why using alphatesting as long as your material is directly mapped over a fully non translucent material? there wouldnt be any z fights...
creating blurry shapes? use gaussian blur or make your textures simply lowres.
here is a tutorial on this "faking shadows" thing. maybe check out my maps de_corse and de_mediterrano (which has a crappy performance as i know today).
there goes another tutorial to add 
Looking great James L, I hope to see it with dynamic Shadows. Thanks for the Tutorial Hessi.
you can make the shadows less dark in your 'light_env' only forgot how 
woooooawww for the frist screen
Quote from DarkLooking great James L, I hope to see it with dynamic Shadows. Thanks for the Tutorial Hessi.
fuck no! please no prop_dynamics. read my tutorial again. their shadows will suck your performance like hell. use overlays instead! dynamic shadows are rerendered every frame even if the model has no animation playing (well actaully there is an idle animation, but it's "useless")
edit
when i talk of rerender:
first source renderes a texture how the shadow looks like. then it renders it in your camera.
overlays are no ingame rendered textures. they are "painted" and just need to be rendered in the final frame. there is no extra texture rendering/baking or what you might call it.
Replace the tree shadows with the Militia tree-shadow overlays and turn down the lightmapscale to get crisper shadows. Might want to increase the ambient lighting to get rid of such harsh shadows, aswell.
Looks awesome so far.
looks incredible! =D keep it up!
That is lovely. Really good atmosphere. Good luck getting those shadows sorted.
That is looking quite nice, I vote spotlight!
Looking very nice indeed. Just fix the shadows, they look really harsh and i think you will be golden
There's a few screenshots that made me lean forwards, peer at the screen and go "holy shit". Ace.
Very nice.
Definately spotlight - awesome job.
Looks good mate 
Make the tree shadows more blurred.
The shadows look MUCH better now.
I vote the map for spotlight
Quote from JALI vote the map for spotlight
Really good stuff, but those new shadows look a bit too precise/sharp, would be alot better with some blurriness in the shadow I think~
Yeah, problem is that you've got fairly blurry shadows everywhere, and then suddenly these ultra sharp tree shadows. Looks quirky. 
Hot map, though.
Don’t have an account yet? Register yourself now and be a part of our community!
