dm_attic

Hi everybody, this time it's a start of a "rats map" for hl2dm, all done with my textures and models

enjoy

Looks really nice. I like the textures they are clean and fit well. The room still looks a little plane though. Try having some stuff lying around on the floor.

Ah, this reminds me of yet another cool map i played recently.. DM_Bathroom is nice.

personally, I never liked any rats maps with HL1, cause my frames suffered severely, but with my new PC, I have reconsidered the worth of a well built rats map.

hopefully this will be one :smile:

I like the smooth lightning.

lighting and texture look great, I agree there should be more props.

reminds me of toy commander.

Its very convincing, but it could do with a bit more clutter. The
lighting is absolutely wonderful, I love the colour and angle, it
results in such lovely smoothness and shadows. The bed looks so real I
could just jump right on it :biggrin:

How strange...

strangely... sexy. Fill it up with more stuff, though, or the middle of the floor is going to become a no-man's-land.

objects with a purpose, or belong.

you need to decide if this is a child's room, a teens room, a young adults room or possibly a retired persons room. next you need to place items appropriate to the theme.

you need the tiny things easily overlooked in a rats maps.. light fixtures, wall plugs.. phone line connections.. dust bunnies in the corners. old prophylactic wrappers. lost change.

find a dead cockroach someplace and throw it in there.. preferably a big one :smile:

Wow, it looks great!

Obviously you'll add more stuff to it, to fill it up. But -- I
was wondering, could you give us a shot with a player model or
something in it, I'm just wondering how you worked out the scale.

I hope you plan to release a texture pack :wink:

I don't... you'd be running me out of business

here you go, a strider and two combines to feel the scale ^^

i assume the lack of props, it's only the begining :razz: , making textures and models takes a pretty long time, but all the messy stuff will come, i'm 'only' on 4000 triangles ^^, how can it be playable if it's a kind of killbox.

looks really nice

glad the tv/bed are just blocky p.o.s

Very sexy :smile:
The colour is nice and the bed makes me want to go upstairs now and jump on mine :biggrin:

Love the lighting on this bad boy! Warm and... well, warm!

What 3d package did you use to make your models?

rat maps.. bleh.

I love rat maps. From what I viewed nice Textures . It will be interesting if you do decide to trash the room and have it messy like a kid or teen's room would be. Keep us informed as you get closer for testing, plz!

This looks extremly promising. I'm aculatly amazed at your
artistic ability, something that is hard to make me do. Keep up
the good work. I'll be watching you... :smile:

Until Later...

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Dark_Kilauea
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http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

I saw some updated screenshots of this on Mapcore, and if you think these look nice, wait till you see the new ones :biggrin:

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I love the color scheme. It all fits together perfectly. I really need
to take a break from mapping and learn how to make my own textures.

Books! Make the owner of this room a book worm :smile: . Hehe, those could be
your clutter on the ground. BTW I do like the lighting and textures,
this is one of the "finer" rat maps out there to date.

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Posting And You

wow, thanks for your interest guys, in fact i want to send it about the snarkpit mapping competition, don't know if i m except subject though :/, anyway just for that, a release will certainnelly be avaible for august.

Is it based off your actual bedroom? Just curious.

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errh.. yes it is, but the fact that my bedroom is in france make it a sureal and totally impossible place to be ! ._. ?

You have a nice room :biggrin: Would be cool to make a map of my room, but I think it may be too hard due to all the stuff in my room :-/

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

i post the last one here

i ve rectified the smoothgroups of the tv and added some stuff, more to come

Lego texture looks too repetetive... I'd sort that out.

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Hey Myrk you could make loads of custom textures and try to capture your room as close as possible!

Nothing is impossible if you think you can do it!

Just try and try and TRY and you will get it in the end :razz:

Orph look away now :razz:

Habboi try mapping this-



The funny light colours are from the photomerge, don't have a fisheye lens :-/ and I'd need to learn to model... No question.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

That would really make for quite a map. The drumset in the middle of
the room I'm sure is do-able, depending on how much effort you want to
put into it, and would make for great fun jumping up and down on the
drums. You could set it to play a drum noise each time you jumped
on or shot it. Wouldn't that be cool. ^_~

Map looks sweet btw. Very nicely done.

this map reminds me of the SHOK maps made for ut2004

Map looks great can't wait to play it

Orph look away now :razz:
Habboi try mapping this-



The funny light colours are from the photomerge, don't have a fisheye lens :-/ and I'd need to learn to model... No question.

deah oh deah, i thought my bedroom was untidy :razz:

edit: is it me, or is that plate either broken or not circuler?

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Pay more attention. The curtains, keyboard, chair, bookcase, all three posters, and second desk are all mis-aligned.

It looks like three pictures spliced together, they probably didn't line up since they're from slightly different angles.

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Blame it on Microsoft, God does.

Or as I said-

"The funny light colours are from the photomerge, don't have a fisheye lens :-/ "

Photomerge is an automatic tool. Merely take a few photos that overlap, then go to file --> Automate --> photomerge (in photoshop) and it will build a picture. You can make better panoramics with it.

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-[Better to be Honest than Kind]-

The author of this map has been missing for a while. /me hopes you guys didn't scare him off. :wink:

I'd like to see this one completed.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

And I was just starting to think of him as a brother. A brother of small.

He has posted some updates to the map over at mapcore, and its looking
very cool. Physics pencils and coins that stick into walls like the saw
blades :smile:

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I want your room.

Only for the drums and g-tars, otherwise I like mine more :smile: wewt
for a basement room. My own little penthouse. I wanna shag
carpet the ceilings :biggrin:

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I really like the map though, never seen a rats for dm before.

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The only reason Myrk's room is worse than mine is that drumset over there...

Until later...

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Dark_Kilauea
DVS Administration
http://www.dvstudio-production.com/

He has posted some updates to the map over at mapcore, and its looking
very cool. Physics pencils and coins that stick into walls like the saw
blades :smile:

I found Mapcore but I can't find the coins/pendcil pictures. The WIP thread looks as old as this one.

The two best rats maps I have seen are dm_studyroom & dm_intel_final, with studyroom playing very well and a lot of fun. Here are some screenshots I took:





Other shots if you are interested. Some funny printing on objects.

http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_studyroom01.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_studyroom02.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_studyroom03.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_studyroom04.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_studyroom05.jpg

http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final01.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final02.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final03.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final04.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final05.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final06.jpg
http://www.kain-9.com/images/dm_intel_final07.jpg

And I was just starting to think of him as a brother. A brother of small.

looks like a good start, but he does need a bit more detail like everyone is saying.