WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

My first skrins hear

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I feel like I'm actually seeing a different part of city 17 for once! Good job imo. I'm sure others will give you some better criticism to make it even sexier.

Increase your ambient brightness a lot more and make the normal brightness a lot less white and you will have quite the map

There's something very fishy going on here but I have no idea what's causing this... any thoughts? (and yeah I did build the cubemaps...)

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that looks so weird

Compile your cubemaps with mat_specular 0

I had this problem too until Furyo saved me

why are you making hl2 based shit now?

Try building cubemaps in LDR and HDR (mat_hdr_level 0/1, or mat_hdr_enabled 0/1)

Then type mat_reloadallmaterials in console, then reload your map. See if that does anything for you.

got inspired looking at screens from Uncharted so I made this little scene:

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the first one is very repetitive but the second one looks great. could be a nice ruin fantasy themed environment. is this meant to be turned into an actual map for a mod/game or was it just pure "doodle"?

thanks, just doodling so far.

You create a really nice mood with the architecture and lighting. The grass looks fullbright though, but I'm sure youve noticed that yourself. Also it looks like sparks come out from the grass, as something just seem to be hanging in the air

Thats really nice, but I feel the white environment light is a bit strong and seeing (or assuming) that this is a visual piece, I would say that you should add a few more brushed here and there. Though it looks good overall. The pipes at the side definitely need to be looked at but otherwise it is a great start.

Looks great, but the HDR is definitely overdone.

Once it gets to the point where the lighter end of the scale starts to burn out, you need to stop. The idea is to let in as much light as possible without causing colour information loss. This is what Valve does, and indeed so does your own eye. ;

wow, i love the mood of the second shot

yeah that second shot is fantastic.

vry early wip

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Lights?

its an early wip. havent even made a lights.rad for my textures yet. but since i uploaded it for other purposes i thought i might aswel add it to the wipsection.

Still messing around with the Q4 editor and my little texture/model set. In case anybody wonders, those tentacles are supposed to be old roots. First wanted to make them out of meat and blood but thought that would be too much of Doom3/Quake4 style.

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Highres Screen:

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