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[Asd417]

I am not sure how a brick texture blends into concrete like that.

 

[Freyja]

It's called rendering a wall and is very common here at least

 

[Idolon]

Looks more like spray paint or colored dust than plaster. You only get a soft gradation between materials if they're soft or loose, which you don't want for walls. If you want a decayed plaster sort of look you'd want some hard edges, but those will draw the eye in a way that you probably don't want. Also the way its localized on the wall (where the plaster has and hasn't fallen off the wall) looks wrong. I'd recommend making walls either fully stone or fully colored, and maybe removing a few chunks to show age.

If you're locating the colors towards the bottom to provide some sort of compositional grounding, you could supplement that with some denser foliage. Vines tend to be denser where they start growing, and the vines as they are look kinda lonely.

 

[EArkham]

You could try using blend displacements with a proper blendmodulate mask. Both pd_watergate and cp_overgrown use displacement textures like that to great effect. Basically the wall as you have it now is nodraw, and then you have a displacement in the same spot. The displacement will show through the nodraw, and the blending will let you get the transistion better looking and without repetitive patterning you'd have with non-displacements.

 

[Invalid nick]

You could try using blend displacements with a proper blendmodulate mask. Both pd_watergate and cp_overgrown use displacement textures like that to great effect. Basically the wall as you have it now is nodraw, and then you have a displacement in the same spot. The displacement will show through the nodraw, and the blending will let you get the transistion better looking and without repetitive patterning you'd have with non-displacements.

yeah, it would be very easy to convert all the brushes to displace, agree that it does not look 100% right now


some b4 screens (also changed the name to Heart of the Oak)

download it here: https://tf2maps.net/downloads/heart-of-the-oak.3270/

 

[SnickerPuffs]

While working on updating Helix, I got a little distracted while mapping and started to detail. It's pretty rough and bare-bones now, but I'm happy with where it's going. Also it's almost 2 a.m. here and I'm about to crash.

 

[Panckakebro]

 

[Panckakebro]

 

[Asd417]

Is that some kind of cloud skycard model? Or is it a texture applied on some brush?

 

[AlexCookie]

 

[Atlusia]

pl_natal_a1 - a remake of that horrible pl map i made 3 years ago called conspiracy

 

[Hyperion]

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[Mikroscopic]

What are we putting overwatch in tf2 now?

 

[Idolon]

 

[EArkham]

Have I gone overboard?

http://antiquity.necrotalesgames.com/changes-antiquity-2011-to-2017-b15.php

[edit] It was easier to set up than doing the imgur album comparisons I did for snowycoast, btw.

 

[Diva Dan]

Those side-by-sides are amazing, antiquity looks so much better. Very good job!

 

[Asd417]

great to see you still working on portal 2 maps! The maze with the cube of doom puzzle really scared me XD
EDIT: Also I love Art Therapy style

 

[Pocket]

I can see the pixels.

 

[Infomaniac]

I don't get the overwatch reference, can someone explain?

 

[Lampenpam]

I don't get the overwatch reference, can someone explain?

Not really a reference. The "hologram" texture looks inspired by how Overwatch's control point borders look.