https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280535962/B287E343236CE3134FE6D385E1ACE1FAC2C89806/
I started working on this map in early 2017 by just starting out with the Sears Tower ( Just to see how it would look in Source) Then after making well over a 100 different maps, random stuff. I remembered this and began working out a city. I know that Chicago streets are in a grid so it would be easy to map out. All I had to do now is try to use up all the map that I can with the power of the Source Engine. This map will have lots of stuff from real Chicago, somethings that only Chicagoans know, and some things that any one can figure out. It will have the city, the project houses, baseball fields, parks, parking lots, suburbs, school, fire station, police, industrial areas, easter eggs, and yea
oh and i also plan on making underground tunnels and stuff
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280248572/0C91A1E947000B18150E6CE4524E64E62D1EDB23/
The Library
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280244925/13215C899BF5304388D6C1658C43663F77FBED92/
This Indian Guy that will hold a sign that will read " I CAN SEE NOW "
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280242973/6272CCCD7E781F7256DE8F7548C337A0C6B580E7/
Chinatown
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280242673/9D565A46C9BD6E33F97FB91F203215A5ECFF1CC1/
Hotdog place
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280250456/AC152B1640D949B670EAA56EBEE9042D862348D8/
One of the bridges, trying to figure out how to make it open and close.
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280251542/1E2F10AFE1EBD5D4E6BD3B15090447117DEDAAD0/
Wrigleyville I know I didnt add the ivy yet don't kill me
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280244342/904BAEEB4DDA282E6BC7F3094CA6F6327A4141F4/
Watertower those buildings on the left I'm still working on, maybe parking lot and change textures, same with that one building on the right
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280248916/2A4A580925984A2690903EB31287EB0D38FEC281/
The exact height on the 103rd floor of sears tower
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280243303/2706B31CBD4D993D5B35D68070AAB5DA8C5161BC/
Real life Aldi
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/963103679280250871/0AC2958F3E19DFE8450A3EE5F62A84141B6B8A17/
Would recommend that you align the textures of the building facades, as well as adding trim textures to buildings. Also rounded street corners, street lights and traffic lights, roads textured with dashed lines and an 8 unit trim added to the curb would go a long way.
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/132851/c1b01c6e-25e6-41d7-9807-5359ba04ecc5/image.png
Any way I can reduce the amount of vertexes. I tried modelling the Chinatown Gate, bridges, highway signs, billboards, etc. And it only turns one block of the group into a model, so I only have a piece of the Chinatown gate as a model. Instead of the whole thing. Is there any tutorial for this, I can't seem to find any. Everyone seems to think that I want to build character models, and guns.
Are you using Propper?
If not, it would be a fair solution for the geometry you're trying to deal with instead of working from scratch in a modelling package.
Sorry dude but its a trush
Well it's one of my first maps/and is a WIP, so please, I get it, but come on. All of those pictures were early work.
Anyways aside from all the reoccurring negativity, here's a positive note. I got rid of that horrible suburb that everyone seemed to hate
https://steamuserimages-a.akamaihd.net/ugc/966483288115647334/EF0EBE8FD76A277EE84003030EF3E9DD0BA110B4/
Well you did state that "after making well over a 100 different maps" in your post; regardless, don't give up. I recommend studying more photos and other users maps.
These were one of my early works, I'm just trying to get it done because I already put alot of effort in it.
I made this, its of the Southeast National Bank that once stood at 1174 E 63rd and Woodlawn. Still kind of working on the small details.
https://sketchfab.com/models/bc862aa03a2d4893afbee2d58a0fef17
i still have the missing textures they are from a leak pack no worries
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/350531/fbf97e59-e935-4962-a4ee-da9b0e13eee7/20190515184142_1.jpg
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/350531/6cc1aa1a-2aad-4fa0-8792-6f36aed43ee9/20190515140519_1.jpg
