cs_sarajevo testing

I have just tested this map, and it is amazingly detailed!
I enjoyed playing it because it reminds me of places where ive been, the hallways the buildings.

If i could give this map more than 5 stars i would.
I love how everything looks so detailed, the windows, the terraces, the wires on the wall.
There are some errors, for example:

Blue pixels on wood planks that are used as window blockage
The train is a bit too small
The models aren't solid (use clip)
Some places have textures that are too stretched, but i guess that will be blocked off even further before you can see em.

The map looks amazing and i cant wait to see it finished!

Thanks,

I've spent so many hours just taking pictures in that part of town (place where I grow up if you see that apartment building behind the yellow building that was my flat on 4th floor before we were evicted from flat by force in the war by the bosnian army).
Even they banned me for some time in that yellow post-office building for taking too many pictures inside, they've must be thinking I was a hijacker or something..

Everything you see in a map can be and will be subject of change because this is still beta

Looks amazing!! =)

First i should mention i had to shorten your filenames in order for the maps to work in wonHL, just to let you know.

sarajevo-big-no-rad and MDL-test
These maps look utterly amazing. I can literally think of nothing to make it look better after running through it quick, except that the skybox is a distraction, because the corners aren't properly blended, so they are visible. Also perhaps, if you played with the water, you could make it a little more realistic, but that's not a huge deal at all. I've seen [url=]Soup Miner[/url] pull off some really amazing water in GoldSrc (maybe pm him for some ideas if you're interested).

sarajevo-posta-baza
Looks as realistic and as good as you can get in goldsrc, and better than many source maps i've seen for that matter... Truely impressive stuff!

sarajevo-hint-exp
As with the rest of the maps, truly amazing stuff. The only thing i can think to improve is replace the decal parking stripes with brushwork stripes. they don't look quite as fresh as the decals, but they won't give you that unnatural blur effect as you walk toward them. (pm me if you want some tips on the parking stripes)

Superb stuff, truly top-notch mapping!
*****

Thanks, you are right about the filenames i should have shorten them, but they are working with these names in my hlwon so I thought there is no need to rename them..

Map is really getting bigger... I don't know what are the goldsrc limitations in brush or entity number.. it seems i'll be working on this until some badass compile error comes up.. maybe error is already present as i haven't tried the whole big map to compile in vis and rad.

These errors you see like skybox, unfinished stuff ... are byproduct of rapid simultaneous work on every part, just to get closer to the final stages of the map and to deal with these compile errors as soon as possible.

Yes, water could have been better but maybe it is the brush underneath the water with texture scale +10x that spoils the overall look.
As you said maybe i will pm Soup Miner,i very much admire his work.

What about the parking stripes, as i recall it i don't think i've put any parking decals? Where exactly did you see them?

the parking stripe infodecals are in the sarajevo-hint-exp map. you can tell what i mean by how they fade strangely if you walk backward away from them. This is not a huge deal in any way, i just feel brushwork stripes work better for long visual stretches.

Oh you mean the street stripes? Yes it would look much better with 1 unit thin func_illusionary brush work but then I couldn't stop on never ending detailing..

Had the chance to play the beta and fell in love with it. I sure hope that one day you will come back, see this comment and re-upload this testing version

The download is dead and apparently, 0rth0doX doesn't have this version anymore. We only have the beta version:

I got in contact with the original author He sent me everything from testing. Sadly, as he said, it's not the complete map, it's mutliple maps with certain parts of it as it was impossible to compile back then. I tried talking to a guy who compiles maps but he didn't have the time. Don't know will we ever see this amazing piece of work in full spirit.