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Post #161
Here is tonight's update:
Major changes today is the HDR being enabled, and the textures for the balcony.
Because I know you guys love voting so much I've made the 4 balcony's on the main floors of the skyscrapers have different textures. So here is how you pick your favourite texture:
Rate Winner for first floor.
Rate Zing for second floor.
Rate Informative for third floor.
Rate Friendly for the fourth floor.
Rate Useful because I'm a tool and didn't pick any good textures.
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I made this yesterday for no reason
I wonder if adding the logo somewhere to construct could be nice or something
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this seems off...XD its the same for all four parts of this roof (the only non enterable building)
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im using the version Highvoltage just posted (Here)
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Garry is a good person.
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in the big part of the vents?I made this yesterday for no reason
I wonder if adding the logo somewhere to construct could be nice or something
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Will this map have air AI nodes?
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Voltage, i told you you could use my account to update the thread, not make me look like a dummie, with you bumping your own threads with my account, impersonating me.
GranPC/garry, is it possible to have two people have access to modify the first post of a forum thread instead of us sharing our accounts to make modifications to the thread that we currently do?
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Upon inspection of the Nightly Log... I just found this.
Code:---------------------------------------------------------------- - gm_construct_13 Nightly Build - ---------------------------------------------------------------- . . . This log was created on 21/03/2012 by Eric. The time this Nightly Build was archived was 0:22:41.68 (Locally). Unauthorized redistribution of this Nightly Build is strictly prohibited. P.S. I posted from your account so I could get the top of the next page in the thread :P
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it already does.
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We (Myself and HighVoltage) are currently working on adding some more nodes to the map and we should note that we already, (if you didnt realize) added nodes so helicopters, dropships, and gunships can fly around the map, and Fast Zombies can now reach you nearly anywhere, including buildings, since we implemented Climbing Nodes.
At one point the idea to add climbing nodes to the skyscrapers came to mind... which brought up two problems:
1. The Fast Zombies would not target you from that high up.
2. If you had Fast Zombies climbing skyscrapers (successfully), it would be both unrealistic and funny as hell.
On a seperate and slightly less humoring note, I finally got the Nightly Build Archival and Logging system up, so when HighVoltage goes to sleep, he uploads the most recent VMF for the map and the system will log when he uploaded it, while simultaniously backing up the old VMF in case shit arose on both his computer and the VMF I work with, which is highly unlikely.
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What a strange texture for a balcony "rail".
It's the same for both sets of balconies.
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We (Myself and HighVoltage) are currently working on adding some more nodes to the map and we should note that we already, (if you didnt realize) added nodes so helicopters, dropships, and gunships can fly around the map, and Fast Zombies can now reach you nearly anywhere, including buildings, since we implemented Climbing Nodes.
At one point the idea to add climbing nodes to the skyscrapers came to mind... which brought up two problems:
1. The Fast Zombies would not target you from that high up.
2. If you had Fast Zombies climbing skyscrapers (successfully), it would be both unrealistic and funny as hell.
On a seperate and slightly less humoring note, I finally got the Nightly Build Archival and Logging system up, so when HighVoltage goes to sleep, he uploads the most recent VMF for the map and the system will log when he uploaded it, while simultaniously backing up the old VMF in case shit arose on both his computer and the VMF I work with, which is highly unlikely.
could you make them able to climb the ladder?
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Probably. It would be pseudo-ish, but it would look convincing I am sure. Since tomorrow is my day off, I will get to work on that right now.
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what about the mirror is it meant to be so fuzzy/blured
also these textures are a little bit different :/
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No. It is supposed to be a 1:1 quality ratio. (At least to the human eye)what about the mirror is it meant to be so fuzzy/blured
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Working on the nightly build of the map now.
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It's low resolution is what's causing the weird fuzzy-ness in the mirror. The mirror renders everything in a lower resolution than what you have. I've had problems with this, but when I went into my options and changed the reflective settings and others related to stuff like that it got fixed. I dunno if this is the problem with you since I don't have the map, and I don't have Gmod 13 either so I can't see the mirror :Pwhat about the mirror is it meant to be so fuzzy/blured
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Could be both..
Anyway, Im still working on that zombie-ladder thing.
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went full res and changed all settings to highest and still doesnt work :/ would it be my nvidia gt 220 cause it may not be advanced enough
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Don't worry, I get the same thing on my GTX 560 Ti at 1080p. It's not your card.
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where is this?also these textures are a little bit different :/
also: wrap your pic in [t][/t] tags instead of [img][/img]
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lol i looked closed and saw its in the water XD ya the shadows are ment to be a bit different there but i dont think there should be a straight line :(
Dammit i cant type today, i keep adding "E's" to things, thank god for spell check!
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First off, I'd like to apologize for bumping the thread using Coltons account, it seemed like a good idea at the time and it just ended up just making him look bad. I'm sorry Colton for doing that and I'm not going to do it again.
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And it seems that when I moved the skyscraper I forgot to lock the textures so just ignore that for now
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I am currently working on trying to figure out what in the heck caused the HDR to stop functioning as it should.
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I turned the bloom scale down a bit because it was insanely bright, and i lowered the HDR brightness of the lights because they were also insanely bright
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I currently pulled out all the cubemaps and env_tonemap_controller, and I dont know what you claim you did to adjust it, but it seems to have broken it while Im testing for HDR. And it would seem that there are absolutely no errors spewing out either, I hope this doesnt require me to go into the smoother groups thing again and try to mess with that again more than I already have for the last half-hour; trying to get HDR to work at all.
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Okay this is driving me nuts, I cannot focus all day long trying to figure out how to get HDR running again after whatever was done to the map borked it again. I even turned up the BrightnessScaleHDR for the light_environment to 1.5, after removing the env_cubemaps, and remiving the env_tonemap_controller, and nothing will make the HDR come back, no changes to compiler settings or anything. This is most upsetting. And whatever you did also made the lighting glitch on the walls come back, which was only solved along with HDR by modifying the Smoothing groups, in which case now that the geometry is more complex it doesnt want to let me group the walls that were modified. I still barely understand if I am doing it right or wrong when it comes to smooth groups, but there is no real way for me to find out.
So I will let HighVoltage figure out what on earth is going on with that.
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You can change the bloom scale and other settings can be changed for the logic auto entity
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Look at all the light entity's, The last value has been changed from 200 to 100, that should be whats cause your problems
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I would like to stress that I just mentioned having deleted the env_tonemap_controller, which essentially broke all outputs coming from the logic_relay, so changing bloom would do nothing because no entity in the map would be receiving the inputs.
The problem has nothing to do with the light entities; if any, it would be the light_environment, but it seems that even after modifying that, the map wont compile with HDR at all.
The Direct Correlation between The Walls being Glitched Again and The HDR not working is leading me to believe when you added the red stripes to the walls, it actually borked the HDR from working because you modified the Smoother groups, which broke it on some of the walls, and for SOME REASON smoother groups fixed the glitches and HDR last time but now I simply cant get them to work at all as they should.
I am at a complete loss for ideas at this point.
There is no logic_relay, no env_tonemap_controller, and no cubemaps in the map other than the one above the lake (I removed them all to revert the map to pre-fuckery status), and nothing, at all, that I seem to be doing, is fixing the HDR.
Can we get a professional in here that may know how smoother groups may be influencing the HDR not compiling? or at least come to some sort of definitive conclusion as to why this is happening?
I want to get a bunch of work out of the way in terms of tonemapping scales so people can choose their favorite exposure for the HDR, but I cannot do that without HDR...
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Upon doing some research, I found that sometimes Improperly shaped displacements can cause HDR to not compile properly, and you DID mention raising displacements in a corner. Where, I am not sure since I did not notice anything different. Maybe I am confused again...
I will continue searching the web for answers.
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Also, for the record, I did compile the map from a fresh open directly from the nightly backup, before making ANY modifications to it, and it did not compile the HDR then, and it won't now, dont know what you did, but it is not letting me compile it under HDR with just your changes since the last time you modified it.
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I am going to take a nap, for a couple hours. There is literally nothing I can imagine doing right now to fix this. The map is simple, and yet complex enough, that trying to scour what could have caused this when I am not the one that made the changes to the map to cause this, could take me hours all itself, which is taking away from valuable time that could be spent figuring out other things and finalizing the map further.
I wish this HDR problem would leave us alone, and I wish someone could explain to us why the HDR isn't working.
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It's like we're reading a diary.
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Great idea add gmod logo please add thisI made this yesterday for no reason
I wonder if adding the logo somewhere to construct could be nice or something
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Will the flatgrass map have water?
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No this is gm_construct not gm_flatmap.
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With no disrespect I still can't understand why you have so many problems. It's going to be very difficult to help you blind over the forums. You're going to have to give the vmf to someone else for a proper look.
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I agree. Most mappers never get these problems.
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I think you guys are on the point of overdoing the makeover/upgrade/refresh/whatever.
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here have some input, this came in my mind when looking at the image
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Looks like this map needs some info_null entities. Lots of them.
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I have been getting some weird lines, almost looks like the floor is in different parts and anti-aliasing is off, however these still appear even with anti-aliasing at full, the only thing that seems to make a difference is high shader detail, (which I left off to put emphases on the lines in the images below) but even that does not help much.
No one else has pointed this out so maybe its only me, I was running at dx9 because I was testing on a XP machine, maybe that's why? Then again maybe that's what you meant by unlocked textures, sorry I don't really make maps. If it is my computer and anyone knows why, please let me know.
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It's your settings.
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No it isn't. This has been mentioned a lot (it should probably be in the OP maybe?) and it's just a Source bug.
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Nothing the mappers can fix.I have been getting some weird lines, almost looks like the floor is in different parts and anti-aliasing is off, however these still appear even with anti-aliasing at full, the only thing that seems to make a difference is high shader detail, (which I left off to put emphases on the lines in the images below) but even that does not help much.
No one else has pointed this out so maybe its only me, I was running at dx9 because I was testing on a XP machine, maybe that's why? Then again maybe that's what you meant by unlocked textures, sorry I don't really make maps. If it is my computer and anyone knows why, please let me know.
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Those rarely happens to me.
Might be because autosnap when compiling?
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cleaned the crap out of this, now it's down to 3,600 tris AND it's prettier I guess
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Agree x 13
Winner x 1
Disagree x 1
Optimistic x 1
Late x 2
