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    sky: sky_day02_10

    primary fog colour: 176 192 202

    secondary fog colour: 176 192 202

    fog start: 1000

    fog end: 3400

    That sky works well as it is pretty foggy as is. I'm gonna be pushing the fog back a bit further to see what it looks like.

    Very nice man, love the shadow detail on the floor and lower walls. You should start making your own props though - I've seen nothing but sexy stuff from you, but if you could throw off the generic HL2 settings, at least a bit, by introducing your own props then...then...it would be cool! My only gripe with this is that it looks somewhat washed out, probably because, as Mazy said, it could benefit from more contrast. Not sure if you meant it to be this way though, as it makes it look somewhat hazy/dusty which may suit the setting.

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    Wheres the windows to cast those shadows?

    Well I asked myself the exact same question and then I saw that the roof actually has a window texture, so it made more sense. I agree that it's not so obvious, but the sky light probably could be seen better from a different angle

    Quote from ReNo

    Very nice man, love the shadow detail on the floor and lower walls. You should start making your own props though - I've seen nothing but sexy stuff from you, but if you could throw off the generic HL2 settings, at least a bit, by introducing your own props then...then...it would be cool! My only gripe with this is that it looks somewhat washed out, probably because, as Mazy said, it could benefit from more contrast. Not sure if you meant it to be this way though, as it makes it look somewhat hazy/dusty which may suit the setting.

    It was suppose to look like it was HL2-ish So far I can make some simple props for my maps (along with textures), but I havent gotten too good with Max yet. Once I get better ill start making more props, but I felt that if I included some custom stuff like that it wouldent fit in with all the other things (as my props look alot crappier than the default props).

    What I might do is make the window which is casting the shadow clearer, as its quite "dense" and doesnt let the viewer see the proper sky color I wanted.

    that's really impressive lighting!

    what entities and settings did you use to achieve that? did you use fog or something or how did you manage do get that blueish look?

    Quote from sensee

    that's really impressive lighting!what entities and settings did you use to achieve that? did you use fog or something or how did you manage do get that blueish look?

    Just a single light_environment gives me the nice shadows (as I used alot of blocklight brushes).

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    It looks great, but I have to ask, how's the performance there? Aren't the lightmaps really small to get those nice shadows from the skylights?

    The preformance is fine, as Im getting over 90fps. The lightmapscale where the shadows fall is 4, so its quite low, but its definetly worth it. I dont think theres a preformance cost of lighting, either.

    Lovely work there mate, dunno much about the HL2 engine myself, but I imagine theres some form of memory hit from using a lightmap at that scale. Dare say it's fine if used sparingly. Is this just pracite making a scene or part of a larger level?

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    Lovely work there mate, dunno much about the HL2 engine myself, but I imagine theres some form of memory hit from using a lightmap at that scale. Dare say it's fine if used sparingly. Is this just pracite making a scene or part of a larger level?

    Well theres obviously some sort of expense to using low lightmaps, but the impact is very very small unless you purposely make really complex stuff just to see if you can break it. Im still 4x above the minimum quality, though, and ive seen maps with much more complex shadows which ran just fine.

    Im coming up with a few small pieces of work to show off in my portfolio, so these things will probably never become maps, but maybe one day ill decide to make something big out of them.

    Yeah the hit isn't too bad really, though I wouldn't suggest using higher res lightmaps all over the place. Use it on the surfaces you need to to get the nice effects (eg the floors and walls you have used them on), but don't waste memory with hi-res lightmaps for surfaces that don't take advantage of them.

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