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kinetosimpetus wrote:Question: Is there a chair on the turret? I just played the whole Prosecuter section in RC again, and the turrets have seats, but I can't see them in the mod.

Yeah there is a really tiny mini repulsorlift instead of a chair can´t you see it ?

No actually I think the pedall anymations wouldn´t fit anymore when Duck would add a chair.

Nice work on everything. Can´t wait for release

kinetosimpetus wrote: Is there a chair on the turret?

ah, you noticed
yes, indeed in the rc the ewebs have a chair and a powergenerator connected to it with cables. we decided to cut both because it is a dropable turret so it would be/look a little weird if it was equipped with a chair and a power generator.
i think the standing piloting makes the eweb look a little more mobile.

Ok. Makes sense I guess.

LOOKS AWSOME

for those who couldnt play the beta:
this is an area we showed very little of until now. it is the atte lifts in the first hangar.
i decided to improve the attemodel because the stock model looked too "weak" and inaccurate in my opinion.
of course andeweget made an awesome specmap for it.

for those who played the beta: here you can see a part the new lighteffects that we added.
here are pictures for comparison: and some more if you want thats it for now, well probably post some more screenshots they day after tomorow.

Whoa.. Nice job.

Why is there a light effect?

There are light effects now, in addition to the original blue light, because we got a suggestion/idea from Mav in his beta report, which we thought would really work well for the map. So it got implemented. Somewhat going for this look here, by the way:

Aha!
That makes significantly more sense.

Though, with the small space youre working with, you probably only want 4 lights (maybe its just the screenshot angle, but it looks like there are more. Forgive me if I'm wrong)
Also, the light is blue in AQT's reference pic because its outside against the night sky. Inside a hangar, you'll probably want to go more white/silverish-grey than blue.

@ duck: you can show as much pics as you wnat. the result: Your one is better

Are you going to wait for RC2 or just make it yourself?

On a more serious note, love the new AT-TE, the parts actually look real instead of cubes with textures.

what should this blue ligth be?? Only lighning in the Hangar? or is there a seans that it is blue??

there are more lights, one for each lamp on the lift, so 4 shine up and 4 shine down.
i added similiar beams to the tunnels (the long large hallways with pipes on the top) in order to add some color variation. because the environment is generally grey i wanted to break it up a little with colored lights.
you are right, they are pretty unrealistic because the map is not that dark. i wanted to make areas like the tunnels and attechambers darker through bounded lights but in this case its not possible so i made the overal lighting a little darker.
i personally prefer the saturated unrealistic lights, i hope that not too many people dont like that.

me like the blue light.

But on the first pic it looks to me more like a transparency cube than light. Is there a way to make the edge more soft??

where the light intersects with the atte? no, that cant be changed.

I'm digging it!

we got a large announcement to make: the map will finally be released tomorow, friday the 16th!
we havent decided in which timezone to release it so it might be released 2-5 hourse earlier or later than you think

now that everything is finished, here are a few screenshots showing an overview with the new lighting: thats it! we are looking forward to your feedback once all of you have played the map

DarthD.U.C.K. wrote:we got a large announcement to make: the map will finally be released tomorow, friday the 16th!

Yay! I'll be playing that for sure. Maybe we could set up a server for a few people to play on after the release.
Also, great job on the lighting.

Yes!

I completely agree with cerfon, this would be awesome in multiplayer.

Okay, from the first screenshot's angle, the blue lighting looks much better on the AT-TEs than it did. I still think it would be better with a whiter light, as it was in RC, but it looks just fine as is, and in the end, it's the modder's preference, not mine.