Map Battle 19 - Identify Yourself [Now Closed]

[Dodomaster]

It would be very hard if you guys can't summit your submissions anymore.

[nub]

Yes please Jest@. Just a little more time.

I edited all my lightmaps like crazy. I had all the displacement's lightmap scales at 4.

I changed it to 10 so that it would compile more responsively. In one minute it made it to 3 in buildfacelights, stage 1. I just hope for the love of god that it will actually finish. If it still chooses to act gay, I will just make all lightmaps 16 and try again.


Unfortunate that I could not get home earlier and compile...


Damnit.


EDIT: K, I just decided to remove this one subdivided thingy that was UBER detailed. And put my lightmaps to 16. Restarted pc to defrag RAM and now I'm compiling. Looks like it is going better....

[Mr. Happy]

I wish I had more time to polish, tweak, and find the best vantage points for beauty shots but I screwed myself by only starting foud days ago. Would be nice if we could post more than three screenshots, but I guess that would make things bloated.

Oh well, here goes. These are final...

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.............Science and magic, nature and technology.







...........................This is your brain on Happy.

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It might be a little hard to see, but there are three monitors attached to the oak tree by the house. One is displaying the smiley faces, another a fractal pattern, and the third which is pretty damn hard to see because of an opacity mask is presenting you with a drawing I did of my dog mongo.

I love her my little mongo

[nub]

Close to finishing the compile. It's about half way done with the second stage of BuildFacelight. After that it should fly and then I can load it up really quick and take some screenshots and upload them to photobucket easy.

I doubt I'll make it in time though.

[Dodomaster]

Look very nice MrHappy.

[nub]

Fuck it.


Steam is fucking gay, I hate it. I hate the source engine...


I build the cubemaps in HDR. The last one it builds is pure white. Game exits, and says "map with no textures." Then I retry, same fuckin' thing. Stupid ass errors.


The ONE damn time I want it to work for me, it decides to take a big shit and makes my errorless map not work for whatever stupid ass reason...

Just why?

[Mr. Happy]

Ahh man calm down. Take a deep breath and try again!

I want to see your finals

[nub]

No thanks.


I don't feel like sitting through another useless compile to see my map just die for no reason at all.

[SlappyBag]

Do an LDR compile then.

[nub]

It will take too long either way.

Here's what I could come up with for my final images:

The Engine Error (almost like an error in my brain):


The Error I get when I load it in object view (Basically the error my brain processes per object I see):


My hatred:



I win.

[SlappyBag]

You draw that now? Its quite good.

Also, I blame vista.

[nub]

Maybe...

But I doubt it. It was an engine error.


Who knows, Vista has it's ways of being a total piece of shit.


Anyway, I'll just have to settle with 3 of the few images I posted back on page 10. I'll repost em below for easy access, but as links since they say to do that I think:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/nubblecakes_pb/dna0001.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/nubblecakes_pb/dna0003-1.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o67/nubblecakes_pb/dna0000.jpg


Is it me or is Jest@..not calling the end of the battle? We're an hour and thirty minutes over the deadline..

PS: Happy won...

[Shr3d]

Nobody wins until the votes are counted. And next time I'll use hdr since people get horny over it.

[Rooster]

its true

[The Watcher]

I am pretty much done with my map. I wish I could've used HDR, but I recall that HL2DM stopped working for me, and I don't play CS:S or DOD:S. Also, I felt the effect would ruin what I was going for in the map. I've never messed with AA (don't even have it on), and many of the sketches are already compiled at Source's max texture size (2048x2048). I wish I knew how to make them look better in game...

Ah well, it was fun making this map none-the-less. I was hoping this would be a bigger impact on y'all, but it looks like it might just be another 3rd place winner for me (for the 4th time ). Not saying that's bad, but I was hoping to get a little more recognition for this...