http://www.moddb.com/downloads/industrial-royal
This is something I always wanted to do and that is take a photo of some night sky line and put it in a map.
This really changed the way I mapped and there a reason why I believe that this improves my mapping ability alot, despite having alot of mapping skills which I've learnt from the past.
Deus Ex unique selling point was that it was based on real world locations which happened in the future. This allowed the player to put themselves into the world of the future. It really did feel like it was worth while and was worth thinking about.
After making this custom made skybox, it make me rethink why the SDK exists. At the time of the SDK release, NO ONE or NO PLAYER, MODDER or whatever had no free means of getting the right camera to take really clear night shots like the New York level in Deus Ex.
and this what make the same sell. if anyone played the Demo like I did at the time, the New York skyline allowed players to feel like they were there
Even PlanetDeusEx uses this has a selling point, that skyline was really rare at the time and is used on the website border.
Even after playing the nameless mod, there no customer skyline, expect the fuzzy one in forum city. I mean it's makes sense that Forum City does have a fuzzy skyline, because that matter is really like that, the same matter that in our TVs. It was really good there!
Anyways, who here cares to agree? I don't know if I'll be making more and polishing and etc, maybe make my own mod in a Deus Ex style fashion. That's something I want to work on. I do believe the skybox is one of the problems with Mapping in Deus Ex because no one has the time, effort and technology to make another custom skyline.
Another clue, Tack Lab. I like Tack however how he describes making Skyboxes, it's another clue that us mappers have trouble, making a similar look Skybox
Link: http://www.offtopicproductions.com/tack ... yZone.html
The hard way doesn't really explain it. It's friendly I must admit and I admit someone who gets into it can do the job, which is what I want to prove. I really do want to make original content when modding for Deus Ex. Which is why I'm getting this out of the way!Add a Sky Zone (the easy way)
Overview:
The easiest way to add a good-looking sky zone to your map is to simply steal one from one of the Deus Ex maps.
Which is why I would say, this is one of the biggest challenges of Deus Ex Modding and it would mean getting people who have those high end camera phones that can make really nice night shots. That wasn't even the beginning of the troubles I had making that skybox, despite the map taking 2 days to make. It was all the basic mapping skills that saved me all that time, that's why I released it despite being unpolished or whatever.
Here's the map link again, feel free to download, rate and comment:
http://www.moddb.com/downloads/industrial-royal