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[⑨]

...maybe you could have one of the gates be slightly open so you can look underneath and maybe see some crates or a truck but you can't go through and it's dark so you can't see the whole warehouse.
No real speed issues because you won't have the whole area in there but a lot more diversity and depth in your map.

[Jerion]

Crates, concrete bunkers, loose papers, piles of dirt, and random debris are the filler of choice IMO. I'm aiming to make the geometry relatively simple, but with a large amount of repeated doodads organized to provide lots and lots of smart cover.

@ 9: Maybe, I'll consider it.

[_Aaron_]

Your game fails the crate test miserably.

[c^5]

Well, depends what map you start on since it's not linear. If you start out in the outdoor one, the game is amazing by StC standards.

[_Aaron_]

Heh, good point.

[Jerion]

Just gotta pump up the atmosphere a couple more notches. Those big black crates need work too.

Also, StC -INF 

[New2Dim3]

BOX TEST

[`teh1]

The massive girders with no support are not realistic. Add supports and a roof so that they have a purpose.

[Jerion]

The massive girders with no support are not realistic. Add supports and a roof so that they have a purpose.

No roof, at least not a complete one. That would defy the point of an exposed outdoor map. Supports, sure. Maybe I'll suspend several turned off lights from them, give them a purpose that way.

And in case nobody's figured it out, this map is basically crates and bunkers. Lots of crates and bunkers. I could run a catwalk or two across the upper portion of the map but that would be pretty pointless since anybody running up there could be shot from nearly any position.

[.Minimum]

Your game fails the crate test miserably.

As I recall, halo 1 loses the crate test. I played it ages ago, but don't you start in some crate thing?

[Oddity(007)]

Mertoid Prime 3 fails it in 5 seconds, it even describes the crates!
In other news, I'm working on a crate map for dimball, Mr K already knows
Poor Aaron, still doesn't get what I meant in his sig :p

[Alexander Smith]

That's really nice Mr. K! Very atmospheric, like a wet sort of shiny look after a slight rain.

[Jerion]

That's really nice Mr. K! Very atmospheric, like a wet sort of shiny look after a slight rain.

That look is fairly simple to achieve. You just have a flat normal map (you can scale it down to 4x4 to save space), the color map, then a darkened and slightly blurred spec map. Pair it with the right ambient light & sun source, toss in some fog...

The result is a shiny matte look to the surfaces. Really gives a dynamic feel to the textures and lighting, and looks better than the flat lighting you get with just a lightmap.

[Nightblaze]

Mr_K: The map looks great, and I thought of an idea for it. Have a roof, but destroy about 60% of it. Leave panels lying on the ground, and have some attached to the girders to make ramps that players can walk up. Basically make it possible to walk around up on a second floor, but make it really complicated to navigate and get up their, and with a lot of space to fall through the floor.

Just an idea though, since it might make the map more indoors, which isn't what you're going for.

[Jerion]

I'm re-arranging some stuff on this map. In getting it to look like it does though, I ended up slaughtering the fps (as usual). So I'm working through it, doing what I can to speed things up again. In the course of that, I discovered a little trick that could provide a not insignificant speedup for Warehouse.