[WIP] Porto Caldera Resort

[Sergeant Todd]

@Sly and Todd: It's Santorini actually:

Thanks, Baryonyx. Oh gosh, I had no idea. What a gorgeous town! It's so pristine. Hadn't considered MDK1311 basedhis map on a real honest-to-God location. The Google images were amazing. The missus and me will have to visit Santorini - wow....

MDK1311, please discard my color comments completely.

Humbly,
Todd

[leilei2]

I've tried it

The pool area could use a world space cubemap rather than view space, its strange how it reflects off your viewing angle. I believe the glow is intentional
The detail textures on the walls pattern too much, maybe you can switch them for a higher res varying detail texture to break up some of the pattern
http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/48...F1AC667F783BF/
Also, some of the round roofs appear a bit faceted?

[Heimdallr]

MDK, have you tried the command "staticmesh smooth" ?

What is the result with your big static ?
Normally, this kind of the command can smooth the face (break the faceted)

[MDK1311]

@ all, thx for trying/testing the map,

@ leilei and Heimy, The faceted thing on the rounded roofs Is because I use Gile[s] as Lightmap-renderer. Apparently It conserves only a part of the assigned smoothing groups, so the lightmap renders as if it was hard-edged (and I don't know how to fix that) and as a consequence meshsmooth doesnt do anything for it is a lightmap because the mesh is also flagged as unlit (for obvious performance reasons). The Blocky things are artefacts due to the DXT-Compression, and the Main-Lightmaps are 2048x2048 I cannot let them uncompressed. Also, for the day/night cycle I use 12 different lightmaps (which uses a lot of texture memory). So I'm afraid that atm, it is something that cannot be undone... (sorry for that...)
@ Todd and Bary, indeed inspired by Santorini, so the colour question has been discarded. Unfortunately, I won't be able to change the architecture (because all of it being staticmesh and I cannnot modify it without re-rendering all the lightmaps (Blame the UV2's for that).

Next Beta will be available within more or less 2 weeks.(hopefully) If there are some issues (mostly pathing and collision, let me know and I'll see what I can do until next Beta)
Cordially, MDK

[UnShame]

can somebody upload this map somewhere else?
i can't download it even with proxy for some reason

[Parkis G]

I can't download it either. I have had a few problems with trying to download from gamefront lately.
Maybe he can re upload, or is this still beta, is there another version?

[Private Tux]

Seems he's pretty busy yet with his studies yet or whatsoever, so...

Uploaded to My Dropbox Space (since January 03, 2013):
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...aResortPB1.rar

PS: I still use the US proxy (transparency) using the site to Opera in daily/monthly (just search it guys ).

EDIT: Proxy URL link changed.

[Ovidiu1969]

Another MDK map, another great release. She's a really good maper. You work in this domain?

[Baryonyx]

Wait, what? She?

[unrealloco]

cool map
heres a mirror

http://wickedhq.com/index.php/downlo...lderaresortpb1

[Ovidiu1969]

Wait, what? She?

Sorry, probably my mistake. Maybe is "he''. My english is not so good. At school I learnt Russian language.

[papasfritas]

this is an amazing beta. I'm missing weapon bases/effect of some kind. the day/night cycle is really smooth. lots of fun 2 play