[WIP] Goldeneye Facility

{D · Post by {D » Wed Aug 23, 2006 5:52 pm

man -Laser- thats really good that u have all that skill. when i become advanced at mapping i wanna make a whole bunch of 007 maps 4 halo
also gob job cant wait tell ur map comes out

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 8:42 pm

...haven't had much time to do much of anything on the level. here's a pic of the railing. It's the same height that's found in goldeneye.

MC looks a bit small, but the level still feels annoyingly cramped. Once I finish everything bsp related, I'll start looking into fixing that. He definitely needs to be slowed down.

*back to homework*

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Thu Aug 24, 2006 9:51 pm

Not bad, corner of the railing could do with a little work though.

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 4:21 am

rossmum wrote:Not bad, corner of the railing could do with a little work though.

yeah...i know. It was rather carelessly thrown together. At least it's better than what goldeneye had. A single face or two with a railing texture on it.

The more I look at everything, the more things I see that I still need to touch up on. Especially lighting.

rossmum · Post by **rossmum** » Fri Aug 25, 2006 2:51 pm

Yeah, it could definitely be worse.

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 3:02 pm

original(from rom) railing and platform from one of the first 2 gas tank rooms.

I still need to find a good pic to make a texture for the stairs and platform...

EDIT:In case anyone is curious, the problem I was having earlier was when I boolean-ing the vertical bars to the horizontal ones, it was creating a handful of super elongated/thin faces, which were pretty much ok with 3dsmax(stl), but tool didn't like them, and was considering them to be open edges. After I realized that was the problem, I just sliced the horizontal ones every few vertical bars

&&Idea!!
Red team flag=USSR flag
Blue team flag=British flag

fritzistheshit · Post by **fritzistheshit** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 7:26 pm

the flag idea sound cool!

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sat Aug 26, 2006 9:27 pm

My railing and platform in test box level

(didn't want to screw with running radiosity on the entire level)

I remade the stair/platform texture, and the blue metal texture. I couldn't find a picture of anything resembling the surface on the stairs and the platform, so I just remade the original the way I thought it might look if it were at higher detail(i know it looks lower in this pic). Also, I refuse to use any textures from goldeneye.

EDIT: showing new flags in bloodgulch

Stinger77s · Post by **Stinger77s** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:06 am

On the open edge faces like that when you name the material, for example "railing", put % on the end of it so its "railing%" the name of the actual shader in guerilla would still be "railing" but tool would be able to run it as you need it to.

By the way you can find all the different shader symbols in the HEK tutorial that came with HEK. % is basically double sided plane with collision, ^ is a climbable surface, - is breakable glass, ! render only no collision, etc.... can't think of them all but this should help you with your future progress, you can also combine some of them, nice work and good luck with it.

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 6:27 am

making the railing double sided would have been more of a way around the problem, than a way of truly fixing it. While making it double sided would have fixed the error, it would have given the bars a pointless inside.

{D · Post by {D » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:24 am

Stinger77s wrote: By the way you can find all the different shader symbols in the HEK tutorial that came with HEK. % is basically double sided plane with collision, ^ is a climbable surface, - is breakable glass, ! render only no collision, etc.... can't think of them all but this should help you with your future progress, you can also combine some of them, nice work and good luck with it.

Where is it, i couldnt find it wut the file name?

BEEF!!! · Post by **BEEF!!!** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 1:32 pm

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{D · Post by {D » Sun Aug 27, 2006 3:51 pm

BEEF!!! wrote:
It should be in your Halo CE root folder. I think the folder is 'hek_tutorial'. It's something like that.

ya I already know that wut I meant wut is the name of the html doc? coz i looked on all of them and couldnt find it

Stinger77s · Post by **Stinger77s** » Sun Aug 27, 2006 8:19 pm

Actually double sided gives it shaders and collision on both sides of the plane, that is the way it was origionally done on GE and PD. I wasn't trying to give you a crappy way around it.

http://www.cortana.org/HEK_Tutorial/

The link for the web version, same thing as the one in the HEK folder. Click on "Materials Overview" on the left and scroll down until you get to the shader symbols portion of it.

{D · Post by {D » Sun Aug 27, 2006 11:02 pm

Stinger77s wrote:
http://www.cortana.org/HEK_Tutorial/

The link for the web version, same thing as the one in the HEK folder. Click on "Materials Overview" on the left and scroll down until you get to the shader symbols portion of it.

Thank you

MasterChief2829 · Post by **MasterChief2829** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 1:06 pm

Wow, this is OUTSTANDING!!! Well to me at least. I loved Goldeneye, the best console FPS Ever. I'm gettin hyped for this and Goldeneye: Source.

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:04 pm

MasterChief2829 wrote:Wow, this is OUTSTANDING!!! Well to me at least. I loved Goldeneye, the best console FPS Ever. I'm gettin hyped for this and Goldeneye: Source.

My level may look pretty cool, but it's not going to be anywhere near goldeneye source. The GE:S people are recreating it from scratch, and are going far above and beyond what the n64 game had.

I, on the other hand, am making improvements upon the geometry taken from the game, and staying true to the original look of things.

and just for the heck of it, here's a pic of the vents.(i think i might need to tone down the reflectiveness of it a bit)

(depending on your screen's gamma, this may not show up well)

dos mes · Post by **dos mes** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:09 pm

They look great, they remind me of the way Perfect Dark Zero looks. I'd personally leave them like that, after all they are metal and theres no dirt up there to put soot on them so shouldn't they be shiny?

MasterChief2829 · Post by **MasterChief2829** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:52 pm

Yeah, I like how this looks more like the N64 version, should feel great when playing

Are you planning on making any more maps? (Complex, Temple, Cradle, Egyptian, etc.). Although I know this is taking a lot of time so I can see if your are not.

-Laser- · Post by **-Laser-** » Sat Sep 02, 2006 2:52 pm

Dos Mes wrote:so shouldn't they be shiny?

metals like that usually aren't produced in a way that makes them especially shiny. Take the inside of the average computer chasis for example.

but if looks good, i'll probably not change much. It does need a new/different cubemap though. It's currently using the pistol cubemap I think. And I'm aiming to use as few Halo shaders/bitmaps as possible.