Kafe's Map thread

[Kafe]

reminds me of underhell, has the same vibe

was looking for more contrast and now it looks like the manor from hell

 

[Kafe]

Will probably have to add a tv somewhere

 

[PilotBland]

Will probably have to add a tv somewhere

Christmas in the canals update

 

[Kafe]

Christmas in the canals update

rebels gather around the tree for the holidays
Key has spawned npc_sniper

 

[Kafe]

More stuff to the exterior to make the bricked section more interesting

 

[Postal]

More stuff to the exterior to make the bricked section more interesting

looks lke a dods map

 

[Kafe]

looks lke a dods map

that positive or negative?

 

[Slashraider]

Wow I love the city maps! Do you have any that are completed / nearly completed that I can check on on single player??

 

[Kafe]

Wow I love the city maps! Do you have any that are completed / nearly completed that I can check on on single player??

None of the city maps I've worked on have quite made it past prototyping and blockouts I'm afraid.

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I do however have more images of the manor map, made the back exit

 

[Kafe]

I built a thunderstorm into the map!

 

[Kafe]

New stuff begins

 

[Kafe]

In spite of the damage done, this is still probably the safest part of the city since the war began

 

[Kafe]

Chipping into that c19 remake again
Original reference

Currently blocking out a new version of that here:

admittedly, I need to make this place look a bit more, post-combine, bit too clean at the moment

 

['77 East]

How did a boat get beached that far inland?

 

[MaXenzie]

How did a boat get beached that far inland?

you never seen boats going mach 3 before?

 

[Kafe]

How did a boat get beached that far inland?

thing got towed onto shore and proped up on planks.
Nicked it from the dockyard down the road from my house

 

[Deleted member 5162]

Chipping into that c19 remake again
Original reference

Currently blocking out a new version of that here:

admittedly, I need to make this place look a bit more, post-combine, bit too clean at the moment

I suggest that you add some mountains surround the city, like in this picture https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Christchurch_City.jpg along with a Citadel on it and its massive cables connected to the mountain and have some-sort of electricity-connecting towers on it, plus a train track from HL2 Beta Coast leading to the Citadel (perfect reference in zak's Depot map.)
Perhaps this skybox; sky_lostcoast_hdr, from HL2 Lost Coast or cs_tibet from CSS would fit this map, and maybe you could add a color correction to the map with a slightly cyan/blue color to it and a bit of a white, a bright sun pointing from behind of that Combine tower, you could also add a bit of a bloom to this map, but not too much, otherwise terminal screens and other stuff are going to be bright as hell. Perhaps you can also use some assets from C24? I think that this map feels really empty and cheap, since its full of CSS textures and models. You should also make the streets a bit wider and more rooms and builings for people to utilize, along with an admin box of some-sort.

EDIT: Just realised that City 19 is Venice, not Christchurch.

 

[shit]

i17 Italians approve of this

 

[chronos]

i17 Italians approve of this

yes please more italians

 

[Kafe]

Utilizing some of the cold war image dump to experiment with some blockouts that would fit the theme.
Currently wanted to see how larger buildings would behave, given the other war torn blockout was very much ground level.

Included NPC models for scale

I guess @'77 East might get that derelict apartment to fight in after all.