What are you working on?

[mankrip]

Barnes: That's stunning, and I also love the effect that mimics the swirly texture of the water.

Hogsy: I love that style. It's like the best parts of Turok 2 and Daikatana mixed together.

And I've managed to upload some screenshots. Even though there's still much to be improved in the code, these particles are a lot faster than my previous (flat) particles. It improved "timedemo demo1" tests from 95 fps to 99 fps.

[Spirit]

The lighting on the player model in shot 2 is awesome, looks like some artsy image filter.

[hogsy]

Hogsy: I love that style. It's like the best parts of Turok 2 and Daikatana mixed together.

Not quite made by me. Here's another shot that should clarify things a bit better...

[toneddu2000]

Very cool effect Barnes! Maybe making water a bit more reflective could be even better

[ceriux]

Mankrip I really really like those particles. I wish dp and fte had particles like that. Instead they have those neon blob particles... :-[

[jitspoe]

Getting started on a map for the Quake 2 Cafe mapping contest. More WIP stuff will be posted here... if I have time to get around to it: http://leray.proboards.com/thread/3632/ ... -wip-stuff

[mankrip]

Hogsy: I've never played FAKK2.

jitspoe: Great textures. The buildings looks great on distance, but I recall playing some maps with similar buildings, and they looked boring when I walked near. That architectural style can be tricky to pull off. Good luck.

Mankrip I really really like those particles. I wish dp and fte had particles like that. Instead they have those neon blob particles... :-[

Thanks. In fact, they're a bit inspired in Darkplaces' particles - the "translucency" fading is linear, instead of being proportional to the sphere density (which would be more accurate). At least, that's how I remember Darkplaces' particles looking like.

This time I've aimed for a more gameplay-focused visual style, instead of the pure mathematical accuracy focus employed in the previous version of my particle drawing code. The more distant the particles are, the more they'll look like the vanilla DOS Quake's particles, making it easier to see where the shots hit. And the closer they are, the more "soft" they become, to not distract the player.

The algorithm has been refined a lot since those screenshots, and the pixel distribution algorithm has been fixed so the individual particles looks less grainy. Even though the code is already fast, it still needs a few important optimizations before reimplementing the translucent particles. I'm really curious to see how the final effect will look.

[jim]

jitspoe: I like the buildings too. Someday I want to make some textures/stuff like those...

Animated my CookieRaider. The flying & swimming monsters also got some more up/down movement.

http://media.moddb.com/images/games/1/3 ... ed_002.jpg

[jitspoe]

The sunlight in arghrad bothered me. It was set up so everything that had line of sight to the sky was uniformly lit with an "ambient" value. This ended up causing things to look very bland and incorrect. Reflected light would make areas that should have been darker actually lighter.



So I set about using the DeWan tools as a base to create better sun/ambient lighting. Sadly, it was in a pretty rough state to start out with:



Not sure how things came anywhere close to working with the way the sun light code was handled, so I scrapped it and eventually ended up with:



All was well and good, until I tried to use it in a real map I was working on:



Turns out hint brushes were casting shadows. Oops.

I do have the source of my changes so far up on sf.net's cvs: http://paintball2.cvs.sourceforge.net/v ... tools_src/

[Spiney]

Sweet!

[Spirit]

Jitspoe, check out the more recent posts in http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60967 , there is fancy new sunlight in Q1 tools.

[Irritant]

Jitspoe, check out the more recent posts in http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=60967 , there is fancy new sunlight in Q1 tools.

I always wondered why does Func_messagebrd use such a horrid format? Finding posts in there is utterly fruitless and frustrating.

[toneddu2000]

I always wondered why does Func_messagebrd use such a horrid format? Finding posts in there is utterly fruitless and frustrating.

+1

[ceriux]

I always wondered why does Func_messagebrd use such a horrid format? Finding posts in there is utterly fruitless and frustrating.

+1

+2

[Spirit]

It's more of a chat system for ongoing discussion you participate in.