Posted by Leperous on Wed Mar 2nd 2005 at 10:10am
One secret to getting people to download and try out your map is to help them with theirs in return! It's not all about screenshots, but your reputation as well... My advice would be to throw a bunch of comments at other people's maps here, and try again when you have a few more textures in there
Posted by Varsity on Wed Mar 2nd 2005 at 8:30am
Like Myrk says the texture set isn't really appropriate to my style. I'm going to import materials from other sources, but that's in the future.
One things for sure though: I won't bother doing it this way again. I didn't expect much of a response but there hasn't been any at all on how the map plays - not that your comments aren't appreciated. I
guess you need it to look striking before people are interested...
Like Myrk says the texture set isn't really appropriate to my style. I'm going to import materials from other sources, but that's in the future.
One things for sure though: I won't bother doing it this way again. I didn't expect much of a response but there hasn't been any at all on how the map plays - not that your comments aren't appreciated.
I
guess you need it to look striking before people are interested...Posted by Myrk- on Tue Mar 1st 2005 at 9:40pm
Actually the orange helps to get the form of your building sorted before you texture it, but tbh with the poor texture set in HL2, I find you have to build for the textures, not the other way round. [addsig]
Posted by Leperous on Tue Mar 1st 2005 at 9:15pm
? quoting Varsity
It is currently in orangemap stages: basic geometry, developer textures, little to no detail, only one environmental light source, no cubemaps. It is purely for gameplay testing and will not stay in this state!
I remember the pre-release statements all talking about how mappers would have to build their maps like this and then texture them when architecture was complete, but really, there's not much need to do this- save some time and start texturing from the outset!
