[Hank]

looking for a potential skybox background and ...
http://www.theweathernetwork.com/

sample image from today

[Mike Norvak]

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[Mike Norvak]

Sorry for those with slow connection : /

[Hank]

sorry to ask a stupid question, but some images look like actual sets/maps, last image of previous post (#32), looks too good to be just a photo. Can you tell me which is a photo and which are maps?

[Mark]

Good stuff. I saved a few for further study.

[Mike Norvak]

Hank, on 22 August 2011 - 02:05 PM, said:

sorry to ask a stupid question, but some images look like actual sets/maps, last image of previous post (#32), looks too good to be just a photo. Can you tell me which is a photo and which are maps?

Pic 3 seems to be a model render, the ninth shot, the last two thumbnails and all the 3 from the second post do are computerized images don't know if they're actually from a map or something. The rest are real photos.

[Hank]

Norvak, on 22 August 2011 - 04:11 PM, said:

Pic 3 seems to be a model render, the ninth shot, the last two thumbnails and the 3 from the second post do are computerized images don't know if they're actually from a map or something. The rest are real photos.

Thanks man! I love the ninth! The last thing I want is to 'remake' something from another game, so if it is computerized, it's hopefully save to work on it.

[Mike Norvak]

[Mike Norvak]

Some random shots:

[Mike Norvak]

Shadowing:

[Mike Norvak]

[Hank]

Not sure if this counts for inspiration, but I am working for stuff in England; and England claims to have lot of ghosts, sample
http://www.flickr.co...gari/476235765/

ghosts in Japan
http://izismile.com/...ts_11_pics.html

and a map with ghosts, has to have a story, so here are some from
http://mystery.bf-1....in-the-basement

[High Treason]

For the map I am working on right now, I am drawing a limited amount of inspiration from Clock Tower 3.



Though how it converts to what I am doing may not make it immediately obvious.

I have plans for a later project which will draw more inspiration from my favorite game, Haunting Ground.




Though I am not sure I will have the skill and ability to actually pull this off and wether I even try depends on the success or failure of my upcoming project. Still, by all mens, draw inspiration from them if you wish.

Another thing I draw inspiration from is the town aroud me, I literally sit on Google Street View and look around my city, usually to decide what textures to use and what shape to make a building. Just type Hull, United Kingdom into Google. I also keep meaning to attempt to map the bridge.

[Mark]

Creative mapping and Polymer lighting will take you far, but for that extra bit I think custom textures will be needed to get the look you are after.

I know you're familiar with my WIP Graveyard TC. It was originally going to be a haunted mansion like your pics but my mapping skills were not up to the task of detailing so much stuff inside the mansion. So I opted for a cemetary with some crude underground passages and rooms instead. I am very happy with how its turning out but I still miss doing a mansion map.

Good luck with yours.

[Hank]

The guy had to impress with Photoshop, still, the image was shot yesterday in my town.
It's the Old Distillery District.

[king karl]

some unwordly inspiration
[img]http://www.google.com/imgres?start=85&hl=en&safe=off& biw=1262&bih=490&addh=36&tbm=isch&tbnid=TClN8jQeJwYTwM:&imgrefurl=http: //garmahis.com/inspiration/abstract-photography/&docid=gZwViYI1vfaq1M&imgurl=http: //garmahis.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Dubai-abstract.jpg&w=600& h=399&ei=5i8AUO2CLpCs0AGGydHQBw&zoom=1[/img]

[img]http://www.google.com/imgres?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1262& bih=490&tbm=isch&tbnid=q_--islc1lgLcM:&imgrefurl=http://www.davidetarsitano. co.uk/bio.html&docid=nQTkLnF8ERsYTM&imgurl=http://www.davidetarsitano. co.uk/images/bio.jpg&w=900&h=550&ei=ri4AULCsN6bw0gG-4cHvBw&zoom=1[ /img]

[underTaker]

I've found really great source of inspiration for my current project, so i think it would be nice to share with you It is whole page dedicated to abandoned buildings. Here's the link:

http://www.opuszczone.net/galeria

It's polish site, but there isn't too much content in polish, all you need to know that Fotogaleria means Photogallery, and if you want to know what the place is, you can use google translator It has some really nice objects there!

[LAW]

Nice pics. I have never had problems with inspiration. I've just been getting tired of building fairy quickly resulting in MANY unfinished maps. I still have ideas for at least ten killer mods - but lack of free time and mostly lack of power to build are the problems. And after months of building, coding and editing only a small group of people will play it. It feels then like I've wasted few months of my priceless lifetime. I've been making maps for myself with a motto: want to play in a cool locations - do these locations yourself :-/

[Hank]

http://fav.me/d2v6i60 from deviant art.
I was looking for textures and this popped up

[DudeAwesome]

Sorry for the heavy bump. But Tiltan College, games development floors are my new inspartion for a mini level or a part to my map/s. Its looks like animation floors but believe me it's the game dev section. I was with stress and mis out many posters and stuff of their games. Here: https://www.facebook...72413812775600/

If this post its not OK please delete him. Im only say my inspartion of one of the colleges in the world.

[Aleks]

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I think this whole topic is really interesting and might be quite useful.

I work in the wind tunnel where we mostly check wind loads on high-rise buildings (it is quite literally a blow-job...), so I get to work with many real-life urban layouts. Just yesterday I thought this might go well with Duke maps, so I'm dropping some photos. It could be interesting to see a diferent approach - the models need to only recreate shapes, so people can base their maps just on the layouts in the terms of shapes, heights etc. of the buildings, but as they're pretty much blank, the choice of textures can be left completely unbiased to the author's imagination. If anyone would be interested, I can provide more pictures or perhaps even Sketchup models for some of these. It's mostly centre of Warsaw and centre of Birmingham.

[king karl]

Aleks, on 19 August 2020 - 03:07 AM, said:

Sorry for bumping an old thread, but I think this whole topic is really interesting and might be quite useful.

I work in the wind tunnel where we mostly check wind loads on high-rise buildings (it is quite literally a blow-job...), so I get to work with many real-life urban layouts. Just yesterday I thought this might go well with Duke maps, so I'm dropping some photos. It could be interesting to see a diferent approach - the models need to only recreate shapes, so people can base their maps just on the layouts in the terms of shapes, heights etc. of the buildings, but as they're pretty much blank, the choice of textures can be left completely unbiased to the author's imagination. If anyone would be interested, I can provide more pictures or perhaps even Sketchup models for some of these. It's mostly centre of Warsaw and centre of Birmingham.

you know i've always loved build maps with tiny fake things built in it. its a fake representation in an already fake looking world it gets so surreal so quickly. we need more of that

[Mark]

Your images are not showing.

[Aleks]

Mark, on 19 October 2020 - 05:28 PM, said:

Your images are not showing.

Thanks for the heads-up, again it seems to be some problem with imgurl security certificate. I'm reuploading a bunch if anyone would be interested in them.



If someone would be interested in something in particular, I can always share more of that stuff, I've got lots of it

[Hank]

.. from Eddy

again with me, not to copy directly into a level, only for inspiration.

[NNC]

The Oresund bridge and undersea tunnel (connecting Malmo and Copenhagen) is just asking for a visit from Duke and the aliens.

I have always thought bridges and tunnels are underused elements in the Build engine, despite probably giving some spectacular results. I'm always a sucker for both (visited Norway's prestigious Laerdaltunnel for example), they are the pinnacle of mastermind human engineering!

But the Oresund is absolutely stunning in its construction. This wiki link is for starters: https://en.wikipedia...98resund_Bridge

[Aleks]

The Watchtower, on 30 August 2021 - 02:17 PM, said:

The Oresund bridge and undersea tunnel (connecting Malmo and Copenhagen) is just asking for a visit from Duke and the aliens.

I have always thought bridges and tunnels are underused elements in the Build engine, despite probably giving some spectacular results. I'm always a sucker for both (visited Norway's prestigious Laerdaltunnel for example), they are the pinnacle of mastermind human engineering!

But the Oresund is absolutely stunning in its construction. This wiki link is for starters: https://en.wikipedia...98resund_Bridge

Øresund_Bridge.jpg Øresund_Bridge2.jpg Øresund_Bridge3.jpg Øresund_Bridge4.jpg

That's awesome and I agree about bridges and tunnels, although when it's just them, it might be too linear for a map. Nevertheless, when I look at the 3rd photo from your post and squint, I can basically see Duke's textures on it already

[ck3D]

I've been to Malmö and Copenhagen and taken that train multiple times, and what's funny is it's a location that never really struck me as suitable for Duke (whereas I can usually sense that kind of stuff too, spontaneously), I think because of the linearity of the journey like Aleks was saying. The sights are nice though, of course; I imagine you're sort of picturing an European version of Golden Carnage with that idea? Here I think the settings would work if the mapper really simplified them and also organized the level around a central two-way train, but those are notoriously hard to control (as in, turning into even slightly long rides). You may be onto something with that concept, but there are many other places around Malmö and Copenhagen I think would function better as a Duke 3D level. For a bit I was pondering the idea of recreating Christiania (I'm sure the locals would have loved it too, /s).

[NNC]

ck3D, on 30 August 2021 - 07:29 PM, said:

I've been to Malmö and Copenhagen and taken that train multiple times, and what's funny is it's a location that never really struck me as suitable for Duke (whereas I can usually sense that kind of stuff too, spontaneously), I think because of the linearity of the journey like Aleks was saying. The sights are nice though, of course; I imagine you're sort of picturing an European version of Golden Carnage with that idea? Here I think the settings would work if the mapper really simplified them and also organized the level around a central two-way train, but those are notoriously hard to control (as in, turning into even slightly long rides). You may be onto something with that concept, but there are many other places around Malmö and Copenhagen I think would function better as a Duke 3D level. For a bit I was pondering the idea of recreating Christiania (I'm sure the locals would have loved it too, /s).

I think it can work inside an episode only (maybe inside your episode ). I've never been to Malmo sadly, but visited Copenhagen multiple times, and it has some nice locations to visit. The airport is pretty interesting as well, with metro and train stations, hotels, and even has a nearby "beach" and some really nice real estates around. The tunnel/bridge can work only if the level takes place around the central hub on the artifical island, and you can visit the simplified bridge part as well (I guess, partly ruined). Probably the previous level takes place around the airport, and finishes inside the train after a train station. But it doesn't have to be THAT Oresund bridge, only something similar, inspirational.

Another interesting piece is the Hardanger in Norway: https://en.wikipedia...ardanger_Bridge
It's a very interesting suspension bridge with a nonlinear (well, in Duke language) tunnel systems around.