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http://fsk405.digitalamusement.com/stuff/superman_testcrew.html I've got a little more testing to do, but thus far everything is go for the final compile. I expect nearly a full day of cpu time dedicated to compiling this beast, most of the time going to visibility calculations that I haven't fully understood. That's ok. Light compile will probably take a good few hours. No idea how long the bot compile will take... if I even do it. After the release I'll write up some points about what I'd like to see added in beta 4. It will be a while til that time so get comfy with the long awaited beta 3!
-duck
My next compile will then be assembled as superman_b3_pre02.pk3. The stats I listed above are pre01. This will be the test for the beta in which Resident has kindly volunteered to admin a server for testing the map. After today, I'm going to be gone for the week, returning Saturday. I will only be back for 2 days, then I will be off again until the next Saturday. This brings us to the last week of July. In those 2 days I'm back, I'd like to do testing then of the map, and have it packaged as superman_b3.pk3 by the end of July. Feasible? Yes. I just hope I can reduce this bsp size soon, cause it's simply too large.
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r/l is kicking my ass too. Pummeling me til I hurt bad. So to make things better, I decided to take a slight break and give some of the concept work of my next funmap a try. Tell me, why would I try to make water breakable? Not ice, water. Why would anyone even try such a thing and attempt to be remotely credable?? Well you know the duck, there's something up the sleeve, and like anything I do, it only makes sense off-paper. You know, like how some things "work on paper", like telling your boss off, or actually going through with that new years resolution? I'm just the opposite. It never works on paper. Ya just gotta trust me. :) I feel better just writing this. This weekend I'm MIA, so definately no map work. Still lots to do for superman_b3, which makes me wonder exactly how it's going to turn out. Seriously, if it wasn't for r/l issues right now, I'd be in far better shape, better mindset, better focus towards what I want to do. I want to get this map to you!
LOL and check this out, from the UrT forums:
[Dave]
Lmao! I found a funny something that I drew in my planner when I was bored (I forgot I drew it until today)
n1 Dave. :V
Did you see? I was interviewed at urbanbase.net! Go check it out!
I'm done with the streets finally. This has been a lot of work. I spent some time working on the military building interior... ugh... it needs to be completely redone. Not sure how much redoing I'm going to do for this beta, cause I got lots to handle in the mean time. I think the next thing I'm going to work on is starting the hotel interior. When I get bored with that, the parking structure will start going up. I want to get the other towers up soon too. The part I'm really dreading is the week I'm going to spend on hinting the map... with all the work going into this beta you'd think it's a final release... but it's not. After b3 is out, I'm going to take a break from it cause I'll need it. In b4 I'll work on more astetics and map behaviour stuff. I'm thinking the upgrade from b2 to b3 will be the most dramatic in the superman series. I could be wrong though. We'll see. Some things I've worked on: cleaning up sparklies in curve patches, closing gaps around the block of the hotel and military building, testing different jumps from off the hotel, working on the streets as mentioned, etc. Actually each of those things have eaten up a lot of my time, because I spent lots of time testing jumps to find out their capabilities; the streets and curbs have to conform and align to driveways (this is a pain), the gaps... I'm not even done closing up the military building block. I don't know what to put there yet. I'll figure it out. What I need to do is get my digicam working again, so I can drive around and get ideas. That helps a LOT. I want areas and things that look real, with realistic dimensions, with realistic purposes. Yes at one point I did ask if I should make the curbs ADA compliant! WTF! I try, and I will continue to try to make the most fun map. Time for, something else. gn
The explaination as to what's going on: First, from the top of the hotel, you jump off the corner, following the thick edge of the building. At the bottom, there's an angled part, you jump off this the same way you jump off the arches from the first building. That propels you all the way over to the tipped-over van. As you land, jump off the van to continue your velocity into the side of the highway. Note that you can not walk on the steep angle from street level up, so if you tried you'd fall off. Your velocity actually forces you up that wall to the rail edge, redirects your forward force, and throws you sliding across it. As you slide fast across, reaching the second overpass, you then walljump off the rail at the right time throwing yourself midair and landing on the opposite street corner. Pretty easy eh? =) I had a few submissions, but no one managed to get it. That's ok though, I'll continue to have strange little contests as development continues. I thought you might enjoy seeing what kind of combos I have in store for you in the upcoming beta 3, so keep watching. Later!
(01:58:42) ([DiE]rth) you realize you've turned out more successful maps in one year than most ever do?
As my good friend One would say... "And there you have it." I've gotten a lot done on superman tonight. Added more street, created the second overpass, worked with the military building front (still can't decide what I'm doing with it), did a bunch of texture cropping/resizing for better use of texture memory, made a couple new textures, and a bunch of various small tweaks. I think I've been doing this for about 7 hours tonight. Sleep calls... ugh. Gotta do what ya gotta do though.
I'm continuing work on superman. I've also begun to think up my next funmap... actually that's a little mistated, my next TWO funmaps. The first I've named ut_bait, and will consist of a lot of bustin-stuff-up action. The second which I will have to once again find the limitations of what q3/urt/myself can do, is to consist of Unreal Assault mode type action... but this is far into the future so this may change. I've gotten pretty good at curves now. There's still much to learn about tweaking them... but for now I'm reconcentrating my efforts on the building of the map. I've got what, less than 3 months to complete b3? Seems like enough time, but I know with my plate of things in r/l plus my damn addiction to getting on the server and playing a few games ;) time is more limited than I'd like. Ah well, I'm not complaining, but I do have a lot to do. I'll keep you posted as I get the chance. Check ya later :V
On paper, the map is sectioned off to a 3 x 3 grid area. The parking garage is area 1, the hotel area 2, and if you follow this you'll find the military building in the middle of the map to be area 5. This way, if I reference an area in the future, you'll be able to know where I'm talking about. I'll probably make a little graphic and perminately attach it to the pond, for visual reference. Here's your first test to see if you understand... I'm not sure right now what I'm going to do with area 7. Area 4 is the park, which Kag said he wants to assist with. For now, I'm working strictly on area 1 and 2. I'm not sure what all will be in the beta 3 release, but I do plan to make that release before QuakeCon, hopefully earlier than later. Would you believe it? I released beta 2 before QuakeCon last year. It's been that long! There's some r/l things I must deal with currently, so development will slow down a bit. I've gotten a LOT done on the map in the past few weeks, so bear with me. I'll let you know what's up on the dev side when I can. In the meantime, check out this shot of the new highway. This particular screeny was when I was doing lightpole testing. :V Next page |
