Japanese Themed Map [CS:GO]

    T's have some extra room to maneuver around before entering B site. There's now a building archway allowing T's to avoid flashes while setting up for counter smokes.

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    The amount of angles T's must check before entering has reduced by half, moving the slanted building on the left side of the photo towards the bridge allows T's to move underneath the bridge without having to worry about CT's camping on the railing near the CT side of the bridge.

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    The stairset has been moved to the opposite side of the bridge, this was to balance removing the back hallway at B. The pillar that the blue light shines upon is now the only border between cover for CT's and an open road.

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    B continues to be the site with only one direct pathway, if T's decide to rotate, they can travel back through spawn or try their luck at Mid through a connector.

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    If anyone has any further feedback or ideas they would like to contribute please do let me know, after this Thursdays 5v5 competitive test I think the project will be heading towards an art pass.


    ***Also, if you are interested in participating in the 5v5 competitive match this upcoming Thursday the 19th do send me a PM or a msg on steam. It will most likely be happening directly after the usual Thursday 2 map play test.***


    Before anyone decides to add anything that isn't already on the list, in the next version the focus will be to remove the sprites that conflict heavily with the gameplay.

    Areas that are still darker than most of the maps natural moon light will be brighter.


    Visuals will be focused on after the play test on the 26th. If anyone has any excellent resources for creating textures so I don't have to borrow 3Dnj's anymore that would be really appreciated. I know there's plenty of tutorials online but it's kind of difficult to find a tutorial on making a very budget friendly tutorial. I'm also not the most experienced person when it comes to making custom content, but if you have a few words, or some links you'd like to share please do.


    Thanks to everyone so far for being a part of the project, looking forward to a strong finish.

    For textures, make hires textures in photoshop, or download some, and then save it at 50% quality in jpeg format, or less. Once you get past 50% it becomes lossy and noisy. Solid colours without much noise will generate small files anyway, but it's the hi-res, hi-def images that consume the most space. So make sure you reduce those images down to acceptable quality before you convert to vmf.


    As for dev textures, should take you an hour or less to create your own library of dev textures, even if they're almost the exact same.

    dev textures are pretty easy, what you do is start off with your shades (white & black) as base colours, then create layers of red, blue and green, then use opacity over white, black or both to create different colours.


    That was you can create similar coloured tints or shades and you can adjust accordingly.

    Recently moved from one apartment to a house, attempting to enjoy not having the internet connection up until this point. Finally getting back into Kaizen and it's visuals, specifically the windows and walls. If everything goes as planned then expect another update early may, until then it's time to learn modelling through 3dsmax!

    Cool pictures really.... I like the stairs one...

    I appreciate all the positive feedback, and after making some serious decisions, a new theme is going into place. This is a big change, almost a 360 from the original idea. The layout seems to work, but the Japanese theme is just not the right theme. Maybe revisiting this idea with a few other talented modelers/texture artists is a possibility (if interested just send me a text) but for now a more raw theme will be constructed, something closer to home (Albany, NY). Thanks again for keeping in touch and giving helpful feedback, so far this is most I've interacted with a community about my work and its had a large influence.

    I'm really liking that tile building on the left. Your textures really mesh. Is the wall with bullet holes a mesh or geometry?

    Geometry :/ trying to keep the amount of func_details to a minimum but for now this version is full of them, hoping this will change once some custom models are in place. If who I think is not too busy Kaizen will have an excellent artist create some very original visuals!

    Additional screenshots on the workshop page!

    http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…s/?id=414061247

    If you spot a neat area in the map that you like/dislike let me know! (for example walls that help to bounce smokes or flashes, or areas that create cheeky angles that are one sided)

    There's a lot of areas that I'd like to open up (and I've tried with this version) though for optimization sake some of the buildings will have invisible skybox toolbrush heads that block grenades.

    Since this map features a lot of angled buildings, it might start to square out in certain areas although if there's a certain wall/feature that you find unique enough to make it into the next version do post a comment. This map has gone through a lot of changes over the last year and I'd like to make an effort to retain some of the key features ideas from previous versions in the future versions.

    Thanks for checking it out!


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