Posted by ReNo on Sun Apr 18th 2004 at 1:47pm

It looks a bit grey, to be honest, but it comes across to me as a design choice on your part, so thats fair enough. The problem is that its grey with default HL textures, and those are some horrible textures You should perhaps experiment with some custom textures - check out the wadfather for a whole load of them...

http://www.planethalflife.com/wadfather

Something that doesn't do your map any favours is your lighting. It seems you have used very few sources, and all of them are the same colour. Having some variation in your lighting could do wonders I think - some small coloured lights here and there to break up the monotonous bright white could improve things greatly.

Architecturally, you have some interesting things in here, but a few things just negate them entirely. Namely - the stairs. As far as I'm concerned, those are not physically possible, no one stair is even attached to the next! Put a trim along the sides or something to hide this problem.

As I said, there are a few things of interest in here, for instance those pillars with the thin centre section. I'm assuming this is an early map of yours, in which case its nice to see you using some degree of variation rather than just make big blocks for everything.

I made a somewhat similar map to this not too long ago, called Seneca, which you might wanna check out for some ideas and inspiration. I used light_spots in that extensively to provide lots of contrast, and I think playing around with them could help out this map too. It can be found in my profile if you are interested [addsig]

Posted by |=Tarosek=| on Sat Apr 17th 2004 at 8:40pm

Looks nice. This map would be perfect for LAN games, but would probably be boring for anything else. I give it a 3.5/5, even though I can only choose a 3 for the actual rating.

Posted by SkyOniX on Sat Apr 17th 2004 at 6:52pm

Well, I posted some screen shots but other than that its not to much to say about it other than play it.