El Paso [Outlaws&Lawmen] (updated 17 jan)

Here I'm again to show you the progress of a new map. This is going to be a long project, a complete western town with almost everything you can imagine. The buildings will be based on real movie sets created for the famous Sergio Leone spaghetti westerns. So this is about getting the feeling of those movies.

This is the first one, El Paso Bank from A few dollars more. I plan to create a building each week at least, including custom material and models made by me, as usually.

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I think realism and complexity don't come together. The simpler the building is, the chances it looks credible are higher. Lighting also plays an important role here, HL2 radiosity can be awesome sometimes.

Thx guys :wink: I plan to add several dirt decals, I'm going to make more for other buildings. I'd like to decrease sun reflection on lighted side, without touching the light values for the moment. There could be other improvements related to brush work, but don't want to increase the count, it's a simple building but there are a lot of faces because repetition. And finally, I should add some imperfections in the geometry so it doesn't look so perfect. If you pay attention to the original building, windows and main door seems to be intentionally misplaced. That's accounted by me, but other parts aren't.

Probably there will be a second version of this map with different game mode, bank assault and escape through train station. So I'll end making the bank indoors too.

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Whats happning with that one? It looked awesum

Presidio was almost completed, maybe I'll replace some building textures.

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you forgot the horsy thing in the front so the cowboys can rope up their horses

he he, I plan to add those later, once more building are up.

This week's building is the bath house:

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There were needed a custom white brick material, and several railing and support wood models. Each one with 3 lod levels (that's why FPS are higher in far view)

Front windows material seems to be broken, it's more shinny than it should but don't know why.