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I have made a lower poly version, but haven't finished with it yet. The "dzurgs" are down to 140 faces apiece, but have suffered somewhat in the looks department. I also did a reduced version of the interior vault structure, I think its down to around 1100 faces if I remember right. Also, ...

I didn't run your code, but I did look at it. You have no materials defined, so the client just assigns the default "mesh" material to the object. Or more accurately, you have a material, but it isn't referenced in any of you following code. You can call a group and give it a matref statem...

Okay, this is fundamentally a variation of the fire thing...was that a LouMan invention? First I made two texture matrices to shift the cloud texture and make the mist appear to move. One moved it in one direction, the other in more or less the opposite direction. I also made two materials using the...

Is that good or bad? I am not much of a player, so I dunno how this map is from a playability standpoint, tho the guys at work seem to like it, in spite of the slightly choppy-at-times framerate. I also think the materials could use some work, I don't really understand all this ambient, diffuse, spe...

Latest iteration. It's got gothic arches, it's got Dzurgs, it's got mist/fog, whatever you wanna call it. This map is not an easy one to get screenshots of. Think of trying to tank around the outside of a haunted mansion on a foggy night. I know I keep saying this, but you REALLY want to download th...

Spin is more powerful than rotate, but for me at least, was a bit trickier to learn. The command is: spin <some angle> y x z (if I understand correctly, y and x are reversed) It apparently works around the major world axes, instead of the local object axis, like rotate does. So if you want to spin s...

how did you want to rotate them? You can pretty much rotate them how you want, unless you come up against the "spin" bug.

Now this is just the basement, mind you, there will be a floor above the central dome, possibly with a hole in it so you can drop down into the basement, or I may just get lazy and use teleports. Face count thus far is 1121. I am guessing the finished map will be over 5000 faces. I am a bit concerne...

Thank you. Very helpful. I made this object, but it has something like 1000 faces, and the whole thing is pretty much visible. It's just the tiniest bit choppy on my 128 PCI nVidia card.

I was going for a sort of gnarly lookin' H.R. Geiger biomechanical look. I really wanted something more monochrome, but that just sort of looked muddy. It's a bit too linear, maybe . Need to perhaps make it so every other row is offset.

Is it the total poly count of a map that affects performance, or just the poly count of what's visible out the window at a given moment? Or is it some combination of the two?

Sorry I haven't replied sooner. I decided to invest in a larger hard drive and I haven't yet got everything re-comboobulated. I suspect the problem was with the normals as you have said. I ended up remaking the arch a I misplaced the file when switching to the new drive. The new version of the arch ...

Try looking at the very end of your group definition. You have endef, it's "enddef". Then it should work, if everything else is right. I also wonder about the group instance you called: group snowman name snowman scale 2 2 2 spin 0 0 0 0 shift 10 10 10 end You don't need the line "nam...

yah, too bad about the mountains. It is my understanding that they are pretty much hardwired into the game. Mebbe I could block them out somehow or other.

Well, that makes three people who have suggested that to me, I shall have to look into it.

Okay, I made the object in the screenshot "gothicarch.jpg". I ran it through modeltool and got the thing in "g-arch.jpg". Where did the missing faces go? Does Blender do something screwy to the windings or something? Was I not holding my mouth right? What? This is the second obje...

I have TD-Linux to thank for this. I was really intrigued with the texture and color of what I came up with for the back side of the reflector (he suggested using black). The texture, a dark charcoal colored tetrawall, seemed sort of like velvet concrete. If you tinted it brown, it would be good for...

I have an idea for a way to create lightning (ta go with the rain, a 'course). I think it could be done with a 2 dimensional mesh, an appropriate custom texture (there is a tutorial on how to make lightning for the Gimp), and a dynamic color thingy with a short cycle. You map the lightning texture o...

Thanks for the the help. I will give it a shot and see if it does what I want.

I took a peek and in his Bridges map, the mountain range has something like 2516 faces, he calls the group twice. The bridge supports 646, called three times, the bridge roads 296 called once, hits a bunch! I can get that map to run on the intel 845g grahics chips on the computers at work no problem...

Thank you.

I haven't done much of anything with dynamic color (mostly because it makes me want to run around in circles flapping my arms and making peculiar avian noises)...but... I am wondering, is it possible to use dynamic color to fade from a color or colors to alpha? In other words to make somthing start ...

Do tetras use much cpu? I have this idea for something, but it would probably involve something like 300-400 tetras alone. I am figuring if LouMan can make the bridges thing with those big mountains and it works fairly well, seems like you could have quite a few tetra's in a game and not slow things...

Okay, if we use GroundMaterial for a material name, we get the ground covered in whatever texture we specify...are there other "hardwired" material names, like for instance for the wall perhaps? I tried WallMaterial, but got exactly zip for my efforts. Also, from my experiments, it appears...

World size is 1300.