WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

    Heh, much better than those first shots. Now it actually looks like a place and a good place that is.

    Though I'm not so sure about those colors and materials. Stone and wood, or stone and rusty metal? Either way, needs some more color variation imho. The lighting already does a good job at that but it's still too monotone for me.

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    wow KFS, i LOVE that theme. What are you basing your ideas off of?

    Mostly on the fly, really. I've seen bits and pieces of stuff here and there that give me ideas, but I haven't found one single inspiration that does it for me. I've pulled some structural bits from doom3, but otherwise just cobbling together stuff I like.

    If you've seen the other two images I've posted (all 3 can be seen here: http://www.button-masher.net/content.php?i=532 ), I started with the second one, but minus the blockier midsection. It was mildly ugly, so I moved on, borrowing the base and widening it out for a new building, the first one shown. I liked the elements on the new building like the smokestacks and the support that wraps over the top, and borrowed those ideas to go back to the first building... when I widened it out, everything fit, and I ended up with what you see there.

    Then I got images of a circular array of that structure, with big spires and stuff... I originally wanted this to serve as the base to a space elevator; whether or not that idea sticks is still up in the air. To save time and keep things consistent, I borrowed that new chunk I added to what is now the second building and, after laying down the basic curve structure for the entire thing, attached it and started building on top of it.

    So that's where stuff came from, but aside of some fleeting glances of inspiration from various sources, it's been mostly on the fly.

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    Though I'm not so sure about those colors and materials. Stone and wood, or stone and rusty metal? Either way, needs some more color variation imho. The lighting already does a good job at that but it's still too monotone for me.

    No wood or stone here, they're all mostly metallic/plating textures, some with a few bits of concrete at most.

    The color variation should get better when I get some terrain and figure out how to get the content for the terraformed aspect. Idea is to create this bastardized collision of the red grimy martian construction as seen in doom3 and mix it together with actual life... I think when there's more in the scene and the buildings take a secondary position to the terrain/rockwork and foliage, it'll turn out better. There'll be some more/improved lighting variation in the final, too, such as light highlights from all those things you see around the outside, more red warning light things, etc. I may mix up a few textures with more high-tech counterparts, too, and let some grunge maps (decals) do the work, but I haven't seen a whole lot I like for that purpose yet.

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    Idea is to create this bastardized collision of the red grimy martian construction as seen in doom3 and mix it together with actual life...

    Space stuff in real-life features lots of clean white metal panels and caution signs, colored cables and all that. That should give enough color variation, if you decide to derail that much from the look you have going now.

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    Space stuff in real-life features lots of clean white metal panels and caution signs, colored cables and all that. That should give enough color variation, if you decide to derail that much from the look you have going now.

    but this is outside on mars, hence the red.

    basically just a tester yeah, usually i have the intention of making a map, so i make all the art resources and by that point ive lost interest in the idea. so i just end up with a lot of textures i never get to pimp.

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    d3ads I have some original HL textures i produced in a set but never used. They match your theme exactly as you can see>[Blocked Image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v221/de…/mansion001.jpg][/ img]

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    So if you want them id be only too happy to see my stuff get used.

    Yeah ok sure, send me a PM about it, I don't really want to muck about with what I've got at the moment, but if something is exceptional I'll consider it

    Been out of level design for months and months now, so been playing around with some things the past couple of days to get back into it. Some may recognise this from a few months back - it was going to be my part of DrGlass's mosaic project (basically a group map effort) but unfortunately that seems to have died a death. I'm planning on continuing the theme and doing some sort of Vagrant Story style dungeon/mine. All, or at least most, of the map will take place underground.

    Also notice I'm jumping on the screenshot marking bandwagon - do you think this is too much or too intrusive? I was toying with a few designs, some of which more subtle than this one.

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