WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
- Thread starter Arhurt
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This is far from being ready to be released, but I think it's in a state where I can post some screenshots of it:
Light is a very essential part in gameplay. Its more important than you realize. Improper lighting can guide players to the wrong direction and this does heavily affect the outcome of a map. If players dont notice a doorway and dont use it, once its lit the map changes since they will use that doorway, any playtesting before lighting up that doorway is for that reason mostly useless on that part.
Dont underestimate the power of light. Its has the power to control the behaviour of players.
As a famous pyro sith lord once said "You dont know the power of the dark side (of the map)"
I understand this... I don't care about lighting at the moment, for the sole reason that I'm trying to get the details in...
My goal is to make the details first, then get any gameplay elements in, essential if this were to be an actual map (like signs and such), then I will do a major lighting pass for the final contest... If I like the map enough, I may make it into an actual map...
It's not that I don't care about lighting at all, I understand the importance of lighting, but right now, I'm mostly just trying to make the map look good...
That last one, it scares me.
The magic and the mystery of custom icons
I made something. (I also believe this is my first wip post on this thread)
Mind the quality of the screenshots.
Mind the quality of the screenshots.
Not to mention, if you're clipping a spiral staircase, you're basically making a spiral ramp anyway
Couldn't make layout so I decided to make art
I'm a little scared, to be honest.
As apparent from vertex white squares drawing on some vertices but not all, these are displacements, and these displacements can't be gonna cause any problems to compilers, I believe.
I'm less scared, but still kinda scared...
I can make art too...
The fully lit windows in broad daylight look a tad odd to me, but otherwise looks radical so far!
The upper floor has a column that comes down on top of the doors, which looks wrong. I'd recommend either continuing the columns on either side of the door up, or just not having any. You might also consider resizing the front portion to be 3 regular spacings wide instead of 2.
Same sort of inconsistency appears here, where the column comes up from the bottom and then stops. It makes more sense than the previous example, but I'd recommend picking one and sticking with it.
Also, using a wall clock for what I assume is a city hall is pretty funny, but I don't think it's supposed to be a joke.
Storefronts are usually continuous. i.e. the doors would likely be a part of the same "unit" as the windows with no structural walls/columns interrupting. It's easier to insert new storefronts when store owners change, and its also easier to provide an awning over both the door and windows. In your case I think you'll also find that moving the door inwards will make some nice symmetry.