Sector Gamma - screenshots Created 20 years ago2004-04-21 05:39:43 UTC by Captain P

Sector Gamma is a HLDM map based on the Chernobyl reactor. 18 years ago now the reactor had a melt-down, resulting in a grave disaster.

I have decided to use only self-made textures for this map. Some of the screenshots still show HL or CS textures. These are still to be replaced.

Enough talking, here are the screenshots:

http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/gamma_outside_1.jpg

http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/gamma_outside_2.jpg

http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/gamma_outside_3.jpg

http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/gamma_inside_3.jpg

Wow, that's excellent! They look very realistic.

Perhaps a dedication to all the people who lost their lives would be in order somewhere in the map.

Perhaps a dedication to all the people who lost their lives would be in order somewhere in the map.

Yes... that should be good. Reports of deaths range from 300 to 300.000. Some people even say around 400.000 died... What happened there was horrible... It happened a few days after I was born.

Looks very good - the textures seem alittle repetetive though, but im not saying i could do better

Nice looking map. Btw, what resolution are you using?

I use 1600x1200, and I resize the screenshots 50 % in paint. Gives some sharpening effect sometimes...

Textures are indeed somewhat repetitive here and there, and maybe too clean for the theme too. I know that. I'm working on it. Some decals may break the repetitiveness of the textures a bit, I guess...

Paint!? Why?

If you know a better program to rescale my screenshots...

Then I'm interested...

Paint Shop Pro. Very nice map btw

Woh... those textures r krazy real! Thats almost real!!!

I created most of them while having a magazine full of STALKER screenshots beside me... tweaking them until I found they resembled very close.

Thanks... such comments make me happy

Thats the name of that Chernobyl game..! I had forgotten it

The textures kinda remind me of Max Payne..(compliment )

Use Photoshop

Ghe... I don't even have Photoshop...

For the textures, I used Paint, Wally, Paint Shop Pro 6 and IPhoto Plus 4. I should definitely get Photoshop... I've heard a lot about it...

OMG!!! Nice map!!!!!! Very realistic as well. Look forward to playing it!

finaly some working screens. in the forum they dindt work

How did you make those cliffs and the textures and...and...and... DAMN GOOD!!!

The cliff textures come from de_piranesi, from CS. So do the grass textures. Some conrete textures form Half-Life can still be seen on the tallest buildings, but all other textures are mine.

The way I work, is to cover the main shapes and geometry with already existing textures, and replace them later when I made specific textures for the map.

I appreciate the comments. Certain things will have to be changed before the release, I agree. The process is at approx. 60% now.

Outside still needs a lot of texture work: on the crete loading grounds (the 'tanks' are train waggons, I'll add the wheels later), on the grass (wich is still a temporary texture taken from CS, I'll make a train track texture) an on the tallest buildings (the one furthest away from the player in the first screenshot).

The inside texture is more of a test area. The real inside will be a little different... much more following the actual shape of the buildings.

The textures are indeed too monotonous, especially on the large buildings. Needs some reworking. I'll think about it. I'm gonna try to do some detail things with masked textures, see if that works. It won't get noticed (I hope) that quick since you'll never be really close to the large buildings.

The plant is in the Ukraine. I know. Some 100 km north of Kiev. I did some reading about it, as well as some photo-gathering on the internet.

great - keep mapping and keep us up to date so we can tell you some more things to change

That looks great!

I think that we all could learn a thing or two too make our maps look good by screenshots lol

A new screenshot of the outside:

http://www.websamba.com/captainp-home/custom/sectorg_2.jpg

I made a new texture for the reactor hull. It's not perfect yet, I'll still have to do some work on it. Other textures (for the rails and the rocks) are still to be done.

I reckon the building farthest on the right looked better with the old texture... only my opinion though.

It still has the same texture... or do you mean the tower-alike structure?

Looks better now.

the link doesnt work now

The one in front of the cylinder, with the tilted wall with indents in:

oh yeah. I see that. hes right.

Yep. That texture needs some work still. It's too blue. But hey, check the real reactor:

http://www.angelfire.com/extreme4/kiddofspeed/image10.3.jpg

Pretty bleuish too isn't it?

The grey buildings need to be a little more white, as you can see...

Why buy photoshop or paintshop pro when you can download full versions 4 free? (uho, ive said to much!) i gotta go!!

Can't wait to play this.