WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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I feel like something is missing but I really don't know what it is.

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Hey - the materials are very flat, more shine in them - to get a wetter look would help a lot, it always does with what I assume is an ice corridor.

Also, you have quite a bit of man made structures in there, it''s kinda weird, it's like they had walls but then they turned to ice. Or there was an ice corridor naturally and then they added some supports there for some reason? If you look at some ref you'll notice the occasional light, and some walking panels on the floor to not slip up all the time. Still this is not real life, but if you want it to make "sense" then it's a good place to start.

A good trick you can do, is to add the ice behind glass windows, which makes a little more sense,

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Reminds me of the tunnel run at alp du huez

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I was basing it more on this

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and this

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It's the seedbank thing in Norway, pretty cool place.

I think what was missing was a proper texture, so I came up with this:

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Are you re-adding the supports? I think it needs something to break up the texture.

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I was basing it more on this

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and this

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It's the seedbank thing in Norway, pretty cool place.

I think what was missing was a proper texture, so I came up with this:

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Holy crap, I am using the same pics as reference for my map

It'll be set in an vault for nuclear waste.

I'm gonna post some screens when I'm back on my computer.

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Back with a pic (early WiP):

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Posting this here hoping someone can help me out

I've modelled the warehouse construction and this is what it looks in-game..

notice some parts are very dark for some reason.

what I've tried so far:

split up the model into different parts - didn't help

cut out parts of the mesh that were intersecting some brushes - didn't help

tried moving around light origin - there was a little difference, but it was still very dark

different map compile options(static prop polys, static prop lighting) - basically I have no idea what I'm doing, it ended up being super bright.. not cool

tried to mess around with static mesh properties, disabling shadows, vertex lighting, no difference

pls halp!

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try and set the light origin to a model that is lit correctly

Shit I'm so dumb, solved it right after I posted my problem.

basically add more geo if your prop looks like shit.

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Shit I'm so dumb, solved it right after I posted my problem.

basically add more geo if your prop looks like shit.

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Care to elaborate to a fellow noob?

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Care to elaborate to a fellow noob?

source uses vertex lighting, so you need vertices that can receive lighting information and my geometry had literally none, only a flat surface was exposed to lighting and well, it hardly received any.

at least that's how I understand it, maybe someone more experienced can enlighten us.

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Care to elaborate to a fellow noob?

source uses vertex lighting, so you need vertices that can receive lighting information and my geometry had literally none, only a flat surface was exposed to lighting and well, it hardly received any.

at least that's how I understand it, maybe someone more experienced can enlighten us.

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Cool. Could you share the before/ after lighting?

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Cool. Could you share the before/ after lighting?

sure, I'll keep the images in links, don't want to spam this thread anymore.

before / after

CSGO needs the recent lightmap system for models made for TF2 ...

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=23288

Wooohooo !! Source just learn how to make fire !! o/

Quite surprised to see no posts about this gem yet that I ran across on Facepunch:

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Im going to try that on a brick I made for de_fuel

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Quite surprised to see no posts about this gem yet that I ran across on Facepunch:

{"$basetexture" "nicoreda/brickwall1_pa" }Basetexture have: RGB + Alpha = Diffuse + Heightmap [Blocked Image: http://img110.xooimage.com/files/6/9/4/untitled-477ab01.jpg] If I may link: http://facepunch.com/showthread.php…=1#post45897957

According to that same thread, it seems that parallax-shader is unlit.

Ready for thursday's playtest. It's going to be something really different. No normal lanes and "mid".

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Quote from tomm

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Care to elaborate to a fellow noob?

source uses vertex lighting, so you need vertices that can receive lighting information and my geometry had literally none, only a flat surface was exposed to lighting and well, it hardly received any.

at least that's how I understand it, maybe someone more experienced can enlighten us.

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I don't think it was the issue though, with an info_lighting this could have been solved imo, also you could resolve it by compiling your map with the -staticproplighting and -staticproppolys options.

There's also the "Ignore surface normals" and "Disable vertex lighting" wich are in the prop_static options. Creating more meshes than it needs is not the solution imo.

Info lighting are useless if your vertex don't receive any light.