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Posted by ReNo on Wed Apr 5th at 5:47am 2006

Fill those interior spaces up with something - benches, pillars, low divider walls, planters, timetable boards, trash cans, etc... At the moment it feels unfeasibly wide open and empty. The city area looks to be sticking too rigidly to a grid style layout, complete with 90 degree corner. Try and pull buildings back a bit so they aren't all lined up with one another and the pavement so precisely. Also, go crazy with overlays - obviously this is still early days and typically overlays are one of the latter stages, but you are using quite large expanses of the same texture so overlays (together with some contrasing lighting) will help break up the repetition a lot.



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Posted by Vash on Wed Apr 5th at 5:57am 2006

The only thing in your post I hadn't planned on doing was rotating the buildings, which I will do. I was going to put in a turn for the road, but it was such a bitch and I held off on it. Everything else is planned for a later stage. Right now I'm trying to get the basic brush work and sequences in, then I know where not to block off points with props. Thanks for the crits.



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Posted by Orpheus on Wed Apr 5th at 9:21am 2006

My f**king gawd Vash... You've been here far to long.



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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Wed Apr 5th at 2:14pm 2006

The curved flourescent lights in the first shot look strange and unrealistic. Perhaps a different lighting fixture or type would look better.




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Posted by $loth on Thu Apr 20th at 8:21am 2006

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:

Some images in this post have been automatically down-sized, click on them to view the full sized versions:

Started to make a map based around my local Odeon (a multiplex for the non UK'ers), Unfortunatly I can't find the vmf so I've had to start it again, not that bad as it was kind of bland before. These are some shots of the old VMF (only did a little bit), i'll post some of the new version which i've been working on for a few days when I get home.








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Posted by Orpheus on Thu Apr 20th at 11:05am 2006

Image #1: Other than its a box with stuff inside, increase the texture size a bit. You have bricks, not child's blocks in those walls. Look at your "Exit" sign, there must be 30 bricks behind it alone. Up the scale a it till you have 5 or 6 only.

Image #2: Reminds me of the original Wolfenstein. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_lol.gif">

Somehow I expect to hear a "di-dip" when you walk over an item. <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">

Oh, watch those file sizes bud.





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Posted by $loth on Fri Apr 21st at 8:40am 2006

Soz Orph, i'll watch them in the future <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif">

I won't have the internet at my place till next week so no pics until then. The new(er) version is a lot better, though thanks for the tip about the brick scale Orph, I always thought that having the scale about .25 will make it overstreched.

P.S Haven't played Wolfenstein :P




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Posted by snowforskate on Fri Apr 21st at 12:33pm 2006

I'm realy trying to improve my architectural design skills so I've decided to work on a villa style map. I belive this will be my first serious attemt at mapping. I'm satisfied with my previous releases but I know they just dont cut it from a perfessional point of view. The map is only about 10% done I would say by these screens, but please do throw me any ideas that come to mind.
(I'll post more progress in a couple weeks)
http://img127.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dmdgcvillav1000554cv.jpg
http://img127.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dmdgcvillav100066os.jpg



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Posted by $loth on Fri Apr 21st at 12:54pm 2006

It needs a lot more work eye candy wise, there is a lot of repetitivness(sp?) with regards to the textures, I understand that it's only about 10% done so I can't really predict what else you are going to do though I will offer some advice.
The wall which is going through most of the right hand side doesn't fit in, it looks like it belongs in yorkshire, not in spain. Also a lot of the walls are too flat, variation is quite important imo and can quite easily make a map look a lot better.
Take for example some of the 'waist height' walls that are in there. Too add some variation to the architectual side of it you could make the top 20% of it slightly wider, and for texture variation you could put a 'trim' (just type that into the texture browser) texture around the side of the wider part. Variation is a good thing, so try and vary things slightly in every aspect (e.g. wall height and depth, textures (scale and actual textures).


[edit] hmm seems like it doesn't like the space...




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Posted by snowforskate on Fri Apr 21st at 3:32pm 2006

Thanks for the reply, I know it needs A LOT of eye candy still, I've been comming up with non stop ideas for this map. My main work so far has just been getting the layout right for flow purposes. I didnt want to have any areas that are even a slight dead end. About the wall, I know something about it looks out of place still, but I cant seem to pinpoint it. mabee ill just rebuild, Here is a better look at that wall...
http://img522.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dmdgcvillav100083gk.jpg

I tried to change one from the other slightly as you will notice to reduce the wall looking repedative. I'm having the concrete supports extend above the wall atm because I was thinking of putting flags on the top of each one. I'm strating to consiter rebuilding the whole thing tho because it dosnt realy fit a villa, huh? or maybee it would look better with the flags on, and ropes tieing the wood logs together on top, but havnt got to that yet so idk... even then it still might not fit the "villa" scene. I'll keep you guys posted on the progress once I get a few more weeks work done.



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Posted by $loth on Fri Apr 21st at 5:16pm 2006

I don't really se it fitting in as a villa, try going on google image and looking up some villa pictures. I personally think this one could be for some good inspiration : http://www.villa-nice.com/images/fotos202.jpg

I also think it could do with a lot more green stuff.





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Posted by Orpheus on Fri Apr 21st at 11:10pm 2006

You know Snow, if you posted a decent resolution, you could also post a decent image with it. Decreasing a 1200 res picture to under 100k always looks worse than doing a 100k image of an 800 shot.

Try harder to get those 800x600 screens up for us to view.





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Posted by $loth on Tue Apr 25th at 6:48am 2006

Hey i've finally got internet back <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">
I've given this map a few more hours into it so here's a few ingame screen shots:

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/suicidle_tramp/Map%20Stuff/odeon/

(don't worry orph, all <100k <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_wink.gif"> )




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Posted by Orpheus on Tue Apr 25th at 10:04am 2006

? quoting $loth

(don't worry orph, all <100k )

/me giggles

*clicks on link... 1st image 105k*

/me rolls <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/rofl.gif">





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Posted by $loth on Tue Apr 25th at 10:28am 2006

<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/sad.gif"> :P




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Posted by $loth on Wed Apr 26th at 9:44pm 2006

I've changed the outside layout, I decided that i'm going to enlarge it because it seemed quite small for me, and it will give me a chance to build a sewer into it.

Got some (under 100 k) pics here: http://homepage.ntlworld.com/suicidle_tramp/Map%20Stuff/odeon/

The new ones are 0015 +, though please don't say anything obvious of pic 15 :P It's just a reference to the layout, i've got some things planned for the outside, to add shop faces to the buildingsand complete the rest, add a sewer to the ct spawn, then onto finishing the building. To the left there's going to be a sea front <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_biggrin.gif">




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Posted by Addicted to Morphine on Fri Apr 28th at 3:37pm 2006

In general I like the way the outside looks more than the inside -- but if you want to keep the curvyness of the building in shot 17, change the texture from brick to something else. It just doesn't make any sense to see brick curve like that.




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Posted by $loth on Sat Apr 29th at 11:42am 2006

<img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif"> Cheers, it does look a bit unrealistic like that :S I'll be doing some more of this next week and get some *properly* compiled screen shots (I think I had a leak in these ones).




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Posted by G.Ballblue on Sat Apr 29th at 6:05pm 2006

Something I started working on; hoping to get in my profile soon

Note: What the hell happened to the anti-table breaker? :O




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Posted by nooba on Tue May 16th at 4:25am 2006

Here are some early screenshots of my DODS map

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C&C welcome <img src=" SRC="images/smiles/icon_smile.gif">





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