Hah, sorry about the res i'm just having a love affair with my new monitor at the moment. As for the lighting, it's already preset to the recommended values suggested by Valve, but thanks for that anyway. By 'tweaking' i meant literally just toning down the brightness of the lights on the pub and the sun is a bit too glaring when you stand looking into it, so i cut that down in size too.
The project is a SP game for default HL2, involving crazy weapons such as sheep launchers and chav guns (it's british thing - spray someone with some White Lightning cider, their clothes change to burberry and they instantly become an enemy to the other bad guys). It's set in the style of a gameshow in a city that has been walled off to house criminals after prison overcrowding became a problem in the near future.
Whilst the story doesnt matter too much we are just trying to put enough into it (however random) so that our team (5 artists, 5 programmers) has enough to do to earn a decent grade for this final year module. It's also not a project that's likely to be publicly released, as we only have a few months to get the whole thing together, in amongst other, bigger modules, so whilst it may be alright for a university project it won't be too polished compared to other SP mods.
it comes from going to university in Middlesbrough. In fact the streets and houses, and the pub in that map are all based on actual Middlesbrough locations. Not the church tho.
We haven't given too much thought to the weapon design yet, we just want to kill some chavs is all.
