[Map] Al Basrah sky.con edited with some extra treatment!

jayceon515 · 04-08-2008, 10:41 AM

What's been bothering me ever since 0.6 was released was the lightning in my by far favorite PR map Al Basrah so I've decided to bring back that awesome realistic atmosphere from 0.5 days.

Here's an example of current lightning:

As you can see here we have very ugly dark looking mosque with shiny polished dome. Very realistic

Compared to this:

A few more screenshots with tweaked lightning:

It has thicker fog with same view distance and buildings are brighter and look more natural against bright ground.

After I took those screenshots I tested performance with current and tweaked sky.con and got up to 10 FPS boost with the tweaked one walking in the city and 2-3 FPS boost outside the city.

I would really like to see this to be used in the next release b/c it looks more realistic and even has a slight performance boost.

Drop some feedback

Jantje|NL^ · 04-08-2008, 10:46 AM

Like it.

[R-DEV]Rhino · 04-08-2008, 10:50 AM

ye I see what you mean, thou wouldn't call your settings perfect thou. Will have a play myself at some point

Maxfragg · 04-08-2008, 10:55 AM

yeah, the old one is too dark, but yours is tho bright i think

[R-DEV]Rhino · 04-08-2008, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Maxfragg

yeah, the old one is too dark, but yours is tho bright i think

yep, it almost looks like theres no lightmaps

jayceon515 · 04-08-2008, 11:02 AM

I guess you forgot how 0.5 used to look like.

(sorry don't have any other screenshots of it)

[R-DEV]Rhino · 04-08-2008, 11:03 AM

ye the shadows stand out much more there than they do in your version

jayceon515 · 04-08-2008, 11:09 AM

Then you make it like it's supposed to be. It took me about 3 minutes to do what I did. Right now it looks garbage. Such an awesome map ruined by shitty lightning.

[R-DEV]Rhino · 04-08-2008, 11:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jayceon515

Then you make it like it's supposed to be. It took me about 3 minutes to do what I did. Right now it looks garbage. Such an awesome map ruined by shitty lightning.

ye will fix it, it may even give it a make over for .8 with the new statics im making

Jantje|NL^ · 04-08-2008, 02:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by [R-DEV]Rhino

ye will fix it, it may even give it a make over for .8 with the new statics im making

Tell us more about this..

04-08-2008, 10:41 AM	#1
jayceon515 Join Date: Jul 2007 Iraq Location: Sadr city, Baghdad Posts: 449	[Map] Al Basrah sky.con edited with some extra treatment! What's been bothering me ever since 0.6 was released was the lightning in my by far favorite PR map Al Basrah so I've decided to bring back that awesome realistic atmosphere from 0.5 days. Here's an example of current lightning: As you can see here we have very ugly dark looking mosque with shiny polished dome. Very realistic Compared to this: A few more screenshots with tweaked lightning: It has thicker fog with same view distance and buildings are brighter and look more natural against bright ground. After I took those screenshots I tested performance with current and tweaked sky.con and got up to 10 FPS boost with the tweaked one walking in the city and 2-3 FPS boost outside the city. I would really like to see this to be used in the next release b/c it looks more realistic and even has a slight performance boost. Drop some feedback

04-08-2008, 10:46 AM	#2
Jantje\|NL^ Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: The Netherlands Posts: 356	Like it.
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04-08-2008, 10:50 AM	#3
[R-DEV]Rhino PR Operations Lead Join Date: Dec 2005 United Kingdom Location: Somerset - UK Posts: 19,962	ye I see what you mean, thou wouldn't call your settings perfect thou. Will have a play myself at some point

04-08-2008, 10:55 AM	#4
Maxfragg Join Date: Jan 2007 Germany Location: Frankonia, Germany Posts: 1,418	yeah, the old one is too dark, but yours is tho bright i think

04-08-2008, 11:02 AM	#6
jayceon515 Join Date: Jul 2007 Iraq Location: Sadr city, Baghdad Posts: 449	I guess you forgot how 0.5 used to look like. (sorry don't have any other screenshots of it)

04-08-2008, 11:03 AM	#7
[R-DEV]Rhino PR Operations Lead Join Date: Dec 2005 United Kingdom Location: Somerset - UK Posts: 19,962	ye the shadows stand out much more there than they do in your version

04-08-2008, 11:09 AM	#8
jayceon515 Join Date: Jul 2007 Iraq Location: Sadr city, Baghdad Posts: 449	Then you make it like it's supposed to be. It took me about 3 minutes to do what I did. Right now it looks garbage. Such an awesome map ruined by shitty lightning.

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