Work in progress video Source/3DSmax

WesleyTack

I've created a few of these videos over the past few months (years?). This is my latest working on a level for my Half-Life² mod Off Limits:
http://www.youtube.com/v/45U85dI6zjs?fs=1&hl=en_US&rel=0&hd=1&color1=0xe1600f&color2=0xfebd01

More videos can be found here:
http://www.wesleytack.com/?cat=16

I hope to have the final Off Limits released sometime next month and then hopefully play it with many Polycount people.

Rick_D

very enjoyable

Mark Dygert

At a quick glance it looks pretty good.

On closer inspection...that's a lot of BSP brushes...

Did you Func_Detail any of the ones that didn't contribute to the hull of the level? If you didn't, it will take a lot longer to compile and carve your game world into a TONS of little portals that don't need to be there. The sorting of those portals, which portal can see into what other portals is what bogs down compile times. Unless a brush is keeping the level from leaking it should probably be a func_detail.

The cargo containers are very flat and fit perfectly together, which just isn't very realistic. Even TF2 packed a lot of geometric detail into their cargo containers and used static meshes instead of BSP brushes.

WesleyTack

Mark Dygert wrote: »

At a quick glance it looks pretty good.

On closer inspection...that's a lot of BSP brushes...

Did you Func_Detail any of the ones that didn't contribute to the hull of the level? If you didn't, it will take a lot longer to compile and carve your game world into a TONS of little portals that don't need to be there. The sorting of those portals, which portal can see into what other portals is what bogs down compile times. Unless a brush is keeping the level from leaking it should probably be a func_detail.

Of course I mix with func_detail and func_brush, otherwise the level wouldn't compile.

The cargo containers are very flat and fit perfectly together, which just isn't very realistic. Even TF2 packed a lot of geometric detail into their cargo containers and used static meshes instead of BSP brushes.

the video is about the interior, I haven't touched the containers yet, I will extrude some of them and make them not so flat in the end Thanks for the heads up!