Quote from T-Rexer5 hours ago, T-Rexer said: great job! i am a big fan of this, even though its clearly not entirely done yet, the artic theme is done better than any map before imo
Thanks and thanks for the feedbacks on your sheet! We hope to make it better for Stage3!
That look so damn good ! I love it !
Working on a World At War map (Borred about Cs:go) Sorry for the bad mapping, first time in radiant I'm looking of everything is woking in this engine !
Textures done myself
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Quote from TykerWhat do you mean exactly? Is it the colour? Resolution? Trims or tiles? Which textures? And where?
It was in the first topic page, using doors to make walls 
Hey, I don't really like textures you used, but in global it look really good ! 
I use blender since 2.49a, so far the software has involed during the time. I tried 3dsmax, maya, but I'm always turning back to Blender, because shorcuts, the way to use, is so different it's hard to try another tools.
I would recommend to use http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/ to make ivy and other things, but it's not the best for making low poly foliages.
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Baking branches high to low, using planar branches (got textures on textures.com) can be a good idea.
Edit: you can add some addons in blender, check in "add curves" the addon "Sapling" and "IvyGen" it can be a good start 
Sapling:
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Prodigy, the best map of cs:s for me
Quote from TheGumaDisplay MoreWhile it is not a bad idea, Source is also good at handling displacements and brushes on its own as long as you know what you're doing.
Of course, props are more efficient when it comes to very detailed subtle things such as windows, trims, corners, props and other details, but I don't think making the whole map out of them is a great idea.
Some things such as penetration, different graphic cards handling the map and collisions come into mind.
For example, the ground in the screenshot outside could be easily replaced with displacements, and to make it look just as good you could have a good texture on it.
There's a new feature that allows you to use Phong on non-model surfaces, so you could experiment with that too.
Just some of my thoughts, the screenshots look superb, it doesn't even look like Source engine!
Currently I got this http://images.akamai.steamusercontent.com/ugc/4034333470…A99658B5F761E1/ (not as screenshot to not spam forum about my content) I set the floor as displacement here.
I know it's bad on source making entirely model, because there is no vis, so you have to cut with brush manually every pieces, so you have bsp behind models etc... I really hope Source 2 for cs:go will fix this issue.
Quote from TenseiWell, why don't you take a bit more time and make the whole cave a single model. Well i don't know much about modeling, and i don't know how will engine react to whole area being as model, but i know that few games levels are literally made from models
Making bigger parts... yes but not entirely. I'm scared about the lighting on this engine with models, I really don't know for now. I'm in a state of making an "asset store" (I don't know the name in english, but making all models I need to make a map with them).
I have made this level http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…s/?id=135458640 using a lot of single part models, without performances problem on a GTS 250, so I think it's not necessary, well I'll see, thanks for the feedback 
Quote from TenseiIf it all is made of group of small models, won't it impact performance ?
Yeah I think it can impact performances but I'm not sure if it's only in hammer or also ingame. I have to check that, but it's possible since it do bad perf with multiple prop_static of grass.
Quote from SquadI think it looks better than you think it does
Is it just one model you're using or are there a few variations?
Only the one of the first screenshot
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Soo I tried to do something fun with this little rock...
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Even it don't look good, it was funny to do this :lol:
This is for a remake of my old de_chanda
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I hope I will finish this level 
Working on my level named "disctrict 45" for CS:GO.
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I've done easier things using this view
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Hey ! I don't know if someone know that, hammer has logical for entities, like a hud to view how your entities are working, it's not real time preview, but you can see how are linked your entities.
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but, how to get that ? Easy !
open regedit, search HKEY_CURRENT_USER/Software/Valve/Hammer/Splitter
Then you have "drawtype0,0" "drawtype0,1" "drawtype1,0" "drawtype1,1"
0,0 is camera view, 0,1 is top, 1,0 is side, 1,1 is front
Then you have 4 views to change, you can change what you want.
For this test, use 1,1
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Then you can start hammer, select one map exist, you will see the magic !
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It do not look like this at start, you have to move entities etc.
To get the grid, save your vmf, open it with text editor, search the text "bShowLogicalGrid" change the "0" to "1" and load your map.
It's glitchy, it can go black everytime.
Et voila !
Edit: You can try 11 and 12 disabled on csgo, it's light preview
Progressing Progress
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Still wip and no detailled, but there is no screens since 28 june so... 
