[Mod] Serious Sam HD: Extended

[T-ReXx]

Looks epic anyway.

[Buzzy]

agree - it looks so awesome and epic
serious sam needs some puzzles

[Marko J]

Originally Posted by Buzzy

agree - it looks so awesome and epic
serious sam needs some puzzles

Indeed

[Mauritsio]

This looks very promising. Keep up the good work!

[T-ReXx]

You bump'd.
And this post is offtopic.
So how's the project going, Solais?
Now it's ontopic

[Solais]

Still missing an important resource for Episode 1 to be ready for testing. Meanwhile, I started working on Episode 2, so you might get a few levels there as well for the public beta.

[Rakanishu]

Looking great.

[Solais]

Some new models to make Episode 2 of SSHD Ex a little different than Episode 1. There's more to come.

[Emilio]

Not to sound bad (and not for me to say ) but I think it is necessary to improve these models.
but it was not already done the Anubis model?, and Horus is very good (the idea), I made a black Anubis (but certainly not as good as yours), with animations for a cutscene for The Grand Obelisk(not want to sound arrogant)

[Rakanishu]

I'm pretty agreeing with Emilio, the UV Mapping looks fast-made, not to be offensive. Hope that you'll fix that if you can. But if you can't, that's not a serious problem.
I know that UV Mapping a model is not the easier thing to do, I don't even know how to do it to be honest. But are these UV Mapping yours?

[Solais]

The problem is that I'm not entirely sure what do you mean that there's a problem with UVmapping. I painted the texture, yes, and I added other kinds of textures to make it a little better, like the two kinds of normal textures, a blend mask and such. The normal map they are using is the same the original model uses in SS3. What is exactly the problem with them?

[Buzzy]

It looks fine to me; otherwise,
All it probably need is a small crumples texture..

[Rakanishu]

I may have used the wrong word then. The UVMapping is good but the texture isn't that good, sorry for typo.
The textures actually look kinda flat.

[Solais]

Well yeah, the texture is something I painted, something I never did before, obviously it won't be perfect the first time. This is why I added the additional textures, like the blend mask that gives a stain-like effect to the model, those cracks and darker parts of the texture is caused by that.

Buzzy: There's detail normalmap added, not Crumples but the Concrete detail texture. However, as it is with detail normalmaps, it is only visible from close.

[serioustime]

Unless episode 1 is small and there isn't a lot to show, I suggest try getting it to be released so you can get feedback about it and maybe it will give you good ideas to put into following episodes. Though I don't know if getting the missing important resource is easy or not.

It's your choice though.

[Solais]

It's related to a new miniboss, that also advances the story a little, so it's pretty important.

Episode 1 is 14 levels, but it's "small" compared to Episode 2, as Episode 1 has 10 Original Levels, 2 Heavily Modified Levels (LotB) and 2 New levels.

On the other hand, Episode 2 has 5 Original Levels and 8 New Levels.

[serioustime]

Yup, that sounds pretty small to release. Well then, good luck on Episode 2.

Also (I'm probably late), I've just noticed this:

Originally Posted by Solais

- However, I -do- want to fix the enemy spawn errors on the levels in SSHD. I need help gathering these bugged spawns, please!

There are plenty of spawners in TFE that looks bugged or badly used IMO, especially when I compare them to TSE spawners. I'd PM you about bad spots for spawners in TFE. That is, if you haven't already done them all.

[Solais]

Yeah, those are already fixed. I actually got a list of the bugged spawns from Tome, the gameplay designer of Croteam, so I fixed the spawns according to that.

[Solais]

Updated Alley of Sphinxes.

[Serious Wolfer]

Lookin' good!

[T-ReXx]

Oh my God that is epic.

[Emilio]

Cool (textures looks good for your first time ) In the version that work is at noon, so you have a "logical follow-up" to Karkak Complex

[Solais]

Logical follow-up to what? Don't know what you mean there, in SSHD, Alley of the Sphinxes is set at night and Karnak is set at morning.

[Emilio]

Oh, in the classic (if not how bad I interpreted) this level is a sunset and Karnak Complex looks like a noon, anyway good work

[Solais]

"Noon"? You mean night. Karnak Demo is at noon, Karnak Final is at night in SS1 Classic.

"Noon" means midday. "Midnight" is the opposite of that.

[T-ReXx]

Haha, Solais teaching people english Didn't you say somewhere that You train to be an english teacher? (or something? xD)

[Solais]

Well, if I want to be accurate, "noon" originally meant both midday and midnight, but currently it only means midday, its usage for midnight have been obsolete for quite a long time now. However, I did notice some languages translating noon as midnight, because they might have the same word for both times of the day.

And yes, I am training to be that (though I completely lost interest in it during this last year, which is bad, because I should be thinking of a thesis already), however that doesn't mean I have perfect English; in ways, I actually refuse to have perfect English, because that's a lot more flexible, hell, even authentic.

[Buzzy]

Looking great so far

[T-ReXx]

no wai Solais First time I came across the forums, I tought you were a native speaker of english, lol.

But let's get back to the topic...

[Emilio]

hahaha, I beg pardon my English, in my country English classes are very bad or scarce (in high school or university did not have English) and also I didn't practice for a long time