Rp_Homeisland

This is my newest map and there u can follow the map creating and give some feedback.
If u ask where are lighting: It added now but u doesnt see it on this images.

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This is definitly your most promising project, so far! Looks like a fun theme.

Please post screens with lighting calculated as soon as possible. It's hard to get a feel of what it's going too look like in a fullbright compile.

calculatin takes many hours to get it ready.
I only calculate it when map is ready.
And this is some kind of fun map....

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Sorry wrong map thread

Posting stuff in the maps forum only makes sense if we can at least forefeel what the map might become once it's finished. My comment was almost entirely about the description, maybe the texture theme. A quick light compile shouldn't take much more than a few minutes and is worth it if you want any feedback at all.

Lighting is an essential part of your map just as brushes, texturing and item placement. You should have an idea for what lighting to use (evening, night, noon... maybe torches for the medieval theme). And for screenshots the visual aspects are quite important. We can't guess what you have in mind, we need a lighting compile. It also gives your map depth so you can tell the size and shape of things easier.

It's worth it. Please do a lighting compile. I bet it's less than 15 minutes.

ok. i add lighting nearly and more screenshots.

Plagued house

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Plagued house is smal and full of zombies.
If u walk midle of the house u drop to under house room what is full of zombies.

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Uh... NICE GREEN-WHITE SMOKE/FOG PARTICLES COMING FROM INSIDE A WALL CAUSING MASSIVE VISIBLE CLIPPING!

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Well, this already looks a whole lot better!

The green-ish fog looks surprisingly good. But is this as dark as it seems? Looks like you have to turn your flashlight on to see anything.

Try adding more lights, and give them a color (warm lights from fire or torches would fit imo).

A screen that shows the bigger scale of this map would be nice also. These are very small parts and it's hard to tell how the map is built up as a whole!

The green-ish fog looks surprisingly good. But is this as dark as it seems? Looks like you have to turn your flashlight on to see anything.

The no light image taken in plagued house cellar where are zombies and no lighting.

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Please consider adding more light to places like this.

As a rule of thumb: People will find your map to be about 2 or 3 times as dark as you do!

So if you already start with a pitch-black room, you're probably making a mistake!

I know that you want to force people to used the flashlight and such (very well done in Episode 1!) but never forget, this is a multiplayer map. It means people play it at different times and cannot really control when a server changes to it.

As a result people will be forced to play the map a daylight. Reflections in the monitor, badly configured too dark screens, ect, ect. People will leave the server and have bad memory of your map if they can't see anything for any reason at all.

Add some torches! You can leave two or three dark corners but you won't regret lighting the place up a bit. I bet.

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New image in front of the plagued house.

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If somebody want here map "test version" i can add it there.

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Well, I have a suggestion: Make the roofs of that house hang over the walls a bit. I don't think roofs like that would ever seem up perfectly with the walls :/

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Breaking the laws of mapping since 2003 and doing a damn fine job at it

First step to island: I now started to make city harbor.

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City sewers

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I am making passanger ship what move round of island. And in shipyard u can make u own ship or boat.

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nice idea!

Just keep the optimization in mind! Maybe this is even a map that could benefit from a bit of fog, so far away parts don't have to be rendered.

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Why snark works.

Please consider adding more light to places like this.

As a rule of thumb: People will find your map to be about 2 or 3 times as dark as you do!

So if you already start with a pitch-black room, you're probably making a mistake!

I know that you want to force people to used the flashlight and such (very well done in Episode 1!) but never forget, this is a multiplayer map. It means people play it at different times and cannot really control when a server changes to it.

As a result people will be forced to play the map a daylight. Reflections in the monitor, badly configured too dark screens, ect, ect. People will leave the server and have bad memory of your map if they can't see anything for any reason at all.

Add some torches! You can leave two or three dark corners but you won't regret lighting the place up a bit. I bet.

only 5% of buildings ar dark (abandoned houses ,warehouses and plagued house). And when u are complited abandoned house u find key to warehouse and there are lantern.

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Comments please.

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Nice idea, still, yet not spectacular. The brushwork is a bit too sterile for the medieval setting. Be careful with brushes used for thin and smallish things like handrails, grates ect. Things like that should be models, ideally, or at least be faked with transparency-masked textures. Too many too little brushes can cause compile errors.

Lighting needs a color. Try making it yellowish for the indoors.

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Why snark works.

No new images here because rad dont run.

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??? i have some erro in the map now it is 99%ready:C

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