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Maybe not old, but rather outdated. I have considered it as outdated since I realized how very little next-gen it actually turned out to be.

I was totaly telling people that Lighting in source is amazing in my opinion, but thats all it got.

well better to see good stuff in present gen than bad stuff in next gen

nice

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to not _cheat_ in other maps you shall incule those two files later in your final bsp file. so the engine will load your textures only if you're playing the level they were made for.

maybe it's a stupid question, but how can you include them in the bsp file? i don't get it.

also i don't really understand how the detail.vbsp works. i thought there's only one detail.vbsp file for the entire game. so if you give your map to someone else you need to give him your modified detail.vbsp as well or else he would have a map without grass. right?

but what if this person gets another custom map from someone else + another modified detail.vbsp (which overwrites yours) - your map would be without grass...

i never worked with detail.vbsp before, so maybe i misunderstood the issue.

/by the way the wall looks great, but again ingame it's going to suffer from source's bad lighting system.

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/by the way the wall looks great, but again ingame it's going to suffer from source's bad lighting system.

I agree - things like walls should really be built with world geometry or your missing out on lightmaps. I get that you want to keep the detail along the top of the wall, but I'm not sure the increased detail will be worth the worse lighting. How much subdivision do you have in the wall? If there are lots of vertices on the front face of the wall then vertex lighting could suffice I guess.

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hey guys. it's curious: i am bored but i got no motivation to do anything that would push the progress of my map. i hope spending time on other things will help. [Blocked Image: https://migrationtest.mapcore.org/public/style_e…t_shakehead.gif]today i made this texture and model:

[Blocked Image: http://img477.imageshack.us/img477/9277/trimwall9wu.th.jpg]

here is one of my photos that inspired me. watch the trimming walls on the left and right.

[Blocked Image: http://img439.imageshack.us/img439/3672/trimwallinspiration5cx.th.jpg]

hessi

I am no artist, but that wall looks fuckin sweet!

I see, thanks!

But what's with the detailsprites.vmt, how can you replace the original one without getting problems in other maps?

Especially the screens on the first page look promising. It's kinda cramped though, no?

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no model for the stairs. the lighting sucks anyway...

Any luck by increasing the lightmap size ? I think it will help.

increasing lightmaps for models wont work since its vertex lit. Lighting is swag, I love the overall look. One of the best custom maps for source so far!

God, that looks hot. I'm afraid the map package will be huge tho, how many mbs of custom content you have already hessi ?

Sexy indeed, but like mino I'm worrying about the file size also. Displacement surfaces bump up file size a lot - there was a space platform map that was made out of loads of displacements, and it was 35mb or something crazy like that without even using screeds of custom stuff like you are doing. I think using displacements for detail like those stairs is overkill, but by god it makes it look good

File size is not important in these days...

Make it fer DoD!