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well for one that's an obscene number of screenshots.

Looking good so far, keep working on the brushwork which looks like you're biggest thing to do now.

you know my critiques however the curved archway doors dont make sense.

I feel like looking at those screenshots has taken me through 3 different maps or so. It needs more consistency in other words, but thats perhaps mostly down to the lack of detail to define the setting in most of the shots.

The outside areas remind me of Doom/Duke3d, the way all the walls have the same height.

Also, I'm a bit confused as to what the setting of the map is. Forklifts, a very fancy bridge, a river, several very different types of corridors etc. There's no continuity, and even though you use a large variety of textures, none of the areas seem unique or stick out, it's more or less plain corridors with different textures (but, you said you hadn't started detailing yet)

Oh yeah, and in this scene :

http://www.sonicdm.cs-irc.com/mapping/d ... b60015.jpg

Try to make some doors that fit with the "theme", which in this case would be...industrial, I guess. Square boring garagedoors will seem more in place there.

your lighting looks nice . just work on your detail a bit.

Yeah, it all seems a bit higgeldly piggedly and disjointed. Maybe adding detail will help that, but the constant height of the walls is certianly distracting. Also seems like you've got a lot of narrow corridors going on there and it feels rather HL1ish in that respect.

Ok my suggestion. Completely rip the map apart aetheticaly. Remove all brushwork detail from the building walls. Apply the SAME generic texture for the whole building complex. Work from there. Do a two level building. For instance bottom level use brick, 2nd level use metal sheeting. Than start building up your aethetics from there. At the moment you're on the right track to getting a cohesive theme, but applying everything with the same textur and working fom there might help you make it look more natural. Keep going mate.

#1 post layout shot , i have a feeling the map is way too big

#2 post less screenz

#3 less halways, more map

As Reno said, I feel like i just looked at 3 or 4 different maps... you need to keep you themes consistent. You have a fancy bridge, to an industrial complex to what looks like aztec bricks. It appears as if you started this map with no idea of what you were going to do with it.

Yes, I'd go with the feedback from Reno too. :arrow:

U need different heights of buildings, it looks "flat" now.

It just seems so bland and small for HL2. Evereything so far has been expansive or if it's small, very detailed. This looks like HL1 with better textures and HDR. Aside from hte fancy shaders and high res, theres nothing there that tells me it's next gen. Where's the detail? Why is everything so obviously tight and enclosed?

hl2 is not next gen lol

anyways i really suggest you try what i told you about removing all the textures.

Bah, most people seem to use "next-gen" when they mean "current-gen", you knew what he meant

New shots are showing a lot of improvement if you ask me, with far more interesting building architecture. Keep it up

'Next-gen' is like 'tomorrow' - always on the horizon, never attainable.