ZGZ

Its been a while since i did a sci-fi level so i thought i would do one for the SP compo, spiffy spaceship models are by Fishy.

Low level

High level

Leet spaceship

Crate in a corridor, zzzzzzz...

All the internal rooms are empty and i was after some suggestions for stuff to put in them and maybe something that would fit inside that big dome ?

tia

/edit - just noticed those outside screeny's are bright, they're darker ingame

Hmm ... I like the architecture, but that's one ugly skybox.

Heh, i may have to change it

It's looking quite good BH. A few things I can think of

-Change the sky, it looks ugly :/
-In the low level shot, the undersides of most of the structures dont have very good definition... They look somewhat bland. Maybe use better textures, add borders around or something
-The landing strip really ends very abruptly. ROund off the edges, or add a ramp or build a wall around it.

• <3 those lights

-Textures on the model look very bland
-In the spaceship pic, the ground texture looks overstretched, and the texture on the wall behind the ship is misaligned (I think)
-The corridor with a crate room is brilliant. Just do something about the shaderlab roof texture, it looks out of place.

Very nice. I don't like those huge strip lights in the last screenshot
though. Some of the outside textures seem highly stretched, but there
isn't really much you can do about that.

It's cool and all, but aren't one or two of those NS textures? [I apologize for any sabotaging of the thread from my saying this, it really looks like a good map ]

I don't know ... if you darken it a bit, it would be good, I suppose, but now it looks so bright ...

And congratz, you just sent in snarkpit's 300'st HLDM map ! joy !

Lol @ 300th map, i'll have to use that in the title

Yeh, do it ! Something to be proud of !

Thx Frag :biggrin:

"-Change the sky, it looks ugly :/" - yup, ForceFlow mentioned this as well so i'll find something better

"-In the low level shot, the undersides of most of the structures dont have very good definition..." - yeah, there's a lot of stretched textures to get wpoly down but i'm hoping to get round this.

"-The landing strip really ends very abruptly. ROund off the edges, or add a ramp or build a wall around it." - good idea, will go for rounded bits as they won't affect polys too much in those areas.

"-Textures on the model look very bland" - prolly because most of that model has shiny surfaces, its very spiffy imo

"-In the spaceship pic, the ground texture looks overstretched, and the texture on the wall behind the ship is misaligned" - yup, its another stretched tex for the landing platform, i'll have to improve it and the weird wall.

"-The corridor with a crate room is brilliant. Just do something about the shaderlab roof texture, it looks out of place." - agreed, i'll rip it out and use something that matches.

Very nice. I don't like those huge strip lights in the last screenshot though.

bleh, the strip lights are staying in :smile:

It's cool and all, but aren't one or two of those NS textures? I apologize for any sabotaging of the thread from my saying this

Sabotage away :smile: just checked and they're mostly NS/HL and a couple from CS/VS.

NS doesn't look kindly upon using their textures in non-NS maps :sad:

Really ?

/edit - ahhh yeah, so you do, thanks for pointing that out :smile: its at an early stage so its no problem to change them.

If I were you, I'd make those sprites far smaller. Aim for subtlety.

Ok, consider it done

I dunno about making them smaller - the lights with obvious sprites are few and far between so i think its acceptable to have them quite prominent. I think a better solution would be to drop the render amount quite significantly. Worth trying both and seeing which looks better at any rate.

Thx, good idea they'll prolly end up as a compromise as the outside bits are making it difficult to get them scaled properly so they look ok at close and long ranges.

The last screenshot looks really good, but maybe you should tone down the blue strip lights a little so there are more shadows.

Quality of last screen is grate... I really pain for you the time of those compilies -- Argh!! Skybox!

Yeah, it was a long compile but i got help and reduced it to 7 hours

ZGZ means zero gravity zebra.But there is zero gravity and there is no zebra