Szico VII

CAULK.

Seriously, you fail to caulk one more time and I'll...I'll..... do something mean...

Yeah. Be scared.

Neo? Keanu Reeves?

Yer, that sounds like my world too. Except my laptop charger has died so perfect excuse for parents to get a new one. I'm sure some will cry foul of 'only 180gb' but I've previously been on 60gb for desktop and 40 for laptop and they definitely weren't SSD's either,,,I'm pretty excited.

P.S This topic is literally the highlight of my life right now. Final exams start tomorrow. :/

Just specced one up as an xmas present from pcspecialist.co.uk (Take note @@CrimsonStrife )

Total Cost - £825 (including 3 year warranty.)

Optimus Series

• 15.6" Matte Full HD LED Widescreen (1920x1080)
  
• Intel® Core™i7 Quad Core Mobile Processor i7-3630QM (2.40GHz)
  
• 8GB SAMSUNG 1600MHz SODIMM DDR3 MEMORY (2 x 4GB)
  
• NVIDIA® GeForce® GTX 660M - 2.0GB DDR5 Video RAM - DirectX® 11
  
• 180GB INTEL® 330 SERIES SSD, SATA 6 Gb/s (upto 500MB/sR | 450MB/sW)
  
• 4x BLURAY ROM, 8x DVD ±R/±RW & CYBERLINK SOFTWARE
  
• GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS INTEL® N135 802.11N (150Mbps) + BLUETOOTH
  
• 3 x USB 3.0 PORTS + 1 x USB 2.0 PORT AS STANDARD
  

No OS included.

Good deal imho! (and good performance!)

NB: You can up the screen to 17" for like, twenty quid more,

I'm not sure what you're showcasing? Explain to my slow mind again please

EDIT: Nvm, I think I see what you're showing - that's not what he wanted though is it?

The idea is to teach people the 'best' way of doing it. By all means build how you want, its personal choice, but I'll still continue to use the best method I know when explaining techniques to new people. Good habits and all.

You keep mentioning the shape....why? The method you posted doesn't make the shape any different and that shape can be achieved easily with the design I advised on. So you should use the less-verts method too

You've still missed the point!

The same curve shape can be produced by simply upping the number of brushes. As I already said - ALL THE DESIGNS can produce exactly the same shape. Mine just used less because i was doing it quickly for technical demonstration. However the design you demonstrated produces more verts and t-junctions and more brushes. Your earlier example simply looks smoother because you used more subdivisions.... and as said before, if i were to up the subdivisions on the earlier example, the difference in vert count becomes even more important:

Note - moving the vert joining to the corners would save even more verts on top of what is already there for the image on the left. (see 2nd image)

and just for further proof - here's a differently styled shape (just like the patch mesh cylinder actually)

So we've reduced 76 verts to 28 and kept an identical looking shape.

I think you're missing the point. The detail of the curve isn't relevant, you can increase the complexity with more 'sides' as much as you want on all 4 designs and they produce the same curve shape - but the best design is the one that produces the least verts and T-juncs at all scales (usually) You can upscale or downscale any of them. If you're gonna make a curve with brushes, do it efficiently using the top-right method (or right in your 2nd diagram)

You can make brushes and curved patches line up, but not perfectly. When the patch LOD's, there will be a gap, dependent on user settings. and r_subdivisions.

But yes, for some constructions brushes work better. But for the design it looks like he wants here, go with patches.

I like JKG but theres so many things about it gameplay wise that annoy me no end

Patches are often better because they LOD, have nicer enviro effects, light better and look smoother.

That being said, brush curves have their uses - but be careful, designs like the one that MoonDog posted do add a lot more verts/edges to the compile, particularly if not caulked or vis detailed properly. Those 4 edge squares for example should be mitred.

Better ways:

Bottom left - moondogs way

bottom right - moondogs way with mitered corners (better, but can be improved)

top right - best way

top left - also acceptable, depending on surrounding brushwork.

And of course, the more 'detailed' the brush (i.e the smoother you want the curve to appear) the greater the relative difference in verts between designs.

Honestly we have a tutorial section for a bloody reason....

http://jkhub.org/tutorials/article/91-creating-curved-corner-cylinders/page___st__2

Hmm...so what can I do about this? I know updating drivers won't work (creates even more problems anyway) ...is there even anything I can do? This doesn't just affect JKA, it's affecting every game that uses OpenGL.

Is there any kind of workaround?

Perhaps try older drivers then - ones that came out nearer the ja period, so circa 2004-5?

If you wanted nightfall with amendments just let me know what changes and I can see what I could do. Or without amendments. If you dont...hm, well I dont really have time to make a new xmas map what with finals coming up

Well Ive ported all my stuff from there because I found the wiki/forum layout and interface bloody difficult to use and not very intuitive. If they improve the user-end I'd say keep it, otherwise there's little chance I'd use it above JKHub.

CAULK. CAULLLLLK.

AND CAUULLLLLK.

Goddamit Omega use the darn caulk.

I cant help but think if they were more reliable everything would have been scripted. However from many coder posts here it does appear Raven are somewhat lax in their work ethic

Ive never had any problems with entity setups but scripts (performing the same actions) occasionally throw up silly problems for no good reason. Just my two cents.

Scripts never make a map less breakable. I find entity layouts MUCH more reliable. (Although they are limited, which is when I would use scriptin')

I think the easiest way is 2 triggers pointing to separate music changers and then have the activates and deactivates alternate the active trigger each time it is used.

I be on MSN + Xfire. @@CrimsonStrife

A FISH

timesplitters 2 can cover that as well

Jo Beth Casey from Timesplitters Future Perfect.

Thats totally star wars.

Doh. fixed. Missed an 'e' off the end.

Does the second link not give it away?

Video:

http://www.moddb.com/members/szico-vii/videos/moonbase-labs-alpha

http://beta.xfire.com/videos/5c014e