Japanese Themed Map [CS:GO]

[Xarop]

At what time will the playtest be? I'm not home till 1930PM unfortunately

[Andre Valera]

Recently moved from one apartment to a house, attempting to enjoy not having the internet connection up until this point. Finally getting back into Kaizen and it's visuals, specifically the windows and walls. If everything goes as planned then expect another update early may, until then it's time to learn modelling through 3dsmax!

[Vaya]

let me know if you find any noob guides for it

[AMAXANG GAMES]

Hey Andre ! 

From What I lived and saw during my staying in Tokyo, I do not really feel the urban chaos the city is at this time. What you did looks more like an 90's Video game vision of a chinese city.

Here some personal photos I took if it can helps =)

 

When I talk about Urban chaos, it's about the huge tall difference between neighboor buildings into some part of the city

 

 

 

 

 

 

These are the kind of street you can see a lot when you leave touristical path? People tends to put lot of vegetals in front of there house.

Oh and of course, everywhere, you'll be able to see a shitload of electric cables everywhere in the sky.

 

 

 

Streets are fucking clean. Do not put any thing on your floor =D

 

 

 

Oh , yeah, and since there is absolutly no place, shop tends to spread on multiple floors of a residential building.

 

 

A last thing ; Since there is a lot a earthquake, building are never glued together like in Europa 

 

 

That's all =)

Cool pictures really.... I like the stairs one...

[Andre Valera]

I appreciate all the positive feedback, and after making some serious decisions, a new theme is going into place. This is a big change, almost a 360 from the original idea. The layout seems to work, but the Japanese theme is just not the right theme. Maybe revisiting this idea with a few other talented modelers/texture artists is a possibility (if interested just send me a text) but for now a more raw theme will be constructed, something closer to home (Albany, NY). Thanks again for keeping in touch and giving helpful feedback, so far this is most I've interacted with a community about my work and its had a large influence.

[Andre Valera]

https://soundcloud.com/andrevalera/andres-mix-session-may

here's a mix to enjoy in the meantime, maybe it will help you focus on mapping    

Edited May 4, 2015 by Andre Valera

[Andre Valera]

Getting in the rhythm of things, feeling good about the recent progress of Kaizen

Next preview will include a few changes that take parts of the map out of the repetitive city theme into a rural setting!

[jakuza]

I'm really liking that tile building on the left. Your textures really mesh. Is the wall with bullet holes a mesh or geometry?

[Andre Valera]

Geometry :/ trying to keep the amount of func_details to a minimum but for now this version is full of them, hoping this will change once some custom models are in place. If who I think is not too busy Kaizen will have an excellent artist create some very original visuals!

[Andre Valera]

When you're looking at visual references of buildings and color composition for Kaizen then somehow Google Maps suddenly makes sense.

 

[Vaya]

Make sure to include a floating japanese ladies head

[Andre Valera]

Here's the layout idea, now to get some 5v5 / 10v10 testing maybe shine it up a bit?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B2JGQksdihzvT0tBMmJIZ1JSQnM/view?usp=sharing

 

[Andre Valera]

Additional screenshots on the workshop page!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=414061247

If you spot a neat area in the map that you like/dislike let me know! (for example walls that help to bounce smokes or flashes, or areas that create cheeky angles that are one sided)

There's a lot of areas that I'd like to open up (and I've tried with this version) though for optimization sake some of the buildings will have invisible skybox toolbrush heads that block grenades.

Since this map features a lot of angled buildings, it might start to square out in certain areas although if there's a certain wall/feature that you find unique enough to make it into the next version do post a comment. This map has gone through a lot of changes over the last year and I'd like to make an effort to retain some of the key features ideas from previous versions in the future versions.

Thanks for checking it out!

 

[VIOLATION]

Super glad to see an update again! Will definitely be loading this up in a bit and hopefully give some feedback. Great work guys.