"20 Brush" level compo! WIP / discussion thread

    I dont like the AO look, but I dont like the grungy concrete either, so I guess I´ll experiment with the texture look a bit more. The glowy edges I think I´ll keep.. its a bit Tron-ripoffish I guess, havent seen the movie, but I figured the trailers must´ve influenced me. So Im not too happy about THAT either, but ah well. =D

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    Defined the brushes more.. added length, adjusted their movement speed, stuff like that. And I put together a glowing city underneath via some photo resources.

    I imagine its fairly fun to run around and shoot in there, its a rather old-schoolish level. Just that I have to figure out how to get the materials look sharp and good enough from close by (now they look a bit blurry and boring from nearby, hence, I might skip the overdetailed concrete thing)

    PS. Sorry about uploading so many shots. I guess I was excited about the level, worked out pretty fast. Now I´ll take a rest tho.

    Hey all, first time I stumble to these parts of the Net. I've been drawned here through the radiator's blog.

    I love the idea for the contest! I already tried a few things(with Hammer), but I just realized that the rules specify that the map must be multiplayer. Would it be ok if I made an SP map ? With no NPCs whatsoever, to stay in the mindset of the contest.

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    I dont like the AO look, but I dont like the grungy concrete either, so I guess I´ll experiment with the texture look a bit more. The glowy edges I think I´ll keep.. its a bit Tron-ripoffish I guess, havent seen the movie, but I figured the trailers must´ve influenced me. So Im not too happy about THAT either, but ah well. =D[Blocked Image: http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh224/Leon_Kilean/WIP5.jpg]

    Defined the brushes more.. added length, adjusted their movement speed, stuff like that. And I put together a glowing city underneath via some photo resources.

    I imagine its fairly fun to run around and shoot in there, its a rather old-schoolish level. Just that I have to figure out how to get the materials look sharp and good enough from close by (now they look a bit blurry and boring from nearby, hence, I might skip the overdetailed concrete thing)

    PS. Sorry about uploading so many shots. I guess I was excited about the level, worked out pretty fast. Now I´ll take a rest tho.

    Love what you're doing with this, guess you just watched Tron?

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    Hey! I've been reading things long time in mapcore and I love the idea of this comp!and about that idea thing.. I had none so I made my map out of cubes.

    It's a CTF map for TF2 and I'm still 8 brushes short so I'll try to hit that 20 brush limit

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    I've been thinking of some abstract TF2 stuff as well. Currently trying to hack strangeness from UDK's bsp editor. I think its time for some non-"tf2" themed TF2 levels if you know what I mean.

    I really dig Reno´s design, lots of funky shapes to fight around.

    Wont the pillar underneath cut off to the skybox rather badly, since you ment it to be a skyscraper?

    Then again you can blend that away atleast a little with a transparent texture that fades away from the bottom.. I´d imagine.

    2d-Chris, I was thinking about Mario Kart (rainbow road FTW) when doing the glowy stuff and the skybox, but it turned out very Tron-ish. =P

    Mine is source, just in HL2DM just now (all I've got installed at the moment!) but I might convert it to TF2 instead - tempted to make it some sort of game mode beyond deathmatch. I had another play with it last night and reworked the layout a touch, but it looks similar enough from a distance shot that there's little point in posting another just now! As for making the tower seamless, I'm planning on doing a custom skybox with probably a flat colour lower half that I can just use fog to merge the tower into. Not sure how well it'll work, but it should be good enough. Nice idea using transparent textures though, interesting alternative.

    Leon: I'm loving the atmosphere in your level, and definitely looking forward to seeing it in game with the moving elements and pulsing light - sounds like it'll be killer!

    WhiteDevil: That's neat, I always like the idea of building levels out of primitive repeated blocks like that. I once tried to build a level solely out of flatshaded hexagonal prisms, and it was pretty fun! Could be tough when you've only 20 brushes, but it's impressive that it's already looking cool and you've got another 8 to spare (plus 2 more by reclaiming those floating details if you absolutely need em).

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