maybe could have a secret reasearch facility hidden under the island by the US govenment experimenting on Little Et's and their ships lol:D

Actually, it has several roles. Research, Resource Processing, and Command Center are the three primary roles.

Texture transition is something I'm working on. It's not as easy as you might think because of how I'm doing the bump mapping (imitation). I'm researching a few different techniques (basically, I'm trying to avoid making 24+ mats to handle transitions).

Prodigy, the water is going to be 3do waves...eventually. They'll use a special mat set (to make an animation). These textures will highlight the waves and crest on the beach. The grass had little to no effect on my 900Mhz, intel video, 256MB ram computer I have at work.

Things are picking up at work, so I'm not sure how much more I'll be able to do on it over the next week or so. So, I'll probably start a new thread once I've made some decent headway. Don't forget, however, that this map won't work without the code...

bump map imitation.. go on...

I like this guy.... I just hope he finishes what he starts. Thats a lot to own up to.

The bump map imitation is already implemented on the grass that covers the surface. If you'll look closely at the last shot you can actually see where the "bump mapped" grass (imitation) overlaps over onto the beach area. That's part of how I'm handling the transitions. The other part is having the grass 3do's also overlap the "seam" between the grass and beach texture. This also allows me to overlap cliffs some, just like grass tends to do in the real world.

What I'm still trying to figure out now is how I can add a dirt path on the island....Hrm, and actually, while writing that I just figured out how I'm going to do that as well. Maybe I can work up a shot tomorrow.

Halucid, it really isn't that bad, at least as far as the art goes. I've had the last 4 years to perfect my out door development techniques.

What I find weird is that you are doing this all at work! What kind of job do you have anyways??

A saveYourCompaniesAssBeforeAnAudit job. Hell, most weeks I don't even actually put in 40 hours, but my manager tells me to put down 40 anyhow. Now, fixing everything caught in the pre-audit isn't all I do. I've developed a very useful intranet system for tracking and reviewing all kinds of different data. This alone has already save the company thousands, if not millions (by catching and preventing errors by allowing anyone to have access to the data from the comfort of their desk, there for minimizing miscommunications). Some of the managers have even used it in presentations. The customers (Mercedes) have been very impressed with it as well...

All I have to say is "BACKUP!!!!" I urge you to make 32.5 different backups of your work all on different mediums (That's my way of saying "I love it")

Actually, I kinda liked the "volcano" thing... it looked like a smoke stack.... (it definately didn't look like a volcano though)... it gives you the impression that the island isn't what it seems.. and there is an underlieing mass of machinery... then again... i could just be stupid.

no spiral is not stupid, spiral is correct

Okay, here's my first attempt at the dirt path:


Thoughts?

[edit] I'm thinking that I should move the 3do grass off to the side more. It's very obvious there that they are made of paper.[/edit]

Nice, but the grass still looks like sea weed

sorry...









...and I'm sure all of the grass snipers will be too.

less saturation on the yellow dirt road please, just my two cents

Yellow? It's Brown...

Awesome! Release this! lol

Hey, that big thing on top, I really liked that! I thought it was some kind of tower or lighthouse or maybe even a smokestack (meeesa liiiiiiike)

Grass = great



No, you're right Spiral. I liked it for the same reason.

Does anyone have a server where I can upload this stuff. I can't seem to be able to e-mail large attachments from work right now...