The Official Interlopers "Map Pimpage Thread"

[Saxon]

Here's my vmt for the wet road texture

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"LightmappedGeneric"
{
   "$basetexture" "custom/road_wet"
   "$bumpmap" "custom/road_wet_nrm"
   "$envmap" "env_cubemap"
   "$envmaptint" "[ 5 5 5 ]"
   "$envmapcontrast" 1
   "$envmapsaturation" 1
   "$normalmapalphaenvmapmask" 1
   "$surfaceprop" "concrete"
}

It is basicly just the

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"$envmaptint" "[ 5 5 5 ]"

you need to mess around with to achieve this look.

Also, should I go with

or

?
And should I can't lower the lightmap grid scale to get sexy shadows here because it already complained about too much light detail in the full version of the map

That's pretty nice Danishmaster, quite like the look of the wet one... but you'd need a good reason for it to look that way (especially indoors).

Back to the road, you should edit your $envmapmask to look more uneven - bear in mind most road surfaces aren't perfectly flat, most of the water pools where the tyres go:

[TheDanishMaster]

You are right about that, but I was going for a "very" wet road and I had something like this in mind. The puddles will be realtime reflective using the func_reflective thingy on top of the road

[PaulH]

@Danish

I think the problem with the wet road pics is that nothing else in the scene looks wet. I think if you apply the wet effects to the pavement and buildings, maybe darken up the trees and grass a bit, stuff like that will help to sell it.

[TheDanishMaster]

Exactly what I'm planning to do. I just haven't had time yet to fix up some wet versions of the other textures yet. I haven't though about the trees yet because I don't think people will actually notice that.

Also planning to do a color correction in the rainy area to darken everything a little and make everything more greyish

[cz_squishy]

Why doesn't anybody use the assets that came with the super 8 viral marketing level that shipped with portal 2? They would fit right into your level there, squishy.

I believe the outside would be too clean and stick out like a sore thumb plus they probably wouldn't fit. The only non HL2 models I'm using is from CS and plants from L4D2. And I would have to uninstall a game and reinstall Portal 2.

[pk_hunter]

These are extremely WIP, but I'm very pleased with how my tram textures turned out. Also, since this is based on an actual location from Half-Life, I've really enjoyed mapping the ridiculousness of the facility's underbelly.
Apologies for once again putting my dirty Goldsourcery in a primarily Source-based thread :3




Also, slightly less WIP but just to give a bit more substance to this media release:

[MáØ]

Updated lighting/grass sprites/fog etcetc.

[Jangalomph]

Almost thought that was stalker for a second MáØ

[MáØ]

Almost thought that was stalker for a second MáØ

If people keep saying that, it's gonna go to my head.

[Jangalomph]

Maybe its the trees. And thats a good thing

[TicTac]

Hollow, I'm confused... Is that in minecraft, with a modded .jar, or did you export the world data to another program?

Ahahahaha, this is a CS:GO hostage rescue map, LOOKS LEGIT MINECRAFT RIGHT??!

It reminded me a lot of this mod. Great job on the look and feel of it!

[cz_squishy]

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[joe_rogers_11155]

i can do that with func_brush entities covered in the block_los texture.

[cz_squishy]

i can do that with func_brush entities covered in the block_los texture.

That's what I had to end up doing. Took me a few hours to realize the ridiculously easy solution . Without the func_brush block_los the patrolling combine were doing complete 180's because when I was debugging it I found that the combine's LOS sweeps and glitched further than it should have. But in the end I got what I wanted.

[Gary]

Was that done in code or Hammer.