WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Quote from holiestcows

    shitty maps

    Yes, I entered a contest for shitty maps.

    But no, the theme was make a single player map.

    You're a champ. I like the geometrical shapes in your map, the room itself reminds me of Briscoe's submarine room in ND_Russia

    Cant tell if sarcasm, but if not, Thanks.

    No sarcasm

    No worries, there's only one Rick_D around here. He's kind of "special"

    That looks really good man. My question is, the main area(in the back of the screenshot) has a shit ton of cover it seems. Have you play tested out that area? Seems like it would be a cluster fuck.

    Quote from Erratic

    I already told you I'm completely out of ideas.

    When in doubt, make a level that justifies putting crates everywhere

    Well, there's nothing really wrong with that. but you could go to photographic refs and that's a good way to do it as well

    ^^^ that's what this place is here for, go right ahead and post all you want

    Couple things off the top of my head:

    1) there's a lot of obvious tiling in the textures. Break it up, maybe scale up some of the more problematic textures.

    2) It's a little flat, maybe push up the ceiling above the girders to give it some more vertical variety.

    3) Lava is a little rough and glowy

    if you can make a big box roughly that fills up your room, chances are you've not been very creative with your architecture , sure, in real life it happens all the time, but this kind of scene could use some interesting shapes.

    Also, ask yourself where is the lava coming from, whats it there for, is it to melt trash/crates or to make new ones, is it powering geothermal stuff? You don't always need to make sense of everything, but it helps you come up with ideas, and ideas lead to strong themes. If not you'll end up with a room full of crates (which isnt always a bad thing mind you)

    if you really want to go crazy, use opposites to your advantage, make some glass windows on the ceiling and have a snow storm outside then you have a cheesy but wonderful blue and orange lighting setup!

    here, some basic geometry ideas,

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    Quote from Vilham

    Just from an art thing, try breaking the floor up a bit. Maybe some lifted flagstones or small bricks, grass growing up through gaps etc.

    I haven't really done a lot of work on the ground so far (postponing it, cause it's a little bit of a bitch, hehe), but I'll definately take it into account.

    I'm also experiencing some (near) pitchblack faces (mostly the bottom of overhanging roofs etc ..., in the second picture below is a good example in the upper left corner). Is there an option to set a minimum light level throughout the map (if I remember correctly, there used to be in Hammer, or rather WorldCraft back then). Or does anyone have another solution for this?

    Here are a few new shots.

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    start with upping the ambient light, if you haven't already?

    though i've never done it, i believe there are parameters for bounce numbers in vrad.

    i'm guessing those are default textures, so this third option might be a small hassle...but you could rewrite and rename the vmt for the textures in those places with $reflectivity (ie. $reflectivity "[.2 .2 .2]" ) and get definite results.

    Squad: I really like that first shot with the cart on the ramp, looks like a real street scene. The windows on the building to the right of the cart look a little glued on, mostly because all other houses have a different type of window.

    Quote from cincinnati

    start with upping the ambient light, if you haven't already?

    though i've never done it, i believe there are parameters for bounce numbers in vrad.

    i'm guessing those are default textures, so this third option might be a small hassle...but you could rewrite and rename the vmt for the textures in those places with $reflectivity (ie. $reflectivity "[.2 .2 .2]" )and get definite results.

    I'll try upping the ambient light first. Haven't thought of that

    I think it's possible to do bounce numbers in vrad with Nem's Tools perhaps. Been a few years since I've used it, so far I've been compiling with Hammer only

    Some good suggestions, thanks!

    Quote from _gb

    Squad: I really like that first shot with the cart on the ramp, looks like a real street scene. The windows on the building to the right of the cart look a little glued on, mostly because all other houses have a different type of window.

    I know what you mean. I'm not too pleased with that building yet, but so far I haven't found a nice way to 'fix' it. Any suggestions on that are more than welcome

    Thanks for all the feedback!

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