Right. I made a door that turns in circles. I am so good at this ;)
Gottta figure out how the heck this works, lol.
Anybody who reads this- so I've got my epic door. But how the heck would I make a unit with different animations? I'm sure it's quite complicated, but a point to the right direction or a tutorial would be great. ;)
M3 sequences I believe comes with the export/importer.
I picked up 3ds max last Thursday for the first time. No experience with modeling ever or anything in the graphics world.
I've learned
The basics of how to make models using 3ds max. How to use mudbox as well.
Rigging bones somewhat, still have some issues with imported models and rigging.
Animations somewhat
Basics of unwrap UVW
Currently learning how to draw a diffuse texture.
Want to learn how to spec and normal mapping after I learn how to draw well enough.
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them because answering questions makes me learn too.
I met the guy before, talked with him about some stuff. Nice guy, smart too. Hes done quite a bit for the modding community, hell even cracked some of Valves most important secrets. Pretty sure he got banned for that reason in the first place, exploiting to get something special in game.
"rant"
Either way, its still a publicity stunt, grassroots, core gamer community style. When stuff like this happens it only makes other players want to get more involved with the community. It builds trust, and loyalty too. Hell, some modders/artists get paid for donating content to Valve. Dunno, but, every time something like this happens, I feel like it looks bad for Blizzard. The whole DotA scandal looks extremely bad. Its like Blizzard is living in a bubble, unable to adapt to its surroundings, unable to be open to new trending ideas. Gaming industry is still young, and with a decayed modding community, and bored player base. Its seems quite possible for Blizz to end up like Guitar Hero. If Titan does not work out that is.
Sorry, I thought it happened, as you can tell I've been out of the loop for quite some time. No need to get hostile.
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Of course. They added a search bar. If your map is actually decent, players can simply type in the name and find it instantly. They also added a fun or not mode that effects the up and coming list to help new map get out there. There have been constant patches and updates, and more are planned in the future. You can play any map with any member of the community.
Of course, a search bar... that is not functionality to play maps with the community. And, from what I have seen there has been no game changing patches other than fixes from updating my SC2.
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They have changed. But who cares what's on top. You just type in the name of the game you want and play it....
I have never been able to play a game with other random players of the community using the search bar...
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So far, I've seen that people who complain about popularity are people who can't make a decent & enjoyable map. Because if you have a fun map, you post it here, we put it on the news. The site gets 20,000 viewers daily, on average. Those twenty thousand people will see your amazing map on the news, and will proceed to play it via the handy search bar in battle net.
I just checked the view count of the first video posted on the main page. 469 views.
Second video 1,800..
You're making up crap that isn't true.
I would like to thank you though for answering me more directly, other than the bullshitting and insulting me that I couldn't make a decent map. Well, if I could of got players to even play that map in the first place to decide if it was good or not, then I would agree with you. Thank you for your post though. It did answer alot. Nothing has truly changed, or ever will change, very typical of Blizzard, and nothing more than I expected myself. I don't know why I made this post, if I already knew that. I guess somewhere hope existed and took over for a second.
I stopped playing SC2, about a month or two ago. I know that Blizzcon happened. Videos look very bad as usual and Blizz just doesn't seem good anymore to the point its disgusting. But, couldn't find anything about mapping other than marketplace is coming or something.
Does Blizz have any intentions of supporting mappers so we can play our maps with the community? I looked @ the popularity list and its still the same boring maps other than 1 from beta a year ago. Worst creative cockblock I've ever experienced. Is it going to change? Any word on this?
For 2 months @ the start of March. I have played the system.
Nearly everyday @ 7-10PM for about 1-2hours on average. I would recruit players from channels, IRC, and forums.
Forums would result in 1 person per week with a constantly bumped and fresh thread.
IRC would result in 1-2 people a night.
Chat channels would result in 1 player per 15 minutes of channel broadcasting, active channels such as Teamliquid as well. Most of the time these players would leave within the first couple minutes due to no patience.
I have concluded. That it is nearly impossible to find and retain players whom are willing to play a map without some sort of trust involved. Either it be, popularity, friends, a famous youtube broadcaster or word of mouth.
So what if we use the model of the holographic stripper, and pull every bad word from the sound files. Make it into one huge offensive map with only things pulled from the editor.
I tried using DarkTemplarSilver_Placement on the colossus... when I placed the Colossus in the map, when I was choosing a place to drop him, he was blue... I placed him, he was normal, but I got no error. I tested the map out, colossus was normal, and I got multiple errors(some for the dark templar).
So I deleted the DarkTemplar_Specular texture I tried using, and removed that from the DT Events+... reload the game, BAM! Colossus was blue. WHY?
Sludgewater works on the Dark Templar.
You are indeed going to have to do a White HDR / Opacity event on your unit to make it look anywhere near like the Placement ingame. It must be an m3 property for placement.
Here's a pic of Silver_Placement colossus with white 10hdr / .25 opacity, white 5hdr Sludgewater DT.
It was blue because all models have teamcolor, undernearth all textures. So you got the default teamcolor when replacing the texture with an invalid texture.
Basically you just want to have the path to the dds with either the prefix or substring. underscores in the path via previewer are what indicate a substring. If there is no substrings you just write out the complete file path name.
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You guys are surprised?
Marketplace will be a failure.
Surprise?
Modders will get the last laugh when no one buys HotS. SC2 doesn't deliver like WC3 did, and even that tanked before DotA picked it up.
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M3 sequences I believe comes with the export/importer.
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I picked up 3ds max last Thursday for the first time. No experience with modeling ever or anything in the graphics world.
I've learned
The basics of how to make models using 3ds max. How to use mudbox as well.
Rigging bones somewhat, still have some issues with imported models and rigging.
Animations somewhat
Basics of unwrap UVW
Currently learning how to draw a diffuse texture.
Want to learn how to spec and normal mapping after I learn how to draw well enough.
If you have any questions, I'd love to answer them because answering questions makes me learn too.
update doing high res poly now @ 1.9mil
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I am trying to rig up my new model using the hydralisk animation, but soon as I try to add weight it distorts the model.
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edit nvm
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does the same for me
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http://www.sourceop.com/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=53374
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/ihc8m/i_ruined_tf2_at_least_twice_and_am_now_iama/
I met the guy before, talked with him about some stuff. Nice guy, smart too. Hes done quite a bit for the modding community, hell even cracked some of Valves most important secrets. Pretty sure he got banned for that reason in the first place, exploiting to get something special in game.
"rant"
Either way, its still a publicity stunt, grassroots, core gamer community style. When stuff like this happens it only makes other players want to get more involved with the community. It builds trust, and loyalty too. Hell, some modders/artists get paid for donating content to Valve. Dunno, but, every time something like this happens, I feel like it looks bad for Blizzard. The whole DotA scandal looks extremely bad. Its like Blizzard is living in a bubble, unable to adapt to its surroundings, unable to be open to new trending ideas. Gaming industry is still young, and with a decayed modding community, and bored player base. Its seems quite possible for Blizz to end up like Guitar Hero. If Titan does not work out that is.
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@Ousnius: Go
Can you please explain the tools used to make the video. Thanks.
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Sorry, I thought it happened, as you can tell I've been out of the loop for quite some time. No need to get hostile.
Of course, a search bar... that is not functionality to play maps with the community. And, from what I have seen there has been no game changing patches other than fixes from updating my SC2.
I have never been able to play a game with other random players of the community using the search bar...
I just checked the view count of the first video posted on the main page. 469 views.
Second video 1,800..
You're making up crap that isn't true.
I would like to thank you though for answering me more directly, other than the bullshitting and insulting me that I couldn't make a decent map. Well, if I could of got players to even play that map in the first place to decide if it was good or not, then I would agree with you. Thank you for your post though. It did answer alot. Nothing has truly changed, or ever will change, very typical of Blizzard, and nothing more than I expected myself. I don't know why I made this post, if I already knew that. I guess somewhere hope existed and took over for a second.
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I stopped playing SC2, about a month or two ago. I know that Blizzcon happened. Videos look very bad as usual and Blizz just doesn't seem good anymore to the point its disgusting. But, couldn't find anything about mapping other than marketplace is coming or something.
Does Blizz have any intentions of supporting mappers so we can play our maps with the community? I looked @ the popularity list and its still the same boring maps other than 1 from beta a year ago. Worst creative cockblock I've ever experienced. Is it going to change? Any word on this?
0
For 2 months @ the start of March. I have played the system.
Nearly everyday @ 7-10PM for about 1-2hours on average. I would recruit players from channels, IRC, and forums.
Forums would result in 1 person per week with a constantly bumped and fresh thread.
IRC would result in 1-2 people a night.
Chat channels would result in 1 player per 15 minutes of channel broadcasting, active channels such as Teamliquid as well. Most of the time these players would leave within the first couple minutes due to no patience.
I have concluded. That it is nearly impossible to find and retain players whom are willing to play a map without some sort of trust involved. Either it be, popularity, friends, a famous youtube broadcaster or word of mouth.
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So what if we use the model of the holographic stripper, and pull every bad word from the sound files. Make it into one huge offensive map with only things pulled from the editor.
What happens then.
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It was blue because all models have teamcolor, undernearth all textures. So you got the default teamcolor when replacing the texture with an invalid texture.
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Some info here.
http://forums.sc2mapster.com/development/artist-tavern/20178-modifying-textures-for-existing-unit/#p13
Basically you just want to have the path to the dds with either the prefix or substring. underscores in the path via previewer are what indicate a substring. If there is no substrings you just write out the complete file path name.
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You can use them fully afaik, there is a tutorial somewhere.