Hi my name is Brian Birnbaum, you may know me as LATTEH. I've been doing level design/Enviroment art for a while. As im writing this i just started planning and blocking out my level and i wanted to share all my Reference's and drawings with you guys.
GameModes:Push(the main one i designed it for) and Skirmish
Download:http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…tscn=1409081568
I wanted something unique that the game doesn't have, I thought of several ideas. but while i was browsing i found an image that inspired me to make.
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After I saw this I immediately wanted to design a level set in a location like this so i start designing using this and multiple images as reference.
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I have a location a setting and a theme only thing left is to design something. There are multiple ways todo it, you can sketch it on paper, use photoshop, Building it in googles sketch up or just skip all that and go right into the editor. I choose to use a pen and paper. Using pen and paper is easier for me because you don't need to be in front of the computer 100% of the time to make the sketch. For this my main goal was to make something i didn't do before.
I started by writing down what i wanted out of the level. then i drew a small sketch of the land scape and capture zones. Then finally i drew the path ways while looking at my reference images (for architecture and other things).
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Whoo i sketched it all out! My drawing skills aren't that great the main thing is that everything isn't to scale. This is a big issue! It makes it harder to block out and keep all the distance's correct for gameplay. I will usually just fix all this in the editor so it feels more balanced. We don't want one team to be able to control everything or get to the play space before the other team.
Now lets open the editor and start blocking out. In this phase i will try to keep the scale correct, but sometimes i let it slide to fit all my pathways and then rescale everything correctly. Here you can see all the pathways i put down over time:
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Whoo now this doesn't look like a lot, but at this stage is where a lot of people quit. Mostly because they aren't seeing any real results yet.
I posted this on another forum i forgot to post it here but i wanted to put in the update:
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