WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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    fucking DUDE, that is pretty sweet. your own assets?

    Thanks! Yes mine all mine. All them textures and models except the skybox that is.

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    Posted a wip of this some 10 pages back. Gave it some more work and then sent in this wip applying for a game dev school's art program.Skyboxes stolen from tf2.

    http://i.imgur.com/duySv.jpg?1

    http://i.imgur.com/N2Klp.jpg?1

    If anyone has tips on how to use alpha transparency for foliage in source it would be kool.

    in the vmt you have two options:

    to use full 8bit alpha, taking advantage of gradients in the alpha channel (ie: all ranges from 0% to 100% opacity), then use:

    "$translucent" "1"

    the downsides are sorting issues, so not too good for trees and bushes/grass where you have a lot of alpha planes close to each other.

    to use 1 bit alpha, where the alpha is either ON or OFF, then use:

    "$alphatest" "1"

    you can tweak the amount of alpha that gets "clipped" by using this:

    "$AlphaTestReference" "0.5" (try different values)

    you'll also probably want this to make the texture two-sided:

    "$nocull" "1"

    I love the structure of it but the colour imho is too washed-out and odd looking.. the green doesn't work with the red very well, I'd change the gamma of the red parts to be more green and desaturate a little...

    Here's a quick tip how I'm doing color pass on the scene: try to find your color palette (what kind of greens and reds you want to use, how much saturated and so on. look for "kuler" in google ant use this app to get the best palette that will fit) and use it on textures of any kind (grass, trees, roads, sky), then apply weather conditions (fog, desaturation, brightness, contrast, color correction - looking for reference pics would be good but you're making a game environment, it's more like making moody movies than pictures) and then try to postprocess it with additional vignetting, dof, noise or whatever you want.

    It's not a perfect way but still it will make your scene more moody and with better feel.

    COD:MW pripyat level was really moody bit it lacks colors, avoid huge desaturation or one color dominant

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    Stalker was fine

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    ...or Skyrim

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    Thanks. I've really put in some serious googling to find techniques for this but never stumbled upon alphatestreference. Will try that out.

    Puddz: Glad to hear

    thanks guys for all the tips, will try to figure something out

    as i said the color scheme is a big experiment (and i'm using only SDK assets) and i'm aware that green plus red are not the best friends

    will work on it later on

    So I have an idea for a short single player mission, 15-20 minutes. I could do it in either HL2 or Crysis 2. Basically in Crysis 2 I could script it much faster and visually it would probably look much nicer but there wouldn't be many assets I could use and the AI types aren't as interesting as in HL2. Also HL2 would be easier to get players for. I'm leaning towards HL2. I want it partly as a portfolio piece but also just as a level that people can enjoy. Thoughts?

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    Do it for whatever game you enjoy the most, since you're most likely to finish it then.

    Yep, think in what engine you fill more comfortable ang just go and do some great shit.

    BUT! if you plan to put it in your portfolio it should look enough good as Dear Esther. If not - HL2's source engine isn't the best engine to show right now...

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    Yep, think in what engine you fill more comfortable ang just go and do some great shit.

    BUT! if you plan to put it in your portfolio it should look enough good as Dear Esther. If not - HL2's source engine isn't the best engine to show right now...

    artist alert, artist alert. if it's a level design portfolio it could be dev textures as long as it plays well. some art polish is nice but HL2 still looks pretty good, look at episode 2, it's not entirely shit you just have to pick and choose your battles as far as art goes :S

    Quote from Rick_D

    Yep, think in what engine you fill more comfortable ang just go and do some great shit.

    BUT! if you plan to put it in your portfolio it should look enough good as Dear Esther. If not - HL2's source engine isn't the best engine to show right now...

    artist alert, artist alert. if it's a level design portfolio it could be dev textures as long as it plays well. some art polish is nice but HL2 still looks pretty good, look at episode 2, it's not entirely shit you just have to pick and choose your battles as far as art goes :S

    You should practice what you preach xD xD xD

    By the way, I wonder if an designer and an artist who work together on a project for their book is good, I mean does it' help to prove that you can work closely with someone ?

    I really want to work like this because i'm sick about people saying I'm a LD

    Quote from Rick_D

    Yep, think in what engine you fill more comfortable ang just go and do some great shit.

    BUT! if you plan to put it in your portfolio it should look enough good as Dear Esther. If not - HL2's source engine isn't the best engine to show right now...

    artist alert, artist alert. if it's a level design portfolio it could be dev textures as long as it plays well. some art polish is nice but HL2 still looks pretty good, look at episode 2, it's not entirely shit you just have to pick and choose your battles as far as art goes :S

    Even if you're a LD it's good to show your env creation skills. Try even if you have none. No env creation skills (not art skill, just composition and feeling of the shape) makes LD a scripter that you need to fix the env after his pass.

    Still I think that grey/orange prototype levels are my favorite

    3Dnj: Why it could be bad? It's very important can you work with different people and I'm not saying "friends" but totally different guys, dicks maybe.

    iw as thinking about that for a mapcore challenge, everyone who is interested puts their name in the hat, we pick an artist and a LD randomly and pair them together then they have a month to create some small level together.

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