The Never to be Finished Map Pimpage Thread!

[Dman]

I've quite a few maps that never really got anywhere but two stand out.

1 was a sort of standalone level that didn't get past the inital area







two linked due to larger size

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/824/hammerimage2.png/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/854/hammerimage.png/

whilst the other was a flatgrass sized gmod map designed for boats planes and ground vehicles. Got further, but due to sloppy work on the cliffs poor optimisation and too much dead space I decided to stop.







as well as it having a ring of buttons that once started pressed each other indefinetly.

[radu_iceman]

[Zecrah]

D: !

[PhoeniX1992]

How did you get those textures to cast those beautiful shadows? I can't get TextureShadows to work unless they're models or I copy the non-translucent parts with blocklight brushes...

[SotaPoika]

How did you get those textures to cast those beautiful shadows? I can't get TextureShadows to work unless they're models or I copy the non-translucent parts with blocklight brushes...

That's projected shadow, not lightmapped one. As you can see, there are accurate shadows on railings too, which are props (and everyone knows that the shadows VRAD produces on props/models are something not that nice).

[Gary]

They are lightmapped. There is no fading and the shadow is not using the crappy filter that Source's shadow mapping uses.

[Armageddon]

I'm guessing he's using blocklight to do it, I'd like to know how he got the lighting on the model, maybe it's just vertex lit.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

They are lightmapped. There is no fading and the shadow is not using the crappy filter that Source's shadow mapping uses.

New cascaded system we made, with the portal 2 filter.

[SotaPoika]

They are lightmapped. There is no fading and the shadow is not using the crappy filter that Source's shadow mapping uses.

Take a look at the top trim where shadow is cast a little. I saw there some of that shitty grainy-edge thing Source does with projected shadows, which is not happening when it's lightmapped. Really, it's obvious. If not, then it's broken lightmap shadows.. which I doubt.

Also, fading: http://steamcommunity.com/id/bluecheeta ... 793800710/?

[source-maps]

I'm guessing he's using blocklight to do it

this

is very unlikely

[Armageddon]

Yeah, but it still looked like it was lightmapped, I wish I could get my hands on those cascaded shadows now.

[MrTwoVideoCards]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Skeleton

[joe_rogers_11155]

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Skeleton

Can you explain what this is in more detail, please?

[MrTwoVideoCards]

It says it all right there on the page!

[tripmind]

is it possible to filter damage based on the weapon used in half life 2?

i messed around with the filter_damage_type entity and it doesn't specify by weapon type, only damage type, and interestingly enough, neither the shotgun nor the crossbow outputs bullet damage.

https://developer.valvesoftware.com/wik ... amage_type