05-24-2012, 12:37 PM
I've been looking forward to this release ever since I tried your race map, which thought was amazing. I'm not into race much, but I could tell you have a good eye for scale and flow, you certainly know how to get that right! So much that I thought it could be turned into a great TDM map with some modifications, every room had different paths leading to another, etc. That's why I was excited to see you were working on a DM map.
So anyway, this new map has so much potential, pretty much completely agree with Justin. I can't give much feedback yet, won't have time to play for a few days, I only jumped around on it for a few minutes. I'm very curious to see how this will play in duel (hard to tell until I learn item placement and such), but it's already obvious this will be a good FFA map for sure. Will definitely try it out in duel asap and hope to give feedback about item placement and flow. Srkdy already put it on one of his servers (not sure which one, probably Washington) and I'll also put it on mine (Chicago), so we'll be able to try it soon enough.
As for the visuals, I think you are making very a conscious choice to keep it simple in terms of details, so I disagree with Hutty here. You seem to be concentrating on contrast with all the good trimming to define edges in the right places (try it with high gl_picmip_world, whoever doesn't understand what I mean, almost every surface is nicely defined by different contrasted textures), nothing is too bright nothing is too dark. Items and players will stand out and that's great. Personally I love that style, I think once you're sure the gameplay and item placement is good and want to add the finishing touches, you should probably work on giving it good lighting (with visible light sources/spotlights), figure out nice compile settings and it'll be perfect. Some areas/tunnels could use so more of those nice trims, but more than that adding a lot of small extra details would not help the map at all in my opinion, but it all depends what are your intentions. Anyway, good job so far!
So anyway, this new map has so much potential, pretty much completely agree with Justin. I can't give much feedback yet, won't have time to play for a few days, I only jumped around on it for a few minutes. I'm very curious to see how this will play in duel (hard to tell until I learn item placement and such), but it's already obvious this will be a good FFA map for sure. Will definitely try it out in duel asap and hope to give feedback about item placement and flow. Srkdy already put it on one of his servers (not sure which one, probably Washington) and I'll also put it on mine (Chicago), so we'll be able to try it soon enough.
As for the visuals, I think you are making very a conscious choice to keep it simple in terms of details, so I disagree with Hutty here. You seem to be concentrating on contrast with all the good trimming to define edges in the right places (try it with high gl_picmip_world, whoever doesn't understand what I mean, almost every surface is nicely defined by different contrasted textures), nothing is too bright nothing is too dark. Items and players will stand out and that's great. Personally I love that style, I think once you're sure the gameplay and item placement is good and want to add the finishing touches, you should probably work on giving it good lighting (with visible light sources/spotlights), figure out nice compile settings and it'll be perfect. Some areas/tunnels could use so more of those nice trims, but more than that adding a lot of small extra details would not help the map at all in my opinion, but it all depends what are your intentions. Anyway, good job so far!