should I reduce the sharpness on those clouds? I thought it looked pretty good on them, considering they are just a background thing

First thing:

Second thing: Definately. The cloud's sharpness doesn't match the world around it. 1. The sharpness hardly effected the edges and, instead, made the clouds look charcoal drawn and 2. The clouds weren't as sharp in Windwaker, anyways.. So... Go for it.

ok; reduced sharpness, but it looked a bit pixelated (due to the stretched textures); will attempt to fix this. the edges of the clouds were blended with the background using the alpha channel, but they didn't look Windwaker-ish, so I returned them to their previous state; will seek other alternatives. gotta fix the water right now, lol; got it jittering a bit awkwardly, and it lacks fog.

I died sorry

You might want to start fresh with the sky. Go into PhotoShop or your photo-manipulation software of choice and take a fresh copy of the skybox pre-edit and resize it and touch it up to make it fit better in the map.That's my best advice.

alright, thank Devon; will look into both of those things.

And yeah... I'm probably just gonna change the clouds entirely; they seem out of place anyways, since the sky is somewhat "clear" and the clouds are abnormally dark

I would suggest using larger screenshots to crop from next time. xD

Welcome back. <3

Also Cellista = another big help that can help you finish this map. As I'm still a worthless mapper.

That looks great. I love cell shaded stuff. Reminds me of the days of HPC with the cell shaded mod. Good times.

lol, I tried that at first, but the large clouds did not fit on the screen; or they were covered by everybody and their grandmother.

Let me know how the newer cloud textures turn out.

This is just a demonstration of the new direction I'm taking with the sky;
The visible bitmaps have been changed to 32-bit, except for one that wouldn't compile (I made that into 16-bit). The smooth alphas are interpolated bitmaps implemented in the shaders, and the non-smooth (such as islands) are explicit alpha.

I made an extra bitmap called the "fadeaway" for the sole purpose of making the clouds fade in and out, so that it looks kind of like the cloud-vanishing effect in Windwaker.

Right now I'm working on adding more cloud clusters, and patterns, so that the sky doesn't look abnormally clear; also, I am going to try and match the style of the fading clouds a little better, with the background clouds. Lastly, I have to fix the edges of the fading clouds, since I still feel the edges are too marked. I'll probably also add a "fog" shader to the lower part of the background clouds so that it looks a little bit hazy there.

If you have any more suggestions, I would like to hear them.

You should try making the clouds far away blend into the sky with a slight haze, and the closer ones be more visible than the distant ones. I can easily tell you're using a gradient (or some fade effect as you mentioned) for the clouds, and that doesn't look right to me.

Alright thanks; I also felt it looked strange but I wasn't sure what it was missing.

UPDATE:

Here's the latest sky I've got.



I removed the fade effect from the circulating clouds, and will instead place it on single clouds that go through the top, since that's how they actually vanish in the game.

I changed the water, added ripples; will add other Windwaker effects; got the water fog to work, fixed the background clouds a bit etc.
Edited by cellista92 on Jun 2, 2013 at 07:48 AM

Nice! Imagine how awesome it would look replacing this Halo 1's current ugly looking sky. :D

Toon Link bipeds. Master Swords. Bow and arrows. ClawShots. Gale of Wind. Bombs. That's all I have to say.

http://www.xfire.com/video/5fef17

A new video of the water + sky done by Cellista. Along with a tour of the map.
Edited by Link on Jun 4, 2013 at 03:48 AM

:')
It's so purdy...

i have an early version of this map for some reason, i always thought it had a lot of potential.

they rip.

Didn't even notice that you posted, where the heck were you??!

Why thank you for clearing that out Captain Obvious aka OrangeJuice aka Kotu Sett. Maybe you should finish that boring old Hyrule Market project next..??? zZzzZzzzZz

I'm working on a jail, not hyrule
I was told not to work on it. so all I have of it is a houseless market square and the inside of that highpoly temple.
thank you for clearing that out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MeGFQavL6o

A new video of the animated waves/water ripples added by Cellista along with the new animations to the shorelines. This render was much better than the last one from Xfire's crappy quality with sound delays thanks to Fraps and Sony Vegas. Also remember to watch it in 720p cuz we all know that 480p sucks :p


P.S: @Mapzy, you need to get on more often, bro. :D

Looks good

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJoyKVUeyr0

^ Another new video. So we tested the windmill animation sync done by Cellista in a GameServers hosted server. When we loaded the map and spawned together on the map load without quitting or joining late, the windmill animations with the staying on the carts work perfectly as seen in that video. But let's say if one of us quits and later joins back in or joins the server late after the map load, then there will be an issue with the syncing again as it will bump players down just like before. So anyone have any ideas on how to fix this syncing problem?

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Edited by OrangeJuice on Jun 17, 2013 at 12:11 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj52rvFqIHY

^ New video update of the windmill sync that was fixed by Cellista. So now it syncs at any map reset/late join/rejoin/map load in any type of servers such as 0 ping host, home dedi, or rental hosts from companies. But remember, when you use map reset, late join, or rejoin, then you must wait few seconds for the windmill rotation to fully reset and sync again. This was only the most possible way for the syncing to occur from what it was in previous state with either out of sync or major twitching issues on the windmill animations.

imagine making the entire wind waker world in one map

Possible death of Halo. Or just some lag issues. Could be impossible to do.

Exactly, or the map file itself would be like 300+ MB along with major FPS issues for the ones with bad computers. The only reason why the Land of Hyrule map was stable with all those major locations from Ocarina of Time was because it was mostly N64 rips. But we are talking about Gamecube here which is even more harder to emulate with Dolphin emulator used in PC. So yeah, sorry rcghalohell, but it won't happen.

cool

Extracted, but that doesn't mean we extracted them out and just put them there easily. There were shet load of errors that both Cellista and Mapzy had to go through along with making our own animations for waves, water ripples, wind, windmill and for it to sync in all servers, etc. And that takes a lot of time too due to a 2 man team at the moment as Mapzy went inactive. :(