SP Trapped

[oO Creative Oo]

Hello, I've created a SP map it's about 10 mins long. And sorry for no screenshots I'll try and upload some later.

Download here: http://www.filefront.com/15373209/SP_Trapped.war
Enjoy :D

[Cacoulte]

whats the objective?

[Wisdom Thumbs]

Mind posting a video preview first?

[oO Creative Oo]

Mind posting a video preview first?

I was gonna post some screen shots but my internet sucks and it would of took forever to upload.

[oO Creative Oo]

whats the objective?

Just get to the LZ basically.

[darksin]

10 mins,very short but better than nothing, will try and feedback later...

thx uploading to filefront, if rapid or mega or media etc then impossible to download.

[krisirk]

Yeah ill test it too.

[krisirk]

tested apart of it.

Needs some more lighting
Crashed the game if you die and reload

[darksin]

ok, played it, simple map design, not many detail so got high framerate, no bugs met, but need more lighitng. i found a looot of mapper's maps lack lights, too dark to play, only few night maps is perfect, so i think it's hard for many mappers to optimze this feature in editor.

[Serenius]

ok, played it, simple map design, not many detail so got high framerate, no bugs met, but need more lighitng. i found a looot of mapper's maps lack lights, too dark to play, only few night maps is perfect, so i think it's hard for many mappers to optimze this feature in editor.
The editor is very deceiving on how bright a map is. Often times you can make it look plenty bright in the editor, but you have to adjust the post-processing to make it bright enough ingame. Even then, it may not be enough because players may use Intense post-processing settings, making it dark all over again.

[darksin]

That's right man, anyway i'm a low end pc, intense will make framertate drop a lot, so i always use default processing, the map is dark too, i think the editor brightness is at least 4 times brighter than in actual game, so i hope mappers can play their maps in the game for some test, not just in editor, some sp like the sp_ravensearch, is a good example, it's night, but enough lighting, you can see things clear, not too dark to see anything.

[Serenius]

I have been using the following post-processing levels in the editor:
Highlights: 0.7
Midtones: 1.4
Shadows: 0

Gives a pretty good representation of what you'll see ingame with:
Highlights: 0.7
Midtones: 1 or 1.1
Shadows: 0

Night time scenes are much harder to light than daytime, as they require a lot more highlighting, whereas daytime can cover most of the map with 2 directional lights (1 at 2.5 brightness for the sun, 1 pointed the opposite direction at 1 brightness for the reflection off the sky). At that point, additional lights are just for color correction. There's also the matter of needing 2-3 low brightness sky lights so the shadows aren't black.

Interiors are even more fun to light since you can't rely on directional lights. :)

[darksin]

Haven't played any night maps from you, good luck, i wonder if there're some feature in eidtor or UDK, like a templet from offical maps so some similar copy paste way for you mappers added to custom maps to save time.

[Serenius]

Most of the official maps I have looked at use the following for their post-processing.

Desaturation: 0.4 to 0.5 (40%-50%)
Scene Hi-Lights: 0.7 to 0.8
Scene Mid-Tones: 1 to 1.4
Shadows: 0 (except for -0.3 on the Z portion)

[darksin]

You see when we players say a map is too dark, we compare it with those official night maps, in the same processing and brightness setting, they are the standard and no problem in everything.

So i hope sb. like you, Serenius, to check this map and find what's the lighting problem,maybe this can help all those who make nighttime maps....

[oO Creative Oo]

Okay thank for the info. :)