Portal: Project Beta
Hey guys, thanks to Pelpix we now know a way to generate the beta look of maps without editing a single texture.
SO HERE IS COMPARISON IN DX9 FOR YOU PEOPLE WHO COMPLAIN ABOUT QUALITY.
ORIGINAL RELEASE PORTAL
NOW TO QUOTE PELPIX
PelPix: prepare to have sum orgasms
PelPix: r_shader_srgb -1
PelPix: do it AFTER load
PelPix: and only after load
NOW MAKE IT RESEMBLE BETA - NO TEXTURE EDITING
This thread should be titled: "Dryhumping the leg of Pelpix aka Making Portal look like shit."
The little beta look alike map console command isnt going to be used anyways, so no need to worry about that and the original portal story isnt being used either....
Your name should be changed to Anal Retentive Criticizing Perfectionist, due to you saying everything needs to be exact and to your liking.
Your name should be changed to Anal Retentive Criticizing Perfectionist.
Your both being harsh on each other.. 
I really don't like it anyway. I think it was dark in the beta cause the video was crap not the game. It also has a big fat flaw. It does not reset. On the next map, it makes textures and sprites awful and the lighing will go back to normal. So Remmiz. Don't really take it as a final mark.
Also as for everything else. It is staying. I did not change that much in the mapping part. I just made...
-Cement pilers from Metal (But could be metal with a different reflect rate)
-The fizzlers.. (Look fakes at this point. If you look at it the map fades. If we don't get it into a particle or a texture, we may go back to the given ones.. After all those fizzlers are back when the Portal was going to be in The Black Box..
-Removed the frames from signs.... Does not make a HUGE difference. Does it?
If you are not convince that we are not trying to make the game look bad, heres a video.
The more you give, the less appreciated it will be received.
I don't see how being anal retentive and a perfectionist is a bad thing in mapping. So thanks. And I'm only harsh on people that deserve it. If you are a good mapper, you'll get praise from me but if you try to take shortcuts, skimp on details, don't have patience or post like it's going out of style, you'll get the other end of the stick from me.
And also regarding my advice; when you offer advice, isn't it how you think it should be? I just don't choose to sit back and say "good map!" on things that are clearly not good. The mapper might actually learn something if I call him/her out on it. And if they intended it to be that way, I sure hope they stand up and say something back because that is much better than simply changing it because I said so.
And also regarding my advice; when you offer advice, isn't it how you think it should be? I just don't choose to sit back and say "good map!" on things that are clearly not good. The mapper might actually learn something if I call him/her out on it. And if they intended it to be that way, I sure hope they stand up and say something back because that is much better than simply changing it because I said so.
Thats fine, but dissing everything is just agitating, but constructive criticism is great.
As a fellow anal retentive and complete asshole, I'd have to agree with Remmiz.
Would it kill you to do your own damn work instead of worshipping the ground I walk on because of the half-assed shit I give you to make you shut up?
PelPix, are you RyanLion from Activeworlds?
Would it kill you to do your own damn work instead of worshipping the ground I walk on because of the half-assed shit I give you to make you shut up?
LOL you havent given me anything, what 2 console commands....
No one worships you.. especially me
Get off your high horse and lower your ego a bit, you arent the greatest and smartest person ever born.
I've swapped accounts with him to get from A to B, at some points, and we're very similar. So I'd say Yes AND No.
Why such a specific question?
Wait.
MIKE?