Map Battle 26 - Underground

[Habboi]

I'll be happy to give them the vmf.

I'll have a piece of that. I like the whole structure of it and I'd gladly finish it sometime if you'd let me.

[jister]

As far as I'm aware it finished at 00:00 ;O Good luck to everyone and vote not for how nice it looks but for how much 'WORK' went into it ;P

exsqueeze me but it's all about the looks habboi, dont matter if its one brush and toke you 5 sec, or you're living on the edges of insanity with your brush count and got a long beard now!
It's just about the looks, how sweet can you make a screens look! thats what this is about, plain flat sweet eye candy!

haha just think: I can make the most crappy shit and take ages even if i used a truckload of slaves, take the pyramids for example... lol no no I'll stop already...

edit: damn couldn't leave this one out: it's like a super fat guy saying; "hey baby it's not about the looks! just think bout all the hard work I've put into looking like this!!"

k k k k no I'll shut up.

too bad about the soldier walking there, it kinda ruins the monumentality of the whole scene.the shot without human reference look way bigger then they are.

[Mephasto]

that is good for novorods first work, reminds me of new wolfenstein (that underground base screenshot)

well.. i dont think it should be judged by work done, its about looks like jister said. But if you look previous work what deathmonkey, PaulH, Cremator and Generalvivi have made you notice that custom textures and models support greatly theyr scenes. So it makes effort worth it.

i myself prefer unique looks that feel fresh and diffrent from valves scenes and materials. In this case i would vote for jister IF something greatly better wont appear in last minute.

[jister]

that is good for novorods first work, reminds me of new wolfenstein (that underground base screenshot)

well.. i dont think it should be judged by work done, its about looks like jister said. But if you look previous work what deathmonkey, PaulH, Cremator and Generalvivi have made you notice that custom textures and models support greatly theyr scenes. So it makes effort worth it.

i myself prefer unique looks that feel fresh and diffrent from valves scenes and materials. In this case i would vote for jister IF something greatly better wont appear in last minute.

thx! but hold your horses, voting hasn't started yet.
and yes custom content always helps.
although i prefer some one who can still give a fresh look with content you've seen over a thousand times, use in a hundred different ways. problem is, you don't see that so often.

[Habboi]

Well that's good to hear, glad I used about 98% custom content And I'm voting for the map with most hard work because it's just fair and I think they deserved it. I mean for example the egyptian entry while not amazing visually has a lot of work put into it. I think that's a good entry because he learn't so much.

Otherwise it'll be the big 3 that always win.

[Shadow801]

lol i'm going to come last Aww Well, I did learn some things in the proccess.

I've been learning so much recently..

My last was this

( Lol What quality )


Anyway, I thought this finished last night?

[Habboi]

That's pretty good mate. Love the shadows. I noticed your finger nails are white which means you didn't buildcubemaps. You should learn them if you already haven't!

[novorod]

exsqueeze me but it's all about the looks habboi, dont matter if its one brush and toke you 5 sec, or you're living on the edges of insanity with your brush count and got a long beard now!
It's just about the looks, how sweet can you make a screens look! thats what this is about, plain flat sweet eye candy!

I agree. It is all about the good idea for shot, lighting and shadows. It's similar to photography - you can make an outstanding photo out of nothing. The good idea is the key. In my opinion, in competition like map battle, it is better to think about shots first. Then start building map with this 'concept image' in mind.

too bad about the soldier walking there, it kinda ruins the monumentality of the whole scene.the shot without human reference look way bigger then they are.

I really wanted to make this shot with soldier in the middle, despite the consequences. I wanted to make the image look symmetrical.

that is good for novorods first work, reminds me of new wolfenstein (that underground base screenshot)

Thanks Mephasto. I was thinking about making a german base from WWII period, but modelling U-Boot out of primitives would be... Confusing.

[Jest@]

Wurgh, sorry lads, had some unexpected turns of events yesterday, so we're a little bit late finishing Great to see a flurry of final screenshot - and some great improvements! - at the last minute, I'll get the vote up tonight.


As always, thanks for taking part guys!