cs_Stalagnate

Workshop Link: https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…/?id=3298741381

(most current radar)

I remember when I started creating maps for CS:GO, a stalagtite-cave was one of my earlier ideas (although the draft back in 2018, I think, was completely different). I never got around to make it, however with Hammer 5 the idea creeped up again. Orignally I worked on other entries, but since I finally got a little time on my hand and since my brother was kind enough to lend me his PC (featuring RTX most importantly), I prioritised this idea instead, since out of all my scenarios, this is by far the the most "adventerous" one and could display the new features of Source 2 the most, for this theme allows for unusual lighting and organic surfaces.

Here is a recent draft traced from my sketchbook with some inspirations. A lot of areas changed, since I kind of missjudged the dimension of some areas.

An experiment I yet have to see play out is the lift in the CT-area. The idea is to have connector routes accessable depending on wether the lift went up or down. Took me long enough to get the elevator working (small tipp: use prop_dynamic for movelinear, tracktrain, etc. instead of meshes)

One element I definitely wanted to implement is divable water. So expecting that the water would be like in other source games I kind of ran into a problem. You had 100% sight below the water level and on top of that I noticed the gunshot accuracy is normal standing on the ground. The proper solution would probably be to create a water texture for that purpose, but for now I had to rely on the fog entity and multiple func_brushes with a transparent black texture to obscure the view.

So in short: goldsrc water > source2 water

I'll have exams coming up soon, so I doubt I'll get much done for now. Good luck to the other contestants.

Alright, screw it, the idea I got yesterday was too good not to implement (and brother gave me his PC again). So I basically redesigned the "red" hostage area to be a bit more dynamic with height variations and a more grander scale.

(Before and after)

I also added a post_process_volume to the water. Since I had time constraints, I couldn't polish some areas as much as I would have liked (Clipping those spiral staircases for example), but overall I'm satisfied with what I created within the last 2-3 weeks. The most I am able to do until the deadline would probably be a hotfix update in the weekend.

Quickfix update: smaller topology adjustments to avaoid mean agles, added cover to "river" and clipped the spiral staircases

Spoiler

-Extended topology (mostly raised ceiling and and made holes for grenades)

-Adjusted water (raised post_process_volume and lowered overall FX-amount of func_brushes)

-Added func_ladder to the ledge of the lake for consistent emergence

-Added some stalagtites

Well, it's not really worth making a tutorial on, as it is pretty much just the following:

-Make inverted 128x128x128 cube

-Increase Subdivision

-Extrude it in the directions needed (around corners some faces may need to be deleted and redone or bridged)

-Use "Clay" and "Smooth" in the Displacement-Section to make the shape more natural

Basically the whole map is one mesh consisting of square faces aranged like voxels that were out smoothed with displacement-tools.

As for the rescue incident, it's actually the first time I heard about it