DM-Grand-Diablo_Beta3 Mega Update !!!! image heavy

You always make my level design penis feel small, damn you!

I love it even though you should make that interior area less red

I still think the lighting destroys this map.

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I still think the lighting destroys this map.

indeed

i do like the lighting (although it's a bit too red in places) but what really bugs me is the dome of cologne in there - it looks fantastic as a model on the one hand but on the other hand it's not fitting the style imho. Ofcourse this might be a time and work related thing but I'd say a completely different church would help this map alot.

I've always found lighting in unreal ed rather enjoyable. To me it's like highlighting everything with lots of little lights. I'm talking about all of t he screens, personally. I don't know about the others. The trouble I have looking at the light is it seems like you've placed one directional / skylight / whatever set it's values and that's it. What I think it could use is more highlights. For example down in the street bits where it's darker it would be cool to have some lamps and stuff to give some contrast there. The inside of the buildings is so red it actually hurts my eyes. And I expect having to actually try and play in that will be quite frustrating. I think what would help, too, is if you enabled some of the post processing effects. In all it's just really degrading the awesome look of the architecture. Once you get this fixed it'll look great.

And are you taking these screenshots in max detail as it looks pretty low res to my eyes. Maybe that would help if it was higher.

Nice job! I think the lighting falls down on the last 3 shots and I agree with Dux that the red is too over powered. I'd like to see more of an ambient environment. In your 3rd last screenshot, there's a central light placed there, causing the pillar shadows to beam outwards - but the candles aren't adding to any of that at all (shadows or light source).

In regards to Marc Simoneti - there's a linkedin profile hereand some facebook results come up if you search for him (the one located in France could be him?)

something I notice about this map is it just feels like there is too much going on. In some ways it feels like your over doing it. The environment does not seem to shift well from one section of the map to the other, but that is just my opinion.

The blue lamps in the 3rd pic look a bit out of place and don't seem to affect their environments.

Otherwise looks a tad better now.

I already told you that , but like for most of your works, i'm still amazed on how you can do such an amount of great models & textures. And I actually like the lighting you did in the narrow streets, the shadows coming from the big "sun" direct light are doing a great job, same thing for the blue lights adding a contrast.

The problem i think is that the direct light you used is too strong and flatten all the contrasts of the map, and it also have the same color than the flames.. An idea might be to give the direct light an orange-red color, and for the flames a more orange-yellow color.

Think of idea representation with colors. What's makes something "hellish" for most people ?

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Orange-red, orange-yellow, and also a lot of Black. With the idea of dead/cold fire in head

Anyway : How it looks like ... how it should looks like

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Haha sorry warby

Oh and yes, if you could add some little red particles flying through the city and especially in the dark areas, i think it would give a great boost to the atmosphere.

I agree with koko, the lighting is still below par with the rest of the map. I think you really should turn on the post processing effects and try what koko mentioned.

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I'm loving it! I think the lighting suits the map well, it looks like a fairly simple light setup, but that also makes each element that much stronger.

those heavy blue lights make the scene looking bad

I don't see why you can't try enabling the post processing effects. I really think it would help soften it all up a bit so it isn't so hard on the eyes.