WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Vel0city]

 

[Exactol]

I had to take it a step farther

 

[Hyperion]

I think we have a winner

 

[Yrr]

its still a fight for second place!

 

[Vel0city]

From cubemaps to real-time reflections.

You'll have my vote.

 

[Jusa]

D:

 

[VertSabre]

Texture issues?

 

[leprecan]

D:

Wait a minute, what happened to ramjam?

 

[Jusa]

Wait a minute, what happened to ramjam?

Remaking that mess of a map. I don't even know why.

 

[leprecan]

Remaking that mess of a map. I don't even know why.

Have you gotten a new set of feedback to work off of, or just tearing apart and building brand new?

 

[Jusa]

Have you gotten a new set of feedback to work off of, or just tearing apart and building brand new?

Ramjam is my first serious map for TF2 ever, so when I started working on it I had no freaking idea what I was doing. Its geometry is a complete mess, impossible to optimize and its generaly too large. Decided to start it again with the same kind of layout but shrinking it down a lot and making the brushwork better now that I actually know how to do things.

 

[MaccyF]

Ramjam is my first serious map for TF2 ever, so when I started working on it I had no freaking idea what I was doing. Its geometry is a complete mess, impossible to optimize and its generaly too large. Decided to start it again with the same kind of layout but shrinking it down a lot and making the brushwork better now that I actually know how to do things.

second time should be a hell of a lot quicker to push through as well

edit: messing about with lighting:

 

[DrLambda]

So, another night, more mapping done. Blue spawn outside is missing a bit more life, but is basically done:

Please note: I already talked with the chat, especially hoplitejoe about how the bridge pillars don't make much sense anymore - I'll think about some changes for them.

I also did some very early work on the red spawn inside.

*edit: Oh yeah, and i changed the angled windows on red spawn as well.

 

[Shogun]

What's with the massive i-beams? Are those the bridge pillars you're referring to?

 

[Bakscratch]

Break from tf2

 

[Pocket]

From cubemaps to real-time reflections.

You'll have my vote.

Just makes the floor look like it's covered in a huge puddle to me. A shiny floor would have blurrier reflections than that, hence why every other engine in existence allows phong shading on flat surfaces.

 

[zahndah]

Just makes the floor look like it's covered in a huge puddle to me. A shiny floor would have blurrier reflections than that, hence why every other engine in existence allows phong shading on flat surfaces.

It is meant to be a huge puddle, the theme is an underwater base.

 

[Vel0city]

Just makes the floor look like it's covered in a huge puddle to me. A shiny floor would have blurrier reflections than that, hence why every other engine in existence allows phong shading on flat surfaces.

If we bother Valve enough they might just implement it at some point. It's already present on models, it shouldn't be that hard to get it working on standard world brushes, right?


RIGHT?

 

[leprecan]

It is meant to be a huge puddle, the theme is an underwater base.

But then why is the facility pristine? Anyway nice work Exactol, it reminds me of Natural Selection 2's claustrophobic facilities. Also, put some handrails up on that walkway, that ain't OSHA.

 

[Exactol]

It is meant to be a huge puddle, the theme is an underwater base.

Its not supposed to be a puddle.Maybe they just really polish the floors or something. I might try messing with the reflectivity to make it less like a layer of water