Posts by Squad

I'm pretty much ready for a 5 vs 5 playtest Did another clipping pass, with help from Exodus and Fnuggi. Thanks again!

I changed the lighting to a warmer colour.

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These giant windows are now breakable. Should provide for some more interesting gameplay, like faking.

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Caustics! Although you can't really tell in this picture

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I love it! Lighting is great, a big improvement since the first pictures you posted

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Can anyone point out where the map uses Chinese characters? That's my bad.

Sure, just send me the bsp.

Cheers! It's indeed back

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What was the previous gap between end of operation and start of a new one by the way?

Phoenix ended June 11th and Breakout started July 1st.

They removed the Workshop uploader tool from the SDK. Anyone knows how to upload now?

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Yeah and this one too is welcome "— Fixed a bug where the Model Browser would become unresponsive"

About time!

That looks pretty cool!

How did you move the two blue cubes in opposite directions though (second level)?

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de_Airstrip was a map from Gearbox if I recall that we had to maintain and complete. I believe that was handled by Chris or MrClean, you may know his work in the quake 3 community. I ended up doing some basic stuff for game mode implementation at one point though.

Airstrip was originally made by Chris "narby" Auty.

I really liked this part of A. Great and interesting use of verticality for a bombsite imo. Can't really give much feedback on the rest of the map since we only played a few rounds and the radar was missing (radar is badly needed for playtests).

But there's definately some potential here!

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Thanks!

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It looks good, the potential is there, but the lighting is quite flat right now. It needs some more drama and intrigue, get some nice color contrasts in there and some more true warm tones IMO, some of the shadowing also seems absent or a bit artificial.

I guess you're talking about the outside areas? Any suggestions are welcome

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I'd also be wary of displacement rock areas that are not physically realistic, defying gravity such as above that doorway.

Do you mean the last picture with the big rock on the upper right tilting over? Or the the 3rd picture where there there is a large part tilting over horizontally? Either way, it should be noted that the rocks are "artificial" That being said, they're still supposed to resemble real rocks, so they should also look like real rocks to some extent.

Some updates!

This window, which was meant for Ts inside this hallway to be able to throw smokes and flashes, has been removed ...

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... and has been replaced by a skylight window, which doesn't provide direct line of sight for CTs inside the hut, making Ts less vullnerable. It also makes it a lot harder for CTs to throw their nades through it since the skylight window is not visible to CTs.

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I replaced this part, which was made up of displacements and a few models before, by a modified stock prop.

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The piece of rock on the right may look a bit too angled though

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Really like it so far! The building in the 5th pic is just pretty great, I think I stood there looking for 2 minutes at the playtest warmpup

Is it just me or has the layout changed a bit since the playtest? I'm talking about the left side on the radar.

Looks great as usual! Is this de_grace or yet another map you're working on?

Love the background mountain especially. Is it in the 2D skybox or a transparant texture/model in the 3D skybox?

Awesome! Good luck with the contest

This one is great!

It depends if it's just the layout that needs to be finished in 6-8 weeks or the whole map with finished visuals etc. If it's the latter, then 6 months would be more realistically, as FMPONE already said.

I also wonder what organization it is.

Seems like competitive to me. Good stuff

Thanks, Niller! You're bringing up some good points.

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I would bring the open water down a bit too so you can't look through the surface anymore. It does weird things to the viewmodel

Do you mean the water at A site? It used to be semi-opaque, but you couldn't see the bomb anymore if it was dropped in the water. That water is still WIP btw.

Thanks, guys!

I'll address those points. Vaya, the FPS drops are only occuring at A? Or more parts of the level?

jackophant: I'll probably request a 5vs5 with a more competitive setup, if that's possible.