WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Boylee]

Awesome vista in the first screenshot BoyLee.

I'm curious though, what's above that second control point? That's a pretty heavy-duty structure to be supported in an outdoor environment.

This point?

 

[jpr]

wow the texture scale on the ground looks like 10 or something

 

[Boylee]

Yeah it's actually 1, but you're right it's way too high.

 

[jpr]

More caldera remake:

I'm not going to detail this completely before release, I just felt like detailing
I love that skybox btw

 

[Crash]

Partially work in progress shot, partially showing off my epic dual monitor hammer usage:

Computer:

 

[nik]

LEDs are all you need

 

[Crash]

And specs since I'm already showing it off:

2x ASUS VW224U 22" 2ms LCD's
Zalman Z9 Plus black steel ATX Mid Tower
Antec TruePower TP-650 650W PSU
MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) Motherboard
MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (@4.2 with a quick, lazy overclock)
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler
Intel X25-M 120GB SATA II Solid State Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
M-Audio Audiophile 192 HD Recording Soundcard
Logitech G500 10 Button Mouse
Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Headphones
NZXT Sleeved Green LED kit (2 Meter)
Flexiglow Tri-lazer LED kit pointing at heatsink and video card

 

[ScorpioUprising]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3492731/cp_process_a5_wip.jpg

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Looks nice, but for some odd reason, the garage up against the water just feels... odd, not sure why, but it does.

 

[Porkenstein]

Egyptian Tomb

I've been working on an egypt-themed cp map. A bit of the first stage is in a moonlit desert, and the rest is in a pyramid. I haven't quite decided on a name, yet... perhaps cp_tomb but I know there's already a koth_tomb. I welcome suggestions.

Here are some screenshots so far. I was toying with the style and lighting so what I have in stage one is a bit detailed, and it's what I'm showing here.

And yes, there's a crosshair. I hope it's not too distracting.

right outside of the pyramid entrance.

The entrance by a skybox pyramid.

This is in blu's stage one spawnroom.

This is inside the grand entrance to the pyramid.

Point 1A

Another view of the 1A room.

 

[tyler]

Make it 10x brighter and why are the torches giving off purple light?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

the underground rooms are waaaay to dark, and that back lighting for the torches is way off. It also (from the looks of the shots) look overscaled.

 

[Porkenstein]

I was going for something unique. I thought purple light would be an interesting variation.
I suppose I should also make it a bit brighter, but team colors are usually visible... and I was hoping that the darkness could add to the gameplay. It's far from a handicapping darkness. These screenshots are a tad misleading.

The lighting also makes it look much larger than it actually is. I was actually concerned it might be too cramped.

But yes, the lighting needs some work. I'm far from Alpha status with this.

 

[Porkenstein]

I've looked it over again and I'm making some modifications, especially to the area in screenshot 4.

 

[tyler]

The thing you have to remember is that people have their monitors at different brightnesses; what seems fine to you could be pitch black for someone else. It's in general not a good idea.

 

[Porkenstein]

Ah, thank you for that.

I'll go with an eerie purple glow rather darkness with some purple in it.

 

[tyler]

Although it does look cool.

I'm just worried about playability.

 

[Crash]

Yeah honestly it does look cool, I just don't know if it's good for TF2. You have to think about color tones affecting visibility of player colors.

I would tweak it around a bunch, maybe wash it out a bit whiter?

 

[Porkenstein]

I just raised the ambient lighting and fixed some of the torches.
The lighting is much more even, and I'm adding some skylights and more torches.

Thanks for the input-- maybe I'll post this soon as a map when I'm finished with all three stages.

 

[tyler]

guess I'm working on this again. decided to do 3cp, here's the second point currently

and for a refresher, this is the rest