De_ruins

[SamCom]

How are you doing the grass? Detail objects? Or prop_statics?

That mountain adds a lot to that scene, the scale's really nice.

[Squad]

It's hard to put grass in this game

Looks a bit like 'swampy' grass, maybe it'll look better if you put it in a puddle?

Also I put a MOUNTAIN

Nice Is it a model?

[ElectroSheep]

Yeah, just some curved planes with a scrolling fog in front of them.

[FMPONE]

Yah the grass in CS:GO is pretty bad

[leplubodeslapin]

Try to color the prop_static for something darker, maybe it can fix the horrible texture of this grass model.

Really nice mountain, love it too

[ElectroSheep]

Yeah, I tried this but hard to find the good color. Also I wondering if changing the color of a props static is making it more expensive because I'm using it a lot and the budget of static props is incrédibly high (but I didn't work on fade distance yet) or it's just because a lot have alpha (foliages and shit).

Today I reworked the cliff texture and made some new foliages with existing textures :

[Vilham]

foliage is expensive in source. My DOD:S map used shit loads which was dropping the frames significantly, I eventually found a different bush model that massively helped.

[Squad]

I'm not sure how Robert Briscoe pulled it of in de_forest, but he somehow created his own foliage system.

Here's what he said about it on his site:

Once this stage was completed I spent many months creating an extremely efficient tree and foliage system to run well on the Source engine over a wide array of PC systems.

Maybe get in touch with him?

[ElectroSheep]

I can ask him but If I'm putting a bit more work in fade distance, this will help. I need to check what models don't cast dynamic shadow to set it off when needed (because the dynamic shadow use the alpha of each foliage prop)

[ElectroSheep]

Wow, fps raised from 75 to 160 in one place without the dynamic shadow, worst than expected.

[ElectroSheep]

Okay serious shit !! I have now all the map done and I just need to retake a bit some old place to make them better and a lot of framerate work to do + clipping and shit and bam !

Hope this will be good. I have also an idea of new path between A and Mid, I want to test it soon

Screenshots :

[selmitto]

dat rainbow

looking even better every time you update it. gj man!

[FMPONE]

epic. readability might still be an issue but damn if it isn't sexy!

[Wail]

epic. readability might still be an issue but damn if it isn't sexy!

I was thinking the same thing. Damn sexy, but worried about being able to pick out people.

[El Moroes]

I have also an idea of new path between A and Mid, I want to test it soon

Before making a new path, test your map with other guys because it seems it has already a lots of ways !

I also think it still too dark in some place, perhaps you should increase your ambient light intensity.

Anyway, you did a great job !

Edited May 29, 2013 by moroes