What do you make of this? ;]

[Blue-ninja]

What do you make of this? A new soldat map, probably. But I just want to hear what you say.

[Keron Cyst]

The fires and smoke and face don't match at all with the rest of the map, and the polygons are all dark while there is supposed to be a lot of light in the area; divide them and light them up accordingly as well. I also don't understand the white lines at the ends of each boulder's edge; what's with them having shade right at the edge, then a white streak, then the full shadow again?

It's a nice lighting effect, but I much prefer rainrider's job with htf_SuperPants.

[iDante]

yes if you want a good use of this kind of light look at htf_superpants. Or that one map by xTender, with like the cars and the splosion or summat like that. it's in cyst's map comilation.

Really I don't care if you have a nice light effect as long as game play is good.

[SirJamesaford]

I like it for a TDM or a DM...looks like if there were like 8ish people then it would play really well.

[Blue-ninja]

It's not a map.

It's a sort of a story here. You can see there's a soldat in the crater, and there's smoke leading up to the demon inside him. The streaming effects are heat, since all demons are from hell, the eternally burning place.

Oh, and the misplace shadows, I didn't notice the faint black lines until I changed the background to white and took a screenshot of it.

[Keron Cyst]

Oh. I couldn't tell that there was a soldat at all...

[Radical Terrorist]

Must've been one hell of an exorcism if the soldat blew apart in the process...

[Funkyguts]

XD Take out the glowing eyes...

[The Specialist]

The appearance of the map affects the gameplay as well the map itself.  A good map needs good appearance and a good layout, so it'll have good gameplay.

The map itself looks interesting.  But like what Keron said, the lighting effects do not match the map at all.  I like the red glowing eyes in the center of the map.  It looks scary.

[ChromedGun]

It's not a map.