Lest You Think I'm a Liar .....

[Rex Claussen]

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[Enjay]

As a Dark Lord of the Sith once said "Impressive, most impressive."

Looking very nice indeed. The three shots of the Xen castle-like structures are a wonderful example of being very clearly Xen, but also your own interpretation of that alien world.

[Rex Claussen]

As a Dark Lord of the Sith once said "Impressive, most impressive."

Looking very nice indeed. The three shots of the Xen castle-like structures are a wonderful example of being very clearly Xen, but also your own interpretation of that alien world.

Thanks, Boss. Because the original HL didn't really show Xen "buildings", I took some liberties with the architecture.

On a related note, the Xen skybox is from the unused resources in the HL game disk. But, while they are clearly alien, they seem a little washed out to me. Therefore, I'm open to using other (more dramatic) alien skies.

[Rex Claussen]

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[Enjay]

On a related note, the Xen skybox is from the unused resources in the HL game disk. But, while they are clearly alien, they seem a little washed out to me. Therefore, I'm open to using other (more dramatic) alien skies.

I used to have a huge collection of skyboxes, but a HD crash (years ago) lost them for me. I got them via google searches though, so there are probably still plenty out there.

That being said, I like the idea of using the originals. If they are too washed out, however, it might be possible to fix that with a bit of tweaking to the colour balance, contrast and brightness of the images in an image editor of some description.

[Rex Claussen]

I'll let you be the judge on whether or not the alien sky seems washed out. If the sky is acceptable to you I'm fine keeping things the way they are.

[Enjay]

From the screenshots the answer is "maybe." They do look as if they are potentially a bit pale pastel-coloured.

I'm certainly happy to look at the images and try a few different adjustments on them to see if they can be made a bit darker/more vibrant. It wouldn't take long to do something like that. So, if you didn't like the results, it wouldn't be a big deal.

[Rex Claussen]

I'm certainly happy to look at the images and try a few different adjustments on them to see if they can be made a bit darker/more vibrant. It wouldn't take long to do something like that. So, if you didn't like the results, it wouldn't be a big deal.

Let me extract the skybox textures and post them here for you to mess with.