WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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Just doing a bit of detail on my Alpha in areas that play well.

Trying to break up the static world of the roofs by having a multitude of them being perpinicular. I've also tried to break up the skyline and make the buildings more interesting by adding the skybridge. Please don't mind the big white box building .

I'm aware that the roof textures are a bit repetative and the endless number of brown airvents is too but Valve seems to get away with it Ok on Lumberyard -- Plus not so many are visible from the ground.

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Same thing here.

I have redesigned the first point in my 5cp map since the old one was similar to Granary and it didnt play all that well. Im not done with detailing it.

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cool new kind of theme swaty

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I think I'm gonna stick with this lighting.

This is my middle point for my 5cp map. What do you guys think of it?

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Hey Swaty that looks grea- stop hijacking my posts please.

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Hrmm??? This is a WIP thread for everyone in case you hadn't noticed.

Please stop the attacks, I don't care about your personal history with him, as long as he behaves here.

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Hrmm??? This is a WIP thread for everyone in case you hadn't noticed.

First room of a new subway survival horror project in GoW.

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Messing around with the Spark editor... It's great! Brush tool is a bit dodgy at times, but I'm getting better at using it.

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Yea been playing a bit with it my self. Love it so far, looking forward to doing a project in it when we can build maps etc.

But yea the brush tool is a bit at times.

I work entirely within the 3d view and have little problem. Do you use the pen tool or the rectangle tool?

I primarily use the rectangle tool and then the line tool to make specific changes. It's very shaky atm though, doesn't seem to do what I want it to. Plus when you delete a face, the lines are still left in place..

Dux, I thought you were already working on NS2? Or are you still using Hammer for it?

I've been working on NS2 for several months now with the editor long before it got released to the public. What I find is to use the line tool to create all your geometry and if you want to make a quick hole in something use the rectangle.

Oh sorry I read your post wrong! I thought you meant you were having a little problem lol.

I was working with the editor before it was released to the public too, Charlie sent me an email about it, but I think you had it a little before me.

I still need to play around with it at some point. All the new content looks pretty solid.

What I see a lot of people doing is going way overboard on the use of props and it ends up looking like a jumble sale. I still incorporate a lot of brushwork into the map with the props to even it out and not look so overly busy. Hopefully the prop excitement will die down

This is my next map that I've been working on for tf2 which I will be releasing after my current 5cp map one that I plan on releasing next week. The map is a dustbowl style map with 3 stages.

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The Dickinson residence, modeled with ~50% accuracy off the real thing (http://%7boption%7d) with a cross-processing color correction filter.

I've been told that I should use detail props for the buttercup field instead of static props, but for a huge area like this (6000x6000) I think the hard-coded detail-prop fade distance (at ~1400 units?) would ruin the illusion of a full field. Even if the result doesn't look as good, I think I'd prefer a fuller looking field. Though either way, I'm pretty sure I have to use 1-bit alpha testing or else the overdraw will kill most computers, and thus it'll look more or less the same no matter what prop type I use. Thoughts, anyone?

I believe there's a client command to increase detail draw distance. However there's a per-prop detail sprite overhead and for a super full field like that it might be easier just to leave it as a prop_static. Just know that lod's is probably encouraged.