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I spend a long time working on the first area of the map to define look and style, and get get decent lighting, so I spend a lot of time going back and forth then compiling. Once I'm reasonably happy with the look and lighting, I'll just use those light ents and the defined style throughout the rest of the map so I don't have to constantly recompile and take a look.
Well i've accidentall uploaded both shots as e1m4, but they should be e4m1 (obviously)
http:/shub-hub.com/files/images/e1m4rmx.jpg Wallop! (sigh) Anyway, that looks really nice. I may use an engine with colored lighting for once on this map. :)
But.... another base!? Whats with all the base maps! and i meant to save the file as e4m2rmx2, but saved it as e1m4rmx2, then uploaded it, then posted loads of incorrect links. but the last one does work on my comp...
(embarrassed) that looks really good! Very clean architecture and texturing, just really pleasing to look at, very nice.
Ricky, correct me if I'm wrong here, but it seems you've got 4 different light styles and colours mixed together there in one (very small) area.
I reckon that that would look a bit dodgy even without coloured lighting. My opinion: use less different light textures within the same area to give it a more unified look (especially if you're going to use coloured lighting). Other than that, it looks great! :) I must admit I've been very busy of late and have been piecing this one together quite gradually. Tips about lighting/aesthetics are good, if anything just because they'll make me tweak tweak tweak and try different combos, so great! :-)
Im with frib, try 2 types - one coloreless/slight for overall and another for small colored areal lights
doesn't fit while the other three work pretty well together. Apart from that it's looking good!
RickyT23 if i will have a level design company i will get you to my team for sure... fast with lots of imaginacion!!! looks real cool
I must mention once again though that the texture set I am using is fucking brilliant! It's really easy to work with and looks great. And I think it fits a sewer system theme very well.
perhaps make the runic symbols on that teleporter symetrical, i.e remove one half of the frame, copy the other half and then paste it, and spin it 180. Just a dumb suggestion....
:P he could just cut the top brush in half and scale the textures on one side by -1 horizontally.
...I'm getting quite excited about some of these remixes.
RickyT23 - a superb vision for e4m1, clean - solid - detailed - can't wait! I agree regarding the light fixtures, and have never been able to understand why mappers insist on rotating floor tiles. Tile cutters (or in this instance the hot-axe) exist for a purpose. Unless the rotated section is such that it looks like a piece fabricated to fit round a bend - and I'm not suggesting realism here, rather consistency - then it just looks arse. megaman - interesting, but isn't e1 off limits? I gotta tell you though, the floor tiles were inspired by APSP1.
(hehe - tile cutters) Don't listen to them. (Properly) rotated tiles are the way to go. Cut tiles are ok on 45 degree angles and the like, but look totally bad on round floors.
almost always look bad. They're one of the first things you notice in a level (I do) even before misaligned textures. In the original e1m2 most of the big metal tiles were cut away somehow, which looks horrifying. For example.
The QW guys' craving for high quality textures, but at the same time ignoring crappy texture alignment, which looks much worse than the original texes themselves, amazes me to no end. The base floor tiles (sfloorblah_blah) can be made to look good when cut, for example Gibbie pretty much has it down, look at his map Alcyone. so, neg!ke++ megaman: Nice! Try using even less red? Perhaps red "runes" only in the corners? Looks good, proper metal. Niceness.
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