[WIP] Presidio

Talking about crates, I'm going to show you my guns crate:

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The level will have a lot tombs around the fort, on 3dskybox too, imagine something like the good, the bad and the ugly's end scene. There is a treasure splitted in 4 parts, teams need to control those 4 zones. Gameplay would be like DOD, but there is an innovation, every captured zone gives better weaponry to your team, and these weapons will be lost when the other team takes over that zone. Capture zones near team bases gives the best guns (like an awesome winchester we have ) to opposing team, but just "level 1" weapons to defending team. So I think there will be a lot of focus on strategy: what zones should be taken and defended first, how many people should be assigned on every place, and many more.

Some updates:

enviorement lighting position change

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3d modeled normal map on cave's ceiling

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Glazed tiles

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I'm involved in gameplay/performance improvements now, level has very good frame rate over almost all places once I tweaked vvis. Need to finish 3dskybox mountains hand painted texture, and keep polishing some parts, but the level is near to be completed.

Yes, I know, there are some zones that could support more props. The map has around 50 custom props now, but there is no much quantity. I want to place most of the atmosphere inside the church and caves, both zones have a good amount of frame rate.

The test we've made are positive respect to gameplay, the weapons and the mod itself helps too. It's a customized HL2DM, using western era weapons , but gameplay is much like DOD at least for this map. Capture points placements is completely different from DOD, bases are inside the fort, and flags are outside (3) and between bases (1 inside the church). And capturing flags means you get more powerful weapons too, because players respawns with basic inventary. That creates some strategical thinking. So the map will be very funny, action is intense with 8 players at least, but could support around 20.

Here are some pics with final rocks:

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I'm not sure if outside should have more cover, have no clear idea yet.

I could add some bushes outside, as cover. There is no plan to add more buildings, outside fort is just desert and tombs, there are a lot of tombs around the place.

Nature is odd sometimes, there are lot of contrast in some places, in this case I think it's better having different colors. Mountains are something like dirt/dark rocks, main rocks are some kind of limestone. Env_lighting is a bit saturated I think, but textures aren't. I'll try different light settings.

The map is near to be completed, here is a overall view. Feel free to add whatever you consider necessary to make it better (without getting worse performance! :wink: )

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The 3rd pic is this one

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Almost all roofs can be accesed, except the two big buildings around the church. The church's roof is accesible from two ways, inside the tower and the scaffolding at the back. Heights plays an important role, there are multiple levels with a clear hierarchy relationship.

I can add some small props at places with low visibility distance, and probably more physic props will be added because we have some kind of replacement for gravity gun (bare hands).

The terrain could be improved with decals I have made for rocks, but they could work on ground too.