SS2 Vurt's Organics / Goo

[6649aac266e4bvoodoo47]

Memo to self: Upgrade the hell out of that damn blurry turret texture.

yeah, I was just thinking about posting it in the SHTUP topic.

[6649aac266fccZylonBane]

Unfortunately, the tops of all the turrets are textured wrong (very tiny texture area stretched and distorted across the top plate), and BINTOE screws up the model.

[6649aac2670c2voodoo47]

well, as stated many times before, when working with the Dark Engine, there is no such thing as free lunch.

[6649aac26725eSystem]

Image: http://s019.radikal.ru/i626/1302/bb/5b30c19f62a5.jpg

[6649aac267374voodoo47]

some description and perhaps a save would be nice.

[6649aac26749dvoodoo47]

the new egg model+SHTUP texture=improved black egg. I'll leave it here, maybe vurt will make a new texture as well.

[6649aac2675caZylonBane]

Nice. That SHTUP texture is lifted directly from Serious Sam, IIRC. With the new material features, I can make the red parts actually glow.

[6649aac2676fcSystem]

vurt's SS2 Goo (Egg v1.0b)
Image: http://s05.radikal.ru/i178/1302/4f/b2dd07f81ea3.jpg

Vurt's SS2 Goo (Egg v1.0a)
Image: http://s58.radikal.ru/i160/1302/10/af83b61fc5da.jpg

[6649aac2677dfFrosty015]

Can someone post screenshots showing the difference between the 3 different eggs?

[6649aac2678adShinobi]

^+1 please

[6649aac2679f4Electric Rider]

Whats the differance between v1.0a and 1.0b of the eggs? I assume they are both "new" variations and the vanilla version in the above pics are the same only closer to the original, but it seems pictures of either the A or B or "new" vanilla version is missing. You show the default, and one of the new eggs but not all. Shouldn't you be showing two more pictures? (or perhaps put thumbnails in the zip folder)

Edit: My apologies for being redundant, i didn't see the post above this one until after I posted. I'm looking at the pic above for ver 1.0b and it looks messed up with a strange box around it. The color shading is a little darker than A but thats the only differances I see.

[6649aac267d2avurt]

1.0b have the alpha fix that was discussed earlier, i've now removed 1.0a. i'll put up some new comparison pics..

edit: i can't see any difference in the above pics, except for the alpha i didnt change anything so colors and everything else is 100% the same in both.. To me it looks like both images are from 1.0b because of the now missing alpha.

[6649aac267e32Electric Rider]

Thank you Vurt. You Rock.

[6649aac267f87Alextended]

In those screenshots from System the first one looks wrong because there's no transparency where the egg connects to the wall so you see a bad looking square around its base. The second one looks better because you can't see that square, only the veiny things latching on the wall. Maybe change your brightness/gamma if you can't see the difference, it's very obvious.

[6649aac268107vurt]

Image: http://piclair.com/data/d9735.jpg - very obvious the alpha is missing in both..

In the "vanilla" edition the alpha is still left though.. and again, i removed the alpha because of the see-through part in the eggs that someone posted an image of.

Also, above isnt any egg afaik, it's some other thing that just happens to use the same texture.


Edit: ok fixed the red part that was transparent and see-through on the egg, and alpha is now kept.. not sure it fixes the squareness of the red part though, if both pics above really are from different versions it looks like it needs a .mtl to read the transparency correctly. if someone got a save at that place (which System posted) i can check how it looks.

[6649aac268273Alextended]

I was talking about this area, the base, not the actual egg.

http://i.minus.com/idVjp9a5RhY2K.jpg

[6649aac26838avurt]

Oh ok i see what you mean. I'll upload versions with a new alpha in a moment. Second image still looks bad imo, but maybe that's just how it looks on that model, i would have to see an image of the default texture to know.

[6649aac26848aDrowning witch]

the vanilla egg is almost perfect. one minor complaint would be that the bottom of the egg is a perfect circle, while in the original its a bit bumpy.

i'm assuming thats slime spreading from the egg, so it makes sense its not perfectly shaped.

[6649aac26858fvoodoo47]

I knew I've been forgetting something - the piles of disgusting worms really could use a vurt style update. currently, they are one of the worst looking elements, when running a modded SS2 install.

[6649aac2686a8ZylonBane]

Not an easy task, since the worm pile isn't just some organic pattern. I'm convinced that Irrational created this texture by dumping a few dozen fishing worms in a pile and then photographing it.

[6649aac2689b3Chandlermaki]

Not an easy task, since the worm pile isn't just some organic pattern. I'm convinced that Irrational created this texture by dumping a few dozen fishing worms in a pile and then photographing it.

I don't suppose you know the name of the texture?

[6649aac268d8fMarvin]

I knew I've been forgetting something - the piles of disgusting worms really could use a vurt style update. currently, they are one of the worst looking elements, when running a modded SS2 install.

That's actually one of my favourite textures in the game. At least it's hi-res, I shudder to think what I'd do if I were forced to play with the unmodified goo textures instead.

[6649aac268eedMarcelo]

I think I've found a texture that works perfect as a replacement:


Image: http://ts1.mm.bing.net/th?id=H.4777323047356616&pid=15.1&H=106&W=160

This combined with my beautiful Bloom config will make them look quite interesting. What do you think ZylonBane? 


Joking of course. 

[6649aac269197ZylonBane]

That's actually one of my favourite textures in the game. At least it's hi-res, I shudder to think what I'd do if I were forced to play with the unmodified goo textures instead.

No, it isn't high-res. That's why we're talking about making it high-res. It's only 128x128.