Wild Cards new map

well WC has been here long enuff to fore-go the usual warning message.

this map is young, and a work-in-progress, so for the most part all i am going to do is post some screens, since i am the one compiling it for him and his upload seems borked ATM..



  well bud, as you can see, the skybox you chose failed to load, so in the rest of the screens i took the liberty of loading one i thought best suited the map...when you figure out why yours failed i can switch it back... but i think for the moment, you will like the choice i made :biggrin:



as you can see, i opted for a night time full moon sky.. with the glow fades you had on the light, i was assuming you were shooting for a night time map anyways..



the rocks on the backside there seem a bit flat.. yeah i know, this is a young map, but i had very little to complain about, this map is very damned good actually.. also that silly cutout section at bottom center that leads into that section.. its to single-player.. no one wants to hop/squat thru there as a main access point.. you need another avenue of egress :smile:



considering all the pipe work, this map is amazingly well optimized.. the r's are pretty damned good.. lots of rocks and pipes and still acceptable :smile:





in these next two shots, the first is actual light levels.. pretty dim in there... the second i brightened up a bit in PSP so people could see how good that hallway really looks.. fairly good architecture..





yup, the next two shots, are 1 original and dark, second brightened up to display the fine area better.. i detect a bit of master reno's influence :heee:   the area favors a certain tutorial i read recently.. still a nice addition, considering no one else has put it to any practical use yet :smile:



wrong render mode perhaps :razz:



looking down, the rocks take on a more flat feel... maybe some water could fit the theme below ??

anyways, except for a few niggles, this map is coming along fine.. i suggest anyone request the link to this map for a bit of a fresh perspective..

very nice map WC, quite an improvement over your first release..

Looking better since the last time I saw it. I like the night feel alot better but the out side seems a bit to bright with the lack of light fixtures. Like i said below you might want to place a floor underneat that bottom part and give it the feel as if  the mountain continues down. Looking forward to see more.

The last few look like straight WC shots. It has a way to go, but has potential.

You've got 200-400 polys to spare before you even hit close to the poly limit, make some better looking rocks.

BTW, the ropes holding the lamps are holding onto nothing, Spiderman style, looks very odd.

Me will email the sky author about the _rt.tga not loading.  It was a nice sky too, night time cliff setting using pretty much the same textures as the rocks I'm using.  And a full moon too.  As well, I'm going to increase the lighting in the hallway and cave areas and decrease it outside.  For the cliffs, I can add a lil bit, (was the max 600 or 800 polys? )  From the first screen, I just realised I had a missaligned brush on the large pipe, me gets to fixing it.  I am going to fix the glow sprites, you never know third time might work out right.  As well, I've been trying to get the rocks to fade with the black ceiling.  But no matter how high I raise it, it dosent work.  Does anybody know how to get it to work?

If you can't get the sky map worked out, send the files or a link to me, and I can adjust them for ya.

But no matter how high I raise it, it dosent work.  Does anybody know how to get it to work?

You can do it with a texture that's rock at the bottom and slowly fades to black at the top. The area at the top of the ceiling also has to be unlit/dark enough so that you don't see the join between the wall and ceiling brushes.

ttfn