CS_Hogwarts

I've been working on this for a bit for the past couple of months, this
is my second attemt at the hall after I scraped it and rebuilt it.
[note: I know that there is a glow missing from the fire].

I'm stuck on the entrance hall, i'm not particualary [sp?] impressed by the pillars so they will get redone.

Help appreciated.

Here's a good thought, texture the ceiling in a skybrush that is different from the one outside. If possible try to fade to a brick texture at the edges. like in the movie. also, do the candles move up and down slightly? (at different times than one another.)

any way to hang banners fromt he ceiling?

make the staircases turn from one place to another. To keep from having to make too much hallway stuff just make both doors at the top go to the same basic place.

Candles not moving atm, am planning to do so [I know it's a bad thing
to say,planning is good doing is better]. I like the thought of the
banners though :smile:

I haven't really got round to doing the stair case yet.

To keep from having to make too much hallway stuff just make both doors at the top go to the same basic place.

Which doors at the top do you mean?

by "doors at the top" i meant that the staircases in the movie always rotate around the bottom of the staircase. And they only go to two positions. So by making the door at position one and the door at position 2 end up going to the same general place, you wouldn't have to worry about making 2 completely different places for players to go. I suggest only making one staircase that you actually walk on and just make those above and below it for effects.

Oh, I thought you were talking about the entrance hall bit, i'm not
100% sure on if you will be able to go up the stairs, it will make it
too big, but I will keep that in mind. I'll be making the lower/dungeon
type area from the stairs though.

either way, It'll be cool. Maybe you could just make a small part of the map off to the side that lets you go into the giant staircase place, but you can't go anywhere from the small platform you're walking on. like make one of your hallways just divert out into a balcony in the stairroom and then go back to wherever it was going. No one's gonna sk questions, this is hogwarts were talking about. Then to keep it from taxing your budget too much just make 3 staircases that move in it and then do the ceiling and floor up with a "blocklight" to give it that "keeps on going" feel.

You got the Harry potter games powered by Quake 3 engine? Use those and basically copy them completely!

Harry potter games powered by the quake 3 engine? erm.....no, I don't have those.

Weren't they Unreal Engine games?

Yes they were unreal engine games. There is a hogwarts map for quake 3 that has practically everything from the books though.

Got some new pics for peeps to feed on, and started a new area of the map.

just a quick thing that poped out at me, the tree in the court yard
needs some earth around it. It looks like its sitting on the man
made ground, not planted in it.

Awesome work dude, love the arches and choice of textures. Also I see you brightened it up a bit :wink: that helped heaps.

Cheers for the feedback, there was a tree which had earth around it but the tree was smaller and wanted something BIG

No they were Quake 3 engine plz, maybe some were unreal, but the one I'm thinking of was definitely Quake 3 engine- don't be fewls, I played them all and I remember the article about it using Quake 3.

Could you please save that for another thread.

Anyways as I said try and find someone who has that game and get the levels and map editors just for those levels, then you can make a perfect recreation!

Now that would be cheating :razz: where's the fun?

You have to remake it with the limited HL2 texture selection!

Its not only cheating but a breach of copyright, and besides those levels sucked, none of them were coherent with each other.

I played the first HP game on the PS and also the second and yea, they sucked.

Anyway I've done some modifications to the front of the building. I got some inspiration from this pic:



This is the new one:

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Hey cool thats the same image I started my map with lol

(The building on the right)





The tree needs to have some dirt or grass around I think, that would look awesome.

clap and cheer glad to finally see this map! You certainly worked hard enough on for HL1 !

:biggrin: cheers ballblue.

@ Zevensoft, I thought so with the layout and the rounded towers, I
just google imaged hogwarts and looked at the first few pages. I'm
gonna be using the leaves decal for some added effect around the edge
of the tree and get working on the last two areas.

Stunning, absolutely STUNNING!

Keep up the good work!

Seeming as I can't update in my profile I'll update what I've been doing here.

I've been fixing the cubemaps into the right place and optimizing for less lag [there seemed to be lots of dynamic lights].

Here are some newer screenies:













Please put down some point's if you think areas can be improved.

It looks nice, but do you think you could do the sky effect on the roof just like in the movies where it was night time in the hall!

I'll give it a try, but will have to do it tommorow.

makes note

I've started to rebuild the hall to make it taller and so that the flags and the sky will fit in.

Sounds cool!

Ok , Possibly make a subdivision map with a loamy soil texture come
throught the bricks as to make it like its growing into the bricks ,

apply the leaves onto the loamy soil and a bit on the stones

As long as it didn't deviate from the actual hogwarts (I've never seen the Harry Potter movie) maybe put some barrels or something in there? It needs a little cover -- if a gun fight broke out in there, I'd sure hate to be in that tunnel :razz:

Thanks for the comments guys, @ parakeet is this for the tree bit that you are talking about?

Ok coming from my gf, the person who knows all about Harry Potter (I don't really see what she does), but apparantly you have the laout but not the look. The rooms don't look much like the actual places, and your missing the back courtyard. But that depends- is this a recreation of the castle from Harry Potter 1+2 or 3? The castle "magically" changed in 3.

The back court yard is the bit with the tree i'm working on atm, but right now i'm re-doing the hall. I'm using the layout from no.3 with some of the looks, but I can't get it all as it's too big.

Ok well in that case you need to neglect almost everything you saw in the 1st 2 films. The castle changed completely (JK Rowling said they change each year with "magic")... Magic my ass woman!

LOL, I prefer the 3rd movie, and I prefer the layout, it seems a lot
more interesting. But like I said I'm creating it with the layout and
some of the looks, but changing it so it's playable in CSS.

Any downloads yet $loth? Pics look pretty good, but I haven't seen the films so I can't really comment on the "accuracy" of them :smile:

I'd be happy to have a look when theres a beta up though :smile:

Good looking map. Being that it's a remake of an unreal tournament map, not sure how well it'll fit into cs. Also, there already is a map with a simmilar theme, so it could be considered duplication to an extent.

On its own though, it looks very nice. Great sky, great layout, good use of models.

Hehe, cheers, I haven't played the Unreal version though (HL(/2) and it's mods are the only FPS that I really play.

Download might be available in a couple of weeks when the layout is
done and I've added in some needed hint brushes, and I've finished the
new version of the hall.But atm I've got some media coursework to get
on with.

Oh go on :smile:

You could sneak the .bsp under the table :smile:

I could when it's done :razz:

put's on strict librarian type voice

You'll have to wait like everyone else

This is what the new hall will look like (haven't compiled since so no in game pic).



For the sky type thing in the top of the hall I'm gonna have some rain.

Awesome work, I really like the arches :smile:

Hehe thanks :smile: I'm working on the rotating stair area atm which is
going to be leading outside towards the CT spawn. A few displacements
there be.

The windows in the Hall aren't that low down, there's a ~5ft wall underneath them (with candles etc. on that). I should know, I'm at the University where they filmed it and all our damn Halls are the same :razz:

God damn, what uni are you at?

The new hall has was only a rough draft, so keep comments like that coming :smile:

It was filmed here in Oxford... and oops I was wrong, seems the walls below the windows are higher up in real life, but the film heavily modified these and extended down the windows to what I said.

In real life: http://images.google.co.uk/images?q=christ%20church%20hall



In the film:

http://www.the-leaky-cauldron.org/images/2002/old/COSHiResGreatHall.jpg

Amazing what technology can do. They look quite different.

Thats not the same room sloth, hes merely saying its the same architectural style. I think your hall (before you do detail) you should work on scale. Your hall is completely wrong in my opinion. Also might wanna work on some kinda effect for the roof- maybe using particles?