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[Fredrik]

(Links are broken)

aww man. I'll try to fix 'em!

EDIT: they should work now!

 

[re1wind]

The word "swamp" blitzed through my head when i saw the first image, and i do not know why. *shrug* the fog and lighting is a great start, although you may want to increase the strength of some of the exterior lights for readability issues. Not being able to tell what team a person is on due to insufficient lighting is never a good thing


Also, the balcony in this image looks accessible to demomen and soldiers, but its hard to tell.

 

[Fredrik]

The word "swamp" blitzed through my head when i saw the first image, and i do not know why. *shrug* the fog and lighting is a great start, although you may want to increase the strength of some of the exterior lights for readability issues. Not being able to tell what team a person is on due to insufficient lighting is never a good thing


Also, the balcony in this image looks accessible to demomen and soldiers, but its hard to tell.

I didn't even notice that my lights were so weak.
So, I should decrease the light levels on the non-playable areas and increase them over playable areas, right?

 

[re1wind]

Basically, yes, and not just around the setup gates, but in most outdoor areas. detail areas shouldn't really be part of the map at this point.

 

[Fredrik]

Basically, yes, and not just around the setup gates, but in most outdoor areas. detail areas shouldn't really be part of the map at this point.

Yeah, I didn't mean only around the setup gates. Idk why I wrote that.
Anyways, I got your point.

 

[phi]

mmmmm

 

[LeSwordfish]

The mid tower looks a little strange, as does the sci-fi-y stairs up to the lighthouse, but otherwise that's looking great.

Tone the light in the arch in image 3 down. It attracts a lot of attention.

Consider making the skylight a slightly stronger colour- the maritime stuff can be prone to getting washed out by light like the kinda bland yellow you have now.

The corner bre_stone props need external light origins or they look much darker than they are.

Consider a few different roof textures. Some of the metal ones, particularly the blue-green one and the rust-red, can look quite nice.

But otherwise yes lovely.

EDIT: Oh, and, window top-middle-left of last picture looks like its z-fighting or something.

 

[Seba]

Please don't leave this as is, it looks like the wood is just standing on top of the stone :c

 

[re1wind]

Coming to a server near you soon™! (maybe) (with less milky white fog)

 

[Dr. Spud]

Did another pass on the leaves. They're still a bit pixely and hard to see the branches underneath, but I think it's better. I'm not sure what else to do to them.

Also have cards to fill out the background now.

 

[Beetle]

Did another pass on the leaves. They're still a bit pixely and hard to see the branches underneath, but I think it's better. I'm not sure what else to do to them.

Also have cards to fill out the background now.

they're beautreeful

 

[UKCS-Alias]

they're beautreeful

leaf the jokes out of it. the forest looks too good for it.

 

[nightwatch]

What wood you do to try to block off playable space? (I'm assuming these are for a real csgo map, not just a detailing proof) I'm finding it difficult to imagine how you could realistically border a gameplay area with forest nicely, and still keep up a player's realistic expectations of clipping into such trees.

 

[Dr. Spud]

CS map barriers of only trees wood be barking mad. I'm making them for someone else's CS:GO map set in a lumberyard, so that map will be foresty but have man-made barriers for much of it. Setting a CS map entirely in a scene like the one pictured above probably would not be appropriate, unless it were a gorge with lots and lots of rocks and vertical cliffs.

 

[The Asylum]

Or it could have laser beams running along the perimeter with hidden launch platforms that chuck players into them.

It's a good thing for the CS mapping community that I was never any good at CS

 

[Eyce]

slow progress is slow

 

[Beetle]

slow progress is slow

looks neyce so far

 

[Fredrik]

looks neyce so far

how can anyone beet that?

 

[LeSwordfish]

these puns are getting a little fredbare

 

[Penguin]

Now that we have that sworded out, we can get back to posting screenshots.