[Map] Taipei [scrapped]

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2006-12-27 18:00

Thanks, my friend made it. It's around 7000 polies now.

Post by **Hitperson** » 2007-01-03 10:17

ooh griff have you got Tiwanese (SP) M16 copies in your map??

http://world.guns.ru/assault/as82-e.htm

probably worth a look.

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-03 16:52

No, sorry, I just modified the M16s to behave like M16A1s for now, which Taiwan uses more. As the page said, it had failed initial tests, so it is in limited use, sort of like the XM177s in the US today.

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-04 23:46

A semi-update, but here goes:

Taipei is a large city, and has buildings higher than any that BF2 has. I didn't feel like making my friend produce more models, so to simulate a large city, I have done this:

As you can see, there are "skyscrapers" concealed by fog. I thought that since I can't really get my fog to match the surrounding horizon, I might as well not, and do something with it. I have modified the terrain to look like a city, but players can never actually see the "buildings" behind the fog.

Tell me what you think. I will expand this if feedback is good.

acadiancrusader · Post by **acadiancrusader** » 2007-01-05 00:08

that's a great idea! looks cool and has tons of promise

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-05 02:12

Thanks!

Post by **GeZe** » 2007-01-05 03:06

The skyscraper thing looks interesting.

May I suggest though, that you hide the main terrain/surrounding terrain border, because it usually looks bad and weird

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-05 19:59

Yeah, I'll see what I can do about that, but it would be unrealistic to just have buildings touching each other surrounding the map...

I'll try to make it inaccessible.

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 15:15

Agggghhhhh, I need help. I can't lightmap for sh*t. Can someone give me a good explanation of the lightmap settings? And the ranges in values I am supposed to use? I had my lightmaps going well before, but now they just turn out dark red and black. It makes it look like the city's on fire.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-01-07 15:41

http://bfeditor.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=1783

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 15:49

I looked at that. It doesn't say the range of values I am supposed to enter. I mean, what, 0-1? 0-100? 0-infinte?

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-01-07 15:52

rem ******** Lightmap Generation Settings ********
if v_arg1 == BF2Editor

LightMapGeneration.init
LightMapGeneration.GILightsBaseDir 0/0.33/-0.66
LightMapGeneration.GILightsIntensity 0.33
LightMapGeneration.GILightsShadowIntensity 1
LightMapGeneration.GILightsFov 45
LightMapGeneration.UseGITopLight 1
LightMapGeneration.GITopLightIntensity 0.1
LightMapGeneration.GILightsViewDistance 10
LightMapGeneration.skyWhite 0.3
LightMapGeneration.numberOfGILights 8
LightMapGeneration.sunLightShadowIntensity 1
LightMapGeneration.sunLightFov 2
LightMapGeneration.sunLightIntensity 1

endIf

thats my ObjectLight.con file from OGT.

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 16:01

Oh... my sunlightFOV is way high (160). Here are my settings, anything wrong with them? Anything obviously abnormal?

GILightGILightsBaseDir - 0/0.3/-0.3
GILightsIntensity - 0.4
GILightsShadowIntensity - 1
GILightsFOV - 100
GILightsViewDistance - 450
GIFillIntensity - 1
NumberOfGILights - 6
UseGITopLight - 0
GITopLightIntensity - -1
SunLightShadowIntensity - 1
SunLightFov - 160
SunLightIntensity - 10
WaterSunIntensity - 0.4

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-01-07 16:18

GILightGILightsBaseDir - 0/0.5/-0.5
GILightsIntensity - 0.4
GILightsShadowIntensity - 1
GILightsFOV - 45
GILightsViewDistance - 20
GIFillIntensity - 0.3
NumberOfGILights - 8
UseGITopLight - 1
GITopLightIntensity - 0.3
SunLightShadowIntensity - 1
SunLightFov - 50
SunLightIntensity - 10
WaterSunIntensity - 0.4

something around that should work. keep on testing it out on objects, change the setting and do anouther object on low and just keep playing till u have got it all right

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 16:20

Ok, thanks!

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 21:58

Fullforce was wrong, you don't need a brain for Christmas.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-01-07 22:05

Griffon2-6 wrote:Fullforce was wrong, you don't need a brain for Christmas.

he means I need a brain for the english side of things

(ie, the crappy spelling

)

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 22:20

I still have a small problem though: Look at the hotel. The first pic is a screenshot taken a one hundred meters away. Note the elevator shaft. The second one is a screenshot taken 75 meters away. Do you see the problem? This has happened every single time I rendered lightmaps:

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-01-07 22:32

hummm, in thous pics your objects to the left look really really dark. I take it they are lightmapped? You may want to play with the interserty of the ligth etc abit more.

as for the hotel, is it the vBF2 hotel or the hotel from road to jibibalishings or w/e?

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-01-07 23:08

That's the vBF2 hotel. And yeah, the embassy was a test subject for your settings. Everything else was done with my settings.

I wasn't supposed to show the embassy, oops...