[WIP] UT2k4 -- CTF_Void

is that a photoshop render clouds texture i see there ??? wtf man ???

Are you using the same texture for both the walls and the floors ?

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Sry, but this pic is so lol, erm, ugly^^

-Often you have light but no lightsources such as lamps

-If there is a lamp the light doesnt seem to be cast by the lamp, you need strong sourcing, highlights around the lamps.

-Cloud texture is a temp texture? Hopefully

-You cant just cut out doors like that, you need to trim of the sides so its not such a harsh edge

-You cant use the same texture for both the wall and the floors

-The level has the cube syndrome, Its very easy to recognize the original cubes you started with and often it feels like a cube with objects in instead of a room and thats always bad. The room with the spacesjets is terrible at that..

-You cant use an egyptian yellow brick texture next to a high tech gray green metal texture in a spaceship. The colors dont match, its illogical and the transition is too harsh.

Its normal to make a lot of mistakes in your first map, it takes most people dozens of levels and a number of years to get anywhere near good.

You cant' just use meshes to fix yon cube syndrome. You need to actually build rooms. Put some angles in there, use more shapes. Think about the function of the room before building, don't just make a cube and fill it with stuff.

just open up one of the levels that came with the game. you can see that they are not that boxy like yours :X maybe you will see what you could add to get rid of this cubesyndrome.

Is that even compiled?

Look at some other "space tech" games for some architecture ideas or even some of the other futuristic-themed maps that come with UT2k4. Make note of how these maps use brush shapes to make a solid and interesting room and then look at how the lighting and meshes compliment the brush shapes. Look at how the textures are used on floors, ceilings, and walls.

Could be much worse for a first map. At first glance the first shot did not look too bad.

What you really need to work is when to use which texture and how. You got some ok brushwork for a first map and the textures are obviously also high quality, but you assemble them in a quite wierd way some places.

Stick to using only floor textures on floors, wall textures on walls, etc.

If you want some kickass futuristic mapping, then you can e.g. take a look at As_Robotfactory created by the poster just before me.