WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

I figured, after a hacker was paid to try to extort the VMF out of me, and took over some of my accounts, that it'd be a good time to post this so people know I'm the one to did the work on it: http://imgur.com/a/dnHAX This is a gallery of a (sigh...) downtown edit I was payed to do. Now that I'm finally done with this(minus bug fixes for the next forever), I think I'll move onto CS:GO mapping. Here are some images from the gallery:

This map is quite literally 2 maps stacked on top of eachother. The islands you see are the bottom half, and they were made from scratch, I made my own soundscapes and textures for a good bit of it. They are both full grid -1024^2 units. It was a huuuuge pain getting this map to work with sources limitations, but even with it's huge scale, I've managed to keep the brush count at 93.6 percent with very little propper use(4 props). The upper half is the downtown edit, and that is an edit. I had to do some hacky optimization work because anything put in dark RP instantly nets you 30 less FPS, and with 60 players, you can have good luck getting anything past 50.

On another note, the gmod server hosting community is extremely insidious and actually dangerous to be around. It was nice, but I don't like being made a target like this.

Again, please, look at the gallery here: http://imgur.com/a/dnHAX

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I figured, after a hacker was paid to try to extort the VMF out of me, and took over some of my accounts

The free time hobby based mapping scene must have turned pretty rough lately

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But how to you deal with the collision mesh ? Do you think you can generate it like this ?

Lots of programming.

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I think those bends should be made into modular pieces, so that you can build your surf map using sexy curves easily (not giant meshes that are hard to customize)

Yeah I thought of that. A bit like the plates in portal. In the end this will be easier but for now it will be harder.

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Lots of programming.

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Woooooow

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Woooooow

Best post of this year so far!

Advanced collision mesh programming 101

Another bad image from blender, I noticed it motivates me more to post content here, it might be the dog pics.
I'm learning to UV map to texture objects. And I looked into using linked instances from other blender files to have a good workflow.
Soon I will check if I can make a script / add on to export to .map or .rmf.

Valve Hammer Editor is a 3D Volumetric software.

Blender is 3D Surface software.

They are really different, and you're really not supposed to create a map on another software (because of optimization for example). As fmpone said, you should try to create modular assets.

By the way, have you already made a collision mesh for a model before ? It's very restricted, you have to decompose the geometry into many simple convex shapes, and there is a max number of shapes allowed by the compilers. It will be impossible to make something smooth if it's a big slope !

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Valve Hammer Editor is a 3D Volumetric software.

Blender is 3D Surface software.

They are really different, and you're really not supposed to create a map on another software (because of optimization for example).

I'm aware of that but thanks for pointing it out anyway. I just want to see how far I can get and move on from hammer to there if required.

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By the way, have you already made a collision mesh for a model before ? It's very restricted, you have to decompose the geometry into many simple convex shapes, and there is a max number of shapes allowed by the compilers. It will be impossible to make something smooth if it's a big slope !

I did but never for source. I hope it will be less limited with source 2 rubikon.

It's not a limitaion related to source only. When we talk about collision meshes, less is always better, on all engine.

I've been putting some time into the yacht again. (Ep2 engine, not CG:SO)

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Some more shots!

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ffs rockdude you've posted shots for the past 10 years or whatever. Release the bloody thing :v

The shots are cool, tho

If it won't add another decade of time, how about some cool flags and foliage?

Next vaporware confirmed?

Looks sick!

whaddup crackas, just working on some bridge+tunnel combo

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edit moar

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the weird artifacts in the overlays were just a graphical error, nothing wrong with em

Old map, but have just set up my pc to continue on it again.

Some recent WIP changes to B spot and mid to B on FongHuang...

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Rough build still for a map for a kz competition I'm working on. Trying to get a minimalistic metropolis sorta like Mirror's Edge. Forgive the horrible lighting; had to increase lightmap since the map's so big, just to get vvis not to crash on compile.

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