Zombie Survival (oc_survival)
K, so the house internally looks good.
Night seems a little too dark and day seems to be also (judging from pics).
So at the moment you have a box, I'm hoping there will be more to your map.
So what I can see here are my suggestions
I would suggest having displacements that are higher than the player that the player cannot get to, so the zombies may drop down from a certain area/areas.
I thought perhaps a graveyard on a hill, you could have a locked gate leading to graveyard but otherwise rest of the graveyard is too high for player to access but zomies can spawn and drop into the game area.
Also having displacements higher than player means you can hint bush areas off by having no-draws or walls/occuluders inside the disps. Allowing you to hint brush your map.
Also you can fit your tree cards on the high displacements and save the game area for the odd few high poly trees.
Here's a sample layout that I expertly threw together with paint
Its basic but if your learning about hint brushing (Like I still am then this will give you an idea of how to hintbrush out door areas, atleast I think).
Its to give areas where zombies can spawn and objects can be hidden in other parts of the map apart from the main game area, where the house and most of the shooting will be going on.
I know its a bit symmetrical but its just an example. All you have to do is subdivide all your displacements, and the ones that have a occuluder or nodraw inside paint the geo so the corners of the nodraw are hidden into the disp geo. and throw a hint brush over the top horizantally above all your vertical hintbrushing.
I would send/make you an outdoor area if your stuck on how to but I'm like halfway across the globe from my broken PC right now
Night seems a little too dark and day seems to be also (judging from pics).
So at the moment you have a box, I'm hoping there will be more to your map.
So what I can see here are my suggestions
I would suggest having displacements that are higher than the player that the player cannot get to, so the zombies may drop down from a certain area/areas.
I thought perhaps a graveyard on a hill, you could have a locked gate leading to graveyard but otherwise rest of the graveyard is too high for player to access but zomies can spawn and drop into the game area.
Also having displacements higher than player means you can hint bush areas off by having no-draws or walls/occuluders inside the disps. Allowing you to hint brush your map.
Also you can fit your tree cards on the high displacements and save the game area for the odd few high poly trees.
Here's a sample layout that I expertly threw together with paint
Its basic but if your learning about hint brushing (Like I still am then this will give you an idea of how to hintbrush out door areas, atleast I think).
Its to give areas where zombies can spawn and objects can be hidden in other parts of the map apart from the main game area, where the house and most of the shooting will be going on.
I know its a bit symmetrical but its just an example. All you have to do is subdivide all your displacements, and the ones that have a occuluder or nodraw inside paint the geo so the corners of the nodraw are hidden into the disp geo. and throw a hint brush over the top horizantally above all your vertical hintbrushing.
I would send/make you an outdoor area if your stuck on how to but I'm like halfway across the globe from my broken PC right now
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For starters you need to stop copy pasting hl2 buildings into my rescaled sample map. Build your own geometry respecting to the gameplay and visibility, then start adding buildings and stuff.
Find a better texture then the pitch black texture I used for night sky. Find better lightining values... etc.
I'd hate say but it is not going anywhere untill you scrap that huge box, read more about Vis and lighting.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... pile_Times
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lighting
Find a better texture then the pitch black texture I used for night sky. Find better lightining values... etc.
I'd hate say but it is not going anywhere untill you scrap that huge box, read more about Vis and lighting.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... pile_Times
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lighting
Can I place more then one light_env ?fug4life wrote: Night seems a little too dark and day seems to be also (judging from pics).
As I said in my last post, the pictures are just of the house, the map itself is still being worked on, I plan on there being a road(where you first spawn), a small town(6 or so wooden buildings), some forest area(hunting) and the yard your house it in.fug4life wrote: So at the moment you have a box, I'm hoping there will be more to your map.
That's how many maps do it, I suppose it's the best way to keep the player from going beyond playable areas and a good way to spawn zombies.fug4life wrote: I would suggest having displacements that are higher than the player that the player cannot get to, so the zombies may drop down from a certain area/areas.
That's a good idea, I'll try into fitting it into the map concept.fug4life wrote: I thought perhaps a graveyard on a hill, you could have a locked gate leading to graveyard but otherwise rest of the graveyard is too high for player to access but zomies can spawn and drop into the game area.
It's fine, I don't mind making the outdoor area, I need to get better at it anyways and I am never happy with anything I make until it's perfect.fug4life wrote: I would send/make you an outdoor area if your stuck on how to but I'm like halfway across the globe from my broken PC right now
Thanks for the comments and ideas.
No, I am not the best at making houses, I am not really the best at making anything from scratch, but I am great at modifying things so much, you can't tell it apart from the originalshiftey wrote:That house looks pretty good. Did you make that from scratch?
That building is from the coast level where you defend a small rebel outpost from the light house against a gunship.
After you've been there go here! And read about everything, study like a bible!KON_Air wrote:
I'd hate say but it is not going anywhere untill you scrap that huge box, read more about Vis and lighting.
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki ... pile_Times
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Lighting
http://optimization.interlopers.net/
And if you want more examples and more detail.... see below.
http://hl.logout.fr/?p=optimisation Send this link through Google translator if your French is a little rusty.
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'She has zero tolerance for idiots'.
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'She has zero tolerance for idiots'.
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I'm pretty sure if you add a second only the settings of the first one will be used.Gjsdeath wrote: Can I place more then one light_env ?
The only instance of having two env_lights in your map is when you add a second one to your 3d-sky box.
'I would probably smarten up before you meet Violet'.
'She has zero tolerance for idiots'.
fug's Obsidian files
fug's Obsidian clips
Obsidian wiki
Obsidian Map Database
'She has zero tolerance for idiots'.
fug's Obsidian files
fug's Obsidian clips
Obsidian wiki
Obsidian Map Database