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[Woozlez]

i think it looks waaaay too unstable.

A bit of tf2 humour is fine and good, but it shouldn't break immersion.

I only feel strongly about keeping the trusses above the Casali building and the Gold and Guns building because of how I've used them to string wires and as visual landmarks.

How does everyone feel about a metal platform on top of each of those buildings with concrete anchors embedded in the ceiling?

EDIT: I'm in unexplored territory for TF2 here. I really want this map to fit within the TF2 universe, but I also want it to be incredibly visually interesting. This is an underground mining facility, and I'd like it to be stylistically similar to what is in Portal 2's underground area with the cranes. The angles I currently have the trusses at are very similar to the large tilted concrete structures and trussed cranes in Portal 2. I'd like to keep them that way because it is visually distinguishing and does not seem too out there when we're also talking about asteroid mining facilities being a part of the game.

 

[Arokhantos]

 

[Spipper]

Hopefully better than cp_pollution's current 2nd:

 

[Crash]

I'm starting to get pretty proud of the detailing on Glassworks:

 

[SSX]

That room between Heatwave's A and B points. Probably gonna need to modify that balcony...

 

[Ice Crystal]

 

[Ælement]

That particular trick requires you to hold the knifes lock away from you. Otherwise, the blade will slash your fingers after you rotate the handles around your thumb.

I must admit that i can't really see everything that's going on in the picture because it's too fast. Is there a twist to it that i'm not seeing?

 

[Ice Crystal]

It's the same one from the end of meet the spy, except the spy does it all slow and sideways
You start holding the bite because you want to catch the safe handle

Spoiler

 

[Ælement]

It's the same one from the end of meet the spy, except the spy does it all slow and sideways
You start holding the site because you want to catch the safe handle

Spoiler

Aye, sorry. My brother has one of these with the lock on the wrong handle. People have already been hurt by it because of that, but i seem to forget that my only material reference is improperly constructed.

 

[LemonMeister]

Working on a remake of the CTF map shutdown2 for TF2. It was my favorite map in TFC, and it was a shame to not have a TF2 incarnation of it. Of course I'm gonna make a couple changes, as both games play quite differently, but it will still retain the core of the map.

 

[Sergis]

the vvis algorithms are more robust than i thought

however a 4 units thick 32 sided glass cylinder with a hole still brings them to their knees

 

[YM]

You need some horizontal hint brushes in there, just above usual player height. Your visleaves are all too tall.

 

[xzzy]

Also press ctrl+t once in a while. :O

Would instantly fix the blob of blue over the CP.

 

[Sergis]

You need some horizontal hint brushes in there, just above usual player height. Your visleaves are all too tall.

ill have to do that eventually if ill want the map to have playable fps

Also press ctrl+t once in a while. :O

Would instantly fix the blob of blue over the CP.

nah bro im sweet

 

[wareya]

non-orthogonal brushes are fun

 

[xzzy]

I'm not sure why low quality lighting did this (I haven't seen it before), but it did, and it looks kind of neat from a debugging perspective. You can see all my displacement seams.

 

[radarhead]

Woah, wierd.

 

[YM]

Did you make the entire brush a displacement??

 

[Pocket]

That wouldn't explain the seams on the edges, though, unless the sides are literally separate brushes from the tops.

 

[YM]

That's a common way to do displacements