WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Leminnes]

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You already showed me this, but I gotta say again: this shit is dope as hell.

Let me just put this to rest. It's not a big deal, it's one of many posters that will be on the finished map and yes it's not 100% accurate for the time period but it's my artistic vision and at the end of the day, I can make what I want. I accept the critique and have made a simple, artstyle accurate version that will also be on the map, but I also like the text-filled version. Let that be the end of wip thread spam.

You can have the text-filled version and still have it fit with the game's art style. Just use proper fonts, hierarchy, and font-setting.

 

[Spipper]

I was really hoping I could finish an a1 before december, so I actually could meet a deadline for once:

But I couldn't.

 

[SnickerPuffs]

So, I wanted to make one big change for Cruise in a14.

Should I remove the Nucleus-like thing above the point?

 

[ibex]

Rate "Like" for Yes, and "Creative" for No.

Can we please not use the rating system like this?

Also, I forgot to pimp out slug for all those positive ratings so:

point has now been moved into the bridge, figured I'd try it out

also tried out some texturing because I should probably learn how to detail already..

 

[CriminalBunny]

Can we please not use the rating system like this?

Also, I forgot to pimp out slug for all those positive ratings so:
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point has now been moved into the bridge, figured I'd try it out
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also tried out some texturing because I should probably learn how to detail already..

Looks good ibex!
Gotta say, the metal roofs look rather thick. 4hu thick is a good number

 

[14bit]

Here's some big changes happening in cp_14bit_a3! I still need a good name btw.

Point A got moved a bit and some things got shuffled around:

Here's a bit of a look into (part of) the new connector between A and D (and the HUD was fixed for this one):
Sorry I was crouching, puush's default capture window command uses control.

Here's the old B and the new B side by side, from roughly the same spot:

a3 still has a long way to go before testing. I still need to rebuild Red's whole spawn I ripped out!

 

[MaccyF]

 

[Leminnes]

Made this last night. :] It's for Boylee's map Clifftop. Still got a bit more work on it, but I'm pretty happy with it.

 

[zahndah]

I still need a good name btw.

How about cp_13bit ?

 

[LeSwordfish]

Made this last night. :] It's for Boylee's map Clifftop. Still got a bit more work on it, but I'm pretty happy with it.

That looks really cool! I think that one peak in the back is unusually steep, though.

 

[Invalid nick]

had some extra time, so had a go at updating the skybox for my little pl map, not quite there yet, but hopefully baby steps in the right directions...

new version (5 color palette, hand painted, low poly displace - still needs a lot of work!):

old version (too realistic, too many vertices, does not fit tf2 at all!):

 

[MaccyF]

had some extra time, so had a go at updating the skybox for my little pl map, not quite there yet, but hopefully baby steps in the right directions...

new version (5 color palette, hand painted, low poly displace - still needs a lot of work!):

old version (too realistic, too many vertices, does not fit tf2 at all!):

much, much better

 

[Leminnes]

That looks really cool! I think that one peak in the back is unusually steep, though.

Fair enough. There's a similar mountain in the Trainyard Skybox but I suppose it's not as pronounced as this one is. Not too hard to fix.

 

[Uncuepa]

There's a similar mountain in the Trainyard Skybox

That is the mountain in all valve skyboxes. They just reposition the sun and change a few colours each time they need a mountain.

 

[MaccyF]

Fair enough. There's a similar mountain in the Trainyard Skybox but I suppose it's not as pronounced as this one is. Not too hard to fix.

i like the exaggeration personally, makes it seem more cartoonish

 

[LeSwordfish]

It looks less prominent to me, though that might just be the angle.

 

[Leminnes]

That is the mountain in all valve skyboxes. They just reposition the sun and change a few colours each time they need a mountain.

I'm aware. That wasn't what I meant.

It looks less prominent to me, though that might just be the angle.

Mayhaps. I guess it depends on what it looks like in game.

i like the exaggeration personally, makes it seem more cartoonish

Speaking of Cartoonish, the Grinch lives in this skybox.

 

[MaccyF]

do you paint these from scratch @Leminnes ? how do you handle the cube projection?

 

[Leminnes]

do you paint these from scratch @Leminnes ? how do you handle the cube projection?

I did, in a way. Boylee gave me a bit of a reference that I worked from, but it doesn't really look much like it anymore xD

Boylee also set me up with a Photoshop doc that uses the new-ish 3D properties of Photoshop to project the skybox on a sphere and then it uses camera positions to create the skybox. I might direct Boylee in here to better describe how it's done. I'm not 100% sure I could have done it myself without his help.

 

[MaccyF]

I did, in a way. Boylee gave me a bit of a reference that I worked from, but it doesn't really look much like it anymore xD

Boylee also set me up with a Photoshop doc that uses the new-ish 3D properties of Photoshop to project the skybox on a sphere and then it uses camera positions to create the skybox. I might direct Boylee in here to better describe how it's done. I'm not 100% sure I could have done it myself without his help.

please please please explain @Boylee , this is something i'd love to be able to do. Perhaps a forum post rather than letting it get buried in the wip thread