Source

I'm going to get started on learning how to map for source over thanksgiving break in between trying to get some work out of the way for school. Vacation = busy, busy, busy.

wcow1

I was getting tired of people constantly callvoting WCA1 because they refuse to learn how to play anything else so I deleted it off the server and replaced it with my version, wcow1. It's the same map, but if they want to play it they're going to have to put up with this now :)

Badfish lol

Badfish thought it was a good idea to talk a bunch of smack in the server and then challenged me to a 1 vs 1 DA match.

http://smoothops.nuclearfallout.net/Demos/2008-11-22_22-55_da_wda1_auto0072.wd10

Didn't end so well. I won the match 8-3.

Phong shading + terrain blending

After tinkering with some scripts I'm finally starting to get the results that I want. Still trying to work out how to get the cracked sand to blend into the smoother sand, and not the other way around... but I'll figure it out soon enough. pretty happy with the results, and it's nowhere near as demanding since most of the elegance of it is in the phong shading and lighting. Can't wait to finish this thing. Still anticipating backlash against rocks, but those people usually find something to bitch about regardless.

Getting better now. I have a layout drawn up for a map to take place in a mine. I'm also preparing to get and earful for making super flush surfaces for people to rocket jump off of, but seriously, who cares how fast you go as long as it plays right.

hard like rawks.

Still trying to figure out how to gradually curve realistic rock faces. Brushwork on a grid like this is a bitch :(

Textures :D

Took the first steps toward creating my own textures today. Pretty happy with the result. I'm gonna post this then run off to French. Grrr...

first post!!11!!

This is going to be where I'll be posting work in progress shots of my work as well as any mapping experiments and other thoughts I happen to think up. I'll eventually do some tutorials and hopefully help a few people get into this magical thing we call mapping.

Alright gonna roll this thing out with some screenshots of my recent work to bring everyone up to speed.



I've also been playing around with some tri-soopin and alphadotproduct terrain blending. Waddup warsow here's yo durt.


Here's the render with r_showtris 1 on so you can see how much is actually going on. Not much compared to most terrains I've seen in warsow, and I think this looks a hell of a lot better.



Here's a little scene I put together this morning to test 3 and 4 layers of blending somewhat overlapping with some slightly more realistic rock walls. I wanna do something with this but I'm not exactly sure what yet...