What are you working on?

[ajay]

Chip: love it, the atmosphere, the aesthetics.

Ceriux: if that becomes an animated /mdl I would be really interested.

Irritant: so polished and cool as always - how do you do the fly-through the level movement?

[ajay]

An old crane, now unused, but still in it's place by the canal... http://earthquakemod.wordpress.com/

[Dirge Inferno]

Testing with features; reflections, transparent textures, skies, lights/lighting, fog, details, bobbing objects, curves and flickering lights:

[toneddu2000]

What the ****?!
How can you do those reflections?
In what engine?
please tell me! It's a GREAT effect!

[Dirge Inferno]

What engine? id Tech 3, lol. I can't explain things very well so I'll do my best, first off you need to edit the shaders so you can make them reflective, this is what I use:

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textures/gothic_floor/metalbridge06r
{
   qer_editorimage textures/gothic_floor/metalbridge06.tga
   surfaceparm trans
   portal

   {
      map textures/common/mirror1.tga
      blendfunc GL_ONE GL_ONE_MINUS_SRC_ALPHA
      depthWrite
   }
   //{
   //   map textures/effects/tinfx.tga
   //   blendFunc GL_ONE GL_ONE
   //   tcGen environment
   //}
       
   {
      map textures/gothic_floor/metalbridge06.tga
      blendFunc add   
      depthfunc equal
   }
   {
      map $lightmap
      rgbGen identity
      blendFunc GL_DST_COLOR GL_ZERO
   }
}

The mirror texture is how you can make it reflective, then you need to go into Q3/GTK/ZeroRadiant and select the reflective texture you want to use, then you right click and go to misc and select "misc_portal_surface". Finally you compile and that's it!

[toneddu2000]

thanks Dirge Inferno for the clarification. Wondering if it possible even on DP... I never heard about misc_portal_surface entity

[Dirge Inferno]

You're welcome!

[leileilol]

Wondering if it possible even on DP... I never heard about misc_portal_surface entity

it isn't. dp doesn't implement shitty mirror implementations

dp_reflect

[toneddu2000]

yeah infact thanks leilei, I tried with dp_reflect and dp_water 1 and results are great!
But I heard in these forums not to overuse this effect

[Seven]

But I heard in these forums not to overuse this effect

First of all, you should listen to your heart (not to others) when creating something new.
Just be sure to keep an eye on your fps-counter...

If you want to release your work to public, it is a slightly different story.
You will have to test it with "older" hardware parts.
Then... you should not overuse performance-hungry beasts that need "r_water 1" to life.

[toneddu2000]

First of all, you should listen to your heart (not to others) when creating something new.

For now on I'll do it mister!

If you want to release your work to public, it is a slightly different story.
You will have to test it with "older" hardware parts.
Then... you should not overuse performance-hungry beasts that need "r_water 1" to life.

Ok thanks for the advice! I'm sorry it's a cpu-hungry effect but is so awesome!

[Irritant]

Irritant: so polished and cool as always - how do you do the fly-through the level movement?

Thanks!

I just go to spectator mode and fly around the level to do that. Usually takes a few tries to get it right.

[qbism]

I'm working on an image/story/bookmark tag site loosely centered around Quake open source projects. Like digg.com but with big pictures. I like how it turned out and made it the landing point of http://qbism.com. Log-on and try it if you'd like. Still *beta* and not well tested yet. The idea is to easily post screenshots or news links with a tag system to find stuff later.

[ajay]

qbism: that's great, only had a little scout round so far, but good work.

This week: playing with spotlights and general lighting. "Its too dark!", "Its meant to be!"

[qbism]

ajay: great crane, very realistic with the counterweight and all. Will be animated?

dirge: surprised it's q3 rather than doom3 tech, nice job. The room geometry is probably simple enough that mirror is no harm. BTW, even q2 tech had a func_reflect (brute mod force) via Lazarus/ psychospaz back in 2001 that Pentium could handle, so don't sweat it.