Cube_Figure Eight

[Cheesy89]

This Is the first map that I've made and it's for Weighted Companion Cube Soccer. I got two screen shots to show you guy's and ladies .
I dont want to show that much until I finish texturing,adding light and adding a sky box. Tell me what you think of my map.

[!B a T m A n!]

take the image code thingy [img]-------[/img]
its that one

[Cheesy89]

Thanks !B a T m A n! .

[!B a T m A n!]

np

its on its way helios looks good!

[Cheesy89]

What type of lighting is usually used in indoor WCC Soccer map's? All I have to do is finish the lighting and do a couple touchup's then I am finished my first map.

[l3eeron]

Cool lookin stuff there...

Cube maps are fun to make

I must warn you though, all that round geometry is going to spell disaster when you go to actually play the map. There are some tricks to keep the FPS playable while using lots of round stuff, but its not for beginners. Keep in mind the game likes straight lines. They're easy to render.

As far as lighting....

place a "light" where ever you think it needs it. And use a skybox/name along with a light_environment to light the map:

here's all the sky names and light_env settings.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_list

Hope that helps!

[shimmybot]

[quote="l3eeron";p="117579"]
Cool lookin stuff there...

Cube maps are fun to make

I must warn you though, all that round geometry is going to spell disaster when you go to actually play the map. There are some tricks to keep the FPS playable while using lots of round stuff, but its not for beginners. Keep in mind the game likes straight lines. They're easy to render.

As far as lighting....

place a "light" where ever you think it needs it. And use a skybox/name along with a light_environment to light the map:

here's all the sky names and light_env settings.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_list

Hope that helps!
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[Mad-Hammer]

One last bit of advice coming from one mapper who loves circular shapes to another......either use func_detail or func_brush on on your spherical shapes. If you don't, it will play heck with vrad and make the map way heavier than it should.

[Cheesy89]

I ran the map and it run's smoothly.

[shimmybot]

[quote="Helios 36";p="117591"]
I ran the map and it run's smoothly.
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with 1 person yeah. Try 24. thats when you start getting problems

[Cheesy89]

[quote="Mad-Hammer";p="117584"]One last bit of advice coming from one mapper who loves circular shapes to another......either use func_detail or func_brush on on your spherical shapes. If you don't, it will play heck with vrad and make the map way heavier than it should. [/quote]
I cant seem to find func_detail or func_brush?
Expect more "noob" question's later lol.

[shimmybot]

dont worry, I got stuck on this too


you need to select what world geometry you want to be it then press ctrl+t (tie to entity) and it will make that brush a brush based entity (the light bulb is point based)

then once you've done that select func_detail or brush, your choice

[Cheesy89]

[quote="shimmybot";p="117582"][quote="l3eeron";p="117579"]
Cool lookin stuff there...

Cube maps are fun to make

I must warn you though, all that round geometry is going to spell disaster when you go to actually play the map. There are some tricks to keep the FPS playable while using lots of round stuff, but its not for beginners. Keep in mind the game likes straight lines. They're easy to render.

As far as lighting....

place a "light" where ever you think it needs it. And use a skybox/name along with a light_environment to light the map:

here's all the sky names and light_env settings.

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Sky_list

Hope that helps!
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Admit it this look's cool. Can you overdo using func_detail?

[shimmybot]

oh, the map looks great.

and, i'm pretty sure there isn't other than the limit of entities per map

[Cheesy89]

Will it run better if I just leave the DX levels at default? Will the performance improve even more if I decrease the maximum DX level?