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

Stars and moons
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woah!... AMAZING!

That's so fanciful!

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

sock wrote: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.

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

sock wrote:Stars and moons
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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?

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

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.

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.

Pat Howard wrote:

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

SICK! Absolutely sick...

'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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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.

jal,

really like the look of that.

@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.

reminds me of some of the indoor bits of far cry

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.

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

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:

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!)

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.

sock wrote: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

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

Last update on the map:

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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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