Glass in Half-Life isn't meant to be used so dynamically as to be the surface for a tube or hallway, nor is it very good in broken form, and, in your map, you have both of these, combined into one object no less.

The orangey room looks good, but the greyer room is teh no, mainly because of the side support architecture; it seems like somthing that would fold in on itself; nor is it terribly complex in there.

Triangle roofed- hallways dont exist for a reason, make it an arch.

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this room seems the most thought out IMO, its suffers from texture choices, but the area very much reminds me of a section i saw in Unreal2.. but whatever the source, the area looks very nice, and should do well when completed.. i highly suggest some alternate textures.. even if you stick to the stock HL ones (which i still love) you need something different that your current choices.

good luck on this one T.B.

I feel your pain Orph. I've taken to writing critiques in MS word and then pasteing them into the post window in order to avoid this very frustration.

I'll be waiting for it.

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this hall, although unique in architecture, would not be a design of my choice, the narrowing of the walls, would force the player to stay toward the center to avoid clipping on the walls, also the narrow top would eliminate the need for the girder at the top.. my suggestion, for what its worth, slope the walls the other way, this will increase the illusion of playable area, and possible lead to more interesting architecture. also the alignment is going to be a nightmare, already it is obvious and will prolly only get worse.


this area/room, has much more thought involved, IMO its only shortfall is its textures, the architecture is better but the support columns on the walls look wrong, no real structural support, i suggest a quake approach perhaps, have the support columns angled outward on opposition to the walls shape..


a boiler perhaps? doesn't matter what it is, machinery, even fictional ones add a certain spice to any map, still i suggest other texture choices.. also the r_speeds seem excessive in here, try gl_wireframe 2 to ascertain why, cause what is causing it may not even be in this shot, but still requiring better visblocking.


this area is my favorite, the glass has already been mentioned, so i will leave it alone save the textures.. get more.

[color=tan]this room seems the most thought out IMO, its suffers from texture choices, but the area very much reminds me of a section i saw in Unreal2.. but whatever the source, the area looks very nice, and should do well when completed.. i highly suggest some alternate textures.. even if you stick to the stock HL ones (which i still love) you need something different that your current choices.
good luck on this one T.B.


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