WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Fruity Snacks]

Join ze club.

 

[LeSwordfish]

I've already failed to!

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Don't look at it as a failure...

... look at it more as a "big batter of feedback"

 

[Freyja]

Boylee, you seem to have the theme I was going for in Escarpment then gave up on nailed down

 

[Boylee]

Not sure I'd say it's nailed down. I started adding construction assets this morning. (OH GAWD WHAT AM I DOING?)

 

[grazr]

Bloody hell, never thought anyone could make TF2 look like Crysis. Alright, maybe a beta of Cryisis, but still. A good job on the fog settings BoyLee, that's pretty much given your theme's personality what it needed to work.

 

[RaVaGe]

Not reaaaly fan 'bout the colors, but it's a good start .

 

[LeSwordfish]

I dont know if i like the really pale wood on the bridge, Boylee. Stands out a bit.

 

[grazr]

Not reaaaly fan 'bout the colors, but it's a good start .

There are a lot of details hidden in the shadows. Also a lot of textures that work better in direct sunlight (bricks). You should consider increasing the sun pitch to bring the contents display to its full potential.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

Progress:

Since that's a bit hard to read, I emphasized the ramps and outlined the underground route:

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Maybe slap some slits in the fence with the A sign, so defenders can see the attackers coming, and attackers can see sentry nests, so they can plan accordingly.

 

[MangyCarface]

Gorgeous, ravage. Reminds me a bit of ace's artpass

Anyway, the first compile I've done since detail work. VERY rough compile, very unfinished work.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Those cliffs look way to rounded, imo.

 

[grazr]

Gotta be really careful about fences, not only do they get in the way of combat by blocking projectiles and interrupting people's firing line when trying to shoot over (l)edges, but they force players into linear movement patterns which they don't like (scouts especially hate them). Try not to make fences taller than the industrial handrail props. Props like the wooden fences found in plr_nightfall tend to get in the way more than anything and should only be used in out of bound areas. Other than the industrial/spytech handrail props, alternatives for wooden fences include the little brush fences found in goldrush.

I've used the wooden fence as a reference in so many of my previous maps:
My BATT entry:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613841548866464339/FF4C84E634B92A9D460780C9AF15B7889D754A99/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613841548866462737/9E209CBB372B32C158364F147A3ABC841E225A0B/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/614968439069649814/F4C36A2060EBA98A2EF9C6CA18D987AFC67DDAF2/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613841548866456128/24B6E15453C7A91A3169894FB63BABF2F213C4EC/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/613841548866457952/17F8C03FA508B48B36B22D1FB3893E6D7830973E/
cp_avante:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1429764/avante/cp_avante_b70033.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1429764/avante/cp_avante_b70030.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1429764/avante/cp_avante_b70036.jpg
pl_gloryhole:
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560940105002185498/DF7EE846C1B9DF6661FBDB4311C39C40C7538145/
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/560940105002177906/9E3D0A309532A87B2A2E5421C9032BE80D1DC9D3/

 

[tyler]

Played more or less fine in the thousand playtests we did.

 

[grazr]

I'm only telling him to be careful about fences, i do it to everyone everytime i see fences.

 

[Vincent]

*snip of a ton of beautiful images*

I agree with Frozen about the hills, way to rounded. Also the rocky stone texture clashes hard with the stone texture on top of the tower. Although I'm guessing you did that for temporary reasons.

Looks sexy otherwise.

In terms of gameplay I can see myself falling off those little walkway bridges, but that's just me.

Maybe slap some slits

:O

 

[MangyCarface]

The smoothness of the cliffs is because I've created new blends for both the top surface and side surfaces, and then alpha'd them into each other so there's no seam. It's not convention, but I think it makes more sense than most TF2 rock walls? Rest of the effect may be due to shitty lighting, not sure

 

[re1wind]

pl_toomanyspotlights

first concept for cp_dryrock_grotto, which throws the stages of a multi-stage pl map into the same area.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Looks like a big room...