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It looks quite dark, perhaps too dark, but it's also very interesting. I agree the cloud aspect doesn't really show - add some really tall towers that end up in the clouds, or add moving clouds and particles together with a windy sound and the windows to the ground as BlisTer suggested.

What I like here are the almost surrealistic looking structures. The lighting dots in the distance look interesting as well. I'd suggest using some more color variation for the lighting though because it's a bit too grayscale right now and that's not just caused by the dev textures as far as I can see.

Keep it up indeed, looks promising. " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

If you need help then use my tutorial:

Get your .jpg, use IrfanView to convert it to .tga, make a folder called mytexes in this place

C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppshabboicounte
r-strike sourcecstrikematerialsmytexes

and here as well:

C:Program FilesValveSteamSteamAppshabboisource
sdk_contentcstrikematerialsrcmytexes

ok now you have the .tga so right click vtex.exe and send it to desktop, now open up the place where the .tga is and drag it onto the desktop as well.

then again drag it onto vtex.exe and a black box should appear, if successful it will say something like:

input, output directory blah blah and then press any key to continue

you should end up with a .vtf in the folder called mytexes and also an empty .txt

open up the .txt and write:

"LightmappedGeneric"

{ "$basetexture" "yourfoldername/yourtexname" }

(exactly as I have written it but in place of folder name put mytexes and your texname put fence1.

ok nearly done, save as and rename it

to fence1.vmt and copy this new .vmt to the two folder called mytexes in the css materials folder and the sdk one as well!

Ok thats basically it so start hammer, go to browser and type the name of the texture and if it comes up then you are successful!

Make a quick map and it should hopefully work!

*Thats it and I found it very useful*

I would think that if you had a very large scrolling sky texture of some sort that you could have it exceed the edges of the visible sky but have say very broad edges of sky material to hide it in. In this way, you could have a slowly moving sky without any repeat say in a 15 minute frag.

In fact, with the texture being transparent, you could have multiple ones at different heights and densities to simulate cirrus and cumulus clouds perhaps.

Just because you can't use photoshop doesn't mean you can't use textures from google " SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">

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