Posts by PogoP

Here's a little update. I've been working on an alleyway that the player has to traverse in the first few moments of my Singleplayer series of maps. You have to clamber across ledges high off the ground whilst the Combine patrol below you.

It's using all stock HL2 materials, I really want to test my scripting skills! At the moment, Combine rush past the alleyway exit in APCs and on foot randomly, looks quite nifty. The player doesn't even really look that way, but if he chooses to do so, it's a bit of eye candy for him/her.

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In this next image, it's at ground level. You never even go down to ground level, I haven't a clue why I even took a screenshot. Heh.

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I've recently been working on my singleplayer mapping abilities, it's so much fun! You can really get creative with scripting and thinking up interesting gameplay ideas in singleplayer, in my opinion so much more so than multiplayer.

I wanted to use the stock HL2 materials to create a singleplayer series set in a part of City 17 shelled by Headcrab Canisters. That's the premise; it's like Ravenholm I guess.

Anyway here's a few WIP shots of a day or two's work (including scripting that is). I think it looks a little bare in places as it is at the moment, especially the third screenshot. Any criticism greatly appreciated!

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That map reminds me of that Alfred Hitchcock film... Rear window. Does anyone else think so?

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I like it but then again I think your use of textures is completely whacky and a bit jarring, its not bad for sure just work on the continuity

What exactly is jarring? This is Iraq after all, they're not known for their wonderfully wallpapered rooms and home deco.

Just a little WIP for Insurgency. Trying to get back into mapping for NS2!

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You have to reload the map once you've built the cubemaps. Or just type "reloadallmaterials" in console, and it'll reload the cubemapped materials on all props and brush textures. Trust me, it works. I was getting really annoyed with the Source engine, but it turns out all I had to do was reload the map.

Sorry to drag this up from the depths, but I haven't been able to post for a month

Some WIP unofficial Natural Selection 2 shots using these textures(models have been converted over to Source from NS):

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Sorry about the strange sizes, I changed resolution halfway through making the map

Looks very nice, the renders look really cartoony though. In-game, seems to look fine.