WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Seba]

It wouldn't look nearly as good as it does now if it were a brush.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I remember that him, rexy and others were talking a dodecahedron model. So i'm about 75% sure it is.

 

[Mr.Blob]

You dont like server admins, do you?

It's not the real name. Me and Hanz were taking ta piss.

It stands for BlobMapThatIsntHanzMapHonest. :3

Real map name is secret!

 

[Wilson]

Entity Nightmare

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frd53vbCHLg

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Thats a little creepy there quakeman...

-see my next post for updated shot-

First pass through Red saw room, not sure about the wood textures. Been looking into detailing guides and stuff (like techniques, etc)... So I'm kinda detailing in the dark here...

 

[Sgt Frag]

Looks alright Frozen. Typically that painted white wood is used outside and raw woods are used inside.
Also that ground faucet is more of an outside prop imo.

 

[Penguin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frd53vbCHLg

I wasn't joking.

 

[Mariner]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling2.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling3.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling4.png

I'm calling LOD 0 done as far as modeling goes. I'm going to quickly degrade this into at leats two additional LODS, then texture and figure out how I can instance/divide this into chunks to be placed in the map.

EDIT: Dammit, I forgot to clean up the seams on the top half of the shell from the symmetry operations. Of course, even now it's still less polys than 90% of the weapons in TF2.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

... Uhhh, yea. Redid the textures and finished up red's saw room. Now onto the exterior

 

[Godslayer57]

Like the room Fr0z3n but that drooping metal is just to low and looks bad make it less droopy. I don't want molten metal roofs.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Blame Salvador Dali...

I was trying to make it look anbandoned and randown... thus the caving in roof. I'll remove it.

 

[Vincent]

Yeah the way that roof is just doesn't look right, the rest is sexy. Try making the roof less droopy and more jagged.

 

[Pocket]

The sagging roof could work if you tweaked the displacements some more. From this angle it looks more like they're stretched downward instead of just bent.

 

[Vincent]

Slowly... I'm gonna get this Swamp theme to work for me..

 

[BrainInBlack]

CP Complex B (preAlpha)



My very first map, in a very early stage. That means, no actual textures, no light (except debug lights), no cubemaps, way to much visleafs and many more

This will be a cp_badlans (gamplay) style, cp map, with a industrial, clean, theme. Yeah pretty basic, but again: It´s my first map!

 

[Seba]

Frozen, I'm not too keen on the high contrast between the dark beams and light main wood. But other than that, awesome

 

[Gerbil]

Working on Galilee a6. So far:
> Extended capture time for the last point by 1 second.
> Removed some cover in 2nd-last area. People complained there was too much.

Now I'm just messing around with the geometry to get ready for the detailing phase.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Frozen, I'm not too keen on the high contrast between the dark beams and light main wood. But other than that, awesome

It looks fine in game since i've done a little to the lighting.... I'll leave it for now and when I release b1 and people play through it, I'll grab feedback.

 

[Sgt Frag]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling2.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling3.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/20389014/blu_basemodeling4.png

I'm calling LOD 0 done as far as modeling goes. I'm going to quickly degrade this into at leats two additional LODS, then texture and figure out how I can instance/divide this into chunks to be placed in the map.

EDIT: Dammit, I forgot to clean up the seams on the top half of the shell from the symmetry operations. Of course, even now it's still less polys than 90% of the weapons in TF2.

I'd just cut it into slices at the seams between each window. probably no reason to even texture more than than that and tile it. Unless you'll have specific details somewhere. It's round enough that I don't even think you'll notice it tiling.

I also don't think you need LOD's.
1- it's not that many polys for something so large anyway.
2-lod swaps look like crap, but it's easy enough to not notice/be bothered by on small things. But something that large and noticeable, popping and/or changing shading would be really noticeable.
3-it's going to be the focus of that area, so if you're going to 'waste' polys and texture anywhere that would be the place to do it.

 

[3Dnj]

This is some screenshots from the blue spawn of my contest entry. But because of a lack of time, I will probably don't continue it.