dod_kolsch released (environment)

warby

thomas "hessi" hess has finally released our collaborative map afford dod_kolsch to the public

















its "all custom content" and can be played in dod source now !

mirror list:

http://www.thomashess.net/

hessi

just to add some new/unseen pictures:

Zephir62

The Cologne Cathedral you guys did there is simply flippin' awesome. Nice job!

whats_true

I got to see the wire frame on that cathedral! (very interested in were you spent the poly's)

Fantastic work mate. How long did it take you to complete it?

beancube

looking clean and crisp

MoP

Cool stuff, impressive that you finished the whole map with all custom assets by yourselves. Overall it looks really nice.

Personally I'm not a huge fan of the "pure photosource" look that some of the areas have, especially the cathedral, but hey if that's what you wanna do then cool.

I just think it makes it a bit harder to make everything look really consistent - for example those trees and the tank don't really look like they fit too well, the trees almost look cartoony next to the hyper-real cathedral and some buildings, and the tank just looks a bit under-detailed and more hand-painted compared to all your map textures.

I'd be interested to know how many textures or texture sheets you used on the cathedral, and what resolution they were - it looks like just a few textures, used cleverly, which is neat

Oh and some antialiasing might help those cathedral shots a bit

Nice work!

warby

one 2048 on the cathedral combined with one 2048 light/ao map

hessi

and here is the texturesheet. please notice there is a large black area warby later filled with repeating content from the texture to get the lightmap hack to work the texture was used as a detail texture on a lightmap, so you probably get the deal. the texture was made in 4k res and later downscaled.
http://www.thomashess.net/dom_texture_sheet.jpg

MoP

Cool. I guess all of this is just oldschool diffuse textures? No normals or spec or anything?

Nice work ... makes me wanna try some more environment stuff

Target_Renegade

Very nice Cathedral, I'm trying to unwrap some Norman architecture at the moment, very time consuming. One thing, there seems to be some texture warping on the 10th image above the nave entrance, where the main window is.

Joao Sapiro

fuck yeah , awesome cathedral holy smoly ! keep rocking , jesus the detail !

marshmonkey

awesome work as always Warby and Hessi!

Cody

amazing.