[Miigga]

NotExactly posted:

Edit: am I right in thinking you can only have 6 light sources per brush face or something? Should I break the floor up?

There's a limit on how many lights with the ability to be turned off can emit light at a brush face, but afaik there's no limit on how many lights can point at a brush face. Any light entity with a name counts as having the ability to be turned off, AFAIK.

And by "name" I mean what the mapper has typed into the keyvalue "Name"

[NotExactly]

Miigga posted:

There's a limit on how many lights with the ability to be turned off can emit light at a brush face, but afaik there's no limit on how many lights can point at a brush face. Any light entity with a name counts as having the ability to be turned off, AFAIK.

Ah, ok, thanks.

[~ZOMG]

NotExactly posted:

More 50's diner - still haven't worked out how to do the windows without them looking shit yet, or found appropriate light sources, or added a counter, but whatever.

Edit: am I right in thinking you can only have 6 light sources per brush face or something? Should I break the floor up?

It feels really empty and the table texture, to me at least, doesn't look very 50's-diner-y.

[wauterboi]

Yeah, I'd google retro 50's tables on Google. (I personally love retro tables and stuff like that, for future reference.)

[NotExactly]

wauterboi posted:

Yeah, I'd google retro 50's tables on Google. (I personally love retro tables and stuff like that, for future reference.)

Well, the table's the L4D2 diner one so it seemed appropriate. As for your images, they all seem like kitsch modern interpretations of the 50's diner rather than what they'd actually have been like. I could be wrong though.

[Shirky]

Finally finished all the exterior of the houses

[confinedUser]

heres a 50's table

[NotExactly]

Ok, I'll try and reskin the tables, and I'll put some posters on the wall, but I don't want it to be ridiculously OTT.

[wauterboi]

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

I'm also planning on making some versions for Fortwars and stuff.

Edited:

I'm having trouble figuring out what to put in that empty space also. :(

[LewyJudge12]

no idea what to map. Themes?

[[yournamehere]]

New skybox I think I like better, also added a lake in that extra space.




Once again does anyone know how to make ambient generics louder? Already at volume 10 and stacking does not work.

[cloudbuster]

I am unfortunately going to have to cancel (or at least indefinitely postpone) my Booster Tower map project, because the level of crashiness in Hammer has reached an insane level for me. I can no longer even open a Flags tab for any entity without it insta-crashing, even with Valve's maps. I've reinstalled the SDK and TF2 and it didn't help. :X

So I'm going to show off some bits of what I got completed as my final farewell to this project.
p.s. Not one asset was reused - every model, texture, and animation was completely custom made by me.

Here it is... Watch in 1080p fullscreen if you can.

[edit] Actually, work on this map is now back on schedule. I found a way to avoid the crashing (mostly). It still happens sometimes but not nearly as often.

[Corey_Faure]

LewyJudge12 posted:

no idea what to map. Themes?

Recreate a scene from Thomas the Tank Engine.

[mopman999]

NotExactly posted:

I love the 50s
Time to go watch back to the future

[DCW01]

Deadchicken posted:

I haven't been around for a while, but can I just say, awesome stuff, great to see that you stuck with it, as you first began posting when I stopped, and I loved your work then too.

I hope those rooms aren't as difficult to navigate as they appear, with the objects in the way of the player's path, model hit-boxes can be really awkward.Player_clip is your friend in that respect.

Oh hi everybody.

Thanks for that. They are a pain in the arse to get round without bumping into stuff at the moment but that's because I havn't put the clip brushes in yet but rest asured that I have already planned to do this anyway. I'm currently trying to get the level to look right at the moment and then I will be dropping the rest in.

Glad you like it though. It's taking a long time to get right but I'm on the home stretch of this section now.

[Deadchicken]

No problem.

I opened up hammer for the first time in ages today... I've decided to continue on this:









Excuse the old, tired images.. I haven't recompiled this in months.
...But I've come across a problem, a big hurdle with brushwork like this is a corner like this one:



How on earth would I go about either continuing the windows, or failing that, a curved, angled wall connected to a simple flat roof (I'm not a complete masochist..)?

any ideas would be appreciated, I've tried vertex scaling and manipulation, but it creates to many invalid solids, and manually from scratch will be nigh impossible, or am I missing a trick here?

[Jiro-uk-]

That looks incredible.

[wauterboi]

That looks gorgeous.

NINJA'D.

[Anthracite]

sup

[Spycrabz]

that is one badass air conditioner

[Jukka K]

I remember that map DeadChicken and I just love the architecture of it.

Edited:

wauterboi posted:

That white building in the middle is too narrow and doesn't make any sense. Also the fire in the barrel isn't lighting up the ground next to it.

[Anthracite]

Spycrabz posted:

that is one badass air conditioner

I thought adding small vents could do, but actually when you enter the room and look above and see that huge fan above you, it has that "woooow what the shit" effect. Remember that Black Mesa sectors are supposed to be mostly underground.

[Doomnova]

Deadchicken posted:

How on earth would I go about either continuing the windows, or failing that, a curved, angled wall connected to a simple flat roof (I'm not a complete masochist..)?

any ideas would be appreciated, I've tried vertex scaling and manipulation, but it creates to many invalid solids, and manually from scratch will be nigh impossible, or am I missing a trick here?

You could try triangulating each brush for the corner window. (I didn't align all vertexes to the grid because this was just a quick example :V)

Just use the clip tool and cut the brushes in half, then use the vertex edit tool and make them angled.

Worked well and not a single invalid solid.

Also, your map looks amazing.

[Youme]

Deadchicken posted:

Excuse the old, tired images.. I haven't recompiled this in months.
...But I've come across a problem, a big hurdle with brushwork like this is a corner like this one:



How on earth would I go about either continuing the windows, or failing that, a curved, angled wall connected to a simple flat roof (I'm not a complete masochist..)?

any ideas would be appreciated, I've tried vertex scaling and manipulation, but it creates to many invalid solids, and manually from scratch will be nigh impossible, or am I missing a trick here?

You pretty much need to learn to model.

[azgag]

Youme posted:

You pretty much need to learn to model.

na, using a 3d software it would be easy, make a cylinder, remove 3/4th and scale down the top part. done.

[DFC]

azgag posted:

na, using a 3d software it would be easy, make a cylinder, remove 3/4th and scale down the top part. done.

that 3d software would be modeling software...

[cwook]

DFC posted:

that 3d software would be modeling software...

I think he meant to write "ya"

[A big fat ass]

Make sure to use a lot of cubemaps in the diner.

[.FLAP.JACK.DAN.]

Here's a picture of a map that I'm working on for a mod.

[LewyJudge12]

Seriously though guys, can I have a theme? Want something to map.

[Pyth]

LewyJudge12 posted:

Seriously though guys, can I have a theme? Want something to map.

Rural, have fun.

[Wotalt]

LewyJudge12 posted:

Seriously though guys, can I have a theme? Want something to map.

Drop streetview randomly in a select country/continent + map area around you or based on its style

[Deadchicken]

LewyJudge12 posted:

Seriously though guys, can I have a theme? Want something to map.

Futuristic Western Saloon bar..

[Firegod522]

NotExactly posted:

Edit: am I right in thinking you can only have 6 light sources per brush face or something? Should I break the floor up?

You can have plenty. Only if the lights are toggle-able is when you have a problem with lights on a face.

[bIgFaTwOrM12]

LewyJudge12 posted:

Seriously though guys, can I have a theme? Want something to map.

Look up a ghost town and try to map it. I've got like five on the go and they're hard as hell, really satisfying once you get them right though.

[Raider7]

Deadchicken posted:

Futuristic Western Saloon bar..

Sounds like a set from Firefly ^^

[Deadchicken]

I made more stuff, ignoring that curve for the moment.. I made the arched roof and building on the right:





So this is a sort of monorail station thing, and still needs a lot of work inside, it'll be pretty cramped inside but players should only spend a few moments inside.. I'm pretty impressed with how it's turned out.

EDIT: I've now extended the roof to 3 sections, with the extra section overhanging, making space and a place for the monorails support to go..

[vexx21322]

Deadchicken posted:

I made more stuff, ignoring that curve for the moment.. I made the arched roof and building on the right:





So this is a sort of monorail station thing, and still needs a lot of work inside, it'll be pretty cramped inside but players should only spend a few moments inside.. I'm pretty impressed with how it's turned out.

EDIT: I've now extended the roof to 3 sections, with the extra section overhanging, making space and a place for the monorails support to go..

Trying to work with curves myself, you seem like a god to me. Hammer just wasn't designed to do curves like that.

[Zay333]

Deadchicken posted:

I made more stuff, ignoring that curve for the moment.. I made the arched roof and building on the right:





So this is a sort of monorail station thing, and still needs a lot of work inside, it'll be pretty cramped inside but players should only spend a few moments inside.. I'm pretty impressed with how it's turned out.

EDIT: I've now extended the roof to 3 sections, with the extra section overhanging, making space and a place for the monorails support to go..

How long does it take you to compile?
Do you just func_detail those curves?

[confinedUser]

vexx21322 posted:

Trying to work with curves myself, you seem like a god to me. Hammer just wasn't designed to do curves like that.

I'm guessing he increased the number of faces on a arch and cylinders. However i could be very well wrong as I too am working on making nice curves