#csgo workshop

made a map for counter strike

I've spent a while now learning hammer and the source 2 editor and feel like im at the point with this project to publish and start getting public feedback. It's a simple layout for wingman, with the gimmick of conveyor belts around the map which mess with timings and prevent staying in certain corners.

I'm slowly working on adding more and more detail. I was having trouble for a few weeks with compile errors (needed to change windows registry keys) so that set me back a long time. This part takes a while since I'm still not sure exactly what I want in place and have to dig through part to find what can fit where. I could also start building textures and models myself, but I really dont want to.

Any feedback/criticism/ideas will be considered currently

AWP | Charcoal

Recolor of my 'hardwood' design with a few tweeks to make it look a bit more like charcoal. This was mostly done to test out roughness and ambient occlusion maps in cs2 and see what can be done with them.

Standard normal mapping was done on this as well. Nothing special with it except for the fact that I have to boost the strength of it before baking and using in cs2.

I like the roughness map because it lets certain parts shine. For this skin I have the darker parts running through the skin shiny, it gives certain parts of the skin something more to do and makes it look better in direct light.

I still have no idea what ambient occlusion maps do. I would assume its a way to darken parts of the skin in light, but I didn't see much of a different. So either it's not fully implemented yet or I'm doing something wrong (we all know the answer).

Also... the nodes.

I'm back to making skins.

I got into the CS2 beta in that first big wave. After a few days of playing (it feels good) I realized that workshop tools are released. It took a little bit to understand the new workflow, but I think I have it nailed down at this point.

The lighting just looks way better so any skin looks better. CS2 also supports higher quality textures which helps as well. The biggest addition though is a roughness map. The roughness map affects how light shines off the weapon. Before this was constant across the entire texture, but now with it as its own texture.

I've kinda had an idea for this skin for a while. Only now with the cs2 tools being released did I finally solve some important problems to get it looking better. It still has a lot of problems whough. It's far too yellow when it should be more red, and I need to figure out a way to get some greys into the texture that look good. The design is based off of charcoal and right now it looks nothing like charcoal.

I also need a name, but that is always a problem with whatever I make. Any sugestions is always appreciated.

USP-S | Cosmos (Updated)

Finally got this stuff done. I have starter python scripts for this update since september, but the orignal design come from far before that.

The constellations are procedrual. There's some recent posts about building the code to allow this to happen. Under that is some stars and noise that I was also able to refine with data that I found.

There's still a few small things that need to be fixed. Textures should be tileable (left side to right side and top to bottom should be seemless), but this one isnt. I need to do a couple things in order to tile the image.

mp5 | Cinder

Top is what the texture should look like, bottom is what it looks like in cs2. I kind of blame lighting, but I also blame cs2 for unsaturating a lot of the deeper colors.

At this point I think I'm gonna start redoing a lot of my old skins. There's definitley a few that I can redo to abuse the new cs2 tools.

Belts. Wingman map for Counter Strike using conveyor belts.

This map has been done since like October, but I've been too lazy to push the publish button. Overall this map still needs so much polish to bring it up to other community maps which I cant do. A few custom assets were made like signs and flags.

video and workshop link:

Just a cool worm driving over the speed limit in his sweet ride.

Initially made in clip studio, then brought into blender, then back to clip studio. I really need a better workflow