WIP Level Design Final

[von*ferret]

This is my final so far for level design. its based off of Rivendell from Lord of the Rings. I still have to work out details like making buildings less square and more interesting. No textures have been created, and NOTHING has been textured so far except for the trees and waterfalls. Lighting is not final. This is a CTF level and will be mirrored when the project is done. I'm responsible for everything except for the inside of the giant building. Enjoy.

Tree Model:

Added Low Polytreeline:

[Crackerjack]

Wow, thats looking really sweet already. Looking forward to seeing the final product.

[mike-0]

woah... never seen anything like it. strait up awesome.

[Pericolos0]

awesome

i dont really have much comments except what you have said yourself that needs to be done

[InsaneSingingBlender]

that is really fkn leet man, great job

[kleinluka]

I like it!

One thing I'd definitely change is the smoothing on those archways. The way you have them right now they dont have much shape definition and look like they are made of pudding Tweak your smoothing groups!

[von*ferret]

unreal plays tricks with my smoothing groups, I'll work to fix it. Thanks for pointing that out.

[kleinluka]

One more thing, some areas seem very dark / almost black. Not sure what it looks like ingame but I'd brighten it up a liiiiittle bit, just so you dont have those really dark spots in the map. Don't destroy the nice contrast you have while doing it, just slightly brighten it up.

[Minos]

Cool ferret, looking good so far! Dunno how that would work as a CTF level tho, what are ur plans to contrast both parts ?

[Algor]

Nice improvements, looks like you're learning the tech fairly well

[von*ferret]

one side has red lighting and detailed painting (like flags, trims ect), and the other has blue. Learning the tech as I go, doing what I need when it calls for it ect.

[Mazy]

looking quite nice fetter, cant wait to see it polished

[PhilipK]

awesome stuff ferr@von~~

really likes it so far.

[Hourences]

I would use custom textures when you start texturing and also lots of wood to make it more peacefull and friendlyer

When youre done we wont see the edge of the terrain anymore right ?

Light really needs a lot of work but you said so

Colored team lighting is the absolute worst thing you could possibly do to a map like this

Your smoothing groups are possibly messed up because you assigned no smoothing groups in max, if a model has no group assigned to a face UED will asign it to group 1 and thus might end up smoothing the whole thing

[FrieChamp]

I don't know how much work you put into the terrain so far, but I would make it a lot wider and higher, to get the valley feeling. Then players also won't just look into big emptiness/in the sky.

It's an interesting theme and looks perfect for a deathmatch map to me, why CTF?