First Room In my Abstract Map

[Optics]

Hello , I made my first 2 rooms in this abstract map and I really wanted peoples opinions on it...

http://img41.imageshack.us/i/86109854.png/
http://img13.imageshack.us/i/12726808.png/
http://img684.imageshack.us/i/71358085.png/
http://img13.imageshack.us/i/67763691.png/

What do you think can be improved?
Please do not hesitate to comment on it

thank you

[Pocatello]

very spooky and twisted. I like it.

[Optics]

very spooky and twisted. I like it.

Oh thanks!

[Gr|m]

hmm... really can't think of anything else that could go in there other than maybe a lil more shrubbery and another light? idk, looks pretty good

[Neelpos]

I was thinking maybe put a few rocks in there

[Optics]

hmm... really can't think of anything else that could go in there other than maybe a lil more shrubbery and another light? idk, looks pretty good

okay thanks for the advice , I will add a few more cactuses in some places and play around with the lighting a bit.

[Optics]

I was thinking maybe put a few rocks in there

Ahh yes! that's what it's missing , thanks for pointing that out

[AMMO]

Try mixing up the colours a bit or use some crazy textures.

[Optics]

Try mixing up the colours a bit or use some crazy textures.

oh okay , I have continued the room and made another room also I have replaced the links above with new ones so you can see what ive else iv'e done.

what sort of crazy stuff shall I add to this room? I have a nice orange and black blend with white and black texture but I think I should save it for another room.

[Gr|m]

you could maybe at this type of look to the floor tiles

or add some sort of glow coming from down there that would entice people to look down/fall

and I know this is really out there, but I think it'd be neat to see if you could make comets flying across the night sky in the desert room.. or in a different room. I'm not really sure if that's possible or not, but it COULD be a neat little detail.


edit: oh and I just thought, you could have a starry sky moving fast which could be trippy? I don't really think all of those ideas would go exactly well together.. it's all up to you though- your map!!

[Optics]

wow I really like that idea! , so In a room I will make the floor black and make individual white tiles and some scattered off , which part is the part you fall down , the black? so you have to hope along the white squares to get across the room?
I have a nice texture that has a sort of white to black gradient white bieng about an 8th of the texture , I could use that texture to make it look like a glow.

heres what I made of that room so far...
http://img43.imageshack.us/i/hl22010010101255689.png/
http://img683.imageshack.us/i/hl22010010101254466.png/

Ahh , maybe if I use sprite trails they kinda look like distant meteorites, I managed to do that once by accident with a rotating object attached to the trail so it would spin across the map.
I could make it fairly slow and have about 8 of them , so one goes then the other maybe some at a time , I will play around , sounds like a neat idea.

I could make a texture that toggles, yeah maybe have a crack in a wall in a room with that texture showing , would seem like the rooms moving? Niiice.

thanks man , I will update the links again every few hours for you to see.

[Dr.Boo]

Make it a little more colorful, but there is a LOT of potential in there. The displacements are nice, and the room has nice paintings. The importanty thing is to make a map crazy, but still detailed. Ideally you mix up detailed, realistic stuff with abstract shit.
I'm making a more or less realistic map for L4D2. I plan to make that the first introductionary map and make the rest abstract. Like if you were entering a dream.

[Optics]

Make it a little more colorful, but there is a LOT of potential in there. The displacements are nice, and the room has nice paintings. The importanty thing is to make a map crazy, but still detailed. Ideally you mix up detailed, realistic stuff with abstract shit.
I'm making a more or less realistic map for L4D2. I plan to make that the first introductionary map and make the rest abstract. Like if you were entering a dream.

ok so how else do I make the main room crazy? I do not want to over do it you see. the gallery room has sort of abstract illusion paintings aswell as some crazy stuff on the gloor , it's a small room I do'nt know what else I could add to it really.

[Base]

This is some really cool stuff. Makes me want to learn mapping and do some of this stuff for tf2.

Make it a little more colorful, but there is a LOT of potential in there. The displacements are nice, and the room has nice paintings. The importanty thing is to make a map crazy, but still detailed. Ideally you mix up detailed, realistic stuff with abstract shit.
I'm making a more or less realistic map for L4D2. I plan to make that the first introductionary map and make the rest abstract. Like if you were entering a dream.

That sounds awesome. Put it up on our L4D2 servers as soon as it's done man.

[Optics]

This is some really cool stuff. Makes me want to learn mapping and do some of this stuff for tf2.

Thanks man , Yeah mapping is great fun , but takes a lot of time