[Source] de_cistern
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Hey guys long time no see. Been a while since I posted a project on my favourite place on the web. So yeah I was browsing the Work thread 8 months ago and saw Richard Acherki was looking for an artist to detail his Counter-Strike: Source map.
I decided to offer my help thinking it'd be a quick job but it turned into a full job and here I am with a playable level.
It's a defusal map for Counter-Strike: GO and it's set in a water treatment facility. It uses a lot of custom content which isn't seen too often these days in CS maps but I wanted to really stand out and make a nice portfolio piece.
I wrote up my design process and thoughts in a handy .PDF so feel free to give that a read and if you own the game do check it out.
Download: http://csgo.gamebanana.com/maps/171828
Link to "The Making of Cistern": http://upload.habboi.co.uk/makingofcistern_final.rar
Example of document to show you what it's about:
I decided to offer my help thinking it'd be a quick job but it turned into a full job and here I am with a playable level.
It's a defusal map for Counter-Strike: GO and it's set in a water treatment facility. It uses a lot of custom content which isn't seen too often these days in CS maps but I wanted to really stand out and make a nice portfolio piece.
I wrote up my design process and thoughts in a handy .PDF so feel free to give that a read and if you own the game do check it out.
Download: http://csgo.gamebanana.com/maps/171828
Link to "The Making of Cistern": http://upload.habboi.co.uk/makingofcistern_final.rar
Example of document to show you what it's about:
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It'd be good to have more maps especially when Valve releases the workshop which they recently announced is being worked on so go for it!
I would also be up for a game or two on this map.
What did I win? :poly124:
Great job man
We're just waiting to hear back from them but honestly I doubt they will. People these days tend to be forgetful.
Thanks for the positive comments dudes. As for overview here's the best I have. It's a little hard to read I know.
http://www.valvesoftware.com/publications/2010/siggraph2010_vlachos_waterflow.pdf
dont really know why you got colour like purple in yours when the blue channel isnt needed at all, but there are procedural ways to do these in maya and other applications.
But perhaps someone with more technical knowledge can explain it to me. The example in the PDF is for a map where the water is constantly flowing downwards in order to guide the player with some sections for going around trees whereas mine is more unnatural, it's being fed down a 90 degree angled tunnel and as I said in my document I tried each colour one by one and the water would flow in its own distinct direction and that's how I applied it to my map. If I'm not supposed to use the colours I have, how else would I have got the angles of flow I needed?
think you will want to look at this thread.
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=105399
also there is a imbueFX tut that shows a procedural way to do it via maya, but in the case of that one you will need to do some tweaks to isolate the difference.