WIP in WIP, post your level screenshots!

[General Vivi]

Philip! I was traveling backwards through the thread pages and all I saw was "Oh shit!" comments. When I hit page 666, my heart literally skipped a beat. I love that style sooo much! Makes me want to script something in that environment!

[voodoochopstiks]

holy shit Philip I pretty much crapped my pants, I REALLY want to walk around it!

Love how you keep pushing the envelope on environment art!

Edited December 14, 2012 by voodoochopstiks

[PogoP]

Just a quick Cryengine test from last night.. Gonna try and make an open world environment soon. Something a little more unique. Going to sculpt the base and then use just the erosion filters in World Machine.

Edited December 17, 2012 by PogoP

[Seldoon182]

Cool stuff PogoP can you share your reference you used for this draft ? Looks like a bit cartoonish to me.

Edited December 17, 2012 by Seldoon182

[PogoP]

No references in particular Seldoon (though I have collected loads of references for the scene itself), it was just an engine test. Mainly done in World Machine, a bit of work in Photoshop, and then exported to Cryengine and tweaked. It came out cartoony-ish I guess, and I may go for that sort of style... Not entirely sure just yet. I'll see where it goes!

It's going to be all old English countrysides and little lanes/paths. These are kinda what I'm going to be making eventually:

Edited December 17, 2012 by PogoP

[Karram]

Gears of war singleplayer map.

[Pampers]

I also made a set of mountains a while ago

divided them into separate meshes though, so I can quickly place them around the map as background drops

Edited December 18, 2012 by Pampers

[PhilipK]

Thx Dan and Vivi!

Nice terrains there. It's really fun to play around some with world machine. Just got a personal license some months ago. Lots of cool custom scripts for it too.

[Marcos]

Unbelievable work there Philip, your creativity is mind-blowing! I realy dig how it all fits together even though there is so much contrast in the scene.

I started a little cs:source map since I got alot of spare time now. Layout is done, but I redid the whole look because I want to incoporate Phil's texturepacks into it.

Dont know if it will be do-able because of it's sci-fi look but im trying the whole "secret government research lab" cliché.

Pic shows T-spawn which is a bunker/sever system. It's the first compile and clearly the env_sprites turned out shit

[holiestcows]

Working on a CS:GO map, its for BOMB.

General Overview

This is bombsite B

This is bombsite A

[JeanPaul]

Too blocky, get some more angles in there!

[Pampers]

that bombsite is way to cluttered, six entrances and with that many crates, makes it impossible to defend or hold after a plant

[holiestcows]

In regards to bombsite B being too cluttered, I feel as if that it is not, after extensive playtesting with my friends for a good couple days, and many revisions, it plays out pretty fine In my opinion. I would love to have it play tested on the mapcore's CS:GO server though.

I added some more angles as well.

Edited December 23, 2012 by holiestcows

[ShockaPop]

It seems that the B-site has 7 (!!!) entrances. which is pretty damn bad thing in my opinion, especially it being also a room with tons of crates. You should probably cut the room in two, so it has one bigger entrance and 2 smaller ones. Take a look at official maps to see how they work.

[blackdog]

So holiestcows, main choke point seems to be the B bombsite, estimating the travel time. I won't complain about crates, since they are just a filler easy to move around, but if I imagine the room without those, still looks a bit too busy. Btw Ts have the height advantage when they come in, so it seems the room can balance itself to a certain degree.

While you are in this alpha state try to test a couple of variants changing entrances, heights, moving covers

that bombsite is way to cluttered

Bombsites also look a bit too cramped, A in particular (which, on the other hand, feels the more "CS" to me).