The Lost Techbase - based on Marnetmar's abandoned stuff

[Eponasoft]

I think I'm just about done with MAP01 of the set, so figured it was time to show off a few screenshots. I'll probably wrap up MAP01 in a couple of days. I selected the best maps out of the collection to use for this... they've been spruced up quite a bit, with new textures and some additional detail added. All of the keys, switches, and monsters have been changed, and there's been a complete weapons overhaul as well; none of the default weapons are present, they've all been replaced by more powerful weapons. Anyway... to the screens.

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech4.png
Using some dynamic lights here and there.

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech5.png
Some new textures. Ignore the missing ones for now. :) Still working to fix all the missing ones.

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech6.png
Night sky! :)

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech7.png
Murderous scientists.

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech8.png
More work to be done here, but plenty of different experimental monsters.

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech9.png
I just had to add the double-bladed chainsaw. :)

http://www.eponasoft.com/tech10.png
Player wasn't hard enough.

[Marnetmar]

Looks good! Some of the texturing is a little wacky IMO, but it definitely looks interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

[lupinx-Kassman]

Honestly, I would suggest removing that dynamic light around the yellow door in screenshot 1 entirely.

[Eponasoft]

Marnetmar said:

Looks good! Some of the texturing is a little wacky IMO, but it definitely looks interesting. I'll be keeping an eye on this.

Some of the metallic textures might be a bit extreme... they probably shouldn't be scaled so high. I'll see what happens if I scale them down a bit.

lupinx-Kassman said:

Honestly, I would suggest removing that dynamic light around the yellow door in screenshot 1 entirely.

Hrm... no good? Well, I am mixing dynamic lights and sector lights a lot, and sometimes it does cause a bit of a clash... lots of experimentation going on in this. :)

[Xaser]

Most of the new resources look entirely out of place. Textures, primarily -- the monsters (and possibly weapons) could work if done right, but it looks like you're trying to do too much stuff at once and not focusing on any particular aspect and making it work well. I realize the map's based on nearly-finished stuff but that doesn't mean that slapping a bunch of new resources on top is sufficient to bring it to completion.

(Historical note: I realize this may seem somewhat hypocritical in the sense that I did something very similar to this myself with Zen Dynamics, but the final result of that mod involved loads of polishing. The early versions were pretty abysmal aside from their novelty. :P )

[Eponasoft]

Xaser, I'm not just slapping a bunch of new resources on top; I'm experimenting. This isn't Warzone, hehe. :) If something doesn't work, I remove it and replace it with something that does. The cross-hatch metallic textures don't seem to be working very well, and I already swapped out one of the weapons I added, as it was clashing with one of the others. I'm just not going to use the same old ugly textures... I'm sick of seeing them. Same goes for the same old monsters. You can only kill so many Imps before you get tired of seeing them. :) However, most of the monsters I've added so far are variations on existing monsters... a lot of zombie-type things in the "normal" areas, and crazier, non-humanoid monsters appear in more appropriate areas.

The reason I'm so insistent on making things with new resources is because I am not content with just making new maps; I prefer to make entire games. I'm a game designer by trade; it affects what I do here too.

[Lila Feuer]

Eponasoft said:

I'm just not going to use the same old ugly textures... I'm sick of seeing them. Same goes for the same old monsters. You can only kill so many Imps before you get tired of seeing them.

I object.

[Eponasoft]

Cyanosis said:

I object.

That's cool. :) Everyone has different tastes.

[Hellbent]

How come my post was deleted from this thread? Also, are we not supposed to embed pictures in our posts anymore?