pvk_EasterIsland

schatzmeister

QUOTE (smokeythebear @ Apr 8 2009, 06:55 AM) »

Just read contest page.



Unless the other mappers are carving spheres with concave brushes then I'm already down 1.

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If there is one thing you don't do in Hammer, then it is carving spheres with concave brushes.

smokeythebear

I'll see how much detailing I can do between now and 11:59

Heres some pics of the mill area, just pretend that there is a nice 3d skybox and that I didn't use a vlit texture on a brush.

Mason

I must say that looks very nice.

ZinuX

It's really nice to see the different kind of atmosshperes in your map.

Rock'N Roll Jesus

Nice Screens, great textures.

smokeythebear

omg having problems with cube maps...

Jasher

what Type of Problems?

smokeythebear

Nvm it's all good.

DL link now in the OP.

phew.

Jasher

well glad to see you will be finishing in time because it would be very weird if I was the only map to vote for lol

smokeythebear

Also it's called 'pvk_foundation' now because it lacks big heads.

Jasher

Umm I tested out your map and it has some big problems

the main problem that makes the map unplayable is the fact that you cannot climb ladders.

in order to fix this create a brush that goes over the ladder model and texture the brush with the tools\toolsinvisibleladder texture .

also here are some graphical flaws

hole in the displacment


wood is not touching ground


bridge has weird lighting


room is way to dark


so I hope this feedback helps you.

Mayday

No waterfalls
Players can survive falling in the pit near pirates
Invisible walls are the most frustrating things imaginable in games
The edges of your map just end, nothing more
No pickups (health, armour, food)
Too many stretched textures
Caves have a lot of sharp edges which looks unnatural
HDR/Bloom is far too intense
The water hole in the knight spawn is impossible to get out from
A lot of holes in displacements
Takes a lot longer for pirates to reach the territory than the other teams
Ladders don't work
Should be foggy at the bottom of the pit in the cave, not just a black floor
Pirates have a difficult time climbing the rock to the secondary path from the spawn

That's all I can think of off the top of my head.

kow75

well not just the bridge there is a bunch of bad shadows in that area. add more cubemaps to the bad shadowed areas and also adjust your shadow control entity.

Another tactic you can use is making the bridge surface a func_brush and give it a self light of 0.2, Just enough light to be visible in the world without killing the natural environment.

There are a few places in my map overlord where i had to do that. Like under the water fall in the main room for instance. You can also disable reflecting shadows and disable receiving shadows with that entity.

Scurvy Bob

Its good to see that you have finished your map.
I havent testet it yet, but the screens look very cool.

But what really disappoint me is the fact that only 4 of 15 maps are finished....
I was looking forward to test all the maps.

Voting a winner doesnt really make sense when you have 2 maps per category.

Well, Its sad.
I hope the other maps will be finished someday...

smokeythebear

I saved the ladders to the wrong build. Ok beta2 in a second...