So, for my Into to Game Design course, we're making a number of Half-Life 2 mods. My group's mod focuses on continuing the story of Adrian Shepherd in a segue between Half-Life 1 and Half-Life 2. Here's the little bit I've made so far in my foray into mapping. Yes, I realize the rope on the corpse is wrong. I'm working on fixing that.

Ug, HL2's fire looks photoshopped. The graphics are hot, but NOT photorealistic. Photorealistic flames + sexy RENDERS = irrealism.

Other than that, it's FAR more than I can accomplish in a brush editor. I hope to see ample usage of 3d objects in your map, though. Right now it's rather bland.

im liking it, but i would move that ceiling light over so its attached on a 'level' surface. i know the texture is only giving the idea of 3d-ness for that ceiling, but it would look much better attached to what appears to be a flat surface.

Wow. I think that suggestion really improved the scene.

I really have to agree.

Damnit, I want to be in your class!



(nice work btw)

Those buildings look way too boring. Really a repetitive sight. Could you add something to the buildings so they are better to look at?

Wow, what a coincidence. I just started using Hammer again after a while of not using it. I am working on a really crummy looking fort. :p I like how your map looks but the buildings are kind of bland.

Glow in the Dark shotgun o_O

Not bad, but it needs a bit more detail inside, and more variety in the buildings outside.

I know in real life indoors are usually four walls a ceiling and a floor, but your texture on the ceiling is fake 3d ish... when you could just make it 3d and it would look better. A more flat texture would work better.

it needs alot more detail! good start though. I thought it was a HL1 at first

The last time I checked, Adrian Shepherd doesn't wear an HEV suit (hence the HEV gloves). I don't know if you can fix those or not, but it would look a bit more like Adrian Shepherd if he had those gloves he wore in the first game or maybe just bare hands.

well at least he's holding the most badass gun in the game.

Interesting...But you do realize that there are like 4 Adrian Shepard Continuation mods.....right?

The corpse hanging from the streetlight looks out of place. And by out of place I mean people don't hang charred corpses from streetlights. Well... most people.

Just an idea, but you should add a few pillars/support collumns in that room, to hide behind and add interest to the room.

Interesting...But you do realize that there are like, grades and stuff involved.....right?

The streets look awkward in those pictures. I can't put my finger on it exactly, but I think it might be the way all the buildings are so similar. They look all the same height, with all the same architecture.

and they all appear to connect

We're going to cheat and re-texture the HEV suit to give it a more "military" look, citing that it's a pre-cursor prototype to the HEV suit in HL2.

[quote=Jenny Kitty]Interesting...But you do realize that there are like 4 Adrian Shepard Continuation mods.....right?[/quote]

Nope, and don't care.





Good advice.

I wanna play this when it's done. :p

op4 was awesome.

Once you add more detail with a bunch of models lying around, it will look less bland.

What hardware are you developing on?

Now I have to go buy HL2. You owe me fifty bucks.

Working on the mysterious black blob that's supposed to be a pile of debris.




A (WIP) view from the other side of the white building:

That is a great improvment! The first of the new shots is still a bit repedative(sp?) on the buildings and that object looks darker than it should. The third shot looks the best because the buildings look more real (I think in the other two shots you should take out some windows as normal buildings dont have that many windows.)

That blown out building in shot 2 looks great, I think you should have more wrecked buldings and landscape as it apears to be set in a warzone.

Finally the buildings have no doors or entrances.

Edit: I just saw that yellow building in the first of the new shots thats another great example of how a buiding should be done.

Double Edit: One last thing that blown out building in shot 2 has no windows around it yet the rest of the building has windows everywhere, this is inconsistant.

the outside lighting and architecture is rather bland.. I'd say add much more detail to the buildings.. I mean model each window and door if you have to. look for references on Google of how a city street really looks.

Do you want him to release this? Ever?

Well, it is quite bland. I know of some JK levels with a good bit more detail. Oviously, Wolfy is a beginner to this engine, but that doeasn't mean he shouldn't strive for excellence.

[QUOTE=The Mega-ZZTer]Do you want him to release this? Ever?[/QUOTE]
I see 7 different windows. I dont think that would take too long

8 actually.

The Source engine can't handle as much architectural detail as the SITH engine does. If you want to make really detailed stuff you'd have to model it all in external programs and import it as 3d objects.

Er. I'm not big fan of Source, but I'm pretty sure that's what detail brushes are for. Or did they mess those up, too?

After a couple detail brushes the compiler craps out. That's what made me abandon my HL2 projects. I only build about 4 rooms with quite some detail and then the compiler just quit on me. (Printing a list of maximum objects it could process and showing I had somehow exceeded that)