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SnickerPuffs

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This is how im keeping in bounds, I would assume everyone's doing it but this is what I like to use.

I just lay a 2048hu wide, 64hu tall block at the bottom of my map. Works like a charm
 

Hyperion

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This detailing contest is awesome
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And that is TF2, not SFM or anything
 

Bull

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Been ages since I mapped, but hey I'm back with another payload project because what else would i do

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Lain

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Early A site for a steel-type level i'm working on while I try to fix Uptown (btw if anyone knows how to work staged payload logic hmu thanks)
 

RavenStryker

Former Alias: †Blade†/Xi.Cynx
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RavenStryker

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Guess we'd need to know a little bit more about what issues he is running into then. @Lain PM me with some more details if you want.
 

SnickerPuffs

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Here's a quick fullbright preview of my contest entry.


Any feedback/suggestions?
 

ProfHappycat

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wowowow that sightline on A in the last picture (going from a to the upper windowed area)
fix eet
 

ProfHappycat

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Sightlines aren't inherently bad. This doesn't even look as advantageous as Badwater's sniper window.
nah i'm not talking about the windows themselves, i'm talking about the corridor underneath
 

Moonrat

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Barring the odd lighting glitch on that wood shit, what do you guys think of this early WIP? I'm thinking it needs color, but ehh.
 

Lain

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Barring the odd lighting glitch on that wood shit, what do you guys think of this early WIP? I'm thinking it needs color, but ehh.

looking really bland right now, not enough variety in detailing, every house still looks like 64 grid hammer blocks, one solid color across everything, the lighting is poor and doesn't give the textures enough light.
 

Berry

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Barring the odd lighting glitch on that wood shit, what do you guys think of this early WIP? I'm thinking it needs color, but ehh.

Everything in the middle (the table, support and top bit) look so chunky, and the stairs could use being about half the size vertically (so having 4 steps instead of 2). They also look like 1:1 stairs which is a bad thing to get into generally (can't remember the desirable ratio but it's something like 2:3 or 3:5; experimenting is best as it is case-by-case). Also is that a lighting bug on the black thing in the middle?

Some variations on the brick texture for different buildings would be good as someone mentioned, you should also play about with more height variation on the floor (steps, cellars etc.) and add displacement to the grass.
 

Moonrat

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Everything in the middle (the table, support and top bit) look so chunky, and the stairs could use being about half the size vertically (so having 4 steps instead of 2). They also look like 1:1 stairs which is a bad thing to get into generally (can't remember the desirable ratio but it's something like 2:3 or 3:5; experimenting is best as it is case-by-case). Also is that a lighting bug on the black thing in the middle?

Some variations on the brick texture for different buildings would be good as someone mentioned, you should also play about with more height variation on the floor (steps, cellars etc.) and add displacement to the grass.
I have no idea what the lighting on the porch is doing. It updates based on player location, as when I entered a differently lit area, it'd change lighting aswell..

It's a func_detail, and I've never seen this happen in one of my maps before.

looking really bland right now, not enough variety in detailing, every house still looks like 64 grid hammer blocks, one solid color across everything, the lighting is poor and doesn't give the textures enough light.

I'm planning on adding trims and other messy details to take away from the blandness, and some overlays and such to add color into it.