WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

Hello, first time posting screenshots of my map.
It's a mvm map set at a logging facilty near a forest. Currently it's mostly made up of dev textures but I wanted to ask for some general tips on how to design the gameplay space. Most of the props and detailing serve gameplay purposes.
Any feedback is appreciated.


robot spawn/"forest entrance"



"trainyard area"

inside of the sawmill


left path to the hatch


right path to the hatch


hatch area/player spawn

 

These first three pictures look very flat on the ground level, also I'd recommend increasing the map brightness a bit or changing the sun angle, the map overall looks pretty dark.

 

Any idea how to fix things like this?

 

Do you have any errors in your compile log?

 

You should remake the brush. This is the sort of thing you should should ask about in the #mapping-help channel on the tf2maps Discord though.

 

Try deleting the wall, then putting it back.

Oh, and does it appear in the editor?

 

Okay so I've redone the robot spawn area to feature some basic height differences and turned the ground into displacements. I've also changed the lighting of the map to make it brighter and resemble sawmill a lot more. Still it's quite basic and any feedback or ideas are appreciated.

 

Sweet but I hate how those displacement textures don't align properly

 

Working on this but I might abandon it, I feel it wont fit too much in the TF2 style.

 

It has too much detail for something TF2 styled. I'd suggest simplifying the mesh a lot and moving most of the details to the texture/material instead

 

Depends on the size of the prop. That level of detail would fit tf2 if it is as big as the nucleus reactor prop.

 

Thats the point, baking that model into the texture of a low poly version.

As you can see, theres a handle on the top, so you can make an idea of the size. I wanted to make a different version of the intel from the asteroid map.



I also thought on model something to attach the prop to the wall, like a slot. I took the idea from the initializer and stabilizer from dino crisis video game.

 

I would def simplify it to the kind of complexity that RD prop is instead, imagine it had to appear in a cartoon or something, being drawn at a small scale.

 

So i haven't mapped in a while and thought i'd come back to it. currently it has no name but as you can tell it's going to be a KOTH map.

 

i finally finished most of the map only thing left is mirroring the map, creating the spawnroom and completing the skybox.


Feedback is appreciated.

 

That's all? Just a RED house, a BLU house, and a capture point? Am I missing something here?

 

i actually still have plans to add some stuff to the map as i develop it. Or perhaps even make the map longer. But i mean you can’t expect too much from a small koth map.

 

Here's KotH Viaduct. Maybe use the basic layout? Point is, you need to make this distance from spawn to the point longer, with more cover.

 

Made a version of 2Fort for Wargroove. Code is CMLHC4HU if you wanna play it