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Andreas233223 · Member Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

I made a little map for a Sci-Fi FPS; not a real game-project, only fun and not already finished.
It has 7058 polys (take a look at the wireframe screenshot) and is made with Deled and Nemesis' Terrain Editor
http://www.delgine.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1682

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Daaark · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 10:50 pm Post subject:

Nice, but I have some improvement tips.

You should lower the count on your terrain hills. All the polygon count is going to waste in places that no one will ever really look at.

The railings on your upper deck are way too out of scale. You should make them thinner, this will actually help them look less blocky.

You seem to a blue light just floating in front of the stairs. It's a nice color, but it has no source, and is in a bad position to cast nice shadows. If you want to fake a good moonlight, move this pointlight a distance out of your map. Place it where you want the moonlight to be coming from, then go in it's properties, put 9999999 in the distance, and set all the attenuation values to 0.0. This will give you a solid moonlight that will cast the proper shadows over your scene.
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jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

Directional lights are better for moonlight or sunlight, btw.

What are those bright polygons on the right of the stairs, on the ground?

Also, it'd look better with higher detail textures. That floor grate in the first shot looks terrible IMO :-)

Last, it's often useful to build the same amount of detail into all parts of the map. Right now, the entrance/stair area have the most visible detail (where detail isn't just polygons, but also contrast and sharp edges), and other areas have much less. In that way, it looks like an early sketch, more than a finished map. I think you can make it look great with some more work!

Daaark · Posted: Sat Aug 18, 2007 11:40 pm Post subject:

Andreas233223 · Member Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

ok, thanks for he tips
@jwatte: the map isn't finished already
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jwatte · DeleD PRO user Joined: 26 Apr 2006 Posts: 513

Jeroen · Posted: Sun Aug 19, 2007 6:49 pm Post subject:

Agreeing with jwatte here, of course. Wink

Those shots looks great! I like the gloomy atmosphere.

Andreas233223 · Member Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

i made smaller raillings and textures and i have another skybox, but I will take another soon

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trucker2000 · Posted: Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:40 am Post subject:

That's looking really good. Keep going. Smile

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Andreas233223 · Member Joined: 29 Jul 2007 Posts: 359 Location: Germany

Ok, I was a bit busy the last few days.
I made a new landscape with the magnet tool (polys went down from ~8000 to ~2000), and I put fog into the map.
Also I made the first room -the cellar- of the building.

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Nocturn · DeleD PRO user Joined: 08 Aug 2004 Posts: 635

Nice to see the natural Lightsources. The Fog doesn't fit with the Skybox but's okay. However, try to use a better Floor-Texture, the actual one tiles to much.

Daaark · Posted: Thu Aug 23, 2007 11:52 am Post subject:

HAving bright fog in the night just looks wrong. A good rule of thumb is to make the fog the same colour as the sky box, so things can fade into the distance (like real fog).

When it gets rainy here, the sky turns grey and I can see the buildings disapear into the grey fog, they don't turn light blue!
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