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New Door and Doorframe
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I finally updated the doorframes. People complained that they were too blocky long ago...and I just got around to a slight resdesign. Now slimmer!
This is kind of a mini-news post, as Ive been doing a lot of work the last few days. So here we go!
At long last, the new doorframes. I had complaints waaaay back in the early days of the Mod about how blocky they were. With all of the other improvements Ive made lately, they started feeling out of place.
I tried some texture schemes on them and found that they didnt look right with the white supports, so, unless I change the supports a little, I will leave them white.
I did also feel the need to once again reskin the doors too :P You may also notice they are shaped a little differently; this will save vertices and ultimately give greater performance. While its not a factor on most of todays gaming rigs, I am optimizing this as much as possible to make it run smoothly on older machines and laptops too.
The keypad is also part of the doorframe model now, also making things more efficient. I had physiscs props for keypads before, with motion disabled so I could change the skins. Physics props take a lot of entity data space I could use for betteer things.
And finally, Ive been working on lighting again, with optimization and entity usage in mind. I had a lot of light entities placed, which I have eliminated now by adding invisible texture lighting where the lights are mounted on those supports. The only places light entities will be used now are where I need flashing, flickering or otherwise changing lights.
Never fear, for I am making map progress too, not just reworking the same things you've already seen time and time again. Ive been doing new models too, so in the near future I will have some new content for you to view :)
it would look better if the frame was less thick in my opinion
Really? It looks thin enough to me. The old one is thicker, you might be looking at that.
Yeah the thin one is the new one, only 4 units wide. Any more and it wouldnt be much of a frame :P I should have made it clearer in the pic which one was which.
looks cool
I'm wondering, (looking @ the new frame) does the frame need to stick out that far off the wall ?
Also, is that a *step* at the bottom of the frame ? It loox like you need to step up/down upon entering/exiting.
Kinda sorta. If you look at the top and bottoms of the frame, it meets the angle of the wall flush. I can make the doorframe angled too but it would either a. be flush with the wall or b. be uniformly sticking out of the wall. And yes, its a step...if I got rid of it Id have to go back through 4 maps and redo all the doorways :( I dont like it much now, but thats a lot of extra work. However, I am going through anyway now and changing all of the frames (and cleaning up some sloppy construction around them) so its not out of the question.
Ok but dont stress over extra stuff that really isnt essential then, all this has been quite an undertaking for ya..