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Following my good friend Squad's advice, I further dimmed the dark bits of the cityscape; the results look much better

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To get a better view of the night setup/skybox, I went ahead and made another test map, slightly more urban to get a proper feel of the skybox.

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I'm sorta getting nostalgic vibes of Deus Ex 1 ( the mission when JC Denton goes to NYC's Battery Park) and I like it.

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Following my good friend Squad's advice, I further dimmed the dark bits of the cityscape; the results look much better

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To get a better view of the night setup/skybox, I went ahead and made another test map, slightly more urban to get a proper feel of the skybox.

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I'm sorta getting nostalgic vibes of Deus Ex 1 ( the mission when JC Denton goes to NYC's Battery Park) and I like it.

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Don't hate me pls, but to me it still seems a bit too bright. Generally a good idea would be to have some sort of 3D Skybox fog to blend the colors a bit, but not too much to make the buildings not visible. Also, those big buildings. I'm wondering if you are having them in the 3D skybox itself or are they just giant brushes in the map geometry? If so, you can have less complicated buildings inside the 3D skybox and add a single cubemap. It would make the building reflections look awesome.

It gives me Duke Nukem vibe, anyone else feel the same?

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Following my good friend Squad's advice, I further dimmed the dark bits of the cityscape; the results look much better

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To get a better view of the night setup/skybox, I went ahead and made another test map, slightly more urban to get a proper feel of the skybox.

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I'm sorta getting nostalgic vibes of Deus Ex 1 ( the mission when JC Denton goes to NYC's Battery Park) and I like it.

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looks sick!

reminds me of standing on Queens side just off the Queensboro bridge, just need to add the bridge!

can't wait to play this one!

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Following my good friend Squad's advice, I further dimmed the dark bits of the cityscape; the results look much better

To get a better view of the night setup/skybox, I went ahead and made another test map, slightly more urban to get a proper feel of the skybox.

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I'm sorta getting nostalgic vibes of Deus Ex 1 ( the mission when JC Denton goes to NYC's Battery Park) and I like it.

Nice I think it looks better already, maybe you could even make it even a bit darker and play with some fog settings as TheGuma suggested.

lil photoshop magic

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btw what skybox is that?

tomm, you nailed it. that looks way better.

Yup, only thing missing now is a proper Batman signal!

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lil photoshop magic

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btw what skybox is that?

Clever tweaks.

Thanks for the comments and suggestions everyone

This is just a test map :D, to get the feel and the combination of the 2D sky/lighting with the 3D New York skydome. The lighting is not final (intensity/color/ambience), there is no fog, no proper reflections; buildings were randomly added in the 3D sky just to get an urban feel and the textures are stock awaiting my creation of the custom textures (proper reflections, self illumination of windows/storefronts, etc).

@ tomm: the 2D sky is a stock HL2 sky that i modified the setup of brightness/color/ambience/pitch etc to suit my vision of the night setup. The NYC skydome is a composition of the 2 panoramic NYC night skylines that I "heavily" layered and retouched in PS.

@ Squad: summoning Batman will create an unfair game since you'll have 6 CT vs 5 T :P. The idea is cool though and I might add the signal somewhere as an Easter egg in the final map.

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@ Squad: summoning Batman will create an unfair game since you'll have 6 CT vs 5 T :P. The idea is cool though and I might add the signal somewhere as an Easter egg in the final map.

Include the Joker to even things out!

More work I did for PVKii. Check out pirates, viking and knights if you get a chance! http://store.steampowered.com/app/17570/

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Hey anyone posted levels made with Cryengine + the new GI system SVOTI? Here's one.

some light leakage going on at back left wall there.

Which of these do you guys thinks looks better? "A" (first 2) is the huge portal-style light, "B" (second 2) is the newer design that is not completely polished, I'll model out the lights so they're not cylindrical brushes anymore.

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Which of these do you guys thinks looks better? "A" (first 2) is the huge portal-style light, "B" (second 2) is the newer design that is not completely polished, I'll model out the lights so they're not cylindrical brushes anymore.

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This is really very nice but I put together some crit of the glaring issues for me

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thanks for pointing those out, does that mean you like the the one with the big circular light more? I do need more going on behind the bar, besides different/more geometry I might put a tap back there or something.

I think the circle needs more polygons, needs to be smoother/rounder. The pillars are my main critique where the bar is, they rely way too much on the normal for any kind of visual depth and the normal isn't natural looking. I would simply do a geometric bevel there

So much great work here!

While we're waiting for QuakeCon, here's a small tour of Mars City; In progress areas from Doom 3: Phobos

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some wip screens from heat remake level for csgo, this will be my largest csgo project to date, 80-90 custom props, 20-30 new materials, also testing a new workflow using source 2 hammer to create level specific props and exporting them 1:1 to source,

some non-sexy screens,

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also testing a new workflow using source 2 hammer to create level specific props and exporting them 1:1 to source

Let us know how that works out Would be interested to learn more about that.

Good luck on the remake! Are you going with a dusk/dawn theme or are these shots just from playing around with lighting env?