The WIP Thread

[Project Dark Fox]

I lose track of people when they change their usernames.

That's okay. I lose track of people when they change their avatars.

I offer no apology for every avatar change I make.

[Nash]

That's okay. I lose track of people when they change their avatars.

Suddenly I feel so guilty about the animated Cacotroll fad...

[InsanityBringer]

I'm working on my new Doom heightmap tool again. The initial export of a 256x256 sized map in textmap is 53.8 MB large, and it compresses down to 3 MB.

Is the 53.8 figure remotely normal? I understand why it compresses so well, but this just seems weird even with the huge amount of data I'm exporting.

[Ænima]

[insightguy]

Makin' fun of the boss like a boss!

[InsanityBringer]

I'm suddenly reminded of this old thread, heh

[Minigunner]

You should use this decal (or a more contrasted variation). Just a recommendation

[Ænima]

You should use this decal (or a more contrasted variation). Just a recommendation

I already tried that before. It looks really bad from a distance.

Besides, the current decal ("SCORCH" i think) looks MSPaint-ish and I like that.

[Nash]

Is the 53.8 figure remotely normal? I understand why it compresses so well, but this just seems weird even with the huge amount of data I'm exporting.

That's normal... textmaps can get super huge uncompressed.

[Eriance]

Working on rigging and clothing detail. serious clipping going on now

Spoiler:

I think there are too many wringles, espectially the hat. Flat surfaces like a which hat, which would be made of a relatively rigid cloth, shouldn't have many (if any) wrinkles on it.

[Blox]

I think there are too many wringles, espectially the hat. Flat surfaces like a which hat, which would be made of a relatively rigid cloth, should have many (if any) wrinkles on it.

Son, are you on the pot?

[InsanityBringer]

(click for more images)

Finally, Terra is producing something remotely usable. Lighting also mostly works, but it looks ugly when there are sharp changes in terrain (as seen in the third screenshot). Not really much I can do about that, though.

[Nash]

:O

Can't wait, InsanityBringer!!!

[Blox]

Yeah, that definitely looks awesome.

[InsanityBringer]

Here, play around with an early beta (.net framework 3.5 required)

It mostly works, but there are a few issues at the moment:

• You can't have a ceiling heightmap alone, you must also have a floor heightmap
• Terrain lighting is a bit messy with ceilings at the moment. Might add a ZTerrain-like lighting mode. There might also be lighting issues still, but I can't find any.
• Not all features may work fully or at all. I think I was drunk when I wrote the base code, as it's a messy kludge.
• The WAD exporter is not present yet, it only exports the TEXTMAP lump.
• The terrain generator does nothing.

But for general usage it should be fine.