For the 8th battle you will be required to re-create a cave environment. This will test your displacement skills but at the same time your abilty to come up with an original and eye-pleasing theme. Anyone can make a brown indorr area, but it's up to you to take it to the next level. I've grabbed some photos that might spark some ideas:
From looking there you can see many types of cave, and a real chance to use Source to it's potential
Now for a few guidelines:
- Your map must have a cave(s) in it, and the scave has to be the main piece of the map
- You can only post 3 screenshots, and you can only submit one map.
- When posting your screenshots, always explain if they are final or still WIP
- Additional mods like bloom mod and garrys's mod CAN'T be used, only HL2, HL2DM and CS:S are allowed
- You can't use any extra software (like photoshop for example) to enhance your screenhosts. Of course usual changes like resizing, croping, or adding your name on the images are allowed
- You can use whatever custom content you want
- The maps are judged according to their quality, so make them look the best you can
- The maps don't need to be playable
- Avoid posting your pictures with big resolutions, since I'll have to resize them later, and they will loose some quality
There are many styles of caves, the more original you can be the better chance you have of impressing
The battle ends at the 14th of February, midnight GMT.
Good luck with this one, hope there are more entries!