cs_seed WIP

You might have seen this in the WIP thread but I figured since I'm gaining some ground I could make a thread of its own.

It's a hostage rescue map inspired by the Svalbard Seed Bank in norway, but with plenty of changes to ensure some sort of gameplay.

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Here's the areas that I've created so far:

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First and second screenshots look absolutely gorgeous. The rest display some blocky geometry of the snow walls, it also would help if the snow walls had a bit more detail, like a maintenance box, or a door. Anyways, 10/10 would bang.

Those were my concerns, especially the blocky geometry. I'm not sure what to do since using the hammer displacement tools is so so painful, is there some kind of secret?

Decided to go full blitz with the subdivision tool. I think it may have worked.

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Got some more work done.

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Entry to a passage that will go towards the hostages.

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Warehouse thing, tried not to fall into the yet-another-warehouse syndrome.

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Alternate path for rescuing CTs

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Room with some kind of machine.

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Other side of the path into CT spawn.

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Incomplete bit that will take you through to some snow-warehouse things.

I'm liking what I've gotten done with the lighting, definitely has some mood to it.

So I just realised I was using f.lux when taking making my map so it looked better on my monitor at night than day. I've added colour correction to try and simulate this. Thoughts?

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Quote from tomm

very unique looking map, +1 for snow

regarding the last screenshots, I liked it better before

I think the greenish light seems odd for a snowy environment.

just my 2 cents.

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You're probably right, it's very easy to get carried away with colour correction. I might try a small amount of blue since I still want some kind of colour theme to the map.