[WIP] de_biome

Quote from braindeer

5 hours ago, braindeer said: Absolutely incredible, really feeling the lair-like vibe.

Thanks!

Quote from RAD

34 minutes ago, RAD said: It was reskinned.

Tutorial.

Yep, my method goes like this:

Wallworm import model -> change vmt location to my own -> compile

Quote from fewseb

7 hours ago, fewseb said: Woah, is that SWAT van a custom skin or card?, either way I would love to know how you made it or if its available for public use.

I guess I can upload it after I release the map. Also planning to make desert gign playermodels.

Quote from RAD

5 minutes ago, RAD said: Wait you can reskin player model without breaking it?

I got the idea from this tutorial but don't know if it still works or if you can pack them into bsp. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WisP78FPs4M

Thanks for the kind words guys! Hope not to disappoint anyone, those are just cherrypicked screenshots.

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4 hours ago, Serialmapper said: I like the cliffs. Are they displacements or models?

Most of it is displacements mixed with a few props.

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16 minutes ago, Serialmapper said: So, after you win this contest, will they be available to be used in other maps by others? The cliff textures are made in substance designer?

Cliff textures are actually stock valve. I photoshopped some moss on it, changed the color and made a few custom blends. I can release this stuff once I'm done of course.

Here's the workshop link to my map to qualify me for the contest. It's been public all along anyway.

Workshop download

I'll be doing the re-release sometime in the coming week.

It's finally time for the release!

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Workshop download

Since the contest deadline I've mostly been working on improving clipping, small lighting bugs etc. One notable thing I did is, I merged the modular dome models. The dome used to be made of about 2500 models, now it's only about 50. This improved the performance by about 15-20% throughout the map (on my system).

I'm hoping to get some feedback on performance improvements. If this was successful on other systems too I'll try the foliage and other models as well.