AngelModder

Holy crap I just realized this topic has almost 10k views O_O.... 

Started texturing the senate hall, decided to say screw it and do my own thing with it XD. Really excited to realize this map is about 60 days from completion! Granted i work a lot but it's amazing to see it almost finished!

So here is a question, I'm tossing around the theme of the senate hall and senate room. I do want to make the senate hall layout similiar to ep3 (big round spherical room) and the senate hall layout wise similiar to swtor coruscant. However it's there overall archetecture and texture theme I seem to be a bit in the air about. Should it be bespin themed, or styled like the rest of the JH facility. 

I sort of broke the map down like such...  On the north side of the courtyard where you'll spawn you have the hanger where mofo's arrive senators etc folks from across the galaxy with senate buisness or needs from the Jedi, The south wing is the hotel, casino, swimming pool, swoop track. The west wing off the courtyard is the Jedi Temple and the East wing the senate building. So proximity lore wise and RP wise should be taken into consideration. 
So far I've made it that any thing outside of the temple has a some what bespin theme to a point... 

The debate is, I'd like to design the senate section like the Jedi Temple as far as theme, but I feel it may asthetically flow wrong on the lore and RP values, so in that way I lean towards styling it's archetecture and texture work at the very least towards Bespin. So I leave it to YOU as you're the ones who will use it and either love it or complain XD! 

In regards to the Swoop Hologram, that may be a good way to represent the area, however atm I've just been using hologram text scrolling over doors. 

15 -  Optimizing the ammount of textures used in the map, apparently theirs a 512 texture limit... >.> Knocked it down to 424. This made me a bit sad to find this limit as I still wanted to do a lot texture wise. However I may find new ways to do shit via texture samples. One texture with several textures on it. 

Focus list of the day

01 - Added Stairs to the Hotel lobby. Now as you enter theirs a set of glass stairs on either side allowing access to the second floor (originally just an asthetic) to give access to the Casino tower.

02 - Casino tower has now been linked to the swoop race track via elevator shaft. 

03  - The layout of the Hotel bedroom section has been adjusted to be more asthetically pleasing.

04 - Hotel Swimming pool move to empty center of the Hotel bedroom section with a door way on either side of the pool room giving access to the North and South sides of the Hotels bedrooms s ection as a quicker route of movement through the map as well as just making sense.

05 - Senate statues removed from Councilroom.

06 - Senate statues Removed outside of Hotel entrance.

07 - Senate statues placed outside the senate hall.

08 - General layout and structure for the senate hall and senate chambers laid out.

09 - Concept art drawn up for Supreme Chancelors office.

10 - Chairs in Casino lowered, they were hovering 4 inches off the ground >:/ ???

11 - Reception Podium in Casino moved to second floor for dinning guests.

12 - Swoop Racer desk added to lower floor of the Casino for those wishing to particapate in a race.

13 - Floor texturescaling in Casino fixed.

14 - SJC face dart board added to Casino. 

Well finally had some time to sit down and prepare the final adjustments in jh3. Removed the Senate Hotel Bar, moved the Casino over and attached it to the senate hotel lobby, also move the hallways and bedrooms from aroundt he core to the and attached them to the Senate hotel lobby as well. 

Started work on the new version of the tram station, this will now lead to a senate building. 

I like tacos...

UPDATE:

 

Back to work guys

 

Ahch-To Training

 

What u see is just a test map

without lights,and i realised that i didnt use the Fit button for the floor xD

But the map will give the feels <3

 

Alright Im not gonna kiss ass like others do. this looks horrible. the textures are overly streatched every where,.Lighting is way to bright and lacks a natural feel. The sky box is blurry and only worsens the situation. I cant say any thing to the bush work. And Im not trying to be rude, just real. This needs a LOT of work.

Well progress is moving along, however slow. The Rhino is almost finished. another couple of days and it should be complete! 

LOL Glad you're excited @@TheWhitePhoenix ! Don't worry by the way Alpha stage is still a wip. Just trying to finish the Rhino before that. 

Any who im taking a night off, getting drunk with my gf and celebraiting a marking point after 3 years of constant work on this! 

And so, it begins.

Its uploaded, now we just gotto wait!!!

Tonight I am please to annouce that before I go to bed tonight I will be uploading...... 

Gotchia.

I thought MD3 as misc_model will also be earesed. If You will not put the MD3 in the pk3 file it will still load misc_model - misc_model_static will not. ..I might be wrong 

 

EDIT: Because misc_model is baked into the map. Misc_model Static is just loaded model without shading from the map.

The inherit issue with that would be that I would have to include the MD3, and that's as good as handing them the piece.

Thanks. Well to be honest I think originally Shadow just liked the sky box, most people like sunsets.However after the second one released the community just sort of insisted it was bespin due to the sky box and other texture chosen. I suppose some where along the way even he did as well. During the span of time I knew him it was always just Bespin in his opinion. While not built on The Cloud City Facility we all know and love from ESB it was some thing similiar, hidden and cloaked away during the Jedi purge. 

The ability to make changing skyboxes already exsist, however map lighting and shadows are baked into the surfaces and are static, so while the sky could change the lighting would not. This would look rather odd. The best choice would be to choose a point of time you like and have one nicely blended theme then try to develop a theme that's not concentrated and would look odd at times. 
In the Warzone variation of this map It will have the ability to succesfully change from night to do, so that's some thing you'll get to look forward to. 

What happened to the Outrider? I was so happy when it won that contest poll that you were going to include it in the map as fully explorable ship, are you still putting it in the project?

Outrider will be in it, just not like you expected XD, in a MUCH better way, but I also wanted some thing a bit original. Years ago Ockniel and I both entered into a jk2files mapping contest. The theme was Taris and we took second place. I designed the hanger interior and the Ebon  hawk inside of it. We ran out of time and due to a rush job I never really got to do with it what I had originally wanted. looking back at the old map file I almost used it again in this. However after having learned so much since even then I felt it just sucked. So the Rhino was born. 

I didn't know you could make things un-compilable, may I ask how do you achieve that? 

You can't make a map un-compilable, however certain entities erase them selves during decompile. Setting brush work to these specific types of Func's will make them be erased apun decompiling the map, Ergo no one can steal your shit. XD

I suggest to make MD3 mode for some things. Overlall nice concept

Alot of things already are md3. However certain things like the ship etc will not be infact I'm having them written off as an entity. The reason for that is when kids decide to decompile this it will erase it and other area's and details I do not wish reused in other maps. Lets face it people do it. 

I've always had an issue with people using my materials and such. Even asking me honestly just kind of gets under my skin in a weird way. As for the Rhino, if any one's going to turn it into a vehicle it will be me, no one else. :/ just how I am. 

Starting on the Rhino's Interior. 

Brush count 17K entity count 1600 Finished product I estimate will be about 18.5-19k brushes. Entities at about 2048. 

The textures are ofcourse not final, just a template to get the concept together. 

The exterior color scheme will be red and white. Pucture 1950s american malt shop feel. Touches of chrome etc sleek feeling in a weird way.

The interior curvey and smooth. Blue lighting for interfaces etc with that strong 50's feel.

Is the similitude to the Eban Hawk intentional?  If I could suggest something, it would be to give some asymmetry to the design, like the best star wars ships. 

The Ebon Hawk was always my favorite ship. So I decided to take the design and play with the concept as if it were being designed in more modern star wars times. Some where between episode 3-4. Folks you've gotto remember this also has to be able to fit an interior while not draining the engine of more computation. 

If Goerge Lucas wanted to achieve a hamburger shape for a space ship (the Falcon), he should have used the White Rhino instead :D

The problem is the mustard and ketchup XD

The White Rhino In concept phase.