[Map] Bi Ming [released]

Post by **wormeaten** » 2007-02-28 19:25

It is not good Doctor. You don't leave me nothing to criticize, how can I complain now.

But there is one problem, we can't wait no longer for playing it so you know what you have to do.

Finish it faster!

Viper5 · Post by **Viper5** » 2007-02-28 23:32

Great work Dr Rank. Any chance of an M17A3 Combat Forklift

Darkpowder · Post by **Darkpowder** » 2007-03-01 21:33

I can say, as someone who has played even this early version of this map, that its great. I love the semi dark maps. Now as soon as Rank implements my special "ideas" and "touches" for this map it will be complete (evil grin)

Chaosdragon001 · Post by **Chaosdragon001** » 2007-03-04 06:50

Wow! Great work on it.. I'd like to see most vehicles have lights.. like a Merlin with huge spotlights on it... lol

MMad · Post by **MMad** » 2007-03-04 21:09

Clypp wrote:The problem with night maps is they are either not dark enough to require the NVGs. I want a map so dark that NVGs are absolutely required to see anything except in lighted areas.

Unfortunately I'm sure any such map would empty servers whenever it came up in rotation.

This map looks *really* bloody nice, but I pray you don't go too hardcore on the lighting settings - if you're unlucky enough to have your computer set up in a non-optimal location with bad lightning in the room, dark maps can end up being impossible to navigate. I try to be careful about such things but I still think I'd end up upping the brightness on my monitor when playing this map..

My point is, please err on the side of caution and everyone'll be happier.

Screens look awesome, keep it up!

Oh, almost forgot, I have one comment re: the screens you posted: Tiled roads aren't typically bumpy irl, this one looks rather odd in that regard. Minor detail but something I did notice without really looking for oddities.

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-04 22:44

MMad wrote:
This map looks *really* bloody nice, but I pray you don't go too hardcore on the lighting settings - if you're unlucky enough to have your computer set up in a non-optimal location with bad lightning in the room, dark maps can end up being impossible to navigate. I try to be careful about such things but I still think I'd end up upping the brightness on my monitor when playing this map..

My point is, please err on the side of caution and everyone'll be happier.
Screens look awesome, keep it up!

Oh, almost forgot, I have one comment re: the screens you posted: Tiled roads aren't typically bumpy irl, this one looks rather odd in that regard. Minor detail but something I did notice without really looking for oddities.

cheers for the comments mate!

Yeah I'll fix that road. tbh I haven't really looked at the detailed work yet, I'm still getting all the basics in place. Once I finish the last 2 cps I'm gonna do a massive overhaul of the whole map and add in LOADS of detailed work, which will also involve fixing all these little bits like this.

With regards to the lighting, if you have a dark monitor you can adjust the brightness in your nvidia/ati control panel which will help (I did this on my bro's computer cos his is really dark). I'm also hoping to get nightvision working for it

Teek · Post by **Teek** » 2007-03-05 05:52

Chaosdragon001 wrote:Wow! Great work on it.. I'd like to see most vehicles have lights.. like a Merlin with huge spotlights on it... lol

OohH!
will the map have merlin?

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-05 12:10

Teek wrote:OohH!
will the map have merlin?

hehe! That's very much dependent on performance. I'll certainly experiment with it in a few weeks when I'm nearing completion of the test build. The biggest issue is view distance; at the moment the view distance is fairly low (cos there's a lot of objects/undergrowth/overgrowth), and it looks a little odd from up high with the terrain disappearing. We'll have to wait and see

Deadmonkiefart · Post by **Deadmonkiefart** » 2007-03-06 06:06

Wow nice looking map. I wonder how you would tell teams apart though.

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-12 14:03

I ran some new medium level lightmaps, thought I'd post a few new screenies:

I've got one more cp to do then I'll be adding all the detail work.

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-03-12 14:18

nice

Darkpowder · Post by **Darkpowder** » 2007-03-12 14:25

its very polished already, and great fun to mess around on, can't wait to see this full of players..

ATV race video.. please rank

yes you can post the massive crashes and explosions i made if you like

Post by **duckhunt** » 2007-03-12 14:26

Darkpowder wrote: ATV race video.. please rank yes you can post the massive crashes and explosions i made if you like

yes! cmon man its awsome. great map.

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-12 14:34

cheers lads! I'll see what i can do

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-03-12 14:45

take a look at the r-con forums rank

BLind · Post by **BLind** » 2007-03-12 22:17

SEXY AS EVER DR

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-16 16:47

In the final stages now, just retexturing, sorting out the surrounding terrain and adding the detail work. Working flat out to get it into 0.6! Here's a couple of new screens of my final CP with some medium lightmaps doine. Enjoy

Fishing Port

Post by **Rhino** » 2007-03-16 16:52

nice, thou to me your "sun colour" looks a little too yellow? should be more silver for a moon

thats if you have a moon, otherwise disable your sun

Post by **Dr Rank** » 2007-03-16 16:55

rgr, I'll change the colour, cheers mate!

Griffon2-6 · Post by **Griffon2-6** » 2007-03-16 16:59

Looks awesome.