Looks good. Although the building on the left on the second shot
looks too tall compared to how wide it is. If you were to just
widen the bigger part of the house by 1 window width I think it would
look much more realistic.

I've been meaning to get these shots up for a week or so, and have
finally found the time. It's a small dod source map I've been working
on for a month now on and off, and is about 30-40% complete (I probably
should get it up in my profile).

It's set in a small crossroads village/farm area on D-Day morning, with
5-6 buildings, a bridge and stream, fields and hedgerow. The layout is
more of a triangle shape, with the aim of reducing the amount of path
based play by placing the capture points across a wider area in the
middle. Hopefully encouraging more teamplay.

It stills needs optimizing, I got a bit carried away at one point, this
is a cut back version. I haven't much time to work on it at the moment,
what with working, commuting 4 hrs a day, and my single player project.
Hopefully I'll find some free time soon to add more. Enjoy.

(Oh, and the water currently in use isn't the final one, I'm still
trying to find one, though I'm leaning towards a nice clear look)

:biggrin:




This is a little room I did to prove to myself that my displacements don't always have to look like crap, and to figure out what I'm going to do with the ground on de_vestige. Also, in the process of looking at VMT properties I found out about detail.vbsp. The ground is made of three different custom materials using preexisting textures, and two custom detail.vbsp thingies.

Edit: I
realized I should probably just make my own map thread for this map
instead of just flooding this WIP thread. Sorry guys.

Thanks for the feedback. I haven't done anything with lighting
yet (just threw in 3 regular light entities to give it enough light for
a screenshot) and hopefully I can make the lighting interesting enough
to make up for the flat walls (the other side of the room is really
naked right now, I may have to add some subtle pillarwork to it).
It definitely won't be that bright in the end, because this is a zombie
arena after all :smile:

Edit:
Here's an updated shot of the area. Did some ceiling work.
I still need to add lighting (just a single light entity in there now).

Looks quite nice, but as you say the ceiling needs work. Lighting could be better too, as it is currently pretty universal in brightness. I'm sure an area like that (ie. with doors) would have some sort of light fixture/(s) nearby.

CJ: Ewww texture repetition. I know this is HL1 and there is gonna be obvious repetition in such a large scale cliff, but I think you could afford to lose some sharpness in return for scaling it up a bit more. I also think you should sacrifice the grand scale in order to reduce the size of the massively flat expanse and texture repetition, as even with some additional detail I can see it being tough to make such a huge cliff face interesting to look at. Cool looking scenario though, looking forward to seeing more.

Apparently I'm taking my zombie arena in a different direction, and here's whats on the other side of that wall.



I need to work on the ceiling (I'm thinking of doing something like the ceiling in the garage of cs_office).

Any other comments? Too blocky/simplistic?

<DIV class=quote>
<DIV class=quotetitle>? quoting Addicted to Morphine</DIV>
<DIV class=quotetext>Yeah, crete textures are pretty terrible aren't they?</DIV></DIV>

Crete textures look great unless you:

1) use the wrong crete texture that poorly gives you what you wanted.
2) expect crete to look like something other than crete.

I have always gotten excellent results using crete. Assuming my area is concrete in origin. :biggrin:

Yeah, crete textures are pretty terrible aren't they?

I spent a decent amount of time trying to find different textures that
would work, and this is what I came up with. Any thoughts?



Please excuse the lack of lighting.

i'm going to start looking into this SP mapping thing too, once i can get my computer to start up properly again. in safe mode atm.