ShimmeringPortal

[Moderator]

18:26, 23rd Jan 2009
Pyritie: No. I suggest you learn about particle emitters before trying again.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

How large is this?

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

As big as a Shimmering Portal. It fits very well in the stargate circle.

 

[D a w n]

this could have been done with 4 polies.......

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

No, with 8, because of the other side. But it will look worse. I'm going to update it with particles as its too plain.

 

[Kwah]

Nice!

 

[Cavman]

Ask RDZ about the possiblilities of Texture Animations. I think that there might be a way to make this look cooler through that. Don't worry about loosing th glow though, that can me fixed.

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

I added particles. i will see what i can do with the animated texture.

EDIT: Actually, how can i apply the texture anim? Transition? Rotation? Scale? None of them make a good effect...

 

[Zombie]

Good job, I like it. I don't think it matters if it is 4 or 32 polys. Both are really low.

 

[Zylus]

great job

 

[Avex]

I smell stargate! 5/5.

 

[Trance Music Fan]

Hey Dude, Combine Em!!!!
The Stargate with the Effect and make an unit, it'll be much better

 

[cyberbob]

I like the texture : it seems to be water
really good job 5/5

 

[redragex]

looks like one of those sphere things from the Terminator movies, i could probably use it lol

 

[deathreaven]

Besides, If you don't like the size, simply create it as another custom model and size to your delight. You can probably edit the colors.

 

[Jimnaboo]

I've got an idea, why don't you use the A_Water(00-44).blp textures for the watery effect, add a blue ambient light source, and add a yellow-white local light source in the middle to get a similar effect to what you've already got here. That way you can get an animated texture with your original design mostly intact. I would advise against particle emitters, because there aren't any in the original Stargate® effect (Yes I am a huge Gate-Geek). Of course, if you're feeling artistic, go for it. If you do add any though, I think a very light, white smoke would be the best option for keeping it tasteful. This effect does exist on the Earth gate (really huge Gate-Geek)

For now: 2/5
With suggested revisions: 4/5
I will hold off on rating this for a while

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

Actually if you take a look at the particles, you will notice they are like the stargate effects... anyway i will consider your suggestion.

 

[Jimnaboo]

Wow. I feel stupid. I didn't really look at the animations in detail (sorry); however I do have some more detailed suggestions for the particles now. Feel free to ignore. The death animation particles are cool; keep 'em. For the birth animation, it would be cool if you were to stagger the emitter visibility times so that it looked like the particles were rippling out, and then back in. You could make the one closest to the gate start earlier and end later than the next one out. Then you could make that one start earlier and end later than the next one out. The birth animation would have to be a little bit longer for this. I know this would be a lot of work for a little payoff, but I think it would be worth it. The outermost emitter should also be a little bit bigger than the others. I like it around the size of the first emitter, maybe a little bit smaller. The particles should also have a shorter lifespan and lesser speed so that it looks like a controlled burst rather than a big splash. Playing around, I found that a lifespan of 1 and a speed of 120 worked pretty well. Finally, I think that the stand particle emitter is sort of ridiculous.

Please do whatever you feel like (check out my title); it's way better than anything I ever could have done.

After seeing the animations: 3/5
With suggested revisions: 5/5

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

Hmm, Ok i will make some changes after 2 days, because i'm not on my computer and its hard to work on it for too many reasons to tell. But i will update it. Thanks for these suggestions!

 

[NerdElf]

i like stargate,and i like this model too

 

[redragex]

i'd never make a stargate map but i could find many possible ways to use this model

 

[cooldud3]

Holy crap! If your making a stargate atlantis game !!!!!!!!! /seizure!!!

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

Holy crap! If your making a stargate atlantis game !!!!!!!!! /seizure!!!

See my sig.

 

[aaron]

gj i will always use this instead of the origional shimering portal +rep

 

[sacridshadow]

Darn, you already mentioned stargate. lol Love that series.

 

[ZlatniLav]

nice model!

 

[Dark Hunter1357]

I'm sorry, i got 99% done and then a bug occurred! I hate when such bugs occur...
I don't know whats wrong with it...
This is the thread explaining the bug :/ :
http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/f276/blinking-geoset-113100/

 

[Slaydon]

EPIC 5/5, and if u want it smaller, go to the Scaling Values, lolz

 

[varsaigen]

nice portal =3