Need some Critque, Advice, suggestions ETC

[HappyCheeze]

Hello all,

 

I've had this city map I've been working on and off on, and right now, I'm really sure what I'm going to do with it.

 

The pictures are here here

Would appreciate any advice, critiques or suggestions, Although these pictures aren't the full scope of my map, they're the parts with the most detail/development so far, so let me know what you think, I know its very rough, so some feedback would be appreciated. Thanks

[Fidcal]

Given the limited Den resources they are very promising. There might be a few tips I could make but a lot depends on what you want to do with the map. It sounds reasonably extensive so I presume you don't just want to leave it as a test piece but want to develop it into a full working mission? Maybe you want to apply for betamapper status so you can use the full resources.

[HappyCheeze]

I presume you don't just want to leave it as a test piece but want to develop it into a full working mission? Maybe you want to apply for betamapper status so you can use the full resources.

 

Yes, my goal is to turn this into a mission.

 

Would this be acceptibable as a beta mapper application?

[jdude]

I think what you should do is go through and re-work it. There's a ton of stretched textures and bland areas. For example if you look at photo 15. You can see the building with the wood trim is extremely stretched and there is no trim along the bottom of the building connecting the building to the ground. The building behind it is also extremely stretched. The window on the right in this picture is to boxy and should have some sort of trim around it. The ground is too square and stretched again. The lights look somewhat out of place largely due to this problem. A patch or decals could help solve this problem.

 

On the interior in picture one, there is to much stretching of textures again. I can see mis-aligned textures on the roof where the beams go across. Picture 3 is too dark, it needs either more light from torches or from ambience, and picture four has torched which should have the noshadow 1 parameter applied to them. Picture six, you could make your own wine rack using brushed instead of the shelves, and again no shadow on those torches.

 

You should probably setup a large ambient light to fix much of the lighting issues as well.

 

There's also quite a bit of areas which are boxy, featuring plain 90 degree corners ect. Having smoothed or varied corners would help change things up.

 

With all this info you may be discouraged, but I'm not trying to say it's a bad map, I'm just saying what can be improved on it So don't get discouraged!

[HappyCheeze]

With all this info you may be discouraged,

 

I know what you mean, this is what I'm looking for :-)

[Fidcal]

In addition to what jdude has said, have you worked through the A to Z guide at http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php/...e_Start_Here%21

 

In particular, many walls such as simple bricks, can have sharp corners while other textures look better if the corners are softened with a bevel : http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php/...Corners:_Bevels.

 

Above all, keep going and post here and give the team a day or two for others to get a chance to have a look at your work. You are on the right track.

[HappyCheeze]

In addition to what jdude has said, have you worked through the A to Z guide at http://wiki.thedarkmod.com/index.php/...e_Start_Here%21

Yes, I did that when I first started monthes ago,

 

It'll be good to go through that again.

[jdude]

Also make sure you have vis portaled it and the performance is good.