Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year !

Draw something and make levels after

I saw that is easy to draw something and make a level after the drawing, with your favorite level editor. Even more if you are visually inclined.

Two warriors comics

I made this short comics, in which i can put different ideas and plot twist like George R.R. Martin said in the below quote, even if here i draw at a basic level. Click on the image for a better view.

,,Nothing bores me more than books where you read two pages and you know exactly how it's going to come out. I want twists and turns that surprise me, characters that have a difficult time and that I don't know if they're going to live or die.,,
George R.R. Martin

DeleD, a open source 3d modeler

This 3d modeler has alot of import, export and extension plugins and if you want you can work online on your projects.
Site and forum :
delgine

Online :
figuro

Or the newer one :                                                       
beta.figuro                                                                       Importers

 

A few exporters example

                                                                                   Extensions

Quake sign on a potato

 My male cat is not impressed ...

                                                                                       Smile ?

Tavern and inn signs

These are just images, not yet made in Quake 2 .wal format. The images have a transparent color, which in Quake 2 DoD will translate as being holes in signs, like in a cast iron stencil. Every medieval game may have signs as to know what type of building you are in. Simple as may look, they deliver a message.

DoD ingame .wal 256 color texture and a .png image comparison

Here you see a Dawn of Darkness ingame .wal 256 color texture and a .png image comparison. I have made the texture first with Wood Workshop, in conjunction with Paint Shop Pro 7 and Wally. Below is the link to the program.

 
spiralgraphics

Updated ''Short Pixly android program presentation ...''

I updated more ''Short Pixly android program presentation for animation and Quake 2 transparency''. I will explain later Pixly effects.

Creating .pal file and convert or make/transparent textures in Gimp

If you are not using Jasc Paint Shop pro 7, go below, for a tutorial in creating a .pal file for making/transparent textures for Quake 2, in Gimp and converting them as .wal files with Wally :
q2 palette textures

My Quake 2 .pal file i converted using Jasc Paint Shop pro 7, so this is a way you can make your own textures from scratch or apply the .pal file to a image.

You can get Jasc Paint Shop pro 7 from here :
oldversion

COLLADA .dae models

                                                                             Curtyard and castel

I will make models (buildings etc.) and post them here as .dae files, in the maps me and my brother will make as prefabs, in the blog button above. The .dae models must be exported to .map files (which in turn are brushes), which QuArK editor works with. The above models are just examples i made. Feel free to get inspired by them.

Images (Peles castle) which can inspire you in mapping

Castelul Peleș (wikipedia) 

Peles castle site (romanian language) 

It is a castle which was buid in Sinaia, Romania, between 1873 and 1914 

The next photos were taken by me last year, on a trip

 

 

The next four images are Pelișor castle, in the same courtyard :

 From a ww1 cemetary, not in the Peles courtyard :