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Hello together,
months ago I started work on the Destiny, the huge spaceship from the latest Stargate spin-off Stargate: Universe.
Since then I worked on it when I had time and nothing better to do. Although I know there is some nice stuff out there to complement my map, I try to make as much as possible by myself. In case of the destiny console and kino dispenser, ...well, they are awesome and much better than anything I could build with Propper or my limited knowledge of the Softimage Mod Tool, so I won't bother making my own shitty ones. CAP ftw!
So this is the result in it's current state, with only a few custom textures and only propper'd models:
Screenshot time!
Gateroom:
Corridors:
Control Interface Room:
KINO room/Eli's bunk:
Observation deck:
Shuttle bay:
Mess hall:
Infirmary:
Dome room/garden:
Overview:
Icarus Base:
Offworld:
There are other areas like the quarters and storage room (can be seen in the overview between the gateroom and observation deck), but not in a shape fit for a screenshot, so I left them out. Also, I wouldn't have much to update if I posted everything now. :P
F.A.Q.:
Q: Release date?
A: No idea. Don't add me on Steam just to ask for a release date, I'll simply block you.
Q: Will we be able to walk on the outside of Destiny?
A: No. Although, if resources don't run low, I might add a damaged shield-protected corridor or the dome room.
Q: Can we visit other planets with the stargate?
A: Of course, but they will be quite simple and have a very simple sky, since I need a space/star skybox for the destiny.
Off-world locations on release: Icarus Base, Eden (Forest), Hoth (Ice), White Sands (Desert), and either Temple or Exile (Wasteland)
Q: Will the Icarus base be included?
A: Partially, at least the gate- and control room.
Q: Your textures look like shit. Will it stay this way?
A: Probably not, textures are just not a priority for now.
Q: Can I have a demo/beta version of the map?
A: NO.
Thanks to
the guys of Carters Addon Pack, as I will use some of their stuff (kino dispenser, destiny dhd, SGU ramp and obviously the stargate): http://carters-addons-pack.comeze.com/forum/
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Looking good, I really like this:
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Your $selfillum is too bright.
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Just found this and it's looking pretty good. If you finish this it will be awesome
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Working kino-dispenser please.
I'll make you a darn flying camera if that's your issue. :P
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Thanks
Yep, default values. I will tune them when I start to use better custom textures. For now most of them are HL2 default materials.
Well, why don't you just get Carter's Addon Pack?
It comes with a working kino dispenser, kino, remote and tons of other Stargate and SGU stuff:
http://www.facepunch.com/showthread.php?t=963938
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I really, really like it. But in pictures of the gateroom like this
The lights around the doors really annoy me. They look too unfitting. If you got rid of them the overall feel of the map would be way better.
And yeah, please tone down the $selfillum.
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Holy fuck this is fucking awesome fuckfuckfuckfuckfuckety :byodood:
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The architecture is fantastic, but the texturing sucks ass throughout.
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Your avatar fits this post so well...
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Like I said in PM's, it looks absolutely awesome and I can't wait! I do agree about the lights around the doors being too much, but the gateroom, besides that, just perfectly emulates the mood of the gateroom in the show.
EDIT: Wow, very creepy/nice touch with the Senator's corpse on the shuttle feed screen...
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Holy shit I'm excited for this, I actually kinda enjoy that show.
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The lights are there in the show. It's just the intensity of the bloom effect that kills the mood.
When I get home I will post a screenshot with HDR disabled. I have to confess that I like the LDR version more, but I thought "hey, why don't I compile it with HDR, looks shiny". In retrospect, that probably was a bad train of thoughts...
Well, sure, for now. But better than my premature, shortlived attempt at a custom texture. :ohdear:
Yeah, just a screencapture but I thought it was funny at the time.
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This is incredible! I'm so glad I discontinued work on my own version. If you have named all of the different doors, I'm sure it'd be rather easy to code a simple console that can open/lock/close them remotely.:D
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Looks awesome but it would me much better, ef timer, gates, consoles, dispenser and other buttons were entities, not just models...
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haha madman trying to hint at the fact you made some
anyway this looks really good i am startting out with mapping and hope to be able to get as good as this
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very cool
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The clock looks cool is that brush or a retexture of the model ?
For the rest amazing map you made here already, some custom textures here and there and it will be fucking sweet :)
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Can i test the map as alpha or beta
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I wonder if you can use the creaking/noise ambiance from the destiny and apply it to this map in order to increase the atmosphere? (if you haven't already). Liking it so far!
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Ha! What a link in the Stargate thread can do... ^^
Some stuff is working. The timer for example is working, counting down from 3 minutes and then initiating the FTL particle effect. In order to link it to the gate and include things like the gate, consoles or kino dispenser at map start, I probably have to get into lua and release the map as an addon, right?
Cause a gatespawner file alone wouldn't include the fancier stuff.
Apart from that the only choice would be to let the players delete the models and insert the functional stuff from Carters addon pack themselves each time...not very comfortable.
It's a custom model with a cut screencap as temporary texture. The display with the ancient digits is a custom animated texture.
BTW: does anyone know if it's possible to add an alpha channel to an animated texture for the $selfillum effect? Had no luck so far. Except with the dots, but that's no wonder as that's not an animated material.
No
There is background noise? Never noticed that. :P
I'm not a fan of forced permanent background noise/ambience in games.
As for "normal" sound effects(doors, buttons, etc.): learning to use a sound editing tool to extract the effects from episodes is on my to-do list.
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cough cough carters pack destiny shuttle fly outside your ship cough cough hehe... talk with izraider see if he will let you use his shuttle..... and you can release on our svn if you want id like you to be a part of our pack... i sent you a pm... idea is that you go to the door open it enter the shuttle and fly around to the planets.. or close to a sun etc.... a working door on the shuttle? would be nice to see.. consoles you can use..
i have the destiny door sounds i will get the consols and everything needed... pm me i will go in to details
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There is background noise? Never noticed that. :P
I'm not a fan of forced permanent background noise/ambience in games.
As for "normal" sound effects(doors, buttons, etc.): learning to use a sound editing tool to extract the effects from episodes is on my to-do list.[/QUOTE]
as i have said i will take care of the sounds for you... i do for our pack... there is an abient sound yes
i will get=shuttle door, dhd button press ie consols diffrent ones... ftl enter and dropp out, and anything else needed...
what i have are= doors.. locks stand alone, ambient back ground needs looping in lua.. and door buttons.. all clean sounds..
pm me and i will forward what i have and explain how the others get my work in the pack
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possibly another idea can be the air scrubbers you can open the panel and have the thing come out and you press e to add more stuff or have to go grab sand from a planet.. upon first loading the map and water etc.. just ideas
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another idea.. would be use our destiny turrets also some alien encounters where they can be shot down with the turrets.. some steam effects in the hall ways...some damage ie.. malfuntion doors that you can repair.. or something like sparks flying when attacked in the inside of stuff..
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Whoa, I just now see this posting. God, I type too slow. Check your PMs.
One can really see your excitement in your post and PM. ^^
Heh, I thought of something like that after I'd seen the first 6 episodes.
The need for oxygen, water and energy of the destiny crew would work cool with LifeSupport. But that'd be just too much for the beginning, so I scratched that idea pretty fast.
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yes im an exited kinda guy.. i love stargate and startrek.. i love it when good people work on great stuff...
what i meant with ls is that when you first load a map or you can have the option.. you can gather the stuff you need just like in the show.. its up to you just a thought.. would make a good idea that way we have goals to acomplish sorta roll play
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yes i know how to get alpha mask in a animated texture, you need vtex and you need to export every image with the alpha mask in 32bit Targa file's (.TGA) than just use the vtex animator compiler and your done, if you can't figure this out, just send me the textures and i will do it for you :)
Ps: can you send me the custom clock want to have a look :)
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another idea would be to have an elevator like on the show go down a couple levels say to the other observation area the large dome or the brain chair :-) room ill do some work on sounds tonight when it cools off.. to freaking hot right now to do anything
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Looks good, but those screenshots of the gateroom hurt my eyes, literally. Maybe tone down the white lights everywhere a little?
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Agreed, the lights aren't lighting that much on the show
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By the way, what is the face/brush count like on the map? With that many curves in it etc. the map must be pretty damn large (brush limit wise)
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Hey Tikay, great screenshots as usual.
About ents, isn't it possible to add an extra Lua addon to go along with the map that will spawn ents around Destiny? So if you have addon, it removes models and spawns ents, if you don't, then it keeps the models.
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Holy. It is good to see a Destiny map this far along. Another I saw stopped development.
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Wow this is GREAT, I am really excited for this!!!! Thanks tikay!!!!!!!
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U mean that you will release the map 28 september
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The map looks good so far...
but there are a few things that look kind of unneccessary to me at the moment,
which in return, could be made of textures instead to spare you some brushes for other things.
For once,...the detail on the ceiling:
you could do that with custom textures instead,
aswell as the brushes which stick out of the wall:
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Wow, thanks for the input, guys.
Fucking VTEX. All files had their alpha mask and still wouldn't compile correctly. I then then came upon the smart idea to just use the import function of VTFEdit instead of a VTEX batch file. I don't know what VTEX's problem was, but with VTFEdit it works now.
For the clock, theres not much to see. You would have to compile it first. It's a modfied countdown from portal: http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/25686
But if you still want it...
The model itself is rather unspectacular.
If you look at the overview, on the right side of the "storage room" letters there are two seperated corridor parts. That's my elevators. Although for now they are just teleporters to simplify matters. There is another one right to the "a nexus" caption, but not working yet.
What other observation area? The room with the one big window Eli and Chloe found on the run?
Yes yes yes, that's the result of default HDR and $selfillum values. To be honest, turning off HDR makes it look better. :/
Note: this data is from the version I compiled for the screenshots. Not included is all the hidden stuff.Code:Object names Objects/Maxobjs Memory / Maxmem Fullness ------------ --------------- --------------- -------- models 166/1024 7968/49152 (16.2%) brushes 5348/8192 64176/98304 (65.3%) brushsides 47596/65536 380768/524288 (72.6%) planes 28554/65536 571080/1310720 (43.6%) vertexes 25286/65536 303432/786432 (38.6%) nodes 3480/65536 111360/2097152 ( 5.3%) texinfos 569/12288 40968/884736 ( 4.6%) texdata 146/2048 4672/65536 ( 7.1%) dispinfos 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) disp_verts 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) disp_tris 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) disp_lmsamples 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) faces 11188/65536 626528/3670016 (17.1%) hdr faces 0/65536 0/3670016 ( 0.0%) origfaces 9448/65536 529088/3670016 (14.4%) leaves 3647/65536 116704/2097152 ( 5.6%) leaffaces 13742/65536 27484/131072 (21.0%) leafbrushes 7928/65536 15856/131072 (12.1%) areas 6/256 48/2048 ( 2.3%) surfedges 94932/512000 379728/2048000 (18.5%) edges 64287/256000 257148/1024000 (25.1%) LDR worldlights 451/8192 39688/720896 ( 5.5%) HDR worldlights 0/8192 0/720896 ( 0.0%) leafwaterdata 0/32768 0/393216 ( 0.0%) waterstrips 2090/32768 20900/327680 ( 6.4%) waterverts 0/65536 0/786432 ( 0.0%) waterindices 46275/65536 92550/131072 (70.6%) cubemapsamples 64/1024 1024/16384 ( 6.3%) overlays 0/512 0/180224 ( 0.0%) LDR lightdata [variable] 1901540/0 ( 0.0%) HDR lightdata [variable] 0/0 ( 0.0%) visdata [variable] 43396/16777216 ( 0.3%) entdata [variable] 292682/393216 (74.4%) LDR ambient table 3647/65536 14588/262144 ( 5.6%) HDR ambient table 3647/65536 14588/262144 ( 5.6%) LDR leaf ambient 10560/65536 295680/1835008 (16.1%) HDR leaf ambient 3647/65536 102116/1835008 ( 5.6%) occluders 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) occluder polygons 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) occluder vert ind 0/0 0/0 ( 0.0%) detail props [variable] 1/12 ( 8.3%) static props [variable] 1/47322 ( 0.0%) pakfile [variable] 5361837/0 ( 0.0%) physics [variable] 1866446/4194304 (44.5%) physics terrain [variable] 2/1048576 ( 0.0%)
Yes, that's what I meant in my response to Madman07. I just have to wrap my head around lua first (or kick my ego in the ass and take help from someone else...).
Is that a question or exclamation?
Please get a dictionary and look up the terms "hopefully" and "close to", then read again.
I don't see problems there, yet, as those are no brushes. Alot of what you see there are models and there are still some func_detail candidates to turn into models.
You should see how it looks when I hide the props and func_details in hammer.
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hidden stuff ? some examples?
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I think that madman07 is trying to create an entity spawner to spawn the carter ents so if that works you should be able to add the ents in and have them spawn when the map is loaded pretty much is avons gatespawner just coded to spawn carter ents
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Will this have other planets to go to like the one from "Time" and the one from "Water".
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from what i understand he will have most if not all of them
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