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NoClanFrank  |
  Posted 4th Feb 2006 4:02pm |  |
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| Quoting T-M-I-N-E | | Don't include a massive music file. |
Ditto! You can still add it as an ambient sound but just don't include it when you submit it. I for one usually change or remove any music files that I don't like. For instance, Tico's Island Jump map. I changed the looping sound to a blank sound. I can still play the game but I no longer have to hear the looping sound that after a while(2 times) I got tired of. I have sent it to a couple of people, they didn't like the "loopiness" either. 
I know you have a habit of uploading two version of the files to the site, but is that really something you want to do with this one?
I can tell you did a lot of scanning for this level, which means the file is already going to be massive. Where is the love for the 56kers?
T-M-I-N-E congrats on the DSL. Welcome to the 20th century. |
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| Ninja~ |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 4:12pm |
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IAC's Desk looks really good... Great job  Im on dialup so hopefully it is not to big for me to download.
You also seem to have gone over RED's face and vertex limits.. Like whats going on there? Can RF Maps actually be limitless??  |
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| modmaker91 |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 4:57pm |
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Know what sucks for us 56k users? We have 56k for a reason. 56k is the only thing available to me, living in the middle of nowhere. 
So please make 2 files, the level WITHOUT the music, and one with.  |
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| goober |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 7:00pm | |
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OR
of if the music is on a loop then the map will crash without the music, but if its an ambient sound, and the music isnt there, then it wont play the music... |
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| DVL_IAC |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 9:08pm | |
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| Quoting NoClanFrank | | What no comments on the rearranging of the screen shots. |
Thanks for rearranging the screenshots
| Quoting NCF |
Your screen is blank (white [RED Editing] squares). You need to add a picture of...it's up to you. |
you talking about the pic on the monitor? When I'm done the map I'm going to add a screen shot of the map in RED with all the programs I've used to make the map, open in the taskbar like I did in the first IACs Desk.
| Quoting T-M-I-N-E | The 1st IACs Desk was a good map. To be honest it was way above what I expected of you.
The new version also looks like something I'll enjoy playing so here's a bit of advice.
Don't include a massive music file.
Just today I went from 56k to 2Mb dsl and I've still got no desire to listen to the stuff you upload. Just upload the map and bathe in the warm glow of a job well done and I'll listen to The Clash while missing people with the rail gun ok?
Mood music = ok
50 MB of random songs = a pain in the Censored
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I always add my music as an ambient and then upload a version with music and a version without the music so if you don't want music just download the one without music.
| Quoting seb93 |
Very beautiful map! but which is the secrecy to have a also beautiful effect light?
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The secret to having good lighting? Its not really a secret.. just in texture mode first select every face in the map (just in top view zoom out and select whole map and then hit shift+s so select any reaming faces you might have not got in the top view) then right click and select properties and under "lightmap resolution" select "highest" and that'll give you the good shadows. Then select a face on each brush on an object you made and hit shift+s then right click and go to properties again and under "smothing groups" and check off one of the boxes. then go to your next object you made and do the same thing and check off another box, etc. I learned that from the angry ferrit during RFU4
| Quoting goober |
Nice map IAC.
looks very well done.
i would like to know this "secret" about going over RED's limits... could you PM me about it?
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It's not that hard really... Well first portal off everythng that you can just to make the map run smoother then If you buildsomething and it causes RED to crash just make it a keyframe and RED wont crash when you build it but if it has any air brushes in it your going to have to carve them out of the solid brushes before you can make it a keyframe or they will dissappear or just make everything that has a high face count, each there own keyframe then you should be able to go above and beyond the 'limits' without having to worry about crashing... The only downside is you can't have geo on keyframes... but if your going above the 'limits' you probably don't want geo anyway because it'll probably crash RF.
| Quoting Ninja~ |
Im on dialup so hopefully it is not to big for me to download.
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That is the problem with having over 330 custom textures right now the average dimension in each texture is 1024 and the vpp size not compressed is about 360mb and about 220mb RARed. If I cut the res of all the textures in half I could probably get it down somewhere between 60 and 100mb RARed and if I cut the texture res in half again I could probably get it somewhere around 30mb RARed but having the average dimension on each texture at 256 would probably make them all look really streached and blurry... So your probably going to have atleast 30mb to download, depending on what I decide to do..
| Quoting NCF |
T-M-I-N-E congrats on the DSL. Welcome to the 20th century. |
Wouldn't it be the 21st centure?  The 20th century was the 1900's 21st is the 2000's... |
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| goober |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 9:57pm | |
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there was DSL in the last part of the 20th century
thanks for the tip! ill use that from now on  |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 10:24pm | |
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Since we are in the subject of file sizes.
goober why do you add PNG files to your levels that you submit?
Wouldn't a JPG be better and A LOT smaller?
You added a PNG on your more recent CTF map which is 300+ kb when it could have been under 75kb if you had done a JPG file instead...  |
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| Molodiets |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 10:40pm |
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| Quoting T-M-I-N-E |
Just today I went from 56k to 2Mb dsl |
OMG.  Doomsday's close!
@ IAC, there is no door in your room.
Has somebody pointed out that there is no door in this room yet?
Nor windows. You never see the sunshine? |
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| NoClanFrank |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 11:23pm | |
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| Quoting molodiets | | You never see the sunshine? |
That might explain why he had so much time to add all those scan textures and the amount of details that seem to gone into making this level.
DVL_IAC may I suggest that you might consider lowering the re-spawn time on all your weapon. Well all but a fusion, if you have one in the level. |
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| DVL_IAC |
Posted 4th Feb 2006 11:51pm | |
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| Quoting molodiets | @ IAC, there is no door in your room.
Has somebody pointed out that there is no door in this room yet?
Nor windows. You never see the sunshine? |
BLAH! It's IACs Desk not IACs Room.
| Quoting NCF |
may I suggest that you might consider lowering the re-spawn time on all your weapon. Well all but a fusion, if you have one in the level. |
Sure, NP |
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| modmaker91 |
Posted 7th Feb 2006 2:36pm |
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30 Megabytes at it's lowest!?! That will be about 4 hours worth of download...  |
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| a downloader |
Posted 7th Feb 2006 8:28pm |
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| smotty |
Posted 7th Feb 2006 8:35pm |
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this map looks great!!hope a server will host it so we ALL can play it..if not will have'ta get a lan party together |
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| LordSeafood |
Posted 7th Feb 2006 9:16pm | |
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| Quoting modmaker91 | | 30 Megabytes at it's lowest!?! That will be about 4 hours worth of download... |
Overnight ... unless you have the kind of 56k where you get kicked off due to inactivity |
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| goober |
Posted 7th Feb 2006 9:23pm | |
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awww, i cant read syphers posts in this section...
i do too smotty. |
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