Floating orbs and other tricks

[GreatEmerald]

I'm making a kind of a Wizard map (MM7 FTW), and what do wizards use to light their houses? Floating glowing orbs, I presume. Making a non-floating glowing orb works just fine (Sphere with the setting 2, Tarydium Crystal texture, non-solid 1-sided transcluent small wavy, and inside a blue light with big brightness, medium radius, SubtlePulse and WateryShimmer, plus sound "tower". Great FX.) But to make it a glowing floating orb, I need a kind of a ConstantAttachMover... If it's not constant, it won't levitate, and if it's not Attach, the light won't follow. Any suggestions?

Also, I've found a great way of doing skyboxes... Looked at UT2004 skyboxes - they use rings! So I made a 256 radius nonsolid cylinder 2sided, set the top and the bottom to Invisible, and there we go - a great looking skybox!

So anyway my level now looks kinda great. Still very empty, but it will be even better later.

I'm thinking of making a SP map pack loosely based on MM7 story... That would include 15 maps, while you waste your time trying to get an item you can't use in first 8 maps You would only need to pass 7 maps otherwise, but you don't know that

Here's a preview screenshot of a tower there. The orb is at the top:
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[Buster]

Looking good. One wee little thing though. The scaling of the cliff texture appears abit off. Try increasing it abit, so its pattern doesn't repeat itself as often. I like how the blue lighting plays off the texture used on the tower - very nice. Neat idea for the skybox.

Another UT style idea: Extend the terrain of the map around the actual areas a player can get to, and collision hull off the outside 'deco' area. The area blocked off can even be done as non-solid too.

[HeadShot]

I prefer the huge skybox texture packet I have  ;D

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v471/HeadShot900/Shot0002.jpg[/img]

EDIT: http://www.hazelwhorley.com/

Take out 1 group of the skybox textures, that means 4 sides, a top, and a bottom, and it's about 4mb. I use one for multiple maps so it's not like 4mb every map download lol. Also, that sun is just a cylinder I stuck there for looks lol.