This looks quite nice indeed, your friend is quite artistic
Keep up those nice updates

Cheers

Frazzle

I actually liked all 3 of them, but this one's awesome, you're right!
I love the look of the material between the spheres... it looks half organic and half metal.. GREAT work.

hey, I'm having a small problem.
I changed my level-concept a bit and tried to realize them
with level entities. but now my models do note react on static light anymore.
I compiled the level without the models (but with static lights of course) then i got everything together in wed and even placed new static lights in front of the models but the did not react on them.
I got 2 screenshots here:

1. This is how it should look


2. This is how it looks


What am I doing wrong??

Level entities? As in, compiled wmb entities?

These do not react to outside lights, only the lights you use inside their file. If you get what I mean.


You'd have to instead, insert the geometry directly into your level, instead of using wmb files. Unless all will be lit the same, then you can just add the lights to the WMB file.

i think those are models..
anyway, i have this problem too, but only sometimes. its pretty strange...

A model gets only vertex lighting from dynamic lights. The material can get some influence from the block below the model.

When you want to use a per-pixel-lighting then you have to use a shader otherwise the light will be distributed polygon by polygon and that will not look very smooth especially with low-poly-objects.

Conitec is aware of that and does tesselation. That means the level compiler breaks a wall into several small polygons just to provide better vertex-lighting but with the disadvantage of producing a higher rate of polygons on your levels.

But this behaviour happens only to blocks and in the future to static meshes.

I personally would like to stop tesselation and rather use a shader for pixel-lighting. This is the present and future.

The Walls ans bottom are WMB-Entitis, the torch is a model!
I wanted to use the WMB-Entities to create easily large Levels with a small render-time. But it seems like this would not work just as long as I don't have any models in the level, which is not really an advantage.
Is there a work around? How do you handle big levels? How do you build your levels in general?

use blocks for walls, floors and the ceiling. use models for everythign else. every stone every pillar everything else, use models...

sine models are noth lighted the way blocks are, you have to work around the colors of the skin when you have colored lights...

an example:

i have a level with brown colored lights, everything looks dark and muddy. i have statues in the level wtih a grey skin. howeer, they dont look muddy obviously since theyre not lighted the ay blocks are. so i just paint their skin brown (i chose the right color from a screenshot of a grey block thats lit by the light, so i get a perfect match) and voila: looks perfect^^

use models wherever you can and blocks just for floor and stuff. you can also add shaders to models but not to blocks...