Author Topic: Cool 2D water Effect for my Map :P (Read 3936 times)

PHReaKeR · « **on:** June 12, 2007, 04:34:20 am »

CLICK IT FOR BIG VERSION

Sick of Pixelated images.

Trying to make the walls look clammy

What ya think?

ChromedGun · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2007, 05:22:49 am »

Nice. You will be a great mapper, you have the sense of detail.

X-Tender · « **Reply #2 on:** June 12, 2007, 05:33:13 am »

Love the GFX .. made by yourself?

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #3 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:16:43 am »

Thanks guysÂ

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Yep making them with photoshop CS3.

An update.. putting some junk in the ocean lol!

My own artwork, though I can't say it's not taking many hours lol!

Imagehost is being crap. Sorry :/

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 06:36:48 AM

since this i've added tonnes of Junk into the ocean so it looks ages and like the shipipng yard has been lazy and corrupt lol

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 07:25:22 AM

i think the rope there is a TAD too small for the ship im putting in LOL

X-Tender · « **Reply #4 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:31:58 am »

wow PS CS 3 .. -_-

Now stop loling around and add some alternation to the Map.

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #5 on:** June 12, 2007, 08:43:44 am »

haha a$$hole lol ill lolaround a lolt if i feel like it...

<--- massive ship coming lmao

X-Tender · « **Reply #6 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:08:45 am »

Whats that? a Huge Anvil?
Are the containers Scenarys?

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #7 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:21:51 am »

Quote from: X-Tender on June 12, 2007, 09:08:45 am

Whats that? a Huge Anvil?
Are the containers Scenarys?

I have no idea what it all is but its only in photoshop at the moment...

anyway... here's an idea of what it is... its a massive Freight ship and its not even 1/10th done :/

http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/1942/shipkr9.jpg

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:20:05 AM

its a 1280x1024 image there.. very compressed cuz im almost capped.

anyway should give u an idea

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:20:40 AM

I think ill get rid of the top panel.. its too spikey lol... could stab a hole in the earth and make it bleed

mrv · « **Reply #8 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:39:20 am »

Good Job

Maybe added more straps and effects to water ? And name of ship

Gratz , You are so perfect !

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #9 on:** June 12, 2007, 09:54:19 am »

Thanks mrv! I'm just showing updates so you can get a feel of the 'design' process...

The ship is already looking a heap better and it will have my name on the ship
PHReaKeR
Import Co. Which is faintly inscribed in the crates on the shore...

Don't worry i wont let anything go undetailed in this map

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:44:34 AM

The water line will not wave around as this engine doesn't support animation for scenery as far as im aware... Once the initial design has been done I will put in place all the final touches such as what you have suggested... And I already have a good feel for what looks right and what doesn't

The suggestions I need are more for ideas and maybe good way's i could implement cool battle areas.

Thanks for the input guys.

Don't Worry there is more detail to come on the ship and much of the level... there is way more to this than just the ship and freight yard... it goes all the way along to a construction yard and also some residential areas... much of this is already half in place and needs finishing touches etc... going to be a long compile time... should be done over the next week or so ... I have to work from home and im getting distracted lol

Anyway, a slight update to the ship... just to give you an idea of how things are progressing.
Click here to see full picture ---> http://img337.imageshack.us/img337/5127/shipeditwx5.jpg

Sorry about high compression again

Mothafix · « **Reply #10 on:** June 12, 2007, 01:24:13 pm »

What's cool in 2D effects? 3D is more cooler and there's water in many maps so nothing special.

TBDM · « **Reply #11 on:** June 12, 2007, 01:29:31 pm »

ive seen better water...sorry..still keep it up!

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #12 on:** June 12, 2007, 10:41:58 pm »

hahaha, very constructive mothafix, how about you guys HELP with the map rather than just dissin' post some screenies for me so I can p00n the crap out of their water.

Thanks

(BTW - First map i've ever done for a 2D game I usually do web graphics and such fourth)

So yeah... Umm.. Screenshots please.. You guys want me to make this better yeah? WELL HELP MEH

Cheers!

Barls.

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:15:46 PM

oh and ... it looks MUCH cooler when its not compressed... You guys will have to wait and see

I used the 0 quality on web compression in photoshop because i'm almost capped

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:16:45 PM

3D i can do, i find it BORING though, that's why i'm making this .. I love photoshop and enjoy using it a lot...
I don't think im going too bad for a self learner of the program... Anyway

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:21:08 PM

oh and DAMN you guys im sposed to be concentrating on the bloody Ship now... im back at the water hahaha .. THANKS

Date Posted: June 12, 2007, 10:25:21 PM

http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/5272/1001wayscp3.jpg <-- closer look

There are a lot of ways I could do the water... But I really have to finish what is going in the water completely before I re-render it again. The anchor is not there... Dirty crap from the freight ship isn't there... the water is only distorting what is currently in the water so if i place new stuff the refraction effects wont look right.. anyway.. give ideas and hits and critisism plz

urraka · « **Reply #13 on:** June 12, 2007, 11:03:49 pm »

The graphics look great, but are you going to turn this into a map? If you are you should consider the layout for the map. It would be a waste of good graphics if you don't make a good layout for good gameplay

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #14 on:** June 13, 2007, 12:23:27 am »

ahaha, Yeah that's a good comment, and Yes.. i've done map design in the Past.. Not for Soldat but for 3D games.. I know about "Conflict points" ......... "Stress hold area's" and good "Retreat zones" and such fourth....

and of course i'm going to turn this into a map... I don't know how yet LOL but I will... I'm very.. SMRT!

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 12:25:39 AM

I might have to talk to the soldat creators to redo the engine for this map HAHAHA... Its friggin massive...

I think its something stupid like 12000pixelsx2400pixels

thats 10 times bigger than your screen running the game at full res

Holy Mumma Mia.. Will this be handled in this engine... i have NO IDEA

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 01:05:56 AM

Oh, To give you an idea... This about HALF of the map .. The is way more to the left but I had to cut it in half because photoshop isn't handling all the layer styles very well at all when I move things around.

http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3933/shippppi5.jpg <-- click for full version (it has been downscaled to show u rough size...

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 01:17:37 AM

haha how cute looks like leg blocks lol

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 01:18:51 AM

Quote from: Mothafix on June 12, 2007, 01:24:13 pm

What's cool in 2D effects? 3D is more cooler and there's water in many maps so nothing special.

3D doesn't have the same artistic effect that 2D has.. Both are Superior in different ways and it's a case of opinion and a case of Genre. This is soldat... 3D I find ruins the whole aspect of what this game is based on. If I was wanting to make 3D graphics I would be making maps and textures for half life 2 or Crysis.

Anyway, i'm not and because of the amount of improvement there is available to this game I thought I might aswell hope into a niche that hasn't been fully expanded. There is still much work to do and I didn't think I would even be putting a ship in... but i like to expand on things and who knows what else there could me in this map.

ChromedGun · « **Reply #15 on:** June 13, 2007, 03:28:13 am »

How do you plan to make this into a map? Will you split up the image into sceneries or what?

Toumaz · « **Reply #16 on:** June 13, 2007, 03:34:36 am »

You can't just make an entire map starting off in Photoshop; there's more to it than that. There's a distinct difference between mapping and graphic editing... it'll be a pain in the arse to run this in-game if you'll just export the entire thing as a huge scenery. Usually you want to make the actual map design in the map editor and then start packing in sceneries.

Anyhow, good luck.

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #17 on:** June 13, 2007, 03:34:57 am »

rofl something like that... time consuming but im enjoying what im doing...

If someone can help me with that LOL that's the bit i need help with I downloaded polyworks but i only had a 20 second fiddle dropped my image in a a piece scenery seemed to render ok

I was thinking about just saving the whole image as 1 piece of scenery that u sit ur character in front of and set block points...

this however doesn't seem plausible... HOW should I do it lol!

ChromedGun · « **Reply #18 on:** June 13, 2007, 03:40:33 am »

I would say, take a white box (those you have all over the place in the background), make sure it's white, make it into a scenery and then you may color it in Polyworks. Now you have maybe 7 sceneries of 1.

I would split up the ship and the water into several sceneries in like a grid format and make "loops", if the water repeats itself somewhere then just make that part into 1 scenery and repeat that scenery in the map as much as needed. I would divide up the front and back of the ship into grid-sceneries and make the middle part of the boat like with the water. I will make a picture to explain this further.

Edit:

<--- click this image to view full size (yes i'm a dialup-savior lol)

Also, if you have like 2 sceneries that look alike/are the same, then simply delete the other. I think that some computers can't handle sceneries of a certain size, so if you break up details into grids then pretty much everyone can play your map (and that is indeed good).

PHReaKeR · « **Reply #19 on:** June 13, 2007, 05:26:13 am »

ahhh excellent.. thanks Chromed... All I have to do now is work out how to use polyworks LOL.

Doesn't seem to difficult although I keep retarding something LOL... just had a fiddle to see how it works

Anyway it's still in photoshop stage at the moment.. i will learn to break it up once it it complete...

Also, I could make a white and colour them... I wonder though if this will still have the same effect

Maybe you could chat to me on MSN?

scott_bailey1985@msn.com <--- meee 44171037 icq ... Id really appreciate some help with that section of the mapping

oh yeah im building a massive MASSIVE gattling gun at the rear of the boat... this is a corrupt merchant freighter LOL

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 04:58:50 AM

This map is way too big LOL I think I got carried away with making a gargantuan Boat LOL and now its got some Uber Gattling Cannon on the back and the friggin Barrel for one cylinder is as high as the characters LOL

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 06:11:33 AM

I must be trying to make an adventure game LOL!!!

Date Posted: June 13, 2007, 06:14:14 AM

cant I just put the whole Damn BMP in and set No go points? Seems a bit of a waste of time splicing it up :/

Can't this engine handle a big bmp???

Damnit

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Author Topic: Cool 2D water Effect for my Map :P (Read 3936 times)