Forest WIP

[NoFace]

Forest WIP



Please give critism and help on how to make fog look good. This map has a lot more work to finish, I just want to get the style and feel right before moving forwards.
Thanks!

[Sorrow]

I'd say try experimenting with the fog (which is half if not most of your 'atmosphere') colours a bit. Slight green or cyan could make it come alive a bit more, make it seem more like a 'wild' forest if you know what I mean. Less hospitable.

The first picture's a bit of a clutter, ofcourse irl trees are cluttered all around but try to layer them on different levels of height and make the first row smaller to give the scene more depth by showing the other layers behind it.
A large mountain far off behind all trees wouldn't be misplaced either. (again, more depth)

looking alright so far though, keep it up!

[NoFace]

OK, I have taken 3 more images in similar places. I think im settling with the new fog, tell me what you think though.

[Sorrow]

The last picture shows a very harsh transition from fog to world, is there a way to smoothen it out a bit and have it fade more towards the camera? I'm sorry I haven't booted up SDK in ages since UDK.

[NoFace]

This pic was taken zoomed in so it may look a little odd. I could however lower to starting fog so it blends better.

[Turd Ferguson]

Son of a... I just started a mine type map the other day

Edit: I do really like the fog though. Nice job so far!

[nub]

I'd say lower the fog density just a tad bit (not the start and end distances).

[NoFace]

Alright I lowered the density and yeah it looks better thanks.
I have a bug with shadows.


Ive fiddled with the shadows settings but the only difference they make is having a black shadow on the wall or not, theres no setting to get the actual model to get lit by the sun.
Does anyone know a fix?

[Dives]

Props get their lighting info from their origin and if the origin is in darkness, the whole prop will be dark. Compile with the argument -StaticPropLighting in vRAD in the expert compile window and that should fix it.

[NoFace]

Thank you very much! You learn something new everyday.

[CorporalAris]

What about placing a Info_lighting? And then setting the prop's 'Lighting Origin' to the Info_lighting.

I was under the impression that -StaticPropLighting greatly increases compile times, and can (this can be bad or good, depending on what you are doing) greatly increase file size of the map.

[NoFace]

Yeah I realised. Il change the lighting origin! :p

[Groxkiller585]

What about placing a Info_lighting? And then setting the prop's 'Lighting Origin' to the Info_lighting.

I was under the impression that -StaticPropLighting greatly increases compile times, and can (this can be bad or good, depending on what you are doing) greatly increase file size of the map.

it does but it also produces prettier shadows.

[NoFace]

But I have these map models on the wall and with -staticproplighting they look weird. But I can see what you mean for other props.

[NoFace]

Wrong thread mate.