Released Verschneit (Idyllic Snowy Village)

[Turquoise Dragon]

.....where's the portal...?

[Szico VII]

The clue is to listen for the wind sounds coming through it when its open

[CaptainChar]

this map reminds me alot of this map: im a sucker for snow themed maps though >.>;

 

[Szico VII]

Whats that, looks like a level from 007 nightfire and a different HUD

Looks nice tho!

[CaptainChar]

The pc version of 007 Nightfire, It uses a varient of the early souce engine but your village totally made me think of this level

[Szico VII]

Ohh right well I own the PS2 version

[CaptainChar]

Gamecube and PC but yeah I love snow themed maps, and I cant beleive how well the village runs, it never dips in FPS cept the odd one framerate hear and there, like Ive said, your like, one of JA's mapping gods

[Polterninja34]

Just thought I would post about the map quick.

 

I tested it out last night, and literally felt like a modded gtkradiant would be the only way everything looked so.. perfect. Then I realized, a good use of textures, and mixture of lighting, music, and visual effects make this yet another legendary map by Szico VII

 

Well done bro!

[Szico VII]

Cheers man, nice to hear effort hasn't gone to waste

[CaptainChar]

All Szico maps are legendary, hes JA's Miyamoto

[Szico VII]

Miyamoto who?

[MUG]

Miyamoto who?

....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shigeru_miyamoto

[Szico VII]

The biggest nintendo fanboy of them all..?? NOT I!

[Milamber]

I was thinking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miyamoto_Musashi <.<

[MUG]

I was thinking http://en.wikipedia....iyamoto_Musashi <.<

far less badass.

[Szico VII]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hattori_Hanz%C5%8D

 

Most badass if killbill is to be believed.

[TwinHits]

Hey Szico, at some point you mentioned that you made your own caulk shader? Can you explain this, why, and what the differences are?

[MUG]

Hey Szico, at some point you mentioned that you made your own caulk shader? Can you explain this, why, and what the differences are?

I assume a personal preference thing to change how it looks in Radiant?

[Szico VII]

Yeah, because you actually walk through the road patch meshes (to simulate deep snow) - (and apparently the q3map+_material snow) doesn't work on solid patch surfaces either, I needed to make the caulk underneath have that material property, hence the custom shader. Looks identical in radiant though, same editor image. Same goes for the physics clip on some of the outside models like the cave and the lamps e.t.c.

[Astral Serpent]

Why has no one hired you to do stuff like this professionally?

[Szico VII]

Why has no one hired you to do stuff like this professionally?

 

Actually, someone did offer me a paid position as a level designer for a (online q3 type game apparently) but had to turn it down as really don't have the time what with med school and girlfriend and everything else that eats away at stuff

[The One and Only]

Why has no one hired you to do stuff like this professionally?

 

I've tried, he won't do it.

[Szico VII]

It was personal.

[The One and Only]

For me, it's personnel.

[Szico VII]

bad dum dum tssssh.......