WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

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i'm glad the q3a mapping competition introduced me to this forum - it seems like a great community. it's kind of intimidating to post stuff here, though, since you guys all make so much awesome stuff! here's my latest quake 3 project using sock's industrial texture pack.

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This forum badly needs more people posting more quake things - so just keep it flowing buddy!

Edit: I mean, just the fact that we now have a banner image that's featuring quake levels shows the suffering that has been going on around here - for like 15 years.

A CS:GO bomb diffuse map I've been working on; it takes place along a set of rooftops:

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To take a break from the ut map, I made a quick scene this afternoon

NeoGizeh

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It's maybe a bit to brighter. Though, it's a preview light building, 'cause even medium quality was taking ssoooo much time.

I'll add some particules on the foreground.

I like the contrast between the old pyramids and the scifi city, but I feel like it would be cool to have a scifi texture on the pyramids too. What do you think ?

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Very nice, although skyline is a bit repetetive... i'd see well one piramid to be much larger, or/and a couple of skyscrapers.

Also, with this camera position I think you are loosing a bit the effect you could achieve to show the scale of the view: what about a slightly larger fov, and a camera positioned a bit higher, like from a balcony overlooking this large platform. Or to make the buildings look tall maybe lower the point of view in respect of the horizon.

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Looks really cool. Lines of sight will be difficult to get right!

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i'd see well one piramid to be much larger

In fact the one on the right is way bigger than the other one but it's not noticeable with the perspective.

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Also, with this camera position I think you are loosing a bit the effect you could achieve to show the scale of the view: what about a slightly larger fov, and a camera positioned a bit higher, like from a balcony overlooking this large platform. Or to make the buildings look tall maybe lower the point of view in respect of the horizon.

The problem with putting a bit higher the camera is than we see a bit of the middleground and that's not the interest.

I'll may change the ratio of the camera to make it larger and i'll see what i can with the camera positionning

Made a Layout wit a lot of height differences. Not sure about ti being balanced though

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A CS:GO bomb diffuse map I've been working on; it takes place along a set of rooftops:

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Unrelated note, I've been working on a grapple map for TF2, using the new Asteroid assets:

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I've made few change (and on the fow blackdog). This is good for me.

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I made another quick scene today, on the last day of 2014. Happy new year!

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Would you mind sharing your lighting settings ? Or your scene, i'm slowly learning how to UE4, but i'm struggling with TOD... Tried some "plugins" but none were good enought.

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I've made few change (and on the fow blackdog). This is good for me.

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I was thinking, should the lasers go beyond or into the pyramid peak? If the latter, maybe add some kind of receiver at the top?

I have been wanting to do a Japanese styled theme for years, and I always thought that I would go for the Moon Dragon look, but then I saw Overwatch and added that I'm kinda exhausted by making dark and moody levels, I felt that this look would be really fun to bring into Q3, do the Empire of the Rising sun some justice (Japanese Castles are getting a bit old now =))

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I know Sakura trees don't look like this, but I haven't had time to make a proper texture yet, so I just tinted some old leafs.

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Would you mind sharing your lighting settings ? Or your scene, i'm slowly learning how to UE4, but i'm struggling with TOD... Tried some "plugins" but none were good enought.

Here are my settings for the NeoGizeh scene:

The Skylight:

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The directional light:

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The settings for the Desert scene:

the skylight

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The directional light: Here I enabled the light shaft bloom to have a little a glow around the edges of the meshes. Not sure it's the best way to do it, but it worked.

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Of course there is always an lighting importance volume.

Don't you problems come drectly from the light properties of your meshes ?

Minecraft building within UT4 anyone?

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Of course there is always an lighting importance volume.

Don't you problems come drectly from the light properties of your meshes ?

How do i know there's nothing wrong with my meshes ?

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How do i know there's nothing wrong with my meshes ?

You can check this:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Eng…shes/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Eng…ping/index.html

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How do i know there's nothing wrong with my meshes ?

You can check this:

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Eng…shes/index.html

https://docs.unrealengine.com/latest/INT/Eng…ping/index.html

Thx, I already know how to prepare and export models, it's more on the UE4 side that i'm having troubles

And i'm not using lightmaps, i'm using Dynamic Lighting with GI and LPV (i think, not sure i did all right). Maybe i should swith to a static lighting...

But i'm pretty sure it's non related to the mesh. When i drop my material to any other mesh, texture are still mega bright.

Hey CSGO designers, do you recommend playtesting with bots for rapid layout design? I want to be able to iterate quickly, but the results from bots aren't as genuine as real players.

Keep in mind im not a professional (I dont have a job / studied Game Design or anything) so wait for a few other answers

I generally find bots only useful for finding and placing cover. Everything else (how the general layout is) you should do a playtest here on mapcore for example.

Bots are useful for checking (early development) chokepoints timings and for checking angles and generally how "fun" a specific spot is or can be.

As soon as you think your layout is getting pretty decent, you should organise a playtest with human players though.