The Official Interlopers "Map Pimpage Thread"

[Spas12]

How do you get those combine baddies to rapple down?

[wiggle987]

How do you get those combine baddies to rapple down?

It's not hard, I'm gonna get round to writing a tutorial soon, with a couple of others aswell.

[im.thatoneguy]

Yeah the desaturation really brought the map to life.

Is the combine tower in your skybox a Prop? I don't remember ever seeing in the MDL viewer.

[Spas12]

It's in the props_combine model folder.

[wiggle987]

I find it funny how the damned model is so big that my 3d skybox takes up about 1/6th of the whole mapping area.

[Spas12]

My current WIP for my Single Player mini-mod:

This is kinda of an Industry company map. I still have to put some blue lights in, but it aint working out well so i just turned on mat_fullbright. The lighting is really pissing me off though, ill work on it soon.

[img]http://img102.echo.cx/my.php?image=jail00010lb.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=jail00027ur.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img147.echo.cx/my.php?image=jail00033ap.jpg[/img]

[img]http://img56.echo.cx/my.php?image=jail00046oi.jpg[/img]

BTW Wiggle what are you using for lighting in that last pic with the benches?

[nickmade]

How do you get those combine baddies to rapple down?

It's not hard, I'm gonna get round to writing a tutorial soon, with a couple of others aswell.

Do you even need to write a tut? You simply set them to await reppel and make a trigger with startreppel...

PS, spas, turn fullbright off before I kill myself... Looks a bit prop hefty

[Grim Reaper]

I think the props match it nicely but it will look even better when you put in your lights.

Quick do it!


BTW Whats the theme spas?

[Grim Reaper]

How do you get those combine baddies to rapple down?

It's not hard, I'm gonna get round to writing a tutorial soon, with a couple of others aswell.

Do you even need to write a tut? You simply set them to await reppel and make a trigger with startreppel...

PS, spas, turn fullbright off before I kill myself... Looks a bit prop hefty

There isnt a startreppel

[matteh]

Looking alright spas, but you definatly need to sort out the lighting to some degree before you start showing off your maps.

[Rovient]

Wiggle; much much better! The lighting in the first pic is great, but i would set the ambient lighting for the light_environment to light grey, about 100. That'll provide the shadowed areas in that screenshot with a comfortable amount of light,

The second screen is great! Feels nice. No complaints here.

[matteh]

...but i would set the ambient lighting for the light_environment to light grey, about 100. That'll provide the shadowed areas in that screenshot with a comfortable amount of light...

That is one idea, but I think if you changed the colour to a very pale blue/gray, it would look much better. Even 3D-Mike says so!
(Google for his HL Engine Lighting tutorial)

[Spas12]

Holy Hell deos any body read what i said. I turned on mat_fullbright cause my lighting is in works right now, and the theme is a industrial factory kinda thing, allsaid above.

[Rovient]

Why didn't you just wait untill the lighting was complete? Then it wouldn't look... like it does?

[Spas12]

Because im working on a lot of stuff at once, lighting woulod take a least another 3 days to get down to perfect. I just wanted to show what i made and get feedback.