I had an idea of rendering surf entirely in Blender with raytracing, but i can't find any .dem files of surf WRs. Where do you get the .dem files?

Fantastic job!

chatGPT wrote the whole thing... disliked lol

Hey Daxen, it would be neat if you entertained an idea put out by beetle179 a few years ago, being the idea of quantifying some notion of "total energy", to compare really high-level unit based runs, that would consider things like your kinetic/potential energy. So at a given point in a run, whether you're at the bottom of the ramp or just entering it, you could see some notion of your total energy that would consider things like horizontal speed + height. Not sure if this has conceptual issues tho, just an idea for your blender stuff since u have access to all the datapoints

interesting stuff!

Didn't know there is a way export demos to blender. I kinda want to relight some maps and render them out in cycless.

Fantastic project!

absolutely love your videos, Great stuff!

banger after banger thank you daxen

SCIENCE my dude, freaking lets goooo

This is amazing, youre truly pioneering something great for surf videos, good shit man

awesome. is there github repo to see code?

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I really appreciate the efforts you put into these projects! Also I immediately spotted the unit display acting different on not so zen

very good

Nice one, keep the good work :)

@oui

very nicely done mate.

Naaah montage is still really cool man

about the shading on the mesh, i think all you have to do is just make the edges of the brushes sharp usually done by going in edit mode > Sharp edges, not sure how to do that in python

The mix of house/trance track combined with the result surf&bhop animation reminded me a lot of 2008's DOD:S or Source mods frag montages. You have no idea how hard I just vibed.

We definitely need more videos like this. Appreciate everyone for coming along and making it a fun event. :D

Such a shame you had to run into so many problems and mistakes, but honestly I really love the idea, soif you ever feel like you have the energy to give it another try, and maybe have some people helping you with the coding and with the annoying bugs, then I'd love to see a 2.0 version! Still, respect for all the work you put in and for your honesty, I'm sure you're the one who's annoyed about it most so don't worry about any of us :D

I love this, really nice bro

cool stuff Daxen!

You have issues, lol. My CS2 can't read/access cfg files, demoui is invisible and more, I can't record demos or view them. Running the exe as admin or granting "do whatever you want" rights results in the same crashes. I can also reinstall to keep the issue aka not fix it but wasted some time.

No Map can turn into a failure, you only learn stuff, you dont forget it! Keep Making Maps youll make it work sometime and dont give up on it!

This is incredible, I have never seen anything like this before. Quite an innovative project!

Tbh it would be just easier to use propper and make the map actually playable. You would spend a lot of time setting up the models tho.

Mind sharing that music playlist?

Unironically would have been less effort to make this a functional CS2 map instead of struggling with Source 1 Hammer and Blender

seems legit

why not just turn the geometry into props? that's what valve did for the new CS maps.

why does it say jump ivory when its surf ivory?

Nice stuff man Did you try cloude he's such a better coder

this is one of the most unquie and interesing projects ive seen in a while, I hope u continue this and post more

Could you tell me the name of the song in the final demo?

You are Legend for even going this far for this Big Map Project We Love You :D

All due respect, this just seems like blender skill issues, everything you mentioned could just be fixed in blender. Still a cool project though!

This is a super cool idea and really well executed! Never thought you could stitch so many maps together, but the use of the SourceTV cam is such a smart solution! Got a quick question though, does anyone know the name of the song that plays during the showcase at the end? Closest I can find is ”Alektro - When I see you dancing” on soundcloud, but am unable to find this specific version/remix of the song.

my 25c - in Blender, you can probably just remove keyframes where the spinning happens instead of cutting the video Interpolation between keyframes can be changed by selecting desired keyframes (all of them in your case by pressing A) and pressing T while hovering cursor over the timeline viewport.

YOOOO, SMOOTH transitions I would absolutely love to play this Check my defrag movies too

A thing you could do (would take hours if not days) is to port the maps into source 2, and then stitch them together

First off, failure implies to me personally that there is no way of accomplishing the task due to things out of your hands. But this? I wouldn't at all consider it a failure. And I wouldn't consider it embarrassing either seeing you got as far as you could, would any other person be able to do this? You got to be happy with what you can accomplish, and hope that you can reach the point of fully completing your concept one day.

I hope you give this another shot, cause even with the errors it's a really cool idea. I could totally wrong but I think the version of source that Momentum Mod is using allows larger maps in hammer and things of that nature, plus I bet they would accept a map like this into the game. They also have a way to record a demo so maybe that export process could be smoother with them. So you should consider getting in contact with some of them if you want to try this again.

very cool

I am subbing

I think you're putting yourself down a little, especially since you probably don't need an AI for your code. You seem to have a decent basic grasp of the code already, and just need to dedicate a little time to learning syntax.

Great video! I'll be sure to use it as a reference for a future 3D project

Not a total failure, you learn a lot by this experiment. As you mentioned planning is really important, that's the first step is almost anything. As for the material problem, not a huge issue. With a bith of knowledge you can recreate or fix source materials, they are pretty simple 99% of the time. Same for the shading issue, blender cant or wont recognise that the imported assets from source are soft or hard shaded. You can simply fix this by turning everything hard shaded, there are so few BSP Brushes that use soft shading it wont matter. If you need further help just hit me up.