[CS:GO] de_highlands (WIP)

[DooM]

Looks excellent, but I wonder how it plays

[Quotingmc]

This map is far to realistic, the props look identical to its real life counterparts and almost every screenshot could be mistaken for a photo. This is art.

[jackophant]

They grey tone of the lighting feels much more real, but I don't feel the sky matches it?

Also, I realise you want testing, but that uber long path that goes past a couple of phone boxes and the red fronted shop (which I'm going to assume is mid), looks really... long?

Either way, great job guys, I've been waiting for this one for a while now!

[ElectroSheep]

The size of this path can surprise at first but the map is as big as prodigy.

[Vaya]

 

in this picture I think you should remove the awning and change the door prop into something lighter (red or green). Awning doesn't suit the location.

[El Moroes]

They grey tone of the lighting feels much more real, but I don't feel the sky matches it?

Also, I realise you want testing, but that uber long path that goes past a couple of phone boxes and the red fronted shop (which I'm going to assume is mid), looks really... long?

Either way, great job guys, I've been waiting for this one for a while now!

The sky is still not our own sky. It's the idea we want to see in the map so it's still temp.

The size of this path can surprise at first but the map is as big as prodigy.

Yup, and you only see the "sniper alley" of the map in these screens  

Edited July 20, 2015 by El Moroes

[RaVaGe]

Holyshit guyze, c'est que ça a de la gueule quand même.

[RivFader]

This looks amazing, I hope you make it in time for the contest because this is a serious contender for at least best-looking map.

[El Moroes]

This looks amazing, I hope you make it in time for the contest because this is a serious contender for at least best-looking map.

This map is not made for the contest and even if we wanted to, we can't, but thank 

[Vilham]

Holy fook, I was asking the other day what was happening with this map, now I know. DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAMN.

Also I recognise the locations from the whitebox still, so you have done well there.

Edited July 20, 2015 by Vilham

[2d-chris]

 

needs more Dwarves

Edited July 20, 2015 by 2d-chris

[FMPONE]

I think it looks very awesome.

In terms of crit, I'd like to see more color normalization, sometimes it feels a bit noisy and contrasty right now. Like there isn't one overall tone in the shots, they vary a bit too much IMO

[text_fish]

In terms of crit, I'd like to see more color normalization, sometimes it feels a bit noisy and contrasty right now. Like there isn't one overall tone in the shots, they vary a bit too much IMO

Oooh. I've been thinking about normalizing the last few days. Would you do that with colour correction, or through VMT's? In the latter case, do you know of a relatively pain-free way to batch process a bunch of VMT's or VTF's?

Edited July 21, 2015 by text_fish

[FMPONE]

Oooh. I've been thinking about normalizing the last few days. Would you do that with colour correction, or through VMT's? In the latter case, do you know of a relatively pain-free way to batch process a bunch of VMT's or VTF's?

I think the big issue with the screenshots was lighting, they just need a more uniform lighting/control of tonal elements on props/certain textures in order to create foreground and background in the images. I'm very lazy + writing this is easy, but I really need to demonstrate it I think in order to be comprehensible.

Additional questions: - are the colors the map is using directing to different bombsites? (ex: red for one bombsite, blue for another?)

- is local lighting being used to direct to objectives?

- where are the bombsite navigational signs? how can I figure out where to get to the bombsites?

Edited July 21, 2015 by FMPONE

[ElectroSheep]

We will surely make progress but no battlefield 3 style for our map, sorry.