ol_downfall (Off Limits map)

[Wesley Tack]

Finished my second map for Off Limits, this design was made in collaboration with Forrest Dowling, who initially started this map over a year ago. It's been through a lot of changes but the core gameplay has been the same since it was constructed by Forrest. I picked up this map to finish it and get it ready for the Off Limits RC1 release. Here are some shots of it:

More shots can be found on my website: http://www.wesleytack.com

Made for http://www.off-limits.be

Hope you like it, and a happy newyear to all ! May it be better than 2006!

- Wesley

[atrocity]

VEry nice work, the whole area looks pretty convincing. Somethings I would look into is turning on a couple of those street lights and give them a nice soft orange glow to compliment the blue overtones you got goin. Then I would work on placing more detail in the streets. Overall the map looks excellent, and is posted in the Finished work, but this is something I might have pushed at.

Keep up the great work man.

[dux]

I totally dig this. Awesome job my man!

[FMPONE]

This mod consistently blows my mind, brilliant work. One thing to watch out for would be the lighting, while you have a huge beautiful canvas you seem to making fairly boring use of it. Throw in some more colors

[skdr]

One of the best looking Source maps so far.

Awesome work man!

[mabufo]

Brilliant, I really like the building architecture.

[Dodger]

city maps are so cool!!!!!!

[Wesley Tack]

Thanks for all the great comments everyone, crits are still welcome. No map is ever really finished as I'm sure you all will agree

Somethings I would look into is turning on a couple of those street lights and give them a nice soft orange glow to compliment the blue overtones you got goin. Then I would work on placing more detail in the streets. Overall the map looks excellent, and is posted in the Finished work, but this is something I might have pushed at.

Thanks for reminding me, I was planning this but it totally slipped my mind (the traffic lights).

Here is a model I made just now to replace the Valve one and an ingame shot:

About the empty street comment, Off Limits has drivable vehicles, so I left them relatively empty so people wouldn't bump into objects all the time. Also for such a large open area having too many prop cars in the scene will be bad for performance (especially Valve cars, which tend to be a lot of poly's).

Here is a video of the map (before it was optimized, you'll see my computer lag at one point ). Now the map runs fine. I recorded with my photocamera, cause running fraps would have ruined my race

http://users.pandora.be/simon.wt/OffLimits_Lap_One.avi

I'll recompile it again sometime this week with the new traffic lights and other crits that would emerge.

Thanks!

- Wesley

[Zeta]

Looks fantastic - great work.

[RA7]

Very impressive, *ps is this for a HL2 mod?

[RD]

Plz make it daylight map

Night maps get depressive, frustrating & boring

[TeddyBear]

You did it again, son!

Seriously, I've think you've done a great job creating a believable scene. Spotlight!

[dux]

Very impressive, *ps is this for a HL2 mod?

Yes.

http://www.off-limits.be

[Steppenwolf]

The map looks very impressive. The only crit that i have are the sharp 90 degree edges around street corners. I would make them round like in this pic:

[Zeta]

Oh and one note of contention - your interiors let the rest of the level down.