Screenshots

[g0th-]

Probably right monaster, I'm not an expert myself
obsidian and grenader, thanks!

[sock]

Stars and moons
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[fKd]

woah!... AMAZING!

[Kaz]

That's so fanciful!

[obsidian]

Heh... that looks quite different than what I was expecting.

[AEon]

Stars and moons
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Reminds me of the puzzles in Uru (loved that game). I know I'll be taking tons of screenshots for my desktop playing your SP map.

[g0th-]

Very nice Sock, you're crazy doing all this in brushes

[Pat Howard]

Stars and moons
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[sock]

Thanks fkd and Kaz, it is good to know what people like or don't like and especially their initial reaction.
@obsidian, yeah it is different direction to my initial concept but I found some new reference images. Plus I think this layout looks more fantasy and less tech/mechanical. Final beta soonly!
@AEon, I have never heard of that game but it is cool to know you want to create some desktop screenshots. I might try and create a pack of my favourite locations for when I release the map.
@g0th, All the objects started out as brushwork/patches but the whole structure is a large collection of ASE models with the globes being fine tuned in Lightwave. The tricky bit was creating a brushwork version afterwards of the models for bullet/player collision.
@PatH, you like?

[MKJ]

Uru is a spinoff of sorts of Myst.
there are defo some Myst cues in those shots

[AEon]

Uru was the first in the Myst/Riven series to *finally* use a real 3D engine... and a pretty beautiful one at that.

Sock, when creating screenshots in 1680x1050 resolution would be nice, puhlease.

[obsidian]

It's almost done, just wait for release and you can snap all the screenshots you want.

sock, I meant to say different but in a very good way. I was thinking more of a traditional looking one with lots of brass and gears. I think this looks better for the theme, built with wood and more fanciful.

[monaster]

Stars and moons
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Not quite right: Let me think... oh yeah:

SICK! Absolutely sick...

[jal_]

've been doing some cleaning and relighting at one of our old maps. Also added it a soft fog for a depth effect.

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[AEon]

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I like the crate-ish look... the soft fog gives the map an ethereal touch, neat.

I'd prefer to play it in vQ3 though

Just noted the *very* long line of site in this last shot... that may turn out problematic when a RG is available.

[nitin77]

jal,

really like the look of that.

[sock]

@Jal, I really like the fog effect, it makes the lava feel really hot, awesome job The dust on the overhead lights is really nice and soft, very cool texture/shader work. The thing that really bugs me about the screenshot is the wall/floor textures, they don't look interesting or add any character to the level. Personally I would create a diversion between the lava and the upper surface. Make all the brushwork close to the lava, rock or something natural and then have the crate/metal panel texture sit on top. You really need a contrast with texture material otherwise it is just one blob.

[seremtan]

reminds me of some of the indoor bits of far cry

[AEon]

The crate-style with the tech-ish blue lights actually reminded me more of Tron 2.0. Which is also "good", since I very much liked that game as well.

[nitin77]

actually if you do what sock says and have a rocky/earthy bottom, it would definitely look even better.

[dONKEY]

In some spare time I've been playing with a really daft CTF idea I've had for ages. Basically a novelty map with downhill skiing. It'll always be a silly level, but here are a couple of first lighting attempts:

[obsidian]

I like that ceiling in the second shot. Everything is a bit overly dark though.

When I was testing out dotproduct terrain for Q3Map2, I built this giant mountain slope and for kicks I added surfaceparm slick to the shader. Epic ski jump!

(Post count 6666... oh my!)

[jal_]

Thnx for the nice words. I'm pretty happy with the ambient myself. I just miss a bit more of contrast sometimes, but I think that prob is more at the textures than the light itself.

all the brushwork close to the lava, rock or something natural and then have the crate/metal panel texture sit on top. You really need a contrast with texture material otherwise it is just one blob.

Sounds like a good idea indeed. Also sounds like a lot of stuff to rework :/ I don't think I'll do it this time (I have 4 more maps to update), but I'll sure keep the idea for the next time. I'm even visualizing some areas already :P

[Spray]

@sock: wow, amazing job!
@jal_ : like it

Last update on the map:

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[Kaz]

goth: reminds me of the windmills in AOE
_jal: very nice, less blocky would def. help
spray: an improvement! you might want to throw some spotlights on the blue lit areas to define the shapes better, it's hard to tell what's going on mostly.
donkey: reminds me of kat's indoor cave level (with the water pool from a long time ago), but moodier. i agree about it needing more light

thanks for the comments... Trying to create an "entrance" with "reception halls"... I'm going to have to make some potted plants (probably dead) soon!

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