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    Thanks for clarifying this piece of trivia, everyone.

    About Militia: I agree that removing the plank in favor of a jump is a strange decision considering they overall improved the movement on the map, but I assume it has deeper balancing reasons we can't comprehend yet.

    I also hope that Valve continues to revamp non-active duty maps, filling up the two neglected groups with popular Operation maps in the progress. If Valve actually commits some time and effort into this, the overall quality of the game would increase yet again.

    Speaking of Canals...:D

    We already know Valve hates the number "3" and proper customer support/service; we can add to that list: corner hints

    This is CT spawn in "canals"

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    Locking the PVS

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    Most of the areas around A should not be drawn.

    - Another example from the docks/gondola area near B entrance

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    Again, locking the PVS

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    The whole canal in B is rendered nearly all the way back

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    Areas facing A are also rendered

    A couple of well placed corner hints would eliminate this over-rendering and help shave up some precious frames where it's really dropping in those areas mentioned.

    Valve went for areaportals and occluders aggressively and rightfully (just check r_drawportals and r_visocclusion) which is a good thing for maintaining the fps in check all around, but they neglected the easiest and less costly solution to further reduce the PVS and increase frame rate.

    Map looks visually cool though and the new modular assets are a joy to work with just like the nuke's one before (and not a minute late to fit for my new map's theme )

    Quote from will2k

    On 31.3.2017 at 9:30 PM, will2k said: Speaking of Canals...:D

    Valve usually is interested on "how good it runs" instead of "how it can run the best". This is not the first map that has framerate issues on newer machines, but it isn't as bad as overpass was when it arrived. Overpass also consumed 10% more cpu on servers whenever it was on compared to the other maps. Placing hint/skips has become tiresome, if the frames run acceptable levels to them, they do not use them much.

    Concerning the 'shader rework to provide better lighting' - did they give out any documentation meanwhile?

    Because I'm still having lighting problems. Wanted to update my austria map (some minor fixes/optimization), but (as already mentioned above) it looks 'different' after compiling now, and I won't publish like this.

    example:

    before:

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    after:

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    Some prop lighting changes obviously. Static lighting (per 'light', or 'light_spot' entity) has a different impact on world brushes/displacements in contrast to models. (Look at the curbs or the restaurant window for example.) -> props are much brighter now

    Looks pretty inhomogenous now.

    Any ideas? Maybe my fault?

    You could tweak the RGB values on those models to get them looking roughly the same as before (since it appears that all you really want to do is darken them)

    BTW, helpful tip for tweaking RGB values across the map: you don't have to recompile. Doing "entity only" compiles is sufficient. Saves a ton of time.

    Quote from FMPONE

    1 minute ago, FMPONE said: You could tweak the RGB values on those models to get them looking roughly the same as before (since it appears that all you really want to do is darken them)

    Yeah, I guess I will have to do this. But as soon as I'm done with this, they will probably publish a hotfix.

    Just asking because I wanted to be sure that it's a feature (maybe faster calculation for more fps or something?) and not just a bug...

    Quote from RivFader

    On 29/03/2017 at 9:50 PM, RivFader said: So apparently David Johnston was involved in the creation of De_Canals, at least according to the Wiki. That's interesting.


    Also, Valve just changed quite a bit on Militia. I like that they try to improve the Non-Active Group maps now; even if they are not viable in competitions they are still part of CS history and deserve to be polished and fixed.

    I would be surprised, he doesn't touch maps anymore, nor do I think he wants to.

    I'm 99% certain he has had nothing to do with De_Canals unless it's based on a very old map. I'll ask him tomorrow.

    Valve haven't released any documentation for the new shader stuff, but I found some new parameters in Hammer and -tools material editor.

    In Hammer you can add -staticpropbounce to vrad and there's a new setting in prop_static for bounced lighting, but don't really know if it works or not.

    As far as the new vmt parameters go, you can now have 2 envmapmasks and 2 detail textures for blend materials. There's also a new system for adjusting the blend border. On VertexLit they added a seperate tint mask that can also specular mask in the red channel.

    I already implemented this stuff in VMT Editor https://github.com/Gira-X/VMT-Editor/releases/tag/v1.3.4

    Is it though? Certainly appears to be where this world is heading. The difference is that in the west they'll take your information without your knowledge, whereas in this situation people sign onto everything themselves for what will probably be a 99% cheat free system.

    https://pvplive.net/c/csgos-next-o…ne-release-date

    Saw this article pop up on reddit, it seems to make a couple of assumptions but it's interesting nonetheless.

    So, presumably we would get a new version of hammer with this summer update? The version of hammer in destinations tools has some pretty neat features, and overall seems like a pretty big leap in productivity.

    Some interesting source 2 hammer videos I found:

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    I think there is a translation error in relation to that chinese text. It may aswell be panorama mode from source 2 and not developing csgo for source2. It may be just the hud element, don't get too excited yet even though it is said that source2 is propably arriving in long term for every valve game.

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