Yeah Meotwister, thanks for the feedback! 
I understood your point, and although dark sand might look good on "real life", i doubt it would look good in a game environment, it would probably look like an error from the level designer itself or something... I'm using the original white sand texture from Crysis map Island, but giving it a slightly yelow/brown tint. (You can paint your textures on terrain with color/brightness variations in SandBox2)
Thanks KT! 
Good question, let's test it:
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Edit :: meh, does'nt work anymore?!
And where the hell are the smileys? And the BBcode buttons? Õ_õ
Wow, grats atrocity and Sentura!
Ahh sentura, play games for a living... 
I'm about to start watching Dexter, a friend of mine is a fan of this serie.
Wow, I love the first two shots! Love the lighting and the textures used!
Where's the server located at btw?
Yes, I added some more variation to that small area already!
I've been doing some small mine workers encampment, will post some screens soon.
Oh, and about the white sand... White sand is for paradisiac environments, which is definitely not what I'm aiming at!
finally, I've been asking for an automatic image resizer for ages now!
Congrats guys, nice work!
Map core!
woo.. and We're back!
eh eh.. No sir!
Yeah well, i rather call it Aliens 2 than being misinterpreted.
And maybe while your at it, put a decent PHPbb theme?
Looking good mate! I think adding it a bit of vegetation (Other than palm trees) would bring it to a whole new level of beauty!
I love the waterfall btw, It looks even better than the ones in Crysis. Is it a particle? A plane with some kind of special shader? Or...?
Man, this thread actually made me watch Aliens 2 again, last time I saw it was like maybe 6/7 years ago. This movie is made of pure awesomeness, I mean if this exact same movie was to be released on this year, 2008, it would still be a blockbuster hit! James Cameron did a phenomenal work back in 1986!
After watching it again, and comparing to Aliens VS Predator 1 and 2, (The movies), and maybe even another recent action/horror movies, made me think on the lack of originality most of the movies has nowadays!
Aliens 2 is a really bad-ass oldschool movie, and it still lives in my top5 favorite movies all times, so I hope Gearbox manages to capture the feeling, and to successfully integrate the player into the Aliens universe, and not only try to make another shooter with the word "Aliens" on it.
Looking good Skacky, It's all UT3 assets and textures?
Just a small update:
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Nothing major, because on the last few days I've been busy with the FlowGraph (Scripting) and messing with the enemy AI, which is a bit tricky and require alot of patience, but It's getting there...
Correct me if I'm wrong, but FY stands for "fragging yard" or something, right?
Anyways, I love the sharp look of the textures, definitely a great map with a good quality for a decent level designer portfolio, congrats.
Quote from e-freakhttp://www.mapcore.net/forums/viewtop…=190259#p190259
- btw: there are simmilar reads by valve on the topic, going deeper into hl2 and ep1 render-techs (i just have to find the damn link again)
Ouch, erm.. go ahead and lock this thread if you want, your call!
I guess this definitely deserves It's own thread, really superb presentation about the the Illustrative World
of Team Fortress 2.
Take a look: http://www.valvesoftware.com/publicatio ... se_TF2.pdf
Kick ass buddy the designer!
Ah, kingpin, one of my main inspiration for my early Max Payne maps, I loved the level design in that game!
