WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

Looks awesome Quakis. I used to map duke, it was amazing the stuff you could do in build

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Looks awesome Quakis. I used to map duke, it was amazing the stuff you could do in build

Yeah, I remember all the wacky tricks one would have to do to get "room over room".

Just a little something I'm working on, its a Normandy Farm/Barn area. Its seriously lacking at the moment imo, any ideas? It's not for DoD:S so I can't use more of their stuff, the current dod stuff needs to be removed and replaced with custom anyway. I think I can probably get the fog distance a bit higher as well, the map is quite open with a lot of hedgerow fighting.

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Ignore the big blurry bit top left, I forgot to hide the HUD and cant show that

Looking nice so far Ginger_lord

looking nice ginger, good start. only thing besides what you mentioned that looks weird is your grass sprites. they look a bit too random

Ginger_Lord

you should try something new with your building design, everytime I see your maps your houses has basic V shape rooftops, no other detail. I know normandy had these kind of buildings but maybe add some more detail to house walls, maybe outer entrances to buildings, chimneys, small towers etc.

Also, seems like your rooftop displacements are rather roughly lowered, try bigger radius and smaller height level.

Also those walls are just plain walls, add supports, height difference and cracks etc.

I've really slacked on mapping lately, started when I went to Uni. Just don't have the time of the willpower to sit down and do a few straight hours of work anymore. Combined with the fact I was saving up to start doing some work for DoD:S maps and then DoD turned out to be a load of dribble. Gave up on that and concentrated on the mod, leading it and virtually coding the base of it from the ground single handedly as someone with no C++ experience was an immense challenge.

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Heres an updated one from same angle, some lighting errors, but meh I have the cold of the decade. Probably overdone the supports/buttress' now

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And the grass looks out of place at high angles, but down at eye level it looks fine imo.

Looks ALOT better now.

indeed, that last shot looks very neat

nice atmosphere

You utilized the sky fog very well. What art assetts are yours?

By art assets do you mean what have we created?

All the textures in there, all the models aside from Sandbags, telegraph pole and foilage (which is scaled up DoDS bush). The trees are off the internet.

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By art assets do you mean what have we created?All the textures in there, all the models aside from Sandbags, telegraph pole and foilage (which is scaled up DoDS bush). The trees are off the internet.

link?

http://www.uni-weimar.de/~viehoefe/hl2/

Looks nice ginger lord but it needs more variation.

ginger those machineguns are aimed at a wall

those aren't machine guns, they are that weird mortar launchers.

Cool. Finally i see a decent fog in hl2. As mino said, nice atmosphere.

really nice atmosphere as others have said. . . one thing, it's overcast/foggy right? why is there a strong shadow being projected from the house?

bout the only thing i see

what are your fog configs ginger?