Posts by Parade

Quote from NikiOo

14 hours ago, NikiOo said: In my experience focusing on the floor plan without having anything built is the fastest way to fail at "making it a believable place you could visit if it was a real life location". That is, unless you are using real floor plans of Ricardo Bofill buildings as reference. I would start by making buildings from reference and fitting them together in a way that feels natural. Maybe have a rough floor plan to know where to place what. Or maybe copying blueprints of real Ricardo Bofill buildings and morphing them in ways that make them fun to play in CS while retaining the essence of an apartment complex. I'm only saying this because your layout seems a bit off-the-cuff to me.

I was hesitant about posting something until I had more to show but I'm glad I did. I had the idea of building the buildings at first but I didn't know if that was the "right" thing to do. I'm not much of a realism mapper myself. I usually make my layouts on paper first then jump into the editor after, which isn't entirely bad but with keeping realistic integrity I should definitely focus more on the environment and references. I appreciate the feedback! This gave me a lot to consider on what to do going forward for this map.

Been very busy with college lately so I couldn't work on my map enough but I've completed the simple groundwork for the layout. There's already a few things I want to change in it lmao. Wish I had more to show off but felt like I should update my progress on the anyway. Also if anyone got any meshing tips please let me know! Mesh building is definitely a drastic difference from brush based mapping. Also I decided the map will be named de_idyllic.

I always thought Kowloon was an interesting place to exist and the weird circumstance it was in. I watched a documentary on it not too long ago and something was mentioned in the documentary about how if a fire did breakout in Kowloon, there would be no chance to extinguish it 'cause of the extremely crowded conditions. Don't know why but it was fascinating/disturbing to think about and stuck with me since. Best of luck though!

Hello, I'm Parade!

This'll be my first actual creation in Source 2, so I don't expect myself to make it super far into the contest but it's an opportunity to finally get familiar with Source 2 mapping.

Don't have a name for the map yet but the theme is going to be more abstract than most cs settings. I'm going for a brutalist design, but also trying to mix a lot of color into it as well. I think the hardest challenge is gonna be making it a believable place you could visit if it was a real life location. A few of my references has been coming from the Walden 7 apartment complex and Muralla Roja apartment complex in Spain, both by the architect Ricardo Bofill.

I'll probably develop a layout first before diving into Hammer and also find some other references to go along but I'll start updating this thread once I have something to show ingame.

If you're curious on what the buildings I mentioned look like, here are some images. Walden 7 Apartment Complex

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La Muralla Roja Apartment Complex

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Good luck everyone!