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[Harritron]

@Harritron that first image with the rocks... you should probably use solid brushes with a rock texture instead and add model rocks later, cause that looks really spammed and kind of bad.

I got someone working on better rocks anyway, its just temporary.

 

[Atlusia]

I got someone working on better rocks anyway, its just temporary.

it may be temporary but still, you'll get complaints about it.

 

[Harritron]

it may be temporary but still, you'll get complaints about it.

Yea, I know it looks terrible, but I used them mostly for measuring, and to give guidelines to my friend about what the size of the rocks should be. It also looks extra bad because I had to compile with staticproplighting...

 

[Atlusia]

Yea, I know it looks terrible, but I used them mostly for measuring, and to give guidelines to my friend about what the size of the rocks should be. It also looks extra bad because I had to compile with staticproplighting...

I use staticproplighting on those rock models and they look just fine, what I'm talking about is spamming them all over the wall instead of using a rock texture, but it's whatever, you do you.

 

[Harritron]

how do i make cliffs? for 1, google is no help. for 2, when i try to make them the displacement don't smooth and i can only pull them in three directions.
and it has bugged me since day one!

help.

There are cliff props in the model browser. Just search for cliff and look at the multiple cliff walls there (just remember to clip these as they have no collision model!)

 

[Twist.vmf]

never mind, i did it. thanks for the suggestions!

 

[Skittelz]

Oh @Twist.vmf here isn't the place to be asking that. Make a new thread about that in Mapping Help and Discussion.

 

[Twist.vmf]

barn city's A4 mid. probably not going to be around for a while.

 

[Asd417]

Rocket Room

 

[Freyja]

egypt textures that look like they were made in modern tf2

 

[Asd417]

Red spawn edit: this pic is slightly outdated

 

[Twist.vmf]

and will just make, a happy little barn...

 

[HQDefault]

Working on some custom skycards for Preposterous...

(Don't worry, the top of this one won't look so round when I'm done)

I looked.at some pictures of mountains in British Columbia for inspiration, I think they turned out okay thus far. I'm gonna transfer these to actual textures soon.

 

[Dayal]

Old Freyja map slapped with a new theme

 

[Prosciutto]

i dropped the halloween map i was working on and started a new koth map that takes place in a flora export in the jungle next to the ocean

 

[ThatOneOwl]

"Dr. StrangeOwl, or how I learned to stop caring and love over-detailing"

It's not of the best quality.
It's an ass to load properly.
It's unoptimized as hell.

but it's the most fun I've ever had while mapping, and it provided me with a lot of experience on how things work in Hammer.

Also, release is going to happen very soon, providing that I'll be able to figure out how to optimize this mess and I'm not being lazy

Spoiler

 

[HQDefault]

New detailing stuff on preposterous
Kind of re-did red spawn's detailing:

I had received complaints that red spawn wasn't consistent with the rest of the maps art style, so I changed it up a bit so at least now it feels like it's in the same place.

Also, blu spawn detailing (don't worry I'll fix the stupid shadows):

I liked the idea of blu spawn's courtyard literally just being a parking area. I might put together a quick "no parking" overlay to put in there, too.

 

[Freyja]

I would suggest you work on your lighting, it is very harsh and has lots of contrast currently, and doesn't do your map justice at all. Use artificial lights a lot, especially around doorways and in very dark areas that people are likely to be traversing, and try a light environment with a warmer colour and a coloured shadow, like a deep purple or blue.

 

[marshmallie]

 

[Atlusia]

-Delta five to Omega four, its here! oh god, its aiming at u- AA-