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Quote from jackophant

The paris map is a nice surprise. Not sure If I'd enjoy it in match making though...

Facade is a great little map. Pretty sure TopHatwaffle did a 'making of' series on youtube for it.

CS_workout was tested on here and is made by a mapcorian.

Never heard of De_season...

I knew about workout, season and facade! It's the other 3. I didn't see them in the workshop or on here, and I really cba with fpsbanana, so that exhausts my possibilities!

I edited my post in quote form just to draw _{^{a little}} attention to what was said

Backalley has been on the workshop for over a year iirc, Marquis and Bazaar (called Pakistan first) were released before Operation Breakout.

Congratz to everyone involved! Looking forward to play

The Kickstarter campaign has ended:

$251,647 pledged of $150,000 goal

When it's done

Have you decided what the theme is going to be?

If so, start gathering references and get a sense of what you want each area to turn into visually speaking.

If not, choose a theme

Great visuals with great gameplay! I dig the colors. Good job

And I like the name as well btw.

Updates are usually on Thursdays.

Looks like there will be a bunch of them soon

Would be great if you'd include the Belfort in it btw!

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Quote from Z3LCIAH

Working on my first CSGO map, based in Bruges, Belgium. Just playing around and experimenting so far, nothing fancy yet.

Bruges could make a nice theme I like it so far!

Can you show me? I'm not sure how you figured them out without having this bsp

Thanks all!

Quote from kinggambit

I liked it before but it's just my own preference (i liked the contrast of warm colors outside to define the A area vs. cool shaded colors inside to define B). Also, the blue lighting really reminded me of the feeling that I was in an actual aquarium.

On the other hand, I already managed to find some nice smokes from outside-to-inside/visa versa. I'm sure the windows could come in handy for a lot of outside-to-inside smokes (if possible).

I like SpronyvanJohnson's idea for compromising.

The skylights are not breakable at the moment and I don't think they'll be. The angle is too steep for grenades and func_breakables require a fair bit of resources.

I'll probably try Sprony's suggestion about removing some of the skylights.

Quote from Spherix

You know, you could swap models from the func_fish_pool with other stuff...

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Use fish.

Yeah, I've switched some fish with a placeholder model before. Just need a couple of different fishes.
Also, I noticed it looked weird with larger models.

Quote from jackophant

It's a nice effect, but probably not the right setting. In my experience aquariums are usually very dark to have the best visibility inside the tank, similar to your aquarium mid to B connector, but very dark painted walls (obviously not the best for readability in a cs map). The effect you've created would look great in a jungle biome theme, like Kew Gardens or the Eden Project.

Dammit... now I want to make a map like this :

This part is set in a jungle setting containing freshwater fish, so it would make sense to have natural light inside (imo).

New pictures. I opened up the roof in the main aquarium area. Better? Too much?

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Seems like there are too many different lightmaps calculated for each face. Are any of the light entities switchable, or have you given them a name? It's a classic cause of this issue.

Here's another interesting artilcle from will2k: Planning to win sketching your level. You should definately read it!

Congrats, vivi!

Quote from jackophant

I'm sure the script itself could even have colour options.

I've no idea how it works, but colour options are possible too. I have a heatmap from the playtest where each player has its own colour

Quote from Explosives

Thank you Vinneri, that's on my todo-list. Do you have any numbers on how much that kind of optimization would help?

You should do that from the start instead of putting it on a todo-list. Nodraw is my default texture and I fully cover each brush I make with it. Then I only texture the faces that need a texture, so I can be pretty sure most faces are covered with Nodraw and it doesn't take me a shitload of time to fix it afterwards (with a chance of missing a lot).

Quote from Explosives

A couple of new dev photos:

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This overview suggests that you build the map in a giant hollow skybox cube. Is my assumption correct?

The silos don't make any sense in a setting like this. I'm also not too fond of the freestanding arches you have here and there. They look weird and unnatural.

Other than that, your map has improved a lot visually since the first screens, good job!

Quote from jackophant

^{_{Sorry for double post!}}

Any way I can get in contact? I've found something github/demoinfogo related but it blew my mind

Sure, I'll ask him.

Quote from jackophant

oooooooooooooooooooooh, how do you get the heatmaps?

paw did them, I have no idea how to do it