[WIP] Presidio

A few more shots of caves, now it's closer final except some props not added yet.

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And this one shows two props I made:

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what kind of props did you make for your cave?

not modeled, not even decided yet, I tried to add some rocks but can't get proper lighting on them

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put in blue or green flares in the cave, even tho it might not fit the realism of the time, nobody cares when it looks amazing

ok RD, I'm trying to give a realistic look in this map, but I'll make just one compile with that lighting setup, just for fun.

Some shots with new models, general improvements and HDR:

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Hope Valve adds HDR to HL2DM soon, because that pics were taken in DOD:S

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i like how you used three differen textures on the displacement,

there are 2 rock materials (it's one only, but with 2 shades), 6 ground materials, and 3 different overlays. Thats for all the terrain, the rocks just use 3 textures and 3 overlays.

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although why is it all pixelated, use a tga with transparancy so it will look smoother.

it's pixelated because transparency (not opaque as you can see), the resolution is 512x512, not bad for a simple spider web. But the alpha usage makes aliasing, that's a norm.

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a lot of the map is lacking in detail though

Inside of fort there will be some custom props (wood estructures) that will increase realism and detail, but you can't expect much more than that. Outside there will be a few more big rocks for cover, and maybe another wood prop.

The vmf size surpased 10 MB, even counting there are a lot of displacements (not only for terrain), that's a pretty big one I think.

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This looks really awesum, but I can't help to think that this must be really laggy... especially in multiplayer...

absolutely wrong :wink: Brush and props usage is moderate, displacements are made in the lowest resolution possible, I put lot of care doing vvis optimization, LODs for models, fade, etc. And HL2 engine is very scalable, lowering graphic details makes miracles.

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do you have any sites that you used to look at when you started out?

do you mean photo references?

Sorry, I'll make that colored caves for sure, just for you. This was a HDR compile lot of time after the last one, and wanted to see how new rock materials are looking.