For Hire - WIP media thread

[Alex]

I thought it would be a better idea to start a thread here where we can show off some of our WIP media, rather than continually dumping it into the 56k thread.

Please remember this is a work in progress thread, though comments and feedback are most welcome

First things first - here's some concept art I put together:

[Simon]

Appart for the elbow pads that looks like shoulder pads, it looks pretty nice

[Editor]

Vest is kinda impossible, you have made it a zip-up vest with pouches tightly packed around the bottom. I'd hate to wear it.

[Alex]

Ohhh... looks like I made a rather big mistake then :X

I was trying to get the vest these two guys are wearing.  Since you've mentioned the mistake I now realize they're wearing two different vests.  Fsdfsdfsdf.  The guy on the right has a zip vest but no front pouches, guy on the left has the frontpouches but no zip vest.

http://img474.imageshack.us/img474/716/cervino8wz6.jpg

[Matuka]

Must actually hurt being shot in the chest, then being dragged across a mile of the forest by two guys as your bum scrapes across the floor. Being dragged across the ground being the most painful thing.

[Alex]

Been busily working on new textures for the maps.  Most of them are based on images from CGTextures, but I feel pretty pleased with the resulting edits

Please note that these pictures are to show the textures, many details are absent from the map and I intend to overhaul some parts of the map.

[Editor]

Congrats on your pics that aren't pitch black. Looks really good.

[Alex]

Cheers Tom ;P

Toadie, you'll be pleased to hear I fixed the skybox issue :D  It took a lot of tomfoolery in Photoshop and VTFedit to get the skyboxes fixed, mercifully though cubemaps now look exactly like they should do.

Small update with pictures ~ retextured some default props (road barriers no longer get that black line appear).  Clothing props are from L4D.
I haven't touched interior lighting, nor have I really started throwing details around outside yet; progress is slow but sure.

[toadie]

Merkur Cinemas, was that your doing? :D

[Alex]

Yeah :V

My line of thinking was "Orion Cinemas" > "Mercury Cinemas" > "ha ha the German for Mercury is Merkur"

[Alex]

More changes - most obviously to the skybox, but also lighting, props and whatnot.
I'm quite aware that the streetlamps need some $selfillum, will need to tinker with them.