Ns_flint07

MrRadicalEd

<div class="IPBDescription">First Release Candidate</div> I just finished a 30+ hour compile and I am very pleased to see all the important elements work right(well almost all of them). I feel it's ready to have the public have at it now. There are some small issues floating around that didn't warrant another 30+ hour compile so here is the first public version of the map.

<span style='color:coral'>ns_flint07.zip</span>: <span style='color:darkgray'>2.06mb</span>
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<span style='color:red'>File updated with the map's wad file</span>

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samejima

either your map is almost full bright and huge or you have a problem with that compile time other than that not bad shots but id say they need some spiceing up then again im very picky and when i say very i mean very very very picky ( all textures must be aligned right with all non visible sides null )

MrRadicalEd

I created that map with brightness at 50% and gamma at the third notch from High under Steam

Lt_Gravity

do you really mean 30 hours? or do you mean 1/2 hour -> 30 minutes? because that would be 30 times to much if you ask me. I compiled a map that was nearly ready and the proces took 29 minutes (without lightning). hm....

MrRadicalEd

I'm serious.. doesn't bother me much anyway. Two nights and one day is nothing when I'm not using the PC much

Olmy

Do you get any vis errors? I assume most of the time is taken by vis..

MrRadicalEd

here are some statistics

1ghz athlon 640mb ram(sdram)

CSG: 1m 20s
BSP: 1m 7s
VIS: 29m 49s (Using maxdistance. maxdistance added 20 minutes to the compile, but shaved off 4 hours in total compile time)
RAD: 1d 8h 36s (even with additions of spot lights and texture lights(light corrections) I lost 4 hours from my previous compile 1day 12hours)

Most walls are composite brushes that add more time. Under RAD, VisLeafs were three times as long as FaceLights.. makes sense to me.

Only errors were a handful coplaner planes(after brush corrections), a dozen leaks(after brush corrections), and exceeding texture memory limit

Lt_Gravity

for my understanding the rad compile should roughly twice the vis-time (may go up to three times vis-time). I think you sjould use texlights, maybe a cause.

and to say "doesnt bother me" is not too nice, its just a massive waste of energy...

MrRadicalEd

I do use textured lights with the addition of point based spot lights, and from my experience compiling this map in sections that VIS is a whole lot faster than RAD especialy with combound brushes making up the outer walls of the map.

Jezpuh

30 hours?! That's insane..

Rendy_CZech

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Don't use Skybox over whole map !!!

Kali

News up @ <a href='http://www.naturalselection.pexgames.com' target='_blank'>NS Pexgames</a> and added to <a href='http://www.naturalselection.pexgames.com/games/halflife/mods/naturalselection/maps/' target='_blank'>map database</a>

MrRadicalEd

Rendy.[CZech], you can cool it because I know better than that <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

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AlienCow

THIRTY HOURS!!!?!?!?!1111oneone.

*Ahem* Looks nice though, especially that hive room! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile-fix.gif' /><!--endemo-->

Lt_Gravity

missing wadfile and bad surface extends error, so much to the first impression...

teh_fatts

Even though its very spartan and by convetional mapping wisdom (as i understand them) its not spectacular, something about that yellow room appeals to me. Maybe just the fact that its yellow, and not jut by lighting. Most yellow rooms in NS are actually grey rooms made yellow by lighting. Or the slant of the pillars, and their spacing... eh.

Highno

Do the sounds in that map have any origin? or are you planning to creat those?