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Posted by JFry on Wed Mar 10th at 1:35am 2004

Wow that's some ugly textures. Aside from that I'd much appreciate any constructive criticism you might have regarding the architecture. Also suggestions on lighting or any ambient sounds you would find appropriate would be nice. Thanks.

P.S.-- Sorry if the last screen is dark as that seems to be a problem around here.





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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Wed Mar 10th at 2:04am 2004

Those pics are soo grainy that I do not feel comfortable commenting on their basis alone. Might you provide a DL? [addsig]



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Posted by JFry on Thu Mar 11th at 9:53pm 2004

I will work on putting some pics up on a site. Are .bmp the best quality? I know little about that sort of stuff.



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Posted by Forceflow on Thu Mar 11th at 10:27pm 2004

Map design looks ok ... but the red tank is ugly textured, imho.



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Posted by Kage_Prototype on Thu Mar 11th at 10:28pm 2004

.bmp is not a good idea, they're way too big for the 'net. Use .jpg or .gif. [addsig]



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Posted by Tracer Bullet on Fri Mar 12th at 3:34am 2004

IMO 800x600 jpeg gives the best balence of quality and size. [addsig]



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Posted by Sim on Fri Mar 12th at 10:57pm 2004

If you haven't got an image editing program with jpeg optimising tools, go get the xat.com which is mentioned the heading box when you hit 'new reply'. Unless you have somereally intense detail, 50k is about as large as they should be. [addsig]



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Posted by JFry on Tue Mar 16th at 8:19am 2004

Sorry about the delay real life stuff popped up. Anyways here's some new pictures optimized with the xat.com tool. Hopefully they are of better quality.





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Posted by fraggard on Tue Mar 16th at 9:19am 2004

Just based on the pictures, a few things I can see are

Picture 1:
-Floor and ceiling textures are too repetitive and don't match. Find different ones. Break the brushes up a bit. Give some variation
-There seem to be no light sources... they're probably just around the corner, but I thought I'd point it out anyway.
-That coathanger/pillar thingy has no shadow.
-I like that fallen file cabinet, but it seems out of scale

Picture 2:
-Texturing on the floor isn't so great.
-That light texture looks fugly.

Picture 3:
-Looks somewhat washed out. Use spotlights on those lights hanging over the conveyor
-Wall texture is incredibly boring IMO
-That room hanging out is just wierd. Add some borders to that glass and change the ceiling and floor textures
-conveyors add to the lag a lot in HLDM





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Posted by matt on Wed Mar 10th at 9:40am 2004

the zen pic looks good.



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Posted by Perin on Mon Mar 29th at 2:31am 2004

Looks nice. I think you should fix the repetition of the textures on the ceiling in pic 3. And you should also put up some support beams or something. That may help eliminate the problem of the textures.



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Posted by ReNo on Fri Apr 30th at 4:27am 2004

Looks like somebody is using nearest point texture sampling - they look so blocky :P <br> <br>Look at maps like cs_office for ideas on how to pull off a convincing office environment - they don't only manage it by using spinky textures, the architecture conveys it too. The map is looking not bad, though a bit &quot;standard&quot;, most likely due to some rather simplistic brushwork and the use of default textures. Obviously as its a single player project, going through to retexture is a somewhat daunting and unlikely prospect, so I think you should work on sprucing up the detail in the brushwork where possible.




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