[JSC][GU][r]PREDATOR wrote:That actually looks pretty cool so far very realistic.
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you should add lights going across the cave.
Thanks, I've been trying to make it as realistic as my mapping skills allow, I've also been referring to a lot of pictures of caves to do so.
At the beginning of the map you fall a long way down a long pit into a splash pool (you can barely make that out from the pictures I think) and I was working from the following photo to get the look right:
In terms of lighting and ambience I wanted a similar feeling to this photo:
But I'll do a lot more work on the lighting when I've finished the brush work - I'm still trying to think of plausible light sources.
destu wrote:I need your monitor. Now.
A large monitor makes mapping a bit easier I tend to think, as I can wack the resolution all the way up and still see what I'm doing, I occasionaly tinker with Hammer on my laptop, but the display is less than ideal.
gtaiiilc wrote:nice work and its your first map thats going to be released!
Yup, although my best mate keeps teasing me suggesting it won't be done till Xmas (hopefully it'll be done in a week or two - I'm not the fastest mapper around), I'm a little worried with all the displacements that the final map size might creep up to something nearing 40 megs, but I'll worry about that at the time me thinks!