rain and fog for MP1 SoA

[talisa]

hello all,

seven, roy batty and daniocampo1992 have made great .ent rain and fog files for ID1, and after trying making them myself and seeing how easy it is, i decided to start making rain and fog myself for all MP1 SoA maps

in this thread i will post any progress i make, every map i finish i will add as im done with it,
and ill also post if i revise maps to fix leakages or such or if there were parts i wasnt happy with after all

DONE SO FAR:
START - command HQ (fixes by seven)

Episode1:
HIP1M1 - the pumping station
HIP1M2 - storage facility
HIP1M3 - the lost mines v1.1 (added flying ash effect where there's lava)
HIP1M4 - research facility v1.1 (fixed part before exit-gate which i missed)
HIP1M5 - military complex v1.11 (v1.1-fixed some missing pieces webangel pointed out and added a missing part. v1.11-fixed another leak)

EP1 COMPLETE + START v1.02 (updated the pack with HIP1M3 v1.1)
complete episode1 + the start map, packed as pk3 for easy use, just put it in your hipnotic folder to use


Episode2:
HIP2M1 - ancient realms
HIP2M2 - the black cathedral v1.2 (fixed a typo in the ash which caused ash to spawn where it shouldnt)
HIP2M3 - the catacombs
HIP2M4 - the crypt v1.1 (added rain at 2 spots which i overlooked)
HIP2M5 - mortum's keep
HIP2M6 - the gremlin's domain

EPISODE2 COMPLETE v1.02 (updated the pack with the fixed HIP2M4)
packed as pk3 for easy use, just drop into your hipnotic folder to use


Episode3:
HIP3M1 - tur torment
HIP3M2 - pandemonium
HIP3M3 - limbo
HIP3M4 - the gauntlet >no windows or such, so no rain needed for this map
HIPEND - armagon's lair

EPISODE3 COMPLETE
packed as pk3 for easy use, just drop into your hipnotic folder to use it


some screenshots to show what it looks like in-game. although still pics of course dont compare to how it looks when you see it in-game




to use any of the .ent files, drop them in hipnotic\maps, and if needed rename to start.ent or hip1m1.ent, hip1m2.ent etc.
when i got any episodes done, ill put all rain-maps for each episode in a pk3 file for easy use


feel free to comment, constructive criticism on if you find any leakages or points where i could improve,
or perhaps even places i forgot (you never know, mightve overseen spots) is more then welcome and very much appreciated


for anyone who might be eager to try and make some themselves, its actually real easy! try it and see how extremely easy it is
seven made a thread with TUT on how to add rain & snow and fog to quake with darkplaces some time ago:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...arkplaces.html

!please note that you need seven's small mod compilation 3.1 plus the version of his SMC for MP1 installed for the rain to work!
!if you dont have these installed the rain will not work and cause darkplaces to crash on trying to load up a map!

[gdiddy62]

Great ...thanks splitterface.....

[talisa]

made a nice addon for the startmap to episode1 maps, which add the fancy slipgate stars effect i love so much

made these ent-files some time ago, and thought you all might like them too



DOWNLOAD SLIPGATE STARS ADDON FOR HYPNOTIC



also made slipgate stars addons for ID1:
http://quakeone.com/forums/quake-hel...tml#post121842

[talisa]

welcome, glad you like my rain .ent files

[Scotto]

Thanks Splitterface! Excellent stuff! I think I may try and tackle the few maps of Travail that I like (and thankfully work in the latest stable DP anyway to an acceptable level) - qte2m1, qte2m2, qte2m3 and qte2m5.
I have two of them duped so there is a seemless loop from 1 to 5 (secret map 1 exit) or 1 through 5 skpping 4 and 6 and all the others with all the issues in DP.

Scotto

[talisa]

@nightfright
thanx im glad you like the rain-maps i made

and yes, the bubble-effect indded looks nice, i might look into how to add that to the SoA levels later

but first, ill add fog options soon, for people who like having fog



and adding fog is real easy, so when i get to it, ill be able to add fog to all the maps in just a few minutes

[NightFright]

I have tested the remaining ent files and all seems fine. It's good you didn't do anything with HIM3M4 and HIPDM1, rain wouldn't have fit into the secret level, anyway. ^^

This acid bubble stuff certainly looks interesting. Adding that later might add even more fun to the maps.

[talisa]

@xolve
thanx for the compliment

strange about the link to the ep2 pk3 not working
ive just re-uploaded the file again to mediafire and updated the link in first post, so it should work again now

[xolve]

Link to episode 2 full is broken -
otherwise good work dude.

[seanstar]

@Seven



thanks alot Seven


i like the effect.


regards


Sean

[gdiddy62]

@Splitterface
Wow, thannks for all of your hard work on this!

@Seven
Acid bubbles look awesome!! What kind of file is in the zip? I can't open it?

[talisa]

just looked at HIP3M4, which needed no rainblocks at all
and last looked at HIPEND, which could real quickly be done
so ive also added rain .ent files for the last map!

which means.... that the last episode is done now too
and hipnotic is completely done and full of rain now

so ive also immediately took the time to quickly put together a pk3 with rain for the 3rd episode of SoA


hmm... whats up next...? i think ill first look at adding more effect-options to all SoA maps, like adding fog for all levels, and look at maybe adding the suggested bubbles rising from acid


btw everyone, do please still post if you find any leaks or if you findspots which i forgot to add rain to, and ill fix them as soon as i can!
that is if its fixable, some are sadly unavoidable due to thin platforms and such

[talisa]

been busy with other stuff for a while, but i just took the time to work on the rest of HIP3M3 which i had half-done

link like usual in first post of this thread


@seven
ah yeah, that does indeed look quite nice
might look at it later after i finished adding rain for the last few maps of episode3

[Seven]

Hello Splitterface,

I have no idea how the "bubbles in slime" shall look like...
But I made a quick effect, which is spawned via .ent file for you.
So that you can see how it works and improve it.

It is done via a similar entry into the .ent file like the weather blocks.
You only need an additional entry in the *map*_effectinfo.txt file.
Read the dpwiki to see how that works and learn the syntax.
Please find the sample attached below.

As mentioned above, there are more samples to look at.
They are included together with a short tutorial in the "small mod compilation V3.5".
Please look into its zip file.

Best wishes,
Seven
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzAKH518srY]acid bubbles - YouTube[/ame]

[talisa]

@seven
ah... is there a tut how to add these kinda effects?
cuz right now all i know is how to add rain and snow/ash...
and i have no experience with adding custom-made effects yet,
so if someone could help me how to add these i might try

although i will first finish the few remaining maps which still need rain before id add more other effects.
the main objective which i have is adding rain to all levels, and then once this is done maybe fog and other effects like bubbles in acid and such