WoLD Reference Challenge 2 - Zodd

[Zodd]

Hi all.

Saw this last night and thought I'd give it a shot. Took me the entire evening, and I'm amazed I actually finished.

The engine I used was Hammer, the Left 4 Dead 2 authoring tools version specifically. I didn't use any custom props or textures. Since this is my first time doing anything like this I would like some honest feedback. I've been making maps as a hobby for years, but never posted anything. I'm looking forward to seeing the other entries.

Here are my "beauty shots."


By zodd42 at 2010-03-25

By zodd42 at 2010-03-25

By zodd42 at 2010-03-25

[Nexusdog]

Stunning work... your work is sublime Zodd, no doubt about it.

I hope we can encourage you to continue because the standard of your work is first class

[Bek]

That's incredible

[keithgarry]

I love it when I have to take a second look to see if it is an actual in game shot. So cool. I vote for this one lol.

[Billiz]

Thats really nice! Good work man.

If you didn't use custom textures for this one, How did you do the broken plaster over the bricks? Is it like plaster made into displacement? Also the rings look really nice, I quess you made like a lot of brushes to get the 3 rings?

[Zodd]

Thanks for all the positive comments.

To answer Billiz's question about the plaster over the bricks... I used brushes. The plaster is basically 1 unit thick and made of func_detail brushes. I did the same on the right side except I added the thin concrete-ish looking layer above the plaster. I also used brushes on the sidewalk. Lining up all those vertices took forever! It was very tedious work, but I wanted it to look as much like the image as I could.

[AlexG]

Sweet sweet work. Looks amazing Zodd.

[sarge mat]

Really really great work. When I saw this, this morning I really told my self I had to get my ass in gear.

Just great work!

[Nexusdog]

what were the light values/numbers you used in your pics cos I just gotta have them! :-)

[Zodd]

Here you go.

Pitch Yaw Roll 0 342 0
Pitch -60
Brightness 237 204 154 400
Ambient 177 208 214 50
Sun Spread Angle 10

Everything else is default.

[Nexusdog]

Thanks Zodd, appreciate that