72 hour contest: Half way point

[grazr]

This wall texture looks infinitely better in-game than it did in hammer.

I agree, it's the wonders of normal maps i guess. It was kinda bothering me at first but it seemed to turn out alright in the end. Many textures look like shit in Hammer but when translated into a lit world environment look beautiful.

I did a little personal study on sawmill to learn a little about use of wood materials and different coloured wood and what i saw in Hammer looked surprisingly like arse, but in game the colour contrast and saturation is a lot more subtle.

Also, I worry that the Mann Manor clocktower might be a bit too map specific, but idk.

Maybe. It's also kinda large in comparison to the chapel. But since the tower is so high up in manor's sky many people don't even notice it, so i'm hoping since it's not a significant focal point i can still get away with using it. It actually looked nice in cp_clocktower and didn't particularly scream "mann manor" in the same way badlands spire would if you saw that in another map.

 

[Vincent]

I was about to post the end of day 2 crap I did but now I feel my map is insignificant all together unless I take pictures of the map compiled. :<

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Well, I better get my detailing ass in gear tomorrow. Not much has changed, today was all gameplay tweeking, and it played surprisingly well... so... (minus the third picture) this is what the map is looking like... now with proper game-mechanics.

What i've spent 24+ hours on

Going to be a late one tomorrow.

 

[grazr]

If it's any consilation my map is mirrored so i have the benefit of flipping portions of the map instead of detailing the entire thing by hand. So you shouldn't feel too bad about the progress i've made on the detail side of things.

EDIT:

I hope Rexy doesn't mind, he left the keys to his car in the ignition!

 

[TheKieranator]

I've been doing quite well -> layout done and up to detailing now, but now that I upgraded my Skybox from 2D to 3D, my light_environment seems to have stopped working! D: What am I going to do? EDIT: I have fixed it now and improved lighting conditions. Moar detailing!

 

[grazr]

Finally flipped the map, got a lot of more lighting work to do that i wasn't expecting because of the shadow cast by RED's base.

 

[Ravidge]

I realize this is way past the halfway point, but I was stuck in 3dsmax for the last 9 hours.

Here's what my map looked like at hour 31

Here's the model that has been messing around. Ingame at last:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1281220/SS-2011.06.29-11.49.58.jpg

 

[grazr]

Nice, your lighting is pretty mute though and i can't help but feel the wooden spike model should be tilted a bit.

 

[RaVaGe]

Finally finished the layout, there should be 7-8 hours of work.

 

[Tom Hoen]

Phew, luckily I didn't log in until I got my map finished. After seeing most of these half way images I am ashamed how awful my map came to be. First time detailing for me.

EDIT: Going to edit my time lapse tomorrow of me mapping