Gnostaria WIP4

This is one crazy level build, it has caves, ruins, woods, two villages, docks, bridges, inns, a complete town etc.. You can enter all the structures, some have multiple floors, you can even access and patrol the town wall, its a very busy level. Getting all the interiors of the town to play nicely was a challenge but it is pretty good performance considering.

I avoided structural brushes and portals basically because it murder/death/kills the frame rate when your standing out in the street of the town, I could not afford to let map2diff slice and dice the geometry so it is pure detail brushwork and not a single portal. Proper optimizing of the brushwork when building was the order of the day hiding, chalking, mitring and the major saver was sneaky LOD's and some cool code from Matt that took the performance hit out of the water shader.

Santa would be happy to know some buildings in this level have good old chimneys so he can unload his big fat sack all over the place, well he does only come once a year, haha

Thanks to Matt again for letting me post this work and be sure to check out Gnostaria, it is shaping up nicely... www.gnostaria.com/

If you need any level work doing or general game art stuffage, drop me a mail (paying gigs only)