EDIT: 02/19/09

Believe it or not I'm working on her again!!!

Ns_Vargus Project
Progress: 88%

New Pictures!!













MORE PICTURES ON LAST PAGE!

EDIT: 07/03/05

Ns_Vargus Project
Progress: 51%

Keep up-to-date with the Vargus story: http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index....showtopic=91561

The Storyline so far...

Sir,

The Vargus disaster is as much a mystery to you as it is to I We have our top men working on this case, here are the station transfer logs we recovered I hope they make sense to you, they don#39

Space Station Vargus =====
Transfer: 1
Protocol: AB9t-6
Reference: Sarro Project

Dr. Reagel,

We've been succesful out here in Grenar 2-26. The conditions are fantastic! I'll be sending my latest subject your way via Cargo-Freighter. It's best we keep this where it belongs - out of the way of the TSA. ***

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The freighter's tag ID is: B-16486, the pilot's name is Ben, show him your clearance tag and he won't give you any trouble.

Cheers,
Dr. Richard Stronk, Grenar 2-26
Research Development
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board meeting, reeson, 006375

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That's when it started, the nightmares, of course.

Never had I felt like leaning to close to the edge, never had I this compulsion for disaster and destruction http://www.turnerlearning.com/efts/species...30/manatob.html and blood. Never, well, maybe once. But not like this.

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CHAPTER 1

AMONG other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no ficticious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a work-house; and in this work-house was born; on a day and date which I need not trouble myself to repeat, inasmuch as it can be of no possible consequence to the reader, in this stage of the business at all events; the item of mortality whose name is prefixed to the head of this chapter.

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REAGEL

WE NEED YOU 8:00 A.M. SHARP.

- BRENNeCK

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~ DarkATi

New Picture

Vargus, Octane. It's hard to see which is the better of the two, although I'd go for the Octane, as it had a couple of nice areas.

To be a critic (as I do) the marine spawn ceiling is far too low and really flat, boring and plain. Height variations, windows, texture chop ups, pipes, wires and an assortment of fans or lights could make a big impact on the area.

The lighting is rather bland although the colours do suit the area and bring out the textures alot more.

I sort of disagree against the texture usage, I think that when the bottom part of that black_ series texture is above the top of the texture the usage looks horrible. Although bevel it from the rest of the texture a bit more and it has one neat effect and good finish. Sounds confusing although I can't describe it any other way.

I'm also a bit puzzled as to why you are using the NOS_ texture set buttons as a light fixing, looks a bit strange to me.

DarkATI - "Holy Blandness Batman!" Come on dark, we all know that you can do much better work than that

New, Improved... ramped gamma, skylight added and some detail to the ceiling, as well as a considerable raise in height in the whole area.

~ DarkATi

Heh, missed your edit, there. Was waiting for a new post.

I like your ideas, I'm going to bed now, though. See you later, Thursday. I'll post more screens for you to tear apart, ASAP.

~ DarkATi

New Pictar, right outside Marine Spawn - Exterior Air Control

~ DarkATi

Looking good, maybe you can make the pipes in the last shot a little rounder.

Otherwise its looking very good.

I like how it's beginning to develop. It has an ns_nothing-ish style to it but with the lighting variation that nothing so desperately needed.

With that fact in mind, you may want to be careful to use some varied geometry because admittedly some of those textures are bland to look at. If they're applied to an interestingly-shaped object, it's better than nothing. (Let's nickname this map ns_something )

The giant doors in the floor and ceiling are well...giant. Make them the actual size of the texture if you want to use them. Looks nice for a start.

keep up the good work but the pipes fix em like afr sad

A work-in-progress area: Flow Control

~ DarkATi

The Door to Cooling Station 02.

~ DarkATi

Big door...I like it

I assume it will open, as it leads to the Cooling Station?

Someone mentions the pipes need to be rounder, and i think thats vital to make it look better - its particularly noticable in the second from last one, as the pipe goes around the corner.

Otherwise, v nice

see i dont like that it looks good i wont argue with that the texture use but the huge door looks bad in my oppion it seems streached so much and out of place with everything else

Not in a good mood, or got much time tonight, but just to help you out I'll give a quick comment on almost every screenshot in one short comment.

Texture set looking like it could be too over used, try and mix and match more.

I'll do individual and more detailed comments tomorrow, I'm just worried about the doctors etc. so don't expect some decent critic for atleast 24 hours. Although, I do love the lighting in that "ns_nothing" like described area as TyrNemesis^ put it

yea, looks like the same style as nothing. the closed door on the right wall in the 2nd pic (the hall with the pipes) seems to be 8 units up from the ground - it probably should be flush with the ground or at least have a little ramp going up to it.

Argh, I was trying to stay as far away from Ken20Banks map as possible with this texture set...

And the pipes... fine... you all are costing me polygons!!!

~ DarkATi

P.S. Hope everything goes OK, Thursday.

OK, fine, punks. Round pipes... j00 happy now?!?

~ DarkATi

Behind the Big Door: Cooling Station 02.

~ DarkATi

New shot, welcoming you to Space Station Vargus.

~ DarkATi

someone stop this mad man! lol

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darkati why do you listen to people it looked alot better before ( the pipe that is ) if you are going to make it round at least try makeing 2 pipes so it takes up the flat part that might look nicer just my oppion though

My question is: why would the pipe follow the wall instead of just going strait through it? I thought of that and now it just won't stop bugging me. Other than that I don't really have much of anything.

in the first shot of the node the pipe was big and coverd your whole flat brush now you have a smaller rounder pipe see how it looks with 2 smaller pipes that cover the entier flat brush like the orginal did i can do it in photoshop if needed

Time for a new screen. *yawn* this map is keeping me up all night!

Fueling & Storage

~ DarkATi

The Layout thus far.

~ DarkATi

Bilinear without AF hurts

Shot No. 2

Shot No. 3

oh man darky... you go away for a while and come back with THIS. thou art a man of tallent. Great color scheming and contrast with well placed textures. diamond pattern usually makes my stomach turn, but you've managed to use it effectively. i likes it. definetly puting that wall texture to good use. it's not used enough, but this will help things along i think. anyway.. i need sleep. good job. based entirely on aesthetics, i would say the map is off to a good start.

*yawn* tired, here's a work-in-progress area: Research Hub BX6

~ DarkATi

No. 2

New Layout

ack. my eyes. too much green brightness.

Can't sleep, must map...

LOL, toned down green, just for you Belg... well, all our eyes as well. ^_^

~ DarkATi

Different Angle.

~ DarkATi

its still realy bright, but it is an improvement

having all those computers and chairs on 1 wall doesnt look very good. also that room is an obvious marine heaven but i havent played enough ns recently so cant think of any constructive hints.

except what you COULD do is: oh hell i'll paint it.

this shows the green computer room from top down:

the grey is the floor level, and the white is obviously the level where the rt is. what i thought of was that you lengthen the room as shown by with the broken line. then remove the stairs, lengthen the bottom area as shown in the pic and and make new stairs there.

what i also thought of was to have 2 big... computers or some neat things like that reaching from the floor to the roof, or almost to the roof. think of the computers/hubs that 1 room in co_kestrel.

about the rt, well, i cant think of a good place for it as of now. you can basically choose the rt spot depending on how the room balances: if its close to a hive, make the rt tucked safely behind the computers, if its near the ms but easy skulking ground perhaps put the rt on the floor near the exits to even things out.

be careful with crates, especially in this kind of room with computers and stuff. also keep in mind that dont make crates that are larger than the doorways because that looks silly.