WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[Soldat Du Christ]

I feel like after hours of trying to get it right, im stopped dead in my tracks just trying to build the non-grid segments of my map... The parts of the map that fit neatly onto a grid i got done no problem, but i'm having a hard time getting the proportions correct and to line things up nicely. Is there any way to snap objects together with their corners? And not the grid? Like vertex snap or something? 

Edited August 4, 2020 by Soldat Du Christ

[Lizard]

9 minutes ago, Soldat Du Christ said:

I feel like after hours of trying to get it right, im stopped dead in my tracks just trying to build the non-grid segments of my map... The parts of the map that fit neatly onto a grid i got done no problem, but i'm having a hard time getting the proportions correct and to line things up nicely. Is there any way to snap objects together with their corners? And not the grid? Like vertex snap or something? 

Its a "Wip, post your level screenshot thread" man... Maybe create your own thread or something. As for the grid snapping, try ctrl+b.

[Soldat Du Christ]

[sn0wsh00]

Map's looking good so far. Also looks like a great map for deathmatch or arms race.

[sn0wsh00]

I decided give my mg_space_race spinoff maps a backstory:

Terrorists opposing a renovation project have seized a sector of an interstellar space station, killing the project's manager (bomb defuse version) or taking him hostage (CSDE hybrid version). Making matters worse, they now threaten to bomb the construction sites. Using a top secret portal, counter-terrorists have tunneled into the sector with the intent of stopping the terrorists.

(for the hostage escort version, the terrorists are the ones who have portaled into the sector, after seizing the portal laboratory. Seeing the sector as a lost cause, the CTs have to escort the project manager to safety).

Here's what I've come up with for the portal lab:
 

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And here's how the portal looks like from CT spawn (I used env_cubemap's brush face entry to tie the cubemap to this texture):
 

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It's possible to enter the lab in a middle of the game, but be wary of the fact that there are sensors in the lab. I originally tried linking the env_cubemap to a dome displacement with the intent on making the portal look like a wormhole. Unfortunately, the game kept crashing after I built cubemaps, so I had to use a flat brush instead.

Edited August 8, 2020 by sn0wsh00
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[will2k]

[sn0wsh00]

I've finally managed to make spherical wormholes, with gravitational lensing, for my mg_space_race spinoff maps using prop_static entities. I simply made a sphere brush and a torus brush in Blender (and kept the polycount in the hundreds so that Hammer won't take forever to compile), smoothed the shading, assigned the meshes to a cubemap texture and compiled the models. Then in Hammer, I set the lighting origin in the prop_static entities to info_lighting entities at each wormhole's respective destinations.

Here's how the wormhole looks like leading from the main level into the portal lab:
 

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And here's how it looks like going from the lab to the main level:
 

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Edited August 10, 2020 by sn0wsh00
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[JorisCeoen]

Pretty great effect! I like it  If you're willing to go space-theme, most of the Nuke textures can easily be recycled for crazy creative rework. Especially most of the shaders they're using give a great space-effect. Keep up the good work!

[Soldat Du Christ]

 

[StormCatcher.77]

Shots of "Coma Moonlight". My map for Refracted Reality CP (Doom 2, GZDoom):

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[Radu]

Edited August 15, 2020 by Radu

[JorisCeoen]

2 hours ago, Radu said:

Images

Wingman?

[Radu]

Nah

[blackdog]

14 hours ago, Radu said:

Makes me think of cs_havana

[FMPONE]

On 8/15/2020 at 12:50 AM, StormCatcher.77 said:

Shots of "Coma Moonlight". My map for Refracted Reality CP (Doom 2, GZDoom):

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This looks really confidently constructed from the screenshots, nice stuff