How can i make this look better?

Jawesome99

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I'm currently working on my first map and i've started applying materials to stuff and i'm not happy with the look of the bars. How can i make them better?

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Please ignore the blue ramp

 

Davekillerish

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Wooden Fence Prop maybe?

 

theatreTECHIE

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Possibly make the posts narrower and rotate the texture 90 degrees so that the wood grains run up and down the post? Also you could group four posts together as upward does like the posts to the right of the win conditions box

 

killohurtz

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See this tool on the side? That's the texture application tool, and you can use it to rotate and scale textures and apply different textures to each face of a brush individually.

 

CriminalBunny

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Make those wooden brushes 16hu (hammer units) wide and rotate the vertical post's textures 90 degrees
I also say you should make that platform a func_detail too if you haven't already

 

Jawesome99

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CriminalBunny said:

Make those wooden brushes 16hu (hammer units) wide and rotate the vertical post's textures 90 degrees
I also say you should make that platform a func_detail too if you haven't already

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Did that, looks a bit better now.
What are the advantages of turning the platform into a func_detail?

 

nᵗʰSonata

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func_detail, unlike normal brushes, does not cut visleafs, so it compiles quicker, among other things. It is explained here better than I can explain it.

 

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Better to learn optimization sooner rather than later, or your compiles will take forever and your FPS will tank.

Try these:
http://www.optimization.interlopers.net/
http://tf2maps.net/threads/optimiza...-demonstration-written-by-mangycarface.19181/

It's complicated, but start with func_detail and areaportals.

 

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God damn tyler I was about to link the interlopers thing and then it suddenly says "Stuff has been posted while you are typing lol".

 

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1) Study architecture http://rockinghamjoinery.com/images/wooden-balconies-northamptonshire.jpg
2) Imitate
3) ???
4) Profit

 

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Jawesome99

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YM said:

1) Study architecture http://rockinghamjoinery.com/images/wooden-balconies-northamptonshire.jpg
2) Imitate
3) ???
4) Profit

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Not kidding, this image helped me the most.

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This looks sooo much better now. Thanks!

 

Davekillerish

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Such a small detail for a big forum post. Worth it.

 

Lampenpam

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Davekillerish said:

Such a small detail for a big forum post. Worth it.

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well Its not just this detail here, you need the texture tool for almost every corner of your map to make things look good

 

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seeing as at one point I selected everything in ctf_urbanbrook, set it to nodraw, and then retexturesd it all.

yes, every visible face on my map was touched by the face-texture tool