posted 12-13-2001 03:51 AM               

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posted 12-13-2001 10:48 AM               

I tried in places to contrast from light to dark which I think is the best way. Games like Max Payne which need to be played in a darkened room with the monitor up bright and gamma turned up are just a pain..(Excuse the pun!)

Variety is the answer. Make it nice and bright and cheery on the outside and dark, gloomy and scary on the inside. Reality dictates total pitch darkness for tombs with Lara holdng a torch. I tried this in my Gateway to Menouthis level. I thought it worked.

But I don`t like the general Deus Ex/Matrix type trend of making games dark both literaly and in general. I`m currently playing Return to Castle Wolfenstein which is the best game I have played in a long long time. And there`s no darkness in it at all!

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posted 12-13-2001 01:56 PM               

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Originally posted by Netslider:

I tryed to make one level like that: Nevada Desert.

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Is that right? It just so happens I just finished my Nevada Desert a couple of weeks ago. It was my first level I ever created, so it is not very "Tomb Raidery". But I did develop skills from it. I have no desire to upload it... not until I improve it.

posted 12-14-2001 03:47 AM               

...maybe the "technorganic" open space levels...

posted 12-14-2001 10:03 AM               

Iīve heard people saying my levels are a bit dark in the internal areas. But others said the contrast between outside and inside was very well made. Personally I like to work a bit more on the lights to make the atmosphere good.
I donīt like bright internal areas, they look unrealistic. But I donīt like complete darkness.
To avoid the unnatural difference of light between an outside room and its joining internal room, I use to place a bright light or spot light in the entrance of the internal room. It blends magically and it looks like the sun is entering the room by the door. Itīs useful too for windows and grates. A spotlight works better, but sometimes itīs necessary to place a normal light bulb as well. Specially when the entrance is big.

In dark sewers or caves, green lights are good, but the ambience light of these places should be low.

To me, light is one of the most difficult issues to deal with the Editor. Lights work only on a single room, they donīt light adjoining rooms, so if itīs a collection of stacked rooms for example, we need to set the lights accordingly for every room in the stack. It can be difficult depending on the shape and size of the rooms. Effect lights are useful for dark corners but they only light the floor, not the walls around. Shades are difficult to deal with, as they donīt behave like natural shadows.

As the Editor shows the rooms darker than the actual game, itīs a matter of testing everytime.

All in all, you can make good rooms easily, but youīll have to work hard to achieve good lights.

posted 12-15-2001 12:35 AM               

[Quote]Orinally posted by TRoosevelt_26:
.....and I want you to know that anytime you have another, you me e-mail it to me and I will frame it.

sounded bad.I am sure if you read it now that you are more relaxed,at least i hope you are,you will see that is easy for someone to get the wrong idea.I think too that should have put a smile.I also wrote that if i am mistaken i apologize.Well i hope now that we cleared that we can be friends.

posted 12-15-2001 12:56 AM               

bob5 - LOL!! Love your level, very film noir!

WBM

posted 12-15-2001 12:37 PM               

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