WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

Quote from Minotauro

Looking cool so far. Could look better if you edited the brick textures to add snow between the bricks and do some color correction.

Yeah, I was thinking about that, but since these are mostly HL2 textures, isn't it illegal to modify them and distribute them outside of the GCF? I guess I could try creating a snow overlay. That would allow me to use it on multiple textures actually, making it a better option. Any ideas on how to give it a really cold feeling besides using Color Correction? For some reason CC doesn't work with FA:S. I made the environment lighting blue to try to give it that feel without being too saturated. I am also contemplating adding some fire to that destroyed truck to add a red/orange lighting to contrast the blue.

Here is an angle from the other side.

http://danielmiede.com/scrapyard/ps_sno ... 110010.jpg

Quote from DysPatch

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Looks good! Maybe it's the angle from where the shot is taken, but it looks like both barbwire fences are parallel, looking sort of copy-pasted.

yeah, i see what your saying. It's mainly the angle I think, but I will rotate the barbed wire anyways.

Quote from DysPatch

Yeah, I was thinking about that, but since these are mostly HL2 textures, isn't it illegal to modify them and distribute them outside of the GCF? I guess I could try creating a snow overlay. That would allow me to use it on multiple textures actually, making it a better option. Any ideas on how to give it a really cold feeling besides using Color Correction? For some reason CC doesn't work with FA:S. I made the environment lighting blue to try to give it that feel without being too saturated. I am also contemplating adding some fire to that destroyed truck to add a red/orange lighting to contrast the blue.

Here is an angle from the other side.

http://danielmiede.com/scrapyard/ps_sno ... 110010.jpg

I was actually talking about applying color correction to the textures so they look blueish/less saturated!

More references: (damn, only old goldsrc maps come to mind)

http://www.lanmaniax.com/maps_old/html/ ... cility.htm

http://www.lanmaniax.com/maps_old/html/de_frost.htm

Ahhh, I see what you mean. That's brilliant. Again, I will have to modify HL2 textures, but I think Valve has other worries.

I think the barbed wires should go, they look out of place in the middle of the ground there.

Barbed wire fences are used to block of areas not 2 feet

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I think the barbed wires should go, they look out of place in the middle of the ground there.Barbed wire fences are used to block of areas not 2 feet

Well in war time, or at least in WW1, they used barbed wire to funnel enemy troops into MG fire, so they could be used to force the flow of enemy troops. I am working on desaturating the brick textures at the moment. I should have something soon.

Excactly, and by having two randomly placed in a garden isnt what i call funneling

I felt like sharing this with the core, my submission for the interlopers map battle titled "atrium".

It is a recreation of the infamous Guggenheim museum, 100% custom content and with 40+ pieces of art on the walls.

popcorns has a interesting architecture, but the white wall texture is not that good, and also the lighting is a bit to regular.

solos looks interestig, bot i dont have enough knowledge about udk, to rate it.

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i already posted these, but now im asking for a more detailed review, because as I said it was for a competition and it did pretty much lose.

I'm deep into scripting the Crysis level I've been working on for about 7 months now:

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Progress is going smooth. I really enjoy the ability to draw shapes simply and let the engine figure the rest like altitude and waypoints, but also to be able to place waypoints by hand when necessary (close-quarters areas). I should reach a playable prototype around mid-december.

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i already posted these, but now im asking for a more detailed review, because as I said it was for a competition and it did pretty much lose.

Simple, it's boring. It's black mesa all over. Come on, do something new, creative or just irregular instead of the same old boring story.

the idea behind my level is, that because the contest theme was mine, and i like sci fi, i would make a futuristic subway, leading through an old mine.

funny that you say the setting is boring because the winner made an allmost exact copy of the ep2 forest:

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yes but it looks amazing + it has nice colors

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the idea behind my level is, that because the contest theme was mine, and i like sci fi, i would make a futuristic subway, leading through an old mine.

I wrote my ideas on the subject on the pictures. I hope you can make sense out of the mess

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Additionally to what I mentioned, I think your mine theme would have been more interesting if instead of the petrol lanterns you'd have used shining rocks or plants. I mean, a mine is supposedly to scavenge something, so rocks reflecting light or glowing would have provided a good way to lit the mine, would have made more sense (why would somebody go and place lanterns around in an abandoned mine?) and would have looked more immersed in the surroundings IMHO.

That entry won because it was a simple scene executed well whilst your map doesn't have any strong visual focus that makes it memorable.

it Is supposed to be a abstract mix betwen new and old, we thought it would be intresting, to create such a mix to make people think about it, but the problem seems to be that its not that clear, that its wanted...

anyway thanks for help, will try to adress it.

oh and thats supposed to be the visual focus, making it memorable.

Quote from Skjalg

Excactly, and by having two randomly placed in a garden isnt what i call funneling

Fair enough. I moved/removed the barbed wire and added displacement to the buildings edges for snow and created a little snow trim overlay as a substitute for modifying all the textures in my map

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That truck, the silo, the walls, sandbags, building in the 3d skybox are all missing snow on them... either it snowed and everything got snowed on or it should look like there was some activity to clear snow off of stuff.