引用自 Pomf Action Rifle =3：

I've never even considered someone actually trying to slide down these structures. Guess the 3D sky transition turned out a little too seamless - except for fugly seams in lightmaps which i didn't have time to weed out.

Don't be surprised by lack of detail and rushed texturing in the arena part of the map. Due to contest timeframe I ended up spending only 6 days on this area. And then I rested at the seventh day.

How did this happen? Well, for once I got overzealous with dat glorious 2D skybox and took too much time rendering it in full detail - 15 days of back-to-back rendering. And then there was the part with original Dust plant, shaping sandstorm with displacements (thx Valve for broken per-map particle support), simulating rope physics with train entities, animating camera movements, yadda yadda.

Now, I don't quite understand what's the visual issue with the sun (Earth's inner core, in fact) hanging where it's at. You seem to be confused about shadows cast by it (or are you?), could you please elaborate?

I've considered baking some faraway city areas into 2D skybox, but then connecting playable arena seamlessly to the rest of the city geometry would be more tricky - and more time-consuming.

I don't really think I'll be fixing or expanding this level in the future. Source has been increasingly pissing me off with its absurd ancient limits, inconsistency among engine versions of various games, various broken features that volvo never bothers to fix and general backwardness (per-vertex prop lighting, lackluster scripting support, inability to design your own shaders, 32-bit toolchain, you name it).

I'll be moving on to UT4 instead. Never played them UT series games, but people keep saying I tend to make Unreal-style stuff. Who knows, maybe my grim megalomaniac impulses will be right at home.

引用自 Reynolds Recon：

Also the reason why the sun threw me off is I didn't know it was suppose to be the earth's inner core, Scientifically it's actually impossible to see the earth's inner core because it is scientifically proven that it gets too hot trying to cut through the mantle and even if it made it through without being burned alive, any individual or object traveling downwards would be crushed on impact.

http://imgur.com/a/g4Abh
But take a look at the sun, I would have never guess in a million years it was the center core because that's not what the core looks like from the inside of the earth (the continents are not skybound and although there is a Sub ocean, there is a lot of land you have to traverse before you can get beneath the ocean.
I honestly thought that you traveled through a wormhole and got shot into space, which also confused the hell out of me because there were roads, on a city, in which I thought was space.

引用自 Reynolds Recon：

However, I never had these issues you're having to the source engine and I honestly think you're moving to UT4 for all the wrong reasons.

I've used source sdk since half life 2 and even messed around with the older valve hammer editor, but do you really think that the hammer editor is consistent or you're not realizing you're using a version for a specific game and not creating your own mod for the source engine, when you actually create your own mod it's you're game, the features you want in the engine are yours.
Valve doesn't fix most of the scripts for their games because they were not meant for that game specifically. Especially scripting, You realize valve has not made a single player game since 2011. to put it blunt, Everything is there for a reason and if it doesn't work it's because it's not meant to be used, remember the ray tracing lighting feature in the orange box source sdk? or the other features in the portal 2 sdk? they aren't in the CSGO sdk because they are not made for that version. Better off creating your own mod or limiting your imagination (Get source SDK compatable with GMOD) so people better understand your purposes or reasons.

引用自 Pomf Action Rifle =3：

I have no complaints about versions of Hammer editor per se. My issue lies with how dispersed and inconsistent Valve's approach to improving & fixing Source engine versions has been.

Take prop lighting for instance: After quite some time of all the versions being stuck with early 2000s-style per-vertex lighting, they've finally bothered themselves to implement lightmap support for props in TF2 branch. Still no signs of the same tech in any other version, even though such functionality was considered basic in other modern engines.

And you're absolutely right in that whenever you wanted to see any advanced features in the game (lets say, ones requiring programming custom logic), for a long time you've been stuck with the one and only option of making your own mod. Per-level variations? Forget it. Scripting support has only been added with L4D2, and to this day it remains absurdly shallow. For Christ's sake, you can't even read a value of a console variable or hook a game event.

And then there's broken per-level particle support, partially broken custom sound support (have to include them into .bsp, they won't play otherwise), obsolete code in trains & other moving entities that often causes player to get stuck if they're not moving in a perfectly horizontal path (hello Qphysics), rather limited shader customization options, do I need to name more?

I mean, I can deal with all these issues. I can work around them. I just don't understand why I have to.