de_wanda by warby ... final release !

Love the Colossi statue, map looks beautiful. Very well done man, impressive stuff. Although since Steam is down and I dont have CSS installed Im not sure when I will take a tour around the map myself.

I'm guessing there might be several GMOD comics using this map as a location for their stories because of its quality. It's a guess but they usually come true

Simply beautiful, mate. Great work!

This is a really beutiful map, the best i have ever seen (seriously). The props, the textures, the layout, the lighting, EVRYHTING is simply amazing. Granted there are some issues with the physics, but who gives a damn! Also, who gives a damn about FPS, I got 30-40 with my 6600GT, and that isn't a new graphic card, so surly anyone with a newer card is going to get better frames, then again, I never had bots on.

Also, I hope you don't mind, but I used GMod to take some stunning (well, not bad) pictures of the map (1024x1280, full AA, with additional bloom effects etc.) which, with your permission of course, I'd like to make available as backgrounds for CS:S when it loads up.

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I'm not happy with my picture of the Colossi, but if you say yes, I'll go back and suffer the lag to take a better picture.

Rokusho, the bloom in those shots ruins them.

You think so? I feel that it enhances the pictures rather than makes them look worse, heres the same place with HDR, Bloom only, HDR and Bloom and finally neither.

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i digg the third one Warby: Give him the ok

It just makes everything unviewable, all the texture work etc. is for nothing if all you can see is a bit white blob around it. The first is the best imo.

KK, I think I'll do a mix, just so everyone is happy.

I'm making a background pack, using screenshots from your level, so when you play CS:S or any other Source game/mod, you see the screenshot of the level as the background image. For example, you get this:

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I've just completed the pack. Gonna post it up on the Internet when you give the go ahead as you said yes, but not sure what to, so instead of taking the risk and pissing you off, I though I'd better double check (Made sure to give you credit and links to donwload the map, as well as your site).

By the way Warby, only just noticed this. Should be careful with trigger_hurt's

At least it provides additional fun having the corpses flying around

Oh well, done the background / splash screen pack, you can get it from this link

It's not a small download by any means, having 12 different images in it, took up a lot of room, then a again, so does the map

Once again, awesome map, great detail and a need to upgrade my graphics

Very impressive stuff Warby, it definitely shows that you've put a lot of time into this.

However I gotta admit that visually it comes out as very mixed to me, with loads of different styles all over the place. In the end it looks good and very unique, but I just feel that if you had carried a more coherent style throughout the entire map it would've been even more impressive. I know its meant to be a sort of wacky style ala Beyond Good & Evil, but with the amount of detail you put in it sorta works against it.

Anyway, some good shit overall, SPOTLIGHT 4 SJUAR!

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If you complain about the fps in this map, then you so much haven't understood what the map is about. Each map has it's own purpose, high fps is not the purpose of this map.

I understand game engines have become sort of the new scene rendering tool but I always thought part of the process was striking a balance between the visuals and gameplay/performance, making compromises when needed and using any trick available to achieve your desired results. That's sort of part of the fun too...

Yep, a good level designer will make it look visually appealing.

A Great level designer will make it look visually appealing AND decent on the fps. I remember that was one of the best advices I got when making stuff for the HL engine (think it was davej that wrote that somewhere).

(oh and, ofcourse the gameplay is important )

Fabulous looking map.

Big respect for the time and effort put into this work, you gotta love custom content. Added to rotation on our servers, mirrored on our website.

Great job mate.

Looks excellent!

wow. now that's what I love to see. It's beautiful and NOT destroyed. Positively gorgeous. I'd rather look at beauty like this rather than destroyed vistas any day. Fantastic work. absolutely fantastic.

great work!!! i love the elevation, use of materials etc, i have to agree wih some that the "funky" parts work against it because the surroundings dont suggest it they just sortoff stand out in a "wtf" kinda way.. however this map seems to be more of a "skill" showcase so its all good

i was alitle disapointed with the crazy amount of ladders used.. some area's they were aceptable and almost made sence, but others felt like lazyness to build a proper staircase, while there seemed to be room to do this.

still nice work!!! thumbs up