Ajoe's house of horrors

[AverageJoe]

It uses Stain05 actualy, I'll play around with it to see if I can get it looking better.
I'm going to add in some crumbs eventually or something like that. Maybe a tree or two.

I still have two more stages that need to be done, which are both much larger as they will host all players instead of just one like with this stage i'm working on.

[Jetty]

May I ask a two questions? Whats that rock tower at the back?

[AverageJoe]

A temporary...


...and that was only one question. Unless you're counting the question to ask a question a question in your array.

[Finzy]

FYI, the ground doesn't look greenish at all to me. It's sand. SAND DAMMIT. Unless you can't recognize colors so well (my apologies if you can't), it's definitely normal sand IMO.

I thought the old cliff texture looked a bit better. The current one's red lining looks a bit odd to me, but it's okay.

Hopefully it would be compatible with SS2 DMPRO.

Any and all deathmatch maps are compatible with our mod. We didn't reinvent the wheel, we just improved it.

[Discy]

Sand? What the hell are you talking about? It's SNOW!

[--Fragman--]

Sand looks more like this:
http://www.cs4fn.org/vlsi/images/sand.jpg
http://www.castiastone.com/colors/im...esert-Sand.jpg
http://www.free-background-wallpaper...tones/Sand.jpg

That's definitely not as green

[AverageJoe]

It's the default sand01. it's not green on my monitor so it's gotta be yours.
several people say that it looks like sand and you're the only one who doesnt agree with that.
I do have a slight blue tint to the shadows, this might be what you're thinking looks like green, so the only suggestion I can reccomend to remedy this is for you to go outside sometime and look around.

[Finzy]

Huh, I don't see a difference, and the last image gives me a 404 error.

Of course it looks more "green" in the shadows because the shadows are dark grey, but otherwise it's perfectly fine. It doesn't need a change IMO.

[--Fragman--]

Hmm I guess it comes from the contrast with those orange rocks, still I think the sand should look a bit less brown/greenish

[AverageJoe]

It's not supposed to be picture perfect like everything in your programming mind.

[AverageJoe]

So go figure I start making a map I'm actualy enthusiastic about and my laptop shits the bed. wth.

[Discy]

Sooo, what now? Doesn't your laptop wear diapers?

[Brute]

New sheets time

diarrhea or rock turd?

[AverageJoe]

straight blood nuggets.

[AverageJoe]

Ok, reviving the desert map after a little hiatus.
I have some good plans with it, but i'm going to need some help.

When my laptop crashed, i lost intrest in mapping for ss2. It was just too much work skinning each model at least twice. However, making the geometry is really easy.
Now with SSSE, it's the inverse. So, I got a lightbulb and I'm going to make the geometry in ss2 for ssse mapping. This is gonna be really great. hopefully at least.

Sure the shadows won't be as great but it's a good trade off for the enemies, weapons and netcode.

Now, I have a bunch of things I also need to figure out with this.
I need to figure out a way to 'count' how many players are in an area so that I can kill off excess enemies.
I have an idea to use a watch players but i'm unsure how it will work for multiple players.

Another problem is how to kill off the enemies. The only thought I have so far is to create a touchfield that is the same as the floor, and activates when there arent any players.

The biggest problem, is finding people that will help with some test maps to see if the concepts work. I need at least one person to help, preferably more. If I had two machines working, i'de use my lan but that it's the case.
Just PM me if you're interested.

[Deepblue]

At least you now know how I feel while I make this 'remix' map of the first SS:SE level

[AverageJoe]

hehe yeah

I need to stop drinking, i feel dumb right now.
i've been trying to figure out this players=0 trigger system for ever now and it just isnt clicking.

[Discy]

Count me in as a tester.

[Deepblue]

and if you're drinking while mapping I'd love to see what a 'drunk map' looks like

But seriously I don't mind beta testing

[AverageJoe]

GTL_Basic [Ajoe's HoH]
Starting Room

[Deepblue]

Whoa!
Nice work. The flares give off the impression that you've been in darkness through most of the temple and have just seen some light in quite a few hours

The dark corners option doesn't work too well though, mostly in the central room

[SLAwww]

Yeah, not bad. I think some wild vegetation would fit the atmosphere (like, ivy models hanging from your ceiling etc). Oh and, I guess putting some puddles around wouldn't hurt.

[AverageJoe]

It's a dm map, i'm not going to go crazy with it.
That's not dark corners, that's too low shadow res.

Looking up.

[Jetty]

Whoa, cool!

[Brute]

Lotta zig-zags there, heh.

[XMR1]

Nice.

[AverageJoe]

Mega props to Kinickie for explaining the Macro Setting on my camera!
























*Crazy Ace Ventura voice* Say helooo to mah STINKEH FRIENH!!!e1even

[Kinickie]

Those look great! For some reason I find that insects and plants make the best macro subjects.

[AverageJoe]

that little ant was a bugger to catch. never wanted to stay still.

[Deepblue]

Those look great! For some reason I find that insects and plants make the best macro subjects.

That's probably because insects are very small and since you're looking at them very close with sharp detail, you can see a lot of stuff on the insect that you won't normally see just by looking at them

I wonder if I can do this with my camera...