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English Mobster

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I like it! I do think you need some light shining down or something on that arrow on the right-hand side of the bottom picture, though, to attract attention to it.
But you did a great job with the lighting in the rest of it! Really gives it a grunge feel.

 

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soylent robot

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some basic detailing for sandblast a7, in stage 2

this is just blocking out the shapes of the roofs and out of bounds areas, really, no real detail yet

 

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Psy

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Change the light_env as the one you have right now makes everything very washed out.

 

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Psy said:

Change the light_env as the one you have right now makes everything very washed out.

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the one im using is copied directly from goldrush, but i agree, it is a little dull. i might try a sunset sky for this map

 

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So finally back to mapping after a couple months of just working hard IRL and playing 6v6, I've picked up Rocky Road again. This is the 6th iteration of the 2nd point and the nth iteration of the last point. I'm actually pretty happy with most parts of the layout now and I'll stop with the major reworks (except for the sides of mid) and go into playtesting to try and make the layout work.

Current looks of mid:

2nd point (viewed from mid side, the blue on top left is the last point):

Last point which is currently a bit tight:

And no, I'm not going to have the fence model on both of the points. I'm trying to decide if I'll keep it at all.

 

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Shanghai

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Hay guys, back from my month-long hiatus!
Anyway, I need a water-tower-ish thing in my map, and I just want to run this by you guys. It's set on an offshore drilling rig, and the final part is the cart travelling up in one of those cart elevator things they have in upward and going into the water-tower thing, which is full of all the oil from the drill.
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So basically that but dark metal, with a cart elevator in the middle and stairs for the supports, so RED can still defend it (since it'll be the tallest thing in the skyline). Also, it'll be all brushwork, but anything extraneous will be func_detail'd.
Thoughts?

 

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Goombac

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Leminnes said:

Gooba made me some sexy new textures. Also did the other side (mostly.) And it's a bit dark. But yeah!

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Looks nice and grungy, but I think the floor needs more stains.

 

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AgeNt_

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im kind of in a bind here. Im planning on redo-ing the roofs in my map promotion. Right now they are odd, as in a displacement over the metal texture. I was looking in how Barnblitz blent the snow to the metal and its an actual blended texture. So im experimenting.

the one on the left is the old way i did it.
the one on the right is the newer blend .vmt texture i made.

im sort of mixed on the answer, the right one blends very well and looks like what it actually should be. but the lighting looks iffy. same with the other one.

 

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English Mobster

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I like the one on the right better, personally. Looks more natural.

 

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AgeNt_

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thanks! ill go on with the one on the right then.

 

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English Mobster

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Wow, that looks great! Good work.

 

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Redoing this shitty bridge

 

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yyler said:

Redoing this shitty bridge

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Keep in mind that there are extremely few (if any) stairs in TF2 that do 180 degree turns. It just doesn't flow well and you basically have to stop at the second level and turn around.

Then again, maybe that's what you were fixing.

 

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Fruity Snacks

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Huckle said:

Keep in mind that there are extremely few (if any) stairs in TF2 that do 180 degree turns. It just doesn't flow well and you basically have to stop at the second level and turn around.

Then again, maybe that's what you were fixing.

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For a minor flank/balacony I'd think doing a 180 turn is okay, flow should be more focused on the major main routes and the major flank routes.

 

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tyler

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Considering you shouldn't ever actually go up there to get into spawn I don't think it's a huge deal tbh. The 180 really would only penalize red spawn campers. Blu will hop right down.

 

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Prop

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Yyler, just a question for that window in your pic there is an area portal, did you use the window area portal or just a regular area portal? And is there a difference?

 

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Fruity Snacks

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You'd use an area portal window technically, but a normal area portal would work just as well.

 

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Rexy

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tyler

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I know you don't want my opinions Rexy, but that looks pretty dumb.

Prop said:

Yyler, just a question for that window in your pic there is an area portal, did you use the window area portal or just a regular area portal? And is there a difference?

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Previously it was a walkway there so it was a doorway, meaning normal areaportal. I've never been able to get func_areaportalwindows working just right and completely abandoned them, but if you've seen Hella or played it, I would like to get them working in the building near A. It's the kind of place where culling the inside entirely would really help optimization, but I can't fucking figure it out and so all the areaportals I have are regular, which is not ideal.

In this case when I optimize better, the entire shack can probably be func_detail.

The difference is that areaportal windows cull what's behind them after a set distance, rather than when you aren't looking at them. This is a great reference.

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I think it needs to taper at one end more. it's circumference feels unnaturally consistent. it'd make fighting around it more interesting too.

http://images.icanhascheezburger.com/completestore/2008/12/14/128737946987972304.jpg kinda like the one in the background <_<

might be just too big in general.

 

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