[WIP] cp_siege

[Gadget]

I only had a couple of minutes to hop into the playtesting some hours ago (because of some bbq). That's why I cannot say much about the gameplay. I will rather give some quick design thoughts attached as five screenshots.

All those orange and gray textures made me feel a little lost because they are leading the eyes to nowhere. You're going to change that of course so as Youme said: add some textures already..and maybe some direction arrows.

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I hope this might be a little helpful to you.

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

Updated once again: cp_siege_a4b.7z 4MB.

This fixes a couple of serious bugs in a4, and adds in a couple more textures to see what they look like.

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

I'm slowly working my way through cp_siege, detailing it thoroughly, as well as recreating bits of it that were problematic or caused optimisation issues. I've done about half of the first stage so far, and will have a beta of that stage alone when it's done.

To keep you interested in the meantime, here's a sneak preview of what's coming:

Blu spawnroom


Moat


CP1 (WIP)

 

[YM]

you need to vary the alpha on the grass a bit more

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

What part of WIP don't you understand?

 

[YM]

I don't know, some people just can't take friendly advice...

...so I'll give you some more:
The chimney on the wooden building looks a little big, isnt there a smaller version of that model?
the lights in the spawnroom need some form of glow, valuve use two point_spotlights for each light, as do I.

 

[Shmitz]

I prefer env_lightglow for fluorescent lights. Even if it's supposed to be particularly dusty, the visible light shaft from a fixture like those is going to be rectangular/trapazoidal rather than conical. Attempting to force it with two point_spotlights can look really awful.

 

[MangyCarface]

Seconding Shmitz, I fuckin hate those lights in badwater, so obvious how it's done. One thing to remember is in brightly or even moderately lit situations the halo of a light would be so small it'd be barely visible if at all. In some cases you can just let it slide.

 

[soup!]

Looking good! I like the castle theme!

BTW how do you make those rounded corners, like in the first picture in the first post.

 

[Chilly]

I prefer env_lightglow for fluorescent lights. Even if it's supposed to be particularly dusty, the visible light shaft from a fixture like those is going to be rectangular/trapazoidal rather than conical. Attempting to force it with two point_spotlights can look really awful.

The best I've seen combines an env_lightglow with 2-3 point_spotlights. I believe this is how Storm did them in happyfarm/happycow and they look excellent.

 

[VelvetFistIronGlove]

It's no longer castle themed, soup. Those round corners are done with several brushes, but that whole cliff is now done with displacements.

The chimney on the wooden building looks a little big, isnt there a smaller version of that model?
the lights in the spawnroom need some form of glow, valuve use two point_spotlights for each light, as do I.

Yeah, I see what you mean about the chimney. As for the grass, I hadn't painted any alpha yet on those disps.

I used to have point_spotlights on those spawnroom lights, but they just looked wrong. Not so much because of the two glows (which as you can in the pic below I've got in the sewer), but because they made it look to dim/dusty in the spawnroom. I'll do some experimenting on that front.

 

[Shmitz]

In this case I think env_lightglow would work best (and not just because it's my preference ;P), since you're trying to avoid an overly dusty look. The ceiling area is dark enough that someone looking up at a light will probably see a glare. If the upper part of the room were also brightly illuminated, it would make more sense to leave it alone, but there's a pretty decent lighting contrast in the screenshot you posted.