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[Janeator]

Just to know it: aren't 3D skyboxes a 6-walls giant box anyway? Or that is a 2D skybox? In that case, which one should i use?

 

[fubarFX]

what we refer to as the 3d skybox is what is rendered by your sky_camera ent

 

[Janeator]

Oh, i tried using one of those one time, but i got no idea how to make it work right. So expect my skyboxes to be a sky. And that's all. Unless someone makes one for me if i really make a good map.

 

[Pocket]

The developer wiki is your friend. And if that doesn't work, you're always welcome to ask the chat for help. That said, don't feel like you have to build a 3D skybox until you at least have a working, playable map that passes muster in playtesting.

 

[re1wind]

Or if you're using a skybox with an obnoxious white bottom half (many of the nightime skies have this problem).

Be careful with 3d skyboxes though, displacements (and normal geometry?) do cast shadows on the actual playable area despite being in an isolated box somewhere else. The magic of the sky_camera does that.

 

[Freyja]

I know this is a TF2Maps WIP thread.

But tell me what you think of this concept;

 

[Bermuda Cake]

I know this is a TF2Maps WIP thread.

But tell me what you think of this concept;
-snip-

It looks nice, but what is it for? A fighting game? It's hard to say whether it makes sense as a concept, even though the execution is top notch

 

[GPuzzle]

I know this is a TF2Maps WIP thread.

But tell me what you think of this concept;

She looks like your avatar a bit, Aly.

 

[Freyja]

Yes she's the same character. She's a hero in dota 2, and it's a concept for an item set for her.

 

[GPuzzle]

Yes she's the same character. She's a hero in dota 2, and it's a concept for an item set for her.

Since I don't own Dota 2, that fact would be right at my nose and I wouldn't notice.
But it looks great.

 

[Idolon]

Looks good. However:

The cloth seems to have a hard deciding where it wants to be.

 

[Pocket]

Be careful with 3d skyboxes though, displacements (and normal geometry?) do cast shadows on the actual playable area despite being in an isolated box somewhere else. The magic of the sky_camera does that.

That's odd. As far as I know, it doesn't work the other way around.

 

[Ælement]

 

[Shanghai]

I actually started salivating when I saw that building.

 

[Arne]

-snip-

Isn't that mountain(s) in the skybox from MaxofS2D?

 

[Ælement]

Isn't that mountain(s) in the skybox from MaxofS2D?

yep

HAD to test them

 

[Fish 2.0]

Payload, going to be anyway. From left to right, through the middle, then down the bottom near the edge and up to just under reds spawn across the tracks.

Probably will play like crap.

 

[LeSwordfish]

I'm interested, but please god lose the shipping containers. Stacked containers have never, ever looked good, or really fitted in a map. Eratically stacked ones even less.

 

[Penguin]

A BUILDING

I would make the wood texture on the pop-out window run vertically, but that's just me.

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

It also fills your physics data really quickly--you can see this in the compile. I don't know why you'd needlessly bloat that.

So if I saw that the physics is at 205 % in the compile (large map) should I be concerned? Take P3's and covert them down into P2's or destroy them all together? There aren't any really small displacements.

And thanks for the explanation on the P4's