[WIP] Precipice

[DarkHalo003]

http://cmt.h2vista.net/main/index.ph...d=50&Itemid=80

Here you go.

[Siliconmaster]

Beautiful. Very much appreciated. As a reward, you get this entertaining screenshot:

[Vadam930]

LOL!

And, Silicon, it is coming along wonderfully!! I think this will be the most beautiful CE map in the history of CE. I get those same feelings of wonder, awe and excitement when I look at these images as I did when I first walked out of the Bumblebee pod onto Installation 04's surface for the first time, many years ago...

...And it's FANTASTIC!!!! Keep it up!! It's an amazing job so far, and I'm sure with your talent, come the release date, it will be absolutely awe-inspiring!!!

EDIT: Will 343 hum/say amusing things? =)

[Siliconmaster]

Thanks! He does indeed hum to himself and say entertaining things, and he'll say hello to you sometimes as well. I won't give away where he'll be in the map, but it will be near the credits, and you'll have to look for it/them.

[.Wolf™]

I think this will be the most beautiful CE map in the history of CE.

I will have to disagree with you there. It does look good though. Good job man.

[Siliconmaster]

Haha yeah, there are some pretty darned nice looking maps out there, and right now mine still has some issues to fix. Portent comes to mind as a beautiful example of forerunner architecture.

[EX12693]

3 days later.. how's it coming along? And... why is there ai in the map?

[Inferno]

3 days later.. how's it coming along? And... why is there ai in the map?

:expost:

Don't just bump to ask if there has been progress after 3 days. He's working on the map in his spare time.

[Siliconmaster]

Inferno's right- 3 days is a little short to be asking for an update.

However, this is me we're talking about- barring unforeseen complications, which does happen often, a lot can happen in 3 days with me working in my free time. I've screwed up the lightmaps, fixed the lightmaps, installed some pretty fun easter egg ai, and am now slowly fine tuning all the light settings. This involves turning on each bank of lights one at a time and rerendering the lightmap, then tweaking, then rerendering, etc. Will take a while, but it's totally worth it. It already looks far better than it used to.

And as for the ai, it won't be interactive- scenery purposes only, and in relatively unobtrusive parts of the map.

Edit:
Just about tweaked the control room to the way I want it. Ignore the obvious lightmap uv errors- those I'll fix last. This applies to all renders from here on out.

First, compare this, from last week:


To this:


Here's the reverse angle:


Eventually I'll get the whole map calibrated to my liking, but that might take a bit. Worth the wait, I say, and I'll keep updating with screenshots as I progress.

[staticchanger]

Very nice. Good lightmapping is always worth the patience and effort.