Some dark and crappy ns_veil shots
KungFuSquirrel
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
Basher of Muttons Join Date: 2002-01-26 Member: 103Members, NS1 Playtester, Contributor
<div class="IPBDescription">Forgive the attaching, ftp no worko. :(</div>Yep. Some dark and crappy ns_veil shots. Most of what you see here has been added/modified in the last 24 hours. Lighting fits a lot better in game, and I'm too much of a lazy ####### to fix the shots. <!--emo&???--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'><!--endemo-->
First we have a modified area, formerly with red inset lighting. I think the bluish tint gives a much calmer feel, and seeing how this is closer to the center of the map than one of the hives, I really want that type of feel. However, infestation awaits (or, I should say, WILL await) just a little ways behind this area).
First we have a modified area, formerly with red inset lighting. I think the bluish tint gives a much calmer feel, and seeing how this is closer to the center of the map than one of the hives, I really want that type of feel. However, infestation awaits (or, I should say, WILL await) just a little ways behind this area).
Comments
I'm sorry to be so hard, but I think you really need to shape up here. You're bringing me down, and I don't like being down.
From what I've seen, I think veil is going to be a <i>wonderful</i> map! I know where you're coming from, but you really have nothing to worry about. Veil is one of the few maps in development that I really truly want to try out and play in.
You have proved yourself as an excellent level designer with your previous maps.
I think the problem a lot of us face is that we all want to be the best, and won't settle for anything less. But why? It's not good to do that.
I know from experience the hurt it can inflict on your work:
Rather than finishing near complete levels, or continuing on with something I really liked at the time, I would stop and start something different with the intentions of "beating" the latest map I downloaded... feeling as though I needed to suprass the quality of it, and that my current work just wouldn't cut it. And here I am now: 1 ( one! ) hldm level under my belt. And that was a loooong time ago (April 2000). Having only completed one level in my four years of mapping, I now have less skill and knowhow in the terms of layout and overall design then I should. Had I finished some visually unglamorous, yet complete playable maps, I could have at least learned a bit about the actual design and layout work necessary in level design.
That kind of extreme-self-criticism got me nowhere. Absolutely nothing of worth came out of it. It <i>has</i> hurt me. And I, unfortunately, find myself doing it nowadays as well. You just need to cool down and remeber that it really is going to get you nowhere to become overly discouraged. It will just keep happening and happening... You'll find maps you think are better then yours, redo something to match that quality, then find something else even better then that... It won't end, and you will be continuosly miserable. Trust me, I know.
Anyway, I really am looking forward to seeing some new shots, and hope you can get a solution figured out here. Will phl not allow for image hosting (whatever you call it) or something? Or can you not upload?
It's kind of a weird situation I have going here with the self-criticism. It's not an act, I can tell you that much. And yes, Interfector, I love what I'm doing. It's hard to explain, but as much as I enjoy what I'm doing with level design, I'm always trying to push myself to improve. It's in this push to improve where I get really nitpicky about every little flaw (and sometimes even non-flaw) in each map I make. I think Natural Selection really brings this out the most, seeing how the quality of the levels here is so high. As a result, I push myself harder, and therefore (ideally) improve more. Natural Selection is a challenge to map for, and despite my lack of self-confidence, I will say that my ability level has greatly improved since I started on ns_veil.
I want to do this for a living. It's that simple. I also need something to make me stand out among the rest of the people that also want to do this for a living. I don't feel like I'm there yet. Maybe it'll be ns_veil, maybe it'll be one of my other upcoming maps, maybe I won't even see that anything at all stands out, but yeah. I'm really rambling now.
Back to the original problem, I can't log into my FTP account at all. Evilly annoying. I'm not sure what the deal is. Otherwise, I'd just upload to my site and link from there, as it works fine.