SS2 Various minimods by System and Cheburator900

[6742986bbf5e0JML]

Nah, still looks way too unfinished/cheap imo. Actually all three of them don't really fit in front of the UNN Recruitment center. It's so cheap that even a junkie lost his syringe next to the green trash can. UNN wouldn't allow junkies around, at best basketball players...

I'd suggest improving upon details and lighting, and give another texture that doesn't look so horribly plastic on both of them.

[6742986bbf9f5voodoo47]

when seeing a vanilla SS2 trash can. I think, "My god, that's an ugly texture."

and that's why you never start a game without SHTUP. the (vanilla) model itself is fine - a trash can doesn't need to have thousands of polygons, as even in reality, it's just a boxy thing where you put your garbage (as a square/rectangular shape is the simplest and cheapest to make). so the efforts to improve it are kind of.. wasted.

empty syringes are a Secmod addition, I believe.

[6742986bbfb08callum13117]

That's true, Voodoo - if SHTUP fixes the trash can texture already, I suppose this is mostly redundant. Still, we never would have had this strange thread if not for its existence, so I'm grateful for that!

Also, nice trash can pun.

[6742986bbfcb9System]

Rec1 and Rec3 levels with opened shutters and blast doors

REQUIRES SCP_ beta4+

[6742986bbfe13voodoo47]

Shocked is still complaining about missing textures on rec1, but that shouldn't crash the game, so whatever -  whoever thinks they need to have this in their life, can go ahead and have it.

also, toooothbrushes!

[6742986bc00d8System]

Shocked is still complaining about missing textures on rec1, but that shouldn't crash the game, so whatever -  whoever thinks they need to have this in their life, can go ahead and have it.

[fix.7z expired]

[6742986bc01ffvoodoo47]

nope, still the same. probably just missing objects not purged - lets hope you didn't save this with some old gamesys loaded, that generally is a bad idea.

[6742986bc02f3System]

Xerxes

[6742986bc0455ZylonBane]

Banana.

[6742986bc054cSystem]

Xerxes OLD\NEW!!!

[6742986bc0642voodoo47]

NEWESTEST!

[6742986bc07c6voodoo47]

allright, now that we had our laughs, lets decide what to do with this - checked the files, it's a texture modification attempt that makes the Xerxes screen flicker in a bluish orangeish seizure of an animation from hell.

technically, it qualifies as a mod (of questionable quality), but so does the Xerxes Doge from my previous post. so, I guess if there's a public outcry for moving this to the mods subforum, we can do that (epilepsy warning will be added).


//just to make things clear, I'm not trying to be a hypocrite (or other evil thing) here, it's just that while playing around Shocked and brushing up one's skills is perfectly ok, not every byproduct of that learning process needs to be posted publicly.

[6742986bc0921icemann]

Why not put all of his modifications under the one thread?

[6742986bc0a0fvoodoo47]

System's Shocked Ventures? might work.

[6742986bc0b17ZylonBane]

[6742986bc0c1cvoodoo47]

I actually did consider (a plural of) that, but decided that "ventures" is a bit more.. neutral.

[6742986bc0d08ZylonBane]

Neutral is boring.

[6742986bc0e24voodoo47]

guess I should have said "more subtle". anyway, as long as everyone knows what this is all about, and I'm guessing everybody does..

[6742986bc0f0cSystem]

Problems?

[6742986bc0fe3voodoo47]

nope.

[6742986bc10e2System]

Crate mod


CREDITS: Cheburator900 \ System

[6742986bc12fcKolya]

I mean, it's not bad. But it's not as good as the original either. And that was made 19 years ago on a time limit in an earlier version of the engine.

Mainly the new model lacks depth and definition. The grill on the old model was a great idea to achieve that. You made it a relief. That is objectively worse.
The original lights were sunk into the model, yours are slapped on.
The original had a defined carrying depression, yours has a flat depression with no apparent use. And lavender lights.

[6742986bc1660unn_atropos]

And it looks like a futuristic sneaker.

[6742986bc17c2voodoo47]

I'm slightly leaning towards not putting this up as a public mod until the texture is changed into something that would actually qualify as a texture. also, I really think this particular object doesn't need any attention, but hey, what do I know, I've been in the business of fixing up SS2 for only about a decade or so.

but maybe styrofoam is the new thing, and I'm just not seeing the bigger picture. opinions?