Ns_frigid shots

Mouse · May 2002

<div class="IPBDescription">About 1/2 done this time</div>1/6
my ready room, notice how i've got a non placeholder sky. oh and BTW the beam in the center of the picture is just meant to be a regular spotlight beam (the render amount was accidently put too high)

Mouse · May 2002

2/6
the ready room again, this is the spectator tower
oh and the little box to the left of the doorway will have a holographic sign on it

Mouse · May 2002

3/6
one of my hives. BTW it's a reactor <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

Mouse · May 2002

4/6
the hive again

Mouse · May 2002

5/6
the retractable bridge leading to the hive, int the backround there is a fuse box which must have its wiring welded for the bridge to work

Mouse · May 2002

6/6
the landing pad near the marine start, retextured

Greedo · May 2002

The readyroom's nice and simple. Nothing too spectacular, but its not like people are going to be spending too much time in there.

I have to say that I really like the way the hive room looks there. The way the lighting looks is just really good. I wonder if it'd be possible to stick in some extra lumps of goo and infestation in corners, and just to kind of break up the flatness of the floor (I realize the r-speeds are pushing it in there). I think I'd have to see the hive in there to make some final comments.

I like the idea with the bridge, so long as that's not the only way into the hive room.

I like the way the marine start feels. I think that the texture of the lights on the rafters up top need to be brighter, because right now it doesn't look like they're actually emitting that yellow light (if that's even where its coming from).

Great job!

coil · May 2002

The cliffs in the last shot are too wall-like. Also, shouldn't the hive be almost entirely infested? Home sweet hive, or something like that. Otherwise, looks nice! How do people get to the spectator tower?

Mouse · May 2002

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (coil @ May 08 2002,18:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">shouldn't the hive be almost entirely infested?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
well i was thinking that since it's a reactor there wouldn't be that much infestation, considering all the eletricity running around
</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> </td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">How do people get to the spectator tower?</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
well see that doorway down the bottom...

Black_Wolf · May 2002

i think he means up to it, like is it a ladder? a jump-pad? whatever

a bit of texture alignment on the snow walls would do wonders.

Mouse · May 2002

well you don't actually go up, you just walk in the door and bam your a spectator

Oh and BTW, the red room is red again

QuietMischief · May 2002

looks good, keep it up

Silver_Fox · May 2002

I love the Hive room.

Love it.

Trane · May 2002

Your archetecture looks really good in most places and sometimes is extremely cool and unique, but your texture use is a little choppy and could use some work. Im no mapper but from what I see the textures dont always flow together, espeacially in the tunnel leading to the hive room and the landing pad shots. Good work on that spectator tower, it looks awesome as well as that strange ceiling thing in the 2nd set of shots.

Biomechanoid · May 2002

IF you change the shadowing in the reactor at all I'm going to have to open a can of whoopass on you to get it set back- that lighting it tight. although, it could use with ground cover, as the aliens are at a disadvantage (from what I understand, but don't qoute me on this) in wide open spaces. since this IS a hive room there should be plenty of cover and whatnot for the bobs and fatty's, but leave some openess to it for the tinys
And like coil pointed out, the cliffs are too flat, just put some random and not necisarrily complex brushes jutting out at various heights to break up the monotony.

Good work. I wanna see the red room again!

Plaguebearer · May 2002

I thought of an interesting effect to use for your 'join marines' sign there - rather than have four signs hanging there pointed NSEW, why not put then on the N and S sides, and rotate them on an axis around the center of that volumetric? Or, even cooler, do it twice, with one rotating clockwise and the other counterclockwise, one a little higher than the other...

Just crazy ranting.

Freestyler · May 2002

Well I can't think of much to say right now, but it is looking nice <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

Also, how come your only getting 4fps? :/

Shuvit_Viper · May 2002

i really love your hive room.. this is the way it is meant. if i was an alien i would build my hive in that room, because you can hide so good on the ceiling... <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':D'>

realityisdead · May 2002

The lighting in that hive room is just wonderful. Really really great!

I also am quite fond of the artistic qualities of your tower there. Very nice. <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

All criticism I have has already been mentioned.

Mouse · May 2002

Trane: in some of the shots the choppy textures are in places where i quickly put blocks to seal off the map

Biomechanoid: if you look on the slanted parts of the cieling there are alcoves above the doorways, which could fit tiny if they had to

Plaguebearer: i had that in my old ready room for my observe match sign

<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>6--></span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td><b>Quote</b> (Freestyler @ May 09 2002,05<img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>6)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">Also, how come your only getting 4fps? :/</td></tr></table><span id='postcolor'>
no idea, my fps start at 72 then drop down to 4fps and stay there. i know it's not because my computer is too slow <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

Hicks · May 2002

Alot of flat spots on your map, The cliff walls mostly. Stick a few brushes on to give the cliff texture.

Mouse · May 2002

i was going to put the hive in one of the alcoves in the reactor room (above the doorways) too high up? <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt='???'>

DruBo · May 2002

If I remember correctly, it doesn't matter where the hive is in relation to the floor. It's just a model. it's not like anything comes out of that little spout on the end.

Spyder_Monkey · May 2002

I believe DB is correct, in Bast, one of the hives is pretty high up there. It doesn't have to be reached by anything but bullets.

Tzarcon · May 2002

The Geometry is really cool, but I think you'll need a little more detail. You have some really excellent ideas in there as well. I love the idea about a retractable bridge. It should work really well

coil · May 2002

Make the controls on the far side so the marines have to go around the long way first. (:

Mouse · May 2002

are you talking about the retractable bridge controls?
if so, they already are on the far side, in fact behind the wall in the middle of the picture is the reactor hive, and the floor in front of the control panel has a gaping hole in it. the fun bob will have <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=';)'>

the reason i asked about the hive hieght was in another topic someone said that the hive should be closeish to the ground so it doesn't look like the aliens fell far when they popped out

realityisdead · May 2002

No, you don't have to worry about the hive being too high up. The aliens will respawn exactly where you place the info_teamstart's. They don't fall from the hive.

I had a hive way up on a ceiling before in one of my rooms, but took it down and put it in a little aclove just to make the marines do some footwork in the hive room... rather than just standing at the entrance and shooting away. Something you might want to keep in mind while building.

Mouse · May 2002

the new and improved red room (now with very poor compresion) <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'>

doctopepa · May 2002

whatch out! they'll say it's too red <img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'>

coil · May 2002

Waitwaitwaitwait... is this the room that WAS red, and then you changed it, and made me cry? Or was that someone else's map?

Because I LOVE IT!!! Sooooo atmospheric. Don't change a thing. Only thing that would make it better would be if the lighting pulsed, like an alarm or something. (:

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