Just finished a one week school assignment: Weapon of choice, 1024*1024 textures max 3000 tris. Went as follows. Sry for bloated presentation and logos and shizzles.
[Blocked Image: http://i.imgur.com/1kMD4.jpg]Oh btw, I could use some crits on my edge flow. I tried to look at 3Dnjs shotgun wireframe to get an idea of where to put them edges. But there's probably room for optimization.
Looks like good practice, but I think your textures are to noisy both in details and the overall cloudiness mentioned above. Also there seems to be light information baked in to the bevels which you would probably want in your normals instead.
Yeah, really enjoyed the dump. Looks like the interiors could use some work to be on par with the outside part right now.
Congrats!11 All that iteration paid off.
The thought of playing this gave me a bit of stomach ache. I played 1+2 before. And I'm so full of the hl2-gameplay + universe by now that the thought of it was like eating 2 plates full of pasta and forcing down another one. Maybe this explains why the mod doesn't seem to get the buzz it deserves.
Anyways, first scene is so pretty. Well made. The visual bar is very much raised here and maintained throughout the mod. But the nice intro was stained by very aggressive and out of place water-sounds. Like SPLOSSHOSSSHOSOHh. Doesn't make much sense for a small boat moving in calm water. Nitpicking you say. I say not.
I really liked the transition level. The egg-things and change of atmosphere just had my looking around while thinking for a while. Nice change of pace. And when things picked up, it was well done and it felt as if I just made it out of there alive.
The rest up to part 3 is probably the mods weakest point. Though I did enjoy mr wheelchair. A much needed addition among the all to familiar rebel-characters.
Part 3 is excellent. Love the way you guys added your own touch to combine architecture. The plant life is especially cool without ever looking out of place. Pacing is excellent. It's alot of action in a compressed format but it works really well. The change of envoirenemt in the end is introduced just at the right time.
All in all I enjoyed the remade 1+2+3 format immensly more than the vanilla 1+2. They all go well together and the variation is great. I almost forgot I was playing a hl2-mod at times which is my way of saying that I enjoyed this.
I'm no expert in modeling but that looks insanely awesome to my eyes. Love the amount of details and there is a lot of character.
Writing is not supposed to be comfortable. 
I kinda like the idea of improvisation. We'll see.
Quote from Rick_DDisplay Morein the vmt you have two options:
to use full 8bit alpha, taking advantage of gradients in the alpha channel (ie: all ranges from 0% to 100% opacity), then use:
"$translucent" "1"
the downsides are sorting issues, so not too good for trees and bushes/grass where you have a lot of alpha planes close to each other.
to use 1 bit alpha, where the alpha is either ON or OFF, then use:
"$alphatest" "1"
you can tweak the amount of alpha that gets "clipped" by using this:
"$AlphaTestReference" "0.5" (try different values)
you'll also probably want this to make the texture two-sided:
"$nocull" "1"
Thanks. I've really put in some serious googling to find techniques for this but never stumbled upon alphatestreference. Will try that out.
Puddz: Glad to hear 
Quote from Senturafucking DUDE, that is pretty sweet. your own assets?
Thanks! Yes mine all mine. All them textures and models except the skybox that is.
Posted a wip of this some 10 pages back. Gave it some more work and then sent in this wip applying for a game dev school's art program.
Skyboxes stolen from tf2.
http://i.imgur.com/duySv.jpg?1
http://i.imgur.com/N2Klp.jpg?1
If anyone has tips on how to use alpha transparency for foliage in source it would be kool.
Quote from penEMclogenog: Thanks man, you made some good points there. The buildings in the background probably look that flat because they are
. Atm they are just a bunch of planes that are intersecting to make it look 3dish, but I'll work on that ..
If they are 2d they make a really awesome backdrop/3d skybox.
Puddy: Looking forward to test the none all bright-version 
AtsEst: Amazing what envoirenemt effects that engine allows for. Beautifully done.
I'm working on a scene based on a place in a Ghibli-film. Practicing texturing and modeling as last time. Dunno if it is ready for this thread but here goes:
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Began blocking out some background environments.
My first and last foliage-heavy scene I will use source for. Every inch of progress is a fight ^^.
Warby: Thanks. I'm kinda attached to it but yes you're right. I'll remove it.
Mclogenog: It's the source ep2-engine.
Insta: Wow. Even with dev-textures it stands out with the composition and great sense of space.
I began making a scene based on a deviantart piece, just for texture practice and eventually to learn modelling.
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It's not on par with what many of you produce but why not ask for input from skilled people.
The amazing deviant art piece is: http://fox-orian.deviantart.com/#/d31xs3i .
I'm voting Sector 2 since it schwas my favourite gameplay wise.
Really enjoyed the game. Ingame I was Killerator. 
