lol, sounds like a chore. Would it make the displacements and everything
to scale as well? And models?
Tim Holt wrote:
One of the best tricks for getting the map to feel really big is to decrease the
player size and point of view. Doing this, scaling everything in the map to
match, plus slowing down the player gives the illusing of much much larger
areas.
It takes a number of edits in the code to make it work. I had done it once for
an abandoned serious games project. The easiest way in the long run seems to
have been to make one global scaling constant, then apply it where ever there
was any reference to player size, hull size, speed, point of view height, etc.
Quoting Aaron Schiff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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I think it is possible to go into the fgd file and make the map size max
larger...that way you can fit it all in...only problem would be how hammer
acts weird with large maps
you may still have to split it up depending on what you want...if you need
to use many ents to achieve what you want, you'll need to break it up
On 2/27/06, Kamran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Thinking about it more, I think we could pull it off Valve's way if we
did a world map like Guild Wars. Not so expansive as Morrowind but still
enough to be free.
Kamran wrote:
Alright, but I can't put trees or anything? I am thinking of a
forest-type area. They'd just see the hills. I read that 3dskyboxes
can't show models.
At least I really don't have to worry about this at first for my mod.
We'll be focusing on the city first.
My thinking with the skybox is that it would be a super pain to do. If
you have one tile, you have 8 tiles around it (four corners + four
edges) and you'd have to make the skybox have elements from all eight
maps. If I didn't have to worry about models, it wouldn't be horrible I
suppose.
Then, my other thought is... what about displacements? I'm talking
forested areas, it's not flat. I'm wondering how in the heck I'm going
to try to "continue" a displacement surface from one map to the next.
Half-life 2... I'm guessing looks seamless because they just copy the
hallway or whatnot and make it match.
One thing I could do, was be creative and make the maps very hilly and
forested and then extend them a bit and put the triggers inside more,
like, maybe before a large hill, so the user couldn't see what was
beyond, and then when it loads the map it would seem like it matches
perfectly.
Adam "amckern" Mckern wrote:
3dskybox
Thats your best mate - many levels, can use these to
make it seem seamless or massive - take a look at
missing infomation (love-tub.com) it shows some
wonderful 3d sky box's in the e3 levels
--- Kamran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do any of you think a Source mod could support
tiling maps? I've tested
two square maps where a trigger spans the entire
length, and loads the
second map and it works fine (meaning, I walk to the
far left, and on
the new map I'm in the same spot).
My real dilemma is how to make it seem seamless
(i.e. the user doesn't
know where the end of a map is because he can see
everything in all
directions). Would anyone know of ways to do this?
Would it even be
possible in a mod?
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