[Stiffy360]

vexx21322 posted:

I'd imagine you would export as a heightmap then use a program like terrain generator to take that heightmap and convert it to vmf.

I used dispgen to make my heightmaps. it works quite nicely.

Oh hey, pageking better post something interesting



Raaarrrr

[Mabus]

A Command centre or control centre, just made it for fun. It's inspired by the original Avp and the table used in aliens to map the atmosphere processor.

[Marbledemon]

The ceiling looks like shit, make it higher and add metal bars, cables, or small vents and stuff.
And align the vent texture on the left, or move the powerbox thingy away from that wall.

Besides that, I really like the feeling of it ;)

[Wargate]

Skerion posted:

Does anyone else find it a huge pain in the ass to construct suburban houses in Hammer? It it so for me because I can never get the proportions to look right and the references I use aren't enough for me.

Agreed with Pyth, try and recreate things that you know well, such as you or a friends place. Tends to work for me. Don't freak out and take a bunch of pictures and make it perfect, just do it the best you can and leave room for creativity.

[TurtleeyFP]

Wargate posted:

Agreed with Pyth, try and recreate things that you know well, such as you or a friends place. Tends to work for me. Don't freak out and take a bunch of pictures and make it perfect, just do it the best you can and leave room for creativity.

That post was from 5 months ago.

[Pyth]

TurtleeyFP posted:

That post was from 5 months ago.

I like it either way.

[Wargate]

TurtleeyFP posted:

That post was from 5 months ago.

I don't think it matters too much, if the thread is still alive then it is still a relevant point to be made.

[Shirky]

Im having a bit of trouble with my map, and I can quite figure out whats wrong. Basically, when I compile my map with VRAD my map will crash when loaded ingame, but if I run it without VRAD it runs fine.

Here is the compile log, didnt compile with VVIS (Doesnt make a difference for map crashing or not)

http://pastebin.com/bC17UHbb

[fewes]

VIOLATION_SNG posted:

Mind explaining how you exported from World Machine to Source? I am genuinely interested in maybe having something like this in Source.

I just exported the height map and used that to make the mesh in 3ds Max.

[Zanarias]

Shirky posted:

Im having a bit of trouble with my map, and I can quite figure out whats wrong. Basically, when I compile my map with VRAD my map will crash when loaded ingame, but if I run it without VRAD it runs fine.

Here is the compile log, didnt compile with VVIS (Doesnt make a difference for map crashing or not)

http://pastebin.com/bC17UHbb

My only guess is this: 1 degenerate faces.

Interlopers says it can typically be ignored but maybe you're the one unlucky dude who gets his map fried because of it.

EDIT:

InterlopersErrorSHITFIXER posted:

Description:
A degenerate face is a face with no area. For instance, when two of its points are at the same place or three vertices on one line. Rarely, this error can cause all the lighting in your level to become black. If this happens, you will have to track down the degenerate face(s). This is however rare, so only go after the face if your level turns completely dark or you experience other strange errors.

Solution:
Don't try to fix this error if you don't experience strange problems, it will take you ages to find them in your level (trial and error, most likely). You will want to examply vertex-manipulated brushes first.

[Firegod522]

So I've been without internet for the past 5 days because of some bills issue, but I have been somewhat busy with some skyboxes since my computer is just sitting here.

Sky_cloudy004




Skybox - 3.51 mb


sky_sunset001



Skybox - 2.49mb

[Wargate]

Firegod522 posted:

So I've been without internet for the past 5 days because of some bills issue, but I have been somewhat busy with some skyboxes since my computer is just sitting here.

Sky_cloudy004




Skybox - 3.51 mb


sky_sunset001



Skybox - 2.49mb

You made these? Damn... Very nice. You should consider making a night sky box for a moody dark map. I would use it ^__^ (With your permission of course)

[TurtleeyFP]

Firegod522 posted:

sky_sunset001



Skybox - 2.49mb

Holy crap, that's beautiful. What are the exact light properties for that?

[Firegod522]

Look in the text file.

[Zero Hour]

"snip" figured it out.

[MaddaCheeb]

Firegod522 posted:

Look in the text file.

404'd

[Firegod522]

Fixed it.

Edited:

Fixed it again...

[ScottyWired]

jelknab posted:

made it after watching about 100 tutorials of a guy called rocketpascal.

I looked for rocketpascal but didn't find anything except Rocket Pasta. Seeing what you did is pretty impressive, even inspiring. Can you get me a link to his videos please?

[Wargate]

ScottyWired posted:

I looked for rocketpascal but didn't find anything except Rocket Pasta. Seeing what you did is pretty impressive, even inspiring. Can you get me a link to his videos please?

Did you only search youtube? You can find good stuff on sites as well.

[ScottyWired]

Nah, nothing on the entire internet.

[Wargate]

ScottyWired posted:

Nah, nothing on the entire internet.

I would just search for the topics then and see if he comes up... Or we could just wait for a reply haha

[TurtleeyFP]

Firegod522 posted:

So I've been without internet for the past 5 days because of some bills issue, but I have been somewhat busy with some skyboxes since my computer is just sitting here.

Sky_cloudy004

Skybox - 3.51 mb[/url]


sky_sunset001


Skybox - 2.49mb
[/url]

I'm getting a Dropbox 404 on both of those.

EDIT:
Hold on, the cloudy one just fixed itself. Only the Sunset is broken.

[MaddaCheeb]

Firegod522 posted:

Fixed it.

The sunset one is still broken.

[Pyth]

Just look at the actual url and you'll see it ends with .rar' , just remove the extra '.

Pro.

[Antec]

Its only missing the .rar at the end of the link as pyth stated.

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/55412016/te..._sunset001.rar
Working link above.

[jelknab]

ScottyWired posted:

I looked for rocketpascal but didn't find anything except Rocket Pasta. Seeing what you did is pretty impressive, even inspiring. Can you get me a link to his videos please?

Excuse me, his actual name was "rocketrascal34".
Tutorial series:

http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...4&feature=plcp

[TurtleeyFP]

Excuse the in-editor screenie, I don't think it would be worth it to just slap on a skybox and compile for the sake of bumpmaps.

[WitheredGryphon]

Testing out procedural heightmaps.

[TurtleeyFP]

WitheredGryphon posted:

Testing out procedural heightmaps.

Sounds fancy. Is there some kind of tutorial or program download?

[WitheredGryphon]

TurtleeyFP posted:

Sounds fancy. Is there some kind of tutorial or program download?

Yeah, it's called HME. It was a bit difficult to learn to use at first, but I can give a brief description of all I did to make it.

Link: http://hme.sourceforge.net/

Once you download it, open it up and it will look like the dopplar radars do under a thunderstorm, simply click save (the floppy disk icon), and under the file type (the dropdown where it says .hmp), choose .bmp instead.

Remember where you saved this, because for the next program you'll have to re-open it, you'll need dispgen located at:

http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannon...rogram=dispgen

Open dispgen, where it asks for a heightmap file, browse to the .bmp you just saved. Now open hammer and create two new .vmfs. One will be the one you place all the displacements in, and one will be what dispgen calls the target .vmf.

Make sure you can distinguish the two, and select the target .vmf where it says to. Don't mess with the other options (unless you know what you are doing) and click generate. It will say completed.

Now open that target .vmf, and voila, your displacement is ready. To make them look like hills I had to do quite a bit of smoothing via the paint geometry tool in hammer, but that's it.

[brickbox]

So I spent a bit of time making a map to use in SFM when I get it.
Anybody know where I could get a skybox suited towards stormy weather?

[Urban-Freedom]

test map for volumetric light

[Skerion]

brickbox posted:

So I spent a bit of time making a map to use in SFM when I get it.
Anybody know where I could get a skybox suited towards stormy weather?

Would be nice if you made the room a little bit wider, in my opinion. It doesn't look like there's enough space between the sofa, coffee table, and TV cabinet.

[TurtleeyFP]

brickbox posted:

So I spent a bit of time making a map to use in SFM when I get it.
Anybody know where I could get a skybox suited towards stormy weather?

The "day 3" skies from Half Life 2 are overcast, but still pretty bright. cs_office works as well. Episode 2 comes to mind.

Looking through the Sky List, L4D2 has a whole bunch from the flooded town campaign. Those should be pretty easy to port over.

[Marbledemon]

Try the TF2 skybox sky_alpinestorm_01, looks like a charm.
Use gcfscape to extract and put them into your game/materials/skybox folder, you just need to edit the .vmt's to fit the new image path.

[brickbox]

Skerion posted:

Would be nice if you made the room a little bit wider, in my opinion. It doesn't look like there's enough space between the sofa, coffee table, and TV cabinet.

I expanded the the room a bit(http://filesmelt.com/dl/Wideload.png). Only issue now is that the walls feel kinda bare.

[J4censolo]

brickbox posted:

I expanded the the room a bit(http://filesmelt.com/dl/Wideload.png). Only issue now is that the walls feel kinda bare.

Put a rug underneath the coffee table and maybe some paintings/pictures on the walls, as well as a potted plant or two in the corners or on top of the TV cabinet.

[MaxOfS2D]

(please ignore the lack of doors, they don't show up in SFM)

[mopman999]

MaxOfS2D posted:

(please ignore the lack of doors, they don't show up in SFM)

Looks nice, but the textures on the posts on the porch look a bit too similar to the house (if not the same)

[MaxOfS2D]

mopman999 posted:

Looks nice, but the textures on the posts on the porch look a bit too similar to the house (if not the same)

ohhh right i should rotate those by 90 degrees

scratch that i'll give em a new texture