The Attack on Yavin series(SP)

[lassev]

Originally posted by master_thomas

Okay, I was actually just thinking about adding engine noise.

 

The ending cutscene takes place a small amount of time after you hit the button. I'll add an imperial craft and show the jedi jump down the hole. I'll also remove Kyle from the cutscene, focus the camera on Luke, and end the fight in half the time. After the half, the player runs over to finish the fight. Once all shadowtroopers are defeated, the very end will happen, now, where do you want the camera?

 

I'll make it so the breakable triggers a target_counter, which is also triggered by a trigger_once, on the elevator. The trigger_once will be inactive until you defeat the shadowtroopers.

 

 

I'll look into the sniper stormies.

 

Sounds good. Those changes will make it much better, trust me. However, even if I'm complaining about the camera position, it's still up to you how you make it. Perhaps you could use two cameras, because there are more ships than one. The other camera could be outside the door. You could also check out how it would look like if a camera follows a ship flying out (from a position left or right, not straight front or rear). It might work nicely.

[master_thomas]

Well, I got the microphone working. I tried my own voice, but it sounds nothing like Luke or Kyle. Kengo, I may need your voice actors.

[master_thomas]

I replaced the lighting in the boiler room with shaders.

 

Here's the old picture (this really is an old picture. One of the first on this thread).

 

Here's the new picture.

 

What do you think of the difference?

 

Personally, I like the change.

 

I still haven't gotten any work on the gas platform.

[master_thomas]

Okay, now the new pic at the angle of the oldest picture.

 

I also added these The clip brushes, which caused me a few problems are now well clipped. Do they fit? They look a little more advanced technologically, but they are generators in the basement.

[Business_Eskimo]

Seems okay to me. I don't really think anyone will mind if there are generators in the basement.

[master_thomas]

 

Here's the light from the window.

 

 

Don't mind the fullbright, I used it to show the supports.

 

 

Personal work lights.

[Business_Eskimo]

Looks pretty good! Made any progress lately? This thread hasn't been updated in a little while. Just wondering.

[Pnut_Man]

Question- Are the screenshots that you just posted from your Yavin Map? I'm a bit confused on the whole matter :/

[master_thomas]

No, it is actually Bespin, even though it looks imperial (they've been rebuilding to suit their needs).

 

I'm working on four maps. Myhouse, Attackonyavin1, 2, and 3.

 

Sorry I haven't been posting as often. My sister has to use the computer half the day, I have lots of schoolwork, and my 14th birthday was two days ago.

[master_thomas]

Okay, I've gotten back to work on #1 and finished the sniper stormies and the camera is more dynamic. Now, I just need the engine noises and I wanted to add thuster flares. Flare shader?

[master_thomas]

red_flare is giving me errors. It appears to be an effect, but I can't get the movement of the fx_runner to sync with the movement of the ships.

 

The sound is in and I put nice little fadeouts before the battle, before the player takes over during the battle, and before the ships start to leave. This makes it so it doen't look like everything is happening at once.

[lassev]

So, now that the first part of the Attack is about ready, or very soon will be, are you going to release it, or do you first build also the next part and release them together?

[master_thomas]

It will be released soon, but I'm getting less and less time to work because my sister is working later (using the computer longer) and I have more and more homework.

 

I've added sort of a trademark thing. It's a cutscene. I will get a picture soon. Just compiling now.

[master_thomas]

Needs some work, but here it is:

 

I need to make it look a little better. It's also sometimes hard to read.

[Business_Eskimo]

Hmm... did you use fullbright for that pic of the "trademark" or is that just some weird ambient lighting? If you change the lighting it should look fine.

 

 

Sorry I've been gone a while, I've had a lot of work to do lately.

[master_thomas]

Now that I think of it, i had a "max_map_lightgrid array", which caused fullbright. It's fixed now.

 

To make it more interesting, I am currently making a tie fly across screen, spinning out of control, followed by an X wing, which had just shot it down.

[Business_Eskimo]

Ah, yes, sounds great. When you feel like it, upload a new screenie. It should look much better

[master_thomas]

Bad news

 

Rotation of tie has never worked.

 

I'm having compile time trouble. It spent 2 hours on passage portal flow ...0...1...2...3... Either something I added is making 2000 nodes or there's ome osrt of error. It's been slow for a while.

[War Master]

You probably have a leak somewhere. A skybox can "mask" a leak.

[Business_Eskimo]

Well, it's been a while since I've been around here, soo....

I havent looked at this thread much lately. Doesn't appear that I've missed out on too much. Anyways, enough babbling...

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Bad news

 

Rotation of tie has never worked.

Yes, I had a feeling you might have a problem with the rotation of the tie fighter. It seems sort of tough to do for some reason, if possible.

 

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About your problem with the compile time-

 

War Master- I'm pretty sure he knows about that. But it will also increase the compile time.

 

Laso, if you use Q3Map2, it tells you when there's a leak. So, that may or may not be the case.

[master_thomas]

I used BSP monitoring. No leaks. I turned 5 brushes into details and now it takes two hours to get to passage portal flow ...0...1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...

 

A little better, but still very annoying. I tried slightly changing the script, but I need to recompile, which will probably take three hours. It is 11:17 PM where I live right now. It will have to be left going overnight.

[War Master]

The compiler doesn't find all leaks so to speak. If your map is boxed in by a skybox it can hide them. I know this first hand. I had this problem a while back. I removed the skybox and closed off open areas and I found several leaks. I even remember reading a Quake III tutorial on testing each room after completion for leaks. You block off any open areas and compile to test.

[master_thomas]

Well, usually, the problem is max_map_lightgrid array, which is fixed by adjusting he gridsize.

 

I ran another compile and it has gone for 2 hours on a test quality compile. Passage portal flow ...9.... Portal flow takes by far the longes: about 2 hours and 45 minutes of the 3 hour compile.

 

The tie isn't working. I have rotate commands in a task other than the move command, with the move command, and outside a task all together. I habve gotten models to rotate, so what's the problem?

[Business_Eskimo]

Hmmm... could you post the script up here? Maybe we might be able to catch whatever's up with that script thats giving you a hard time here.

[master_thomas]

Here, I've tried this:

 

affect ( "crashfighter", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ FLUSH )

{

task ( "crash" )

{

move ( $tag( "tmfighttag", ORIGIN)$, 1000.000 );

rotate ( < 4320.000 0.000 0.000 >, 1000.000 );

}

 

do ( "crash" );

 

 

 

 

 

and this:

 

affect ( "crashfighter", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ FLUSH )

{

task ( "crash" )

{

move ( $tag( "tmfighttag", ORIGIN)$, 1000.000 );

}

do ("crash");

task ( "rotate" )

{

rotate ( < 4320.000 0.000 0.000 >, 1000.000 );

}

 

dowait ( "rotate" );

}

 

Neither seem to work. I tried all of them together:

 

affect ( "crashfighter", /*@AFFECT_TYPE*/ FLUSH )

{

 

task ( "crash" )

{

move ( $tag( "tmfighttag", ORIGIN)$, 1000.000 );

rotate ( < 4320.000 0.000 0.000 >, 1000.000 );

}

 

do ( "crash" );

task ( "rotate" )

{

rotate ( < 4320.000 0.000 0.000 >, 1000.000 );

}

 

dowait ( "rotate" );

}

 

That doesn't work either.