[WIP] Precipice

[Con]

this is true

[Siliconmaster]

You shouldn't be doing anything with aether until the maps done. To be honest I really don't see the need it in much, considering Halo can make perfectly fine lightmaps on its own.

I knew I needed to finish everything else first, but I had some free time and wanted to mess around with it and at least get a lot of the stuff set up, so if I wanted to use it later I wouldn't have to do all the work then.

As for my reasons for wanting to use advanced lightmaps, Halo isn't rendering the canyon correctly- sunlight goes all the way to the bottom, where it should stop as soon as the sun dips below the rim. Using a more accurate renderer would fix this. Also, the map takes 7-8 hours to do a quality 0 lightmap render in tool, and I don't even want to know how long a quality 1 would take. I'll try it, of course, when the time comes, but it seems to me that even if I keep the resolutions the same, and just overwrite Halo's own bitmaps, I'd have an easier and faster time tweaking it in max.

[Dwood]

You could probably render the same quality of max lightmaps in 5 minutes as tool makes in 4 hrs.

[Siliconmaster]

You could probably render the same quality of max lightmaps in 5 minutes as tool makes in 4 hrs.

My thoughts exactly.

Update:

Time for a screenshot or two. Thanks to Con for the sky. <3





Still needs some background distant thunder sounds to match the lightning flashes in the sky, which are hard to show off in stills.

[paladin]

Looking good

[Con]

I thought this was a pretty cool view...

[Lateksi]

Wat wat motion blur? Looking really good.

[flibitijibibo]

Wat wat motion blur? Looking really good.

I am also interested in that first part. Is that motion blur for srs?

[Siliconmaster]

I talked to Con. He says it's Firescythe's OS plugin. Of which I am redownloading the newest version, because I want that moblur. :P

[Inferno]

Really nice map. I think the lighting should be a little more yellowish.