WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Boylee]

Yeah it's actually 1, but you're right it's way too high.

 

[jpr]

More caldera remake:

I'm not going to detail this completely before release, I just felt like detailing
I love that skybox btw

 

[Crash]

Partially work in progress shot, partially showing off my epic dual monitor hammer usage:

Computer:

 

[nik]

LEDs are all you need

 

[Crash]

And specs since I'm already showing it off:

2x ASUS VW224U 22" 2ms LCD's
Zalman Z9 Plus black steel ATX Mid Tower
Antec TruePower TP-650 650W PSU
MSI P67A-GD65 (B3) Motherboard
MSI N560GTX-TI Twin Frozr II/OC GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Fermi) 1GB
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3 1333 (PC3 10666)
Intel Core i5-2500K Sandy Bridge 3.3GHz (@4.2 with a quick, lazy overclock)
COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus CPU Cooler
Intel X25-M 120GB SATA II Solid State Hard Drive
Seagate Barracuda 7200.11 1.5TB 7200RPM Hard Drive
M-Audio Audiophile 192 HD Recording Soundcard
Logitech G500 10 Button Mouse
Audio-Technica ATH-M50 Headphones
NZXT Sleeved Green LED kit (2 Meter)
Flexiglow Tri-lazer LED kit pointing at heatsink and video card

 

[ScorpioUprising]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3492731/cp_process_a5_wip.jpg

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Looks nice, but for some odd reason, the garage up against the water just feels... odd, not sure why, but it does.

 

[Porkenstein]

Egyptian Tomb

I've been working on an egypt-themed cp map. A bit of the first stage is in a moonlit desert, and the rest is in a pyramid. I haven't quite decided on a name, yet... perhaps cp_tomb but I know there's already a koth_tomb. I welcome suggestions.

Here are some screenshots so far. I was toying with the style and lighting so what I have in stage one is a bit detailed, and it's what I'm showing here.

And yes, there's a crosshair. I hope it's not too distracting.

right outside of the pyramid entrance.

The entrance by a skybox pyramid.

This is in blu's stage one spawnroom.

This is inside the grand entrance to the pyramid.

Point 1A

Another view of the 1A room.

 

[tyler]

Make it 10x brighter and why are the torches giving off purple light?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

the underground rooms are waaaay to dark, and that back lighting for the torches is way off. It also (from the looks of the shots) look overscaled.

 

[Porkenstein]

I was going for something unique. I thought purple light would be an interesting variation.
I suppose I should also make it a bit brighter, but team colors are usually visible... and I was hoping that the darkness could add to the gameplay. It's far from a handicapping darkness. These screenshots are a tad misleading.

The lighting also makes it look much larger than it actually is. I was actually concerned it might be too cramped.

But yes, the lighting needs some work. I'm far from Alpha status with this.

 

[Porkenstein]

I've looked it over again and I'm making some modifications, especially to the area in screenshot 4.

 

[tyler]

The thing you have to remember is that people have their monitors at different brightnesses; what seems fine to you could be pitch black for someone else. It's in general not a good idea.

 

[Porkenstein]

Ah, thank you for that.

I'll go with an eerie purple glow rather darkness with some purple in it.

 

[tyler]

Although it does look cool.

I'm just worried about playability.

 

[Crash]

Yeah honestly it does look cool, I just don't know if it's good for TF2. You have to think about color tones affecting visibility of player colors.

I would tweak it around a bunch, maybe wash it out a bit whiter?

 

[Porkenstein]

I just raised the ambient lighting and fixed some of the torches.
The lighting is much more even, and I'm adding some skylights and more torches.

Thanks for the input-- maybe I'll post this soon as a map when I'm finished with all three stages.

 

[tyler]

guess I'm working on this again. decided to do 3cp, here's the second point currently

and for a refresher, this is the rest

 

[Wilson]

Colored lights are bad in TF2, trust me, trust all of these people, because we all have been there.

 

[Mariner]

Colored lights are bad in TF2, trust me, trust all of these people, because we all have been there.

From what it looks like, it's not even that colored lighting is necessarily bad, but there's no way in hell those tunnels would EVER be that purple, unless it was made of purple stone.