surely someone else can help you with vis. 

If someone is up for it sure. But it's not finished and the last full compile I did it didn't have nearly as much detail and took over 24hrs.

But this was on an old CPU so I dunno :p 

Haha, only 24 hrs? I"m sure jpl can regale you with tales of vising sessions. :P 

I'm sure lol. I'm not claiming it's a record breaker :) 

Send me the bsp when you are ready :) 

I wish I could... really... but I can't anymore for some reasons...
... and I am not sure I'll be back on mapping before a long time :( 

24 hours? That's nothing!
I had a map that the beta took 300, and thanks to some suggestions the next version was down to 240, only 10x your vis time! but, vis crashed twice, so first I wasted 200+ hours, then I wasted 160+ hours, and fiinnnally it completed a 240 hour run.
I'm almost angry reading your post. lol :) 

Huh? I was just saying you have had much much longer vis sessions than 1 day. :) 

damn tronyn, what kind of CPU was that compiling on? :/ 

a 3.4 ghz processor with 8 gigs of ram. heh.

still, compared to back in the day, vising and compilation is a lot better. 

... well, that's what I understood, no worry ;)
I was just spotting up my computer is broken and I have to buy a new one... bah, my shity business :( 

Looking forward to that map, ZQF! 

Started working on this last week. I've basically done the layout now, I just have to get the gameplay to not suck and put in dm and then it's done.

I kind of went overboard on curves - not very much fun to align all those textures :/

http://i.imgur.com/M0iLK.jpg

I'm considering doing dm6rmx to release at the same time because the map isn't very long, and neither is dm6rmx. If I do that, not sure I will release this year... 

 

 

I wish I had the skills to make something like that good looking!

I vote for doing dm6rmx release simultaneously. 

coudnt recognize the map from the screen is it dm5rmx?

and what's the status of dm1rmx? it was partly finished iirc 

Off with that tie! 

That is the plan. Not really touched dm6rmx yet though.

Spy: It's dm5rmx, but aside from sharing the layout and some of the textures, it's pretty different. The layout has been expanded a fair bit, but it's still kind of small.

Negke: It's called Round the U-Bend
http://www.gizchina.com/2010/03/11/wanted-smell-toilet-u-bend/ 

oh god... i think i'd rather die for co2 poisoning. :( 

I think you should release dm5 and dm6 separately because dm3 and dm7 were seperate also. 

Made some good progress with dm5rmx. Will probably refine the lighting and brushwork a little more, but it's pretty much done. Working on gameplay at the moment (probably should have done this FIRST)

http://i.imgur.com/vU5eK.jpg

TL: dual layer corridor top
TR: dual layer corridor bottom
BL: inside the cistern
BR: one of the new areas

dmr3rmx is still the closest conversion I've done. I think it will probably stay that way; This one is pretty different beyond the original layout still existing amongst all the new stuff.

I tried to give the feeling of bounced light a lot on this map, so I used quite a lot of low intensity lights with falloff values set between 0.125 and 0.5 to eliminate hard black shadows where they felt unnatural. Still don't want to use coloured light though :) 

The bright pools of light in soft shadows look awesome imo :) 

If Negke's bad dark cistern sections of DM5 were like the rusty mechanical version, these shots seem to show a more updated hi-tech version. As ZQF says, the lighting looks great. I like the green/copper/blue palette. 

Crane smash

Ignore dodgy textures in the lower bits