to keep a fan blowing on it constantly, because it gets hot! My other computer is a dual 450mhz Pentium 3, and it's just way too slow to run the lighting for this level. It's taking such a long ti...

Slowguy

Wow, that looks awesome. I see you're using that cone light effect. Very nice!

Slowguy

I forgot to mention that I'm also relighting the terrain... I didn't really like how it was lighted in the previous version, so I'm relighting with high quality light settings (lightmap spacing of 1). I also relit the mine portion of the level... soo, everything is fixed, I'm just waiting for terrai...

Slowguy

Thanks, DwnUndr explained it to me over at PlanetDescent. http://www.planetdescent.com/asp/forum_ ... picid=6617

Your explanation helped too...

a little confusing

, but I was able to see that using the function was not necessary.

Slowguy

What is the proper way to join an internal room to an external room? The way I've always done it is to just attach all rooms and then later mark the rooms that are external with the external flag under the room properties menu. I've heard though, that this is not the way to do it, since it causes pr...

Slowguy

The download link was removed because there was a problem with the level. There was a problem with visibility, you could only see other players if you were in the same room with them... I'm pretty sure the problem is fixed now, I recalculated the BOA vis table and the problem disappeared. I still ne...

Slowguy

(Updated 8-7-05) Some Pics: http://home.ripway.com/2004-9/172350/eleldee11screenset2.jpg http://home.ripway.com/2004-9/172350/eleldee11screenset1.jpg From the Readme: ***************************************************************************************************************************** =======...

Slowguy

That's good... yeah I think you were right, I think that terrain lighting thing was a driver problem. Thanks Thorne, for hosting the file on your server for now. I think I'll create a new topic announcing release once the file is uploaded to PD or at L4Y. Unless you think I should do it now... I kin...

Slowguy

Well, I'm having trouble uploading the file at Koolbear's site... I tried last night, and twice today but it just doesn't want to work. Maybe I'll try uploading again later. Or maybe if someone wants to upload it for me, somewhere else, then that would be great. ;) Sirius: Yeah you're right, it does...

Slowguy

Sorry for the wait. Everything is done now (I decided to get rid of the sound sources... I couldn't get them to work right :() so I just need to upload the file and post links. Check back tomorrow afternoon (or evening.) I should have it uploaded by then. I would do it now, but I really need to get ...

Slowguy

if and when you add another lightsource and run your lights, delete the source after words if you really don't want multiple suns. Thanks, nice tip. :) I tried lighting with multiple light sources though, and it didn't really help too much... so I think I'll just stick with one light source. I've n...

Slowguy

A little update... Everything is done except for: Terrain lighting Sound sources A few table file entries (modded missile trails) Writing the readme file I'm going on vacation for a week... so expect the level to be released sometime around the end of next week. ;) Edit: If anyone knows how to fix t...

Slowguy

Yeah, I hadn't really thought about this much until you brought it up.

Slowguy

Thanks for the suggestions, I still haven't fixed the problem, I only have 1 light source on the terrain, I'm going to try adding another to see if it helps. I tried moving the one I had, but it had no effect, and also I tried different lightmap spacings, it didn't really do anything... so I'm just ...

Slowguy

Alright, so... sphere lights work. :) http://home.ripway.com/2004-9/172350/Screenshot026.jpg The shadow was cast by an invisible sphere light. The detail in the shadows isn't that great, I had to increase the contrast in the screenshot to show that there is actually a shadow there. Here's the mn3 fi...

Slowguy

Hmm... I was thinking... wouldn't a sphere with lightmap faces act like a point light in D3? Fake point lights? That might be a better solution. Maybe use a transparant/pass-through texture for the lightmap? Hmm, I'll experiment a little with this tomorrow.

Slowguy

Any particular light settings used to yield that effect? Well you need a powerful light. I just used a normal white lightmap and increased the multiplier from 1 to either 2 or 3. A custom lightmap would have been better... umm I also had lightmap spacing set to 2. I haven't tried anything over 2. I...

Slowguy

You could try lighting the back of the cross beams... the faces opposite the player.

The effect is there, but it's not perfect. (It looks way better in the screenshot.) You'll need to mess with the geometry and lighting a bit to get it looking right.

Slowguy

Well, I tried relighting with both Atan's version and the older beta 8 version... no luck. I tried recalculating terrain occlusion, and running with and without super detail... but nothing has worked. I can kind of hide this line if I use a darker texture for the terrain, but I like the snow!

Slowguy

Hmm... Maybe the light is too close to the cross beam? Or maybe the light is too bright or too dim? Have you tried with different light textures? I know that you can get shadows on the terrain...

Slowguy

How do I fix this?

That line is bugging me.

Slowguy

hmm, hey that's moddable.

The texture for lava is already modded to not set the players ship on fire... It wouldn't take much to make lighting adjustments. I agree that those lava tunnels would look a lot better if the lava wasn't so bright.

Slowguy

I think it looks great. :) I like the loadscreen, it's nice. The lighting looks good, but I noticed that the doors seem to be a little bright. Maybe the texture just looks to bright, I dunno. Oh, and I cannot remember if there were secret doors in the original, if there was, let me know so I can fix...

Slowguy

I guess I could leave the safe respawn points out... I just thought they would be kind of cool. Leave the AB cooler in? take the AB cooler out? lol. Hmm, leaving it in and having the server decide doesn't sound like a bad idea. I mean, it would be nice if I left people with an option... I shall thin...

Slowguy

But there is... What's wrong with my idea of having wind force out anything that tries to enter the protected room? You cannot respawn with a flag, right? Idea #2: I can mod a Black Shark to do no damage, and people can use that to suck players with the flag out of the protected rooms. (I'd rather n...

Slowguy

I'll leave it out then.

Skippyness is no good...

Slowguy

Glad you like it.

Yesterday there was a hoard game going with 8 players in it. I wasn't able to play at the time, but that must have been insane. Too bad I missed it.

Slowguy

Hey thanks!

I think the link to the distortion11.zip is mixed up with dissentd3.zip though...

Slowguy

Sorry but I had to update the level. :( It wouldn't auto-download because the zip file was corrupted. It should be fine now though. http://www.koolbear.com/Descent/levels/d3/distortion11.zip Changes for this version: -Added level load screen. -Moved goals from energy centers to separate rooms. -Adde...

Slowguy

Skyalmian: Alright, here's my proposed solution: http://home.ripway.com/2004-9/172350/protectedstart.jpg Now if there's a good reason not to have the respawn points set up this way then I'll change it, and I'll just forget about trying to creating protected respawn points. :) Testiculese: You make s...

Slowguy

Skyalmian wrote:There is no way around the problem. That's what I'm saying.

But there has to be...

Heh heh. Sorry, I just don't like giving up that easy.

Does wind have effect on the flag?

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