A bit OTT?

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Is this door frame type thing over the top, not in the way of r_speeds but just as a look?

Yes, imho. Seems really unnecessary unless you're conforming to some kind of a theme where such unusual curves are common.

I think it all depends on your theme and how you plan to texture it. Of course in my opinion if you have such a highly detailed doorframe then the other things in the level should be equally as detailed or more. Otherwise it may stand out, even if you find a suitable theme.

It looks a bit wierd if there is no reason for it...

Thanks for your opinions, I thought it looked a bit ott mainly because its just a door frame. Thanks for the help, any more opinions?

It looks odd by itself. But if the rest of your level contains wall details and such, it would look really good.

As well, lower the detail on it a little bit. Its increasing Rs for nothing. Unless this is a very low detailed area, in which case a highly detailed door trim would look out of place.

Another thing. Your trim has a lot of detail. Which would look good if the rest of the room followed suit. Problem. Your doors look plain. Adding little pieces of 2*2 units or so in a vertical or horizontal manner to represent bars of steel holding the door together. Adding detail for the lock, or hinges, or even putting little holes in the door, like cracks through the wood. either in brushes or with a { texture.

Just a though.

Floor looks odd too how it goes down 16 units for the door.

Wild Card said:
It looks odd by itself. But if the rest of your level contains wall details and such, it would look really good.

As well, lower the detail on it a little bit. Its increasing Rs for nothing. Unless this is a very low detailed area, in which case a highly detailed door trim would look out of place.

Another thing. Your trim has a lot of detail. Which would look good if the rest of the room followed suit. Problem. Your doors look plain. Adding little pieces of 2*2 units or so in a vertical or horizontal manner to represent bars of steel holding the door together. Adding detail for the lock, or hinges, or even putting little holes in the door, like cracks through the wood. either in brushes or with a { texture.

Just a though.

Floor looks odd too how it goes down 16 units for the door.

Carefull now. huge ammounts of small brush-based detail can start to look tacky in a hurry.

The brushwork itself is nice enough, just ensure its environment suits
it. The brushwork surrounding it in that shot, suggests to me that it
doesn't. I'd also say use less faces on your curves - there is little
need for it to be quite that smooth really.

It's gonna look like a prefab if the rest of the map is low-poly. By the way, there's absolutely no reason to make it with so many polygons.

Can we see a textured version

G.Ballblue said:
Can we see a textured version

Nope, im just trying out some stuff for a HL2 map so there be no textures yet.

Thanks for the replys, I think i've got an idea of what to do with it.

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I think this one is better :

Doesnt seem like much changed. You removed a part at the top of the frame...

Just so you know for next time $loth, this forum is more for questions
pertaining to entities/brush errors/compiling - ie, things that can
have a "correct" or "incorrect answer".

Please put all beta work in the "Maps" forum, otherwise it just makes
my futile attempts to run this forum as Q&A database even more
difficult..

So dont do it again! ;P

I think it's a little too much wpoly for something the player will
ultimately glance at for a few seconds. Looks kind of nice, but
ultimately not too efficient for Half-Life IMO.

I think it's a little too much wpoly for something the player will
ultimately glance at for a few seconds. Looks kind of nice, but
ultimately not too efficient for Half-Life IMO.

im just trying out some stuff for a HL2 map

Oh, my bad. shrug :biggrin:

Not much point in HL2 stuff either, since you can't test it and have no idea what kind of stuff HL2 can do either. But whatever!