Map Battle 35 - Eden

[PaulH]

IMO Nub the colour correction and lighting in general was better in the previous image you showed, seems a bit overboard now, and yeah its pretty fable-y, looking good so far

[Vilham]

Slight changes here and there, and I added color correction for contrast. I'm going to be updating the shadows to look better, and I'll probably work on the color correction some more.

ewwwwwwwwwww

change it back for petes sake, it looked pretty damn impressive before, but now, honestly it looks disgustingly horrible.

[vcool]

I don't agree. It looks better with the contrast. Maybe tone down the green.

EDIT: YES! After a lot of headache, I made my model. I'll start mapping tomorrow.

[ghost|con]

Slight changes here and there, and I added color correction for contrast. I'm going to be updating the shadows to look better, and I'll probably work on the color correction some more.

SHROOMS!

[Meotwister]

Shrooms!





The red cavern on the 3rd shot is where I would put whatever it is to be my serpent. Currently there's a strider in there (which oddly fits perfectly in there).

[nub]

Alright well I added some more things and tweaked some others. I'm currently starting progress on the focal point, which will be a miniature shrine. I worked with the color correction and gave it more varying colors while trying my best to keep the contrast. I don't like using the curves tool for color correction as it makes things look really grainy.

There's much to be done, so expect things that look unfinished or need tweaking:






PS: Meow...Give me those shroom models you're using...PLEASE!

[Meotwister]

These will probably be my finals, as much as I'd like to attempt to make a crazy serpent model (believe me I started to) it would take up too much of my time I could be spending on other more secret projects.

Who knows, I may have an itch to make it before the deadline. If not then:

Pre-Final




*EDIT* Updated Final images, switched a couple out. Added a bit of color correction.

[vcool]

NIce work! My only concern is that env lighting is a bit too uniform; there are no well defined shadows. On the other hand it's Eden - no need for shadows and other dark stuff.

I think we could do with an extension on this one, because of the model viewer glitch. You may remember what some common props are, like barrels, but the other 3k models are better picked while actually seeing the model.

[Meotwister]

NIce work! My only concern is that env lighting is a bit too uniform; there are no well defined shadows. On the other hand it's Eden - no need for shadows and other dark stuff.

Good point. It's kinda weird, currently the displacements actually force a certain lightmap scale.. sometimes being pretty high. But like you said no harsh shadows are needed in Eden!

I think we could do with an extension on this one, because of the model viewer glitch. You may remember what some common props are, like barrels, but the other 3k models are better picked while actually seeing the model.

Is that why hammer crashed on me when I opened the model browser.. darn.

[ixin]

Just use this

And only add Contrast to it >;O

[The Doctor]

Mine is just about done, but I'm having compile problems. It takes a really long time and gets stuck in various places running vvis.

Portalflow keeps getting stuck after six.

[Kodox]

I've got the Quad Core, I can compile it if ya want.

[The Doctor]

I managed to get a shot of the level in-game, running vvis on fast.



It's pretty ugly, entrance is unfinished, forgot the god damned tree that's meant to be outside, and the shadow maps are really chunky. Apart from that and my vvis problems, I'm almost finished.

A level of that size, with all of those details set as func_detail would not take over two hours to compile with vvis, should it? I only managed to get just past 9 after two hours before I finally closed it all. None of my other maps have ever taken that long.

[KILLA-COW]

Nub your map now looks fucking hideous. Change it back.

[krainert]

A level of that size, with all of those details set as func_detail would not take over two hours to compile with vvis, should it? I only managed to get just past 9 after two hours before I finally closed it all. None of my other maps have ever taken that long.

It shouldn't take more than 2 minutes... Depending on your system, of course. Try uploading your map file, and I'll give it a shot - it's EP2, right?