de_manor

+ Nice Architecture, looks lovely

+ Great layout!

+ Nice endless sand skybox, please tell me how to do that

+ Decent texturing

- Only one cubemap, and you forgot to build it.

- The map is in SERIOUS need of optimization, it would be laggy as hell online - pretty much all the map is being drawn at all times. And the showbudget has some bars off the scale quite a lot.

4/5

Very good map, but needs optimization. I bet it took awhile to compile!!

You don't really NEED more cubemaps as none of your map contains reflective surfaces. But if you ever make a map with reflective surfaces, it will look bad if you only have one cubemap in it.....just advice for the future.

Well done.

Oops I made a mistake, there is one reflective floor, that's how I noticed the cubemaps were'n't built.

Ouch sorry - I forgot to build them I will update it in 5 min , sorry again

Okay, now should be fine, and about that how to make this terrain - it's easier than you think. Take a look :

http://forum.interlopers.net/viewtopic.php?t=1839

Here is another link , where you can download this file. To do that, click on the link, then select "free" option, and wait around 20 sec

http://rapidshare.de/files/3640381/de_manor.zip.html

Cubemaps are used in Source mapping. They allow reflective surfaces and models to have the correct lighting effect. Otherwise, the models and the reflective surfaces just use the default skybox texture to reflect light instead of the lighting around them. This can look very ugly in some circumstances.

woah...i hope i cant make map good like you