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Realistic Riverden

Here's another map with CSM support, realistic lighting, and ultra-high res 512x512 cubemaps.


The cubemaps increased the map's file size by about 9-10x. Was it a good idea? No. Does it look awesome? Heck yeah!

I couldn't increase the lightmap resolution for the interiors without getting messed up results, sorry. I will see if I can further optimize the map at some point.

File name: rp_riverden_v1a_csm

• Full CSM support
  
• StormFox support
  
• 512x512 cubemaps for both HDR and LDR (they're really heavy on map size; resolution is planned to be reduced to 256x256 in the future)
  
• Navmesh (not optimized)
  
• AI nodes (auto generated, with a few midair links removed)
  
• Adjusted lighting to be more accurate to the real world (ambient lighting is also based on sky color)
  
• light_environment sunlight direction matches env_sun's
  
• Realistic custom sky
  
• RTT shadows have a high casting distance and are a neutral gray color for CSM blobby shadows (RGB 128, 128, 128)
  
• HD compressed map icon (JPG renamed to PNG file extension)
  
• env_wind
  
• A sun that doesn't have an unrealistic overlay that magically shows up when you look at it (the overlay still exists, but it's much smaller)
  
• More realistic sun position while trying to stay close to the one in the original map
  
• Custom tonemapping
  
• VMF included! See "How to get the VMF" below if you don't know how to get it.

• Wrong cubemaps on many world brushes (interior reflections on exterior surfaces)
  
• Navmesh isn't optimized
  
• AI nodes probably suck a lot
  
• Some world brushes have weird/smoothed normals, causing reflections to be warped
  
• A low res cubemap can be seen on some buildings (I missed changing the resolution of an env_cubemap)
  
• Sun is in a different position in the cubemaps?
  
• Sun position isn't physically accurate
  
• Your game can crash when noclipping outside the map and looking towards the city. Avoid noclipping outside of the map when using CSM.

• Tried to fix (some) wrong cubemaps
  
• Add a water_lod_control
  
• Reduce cubemap resolutions to 256x256
  
• Added clouds
  
• A tiny bit of lightmap optimization
  
• Removed sun overlay
  
• Tweaked env_wind values
  
• Fixed lighting on some quarry stones
  
• Added lightmaps to some static props
  
• Fixed some lights casting endlessly
  
• Moved some lights closer to their model/texture
  
• Adjusted sunlight color to be more orange
  
• Increased sun sprite intensity

• Make doors not auto-close
  
• Try to fix wrong cubemaps
  
• Move spawnpoints to the hospital
  
• Add a water_lod_control
  
• Pack content into the addon (not into the map due to the game writing to the map.pack file on each load; I would prefer not having so much data being written to that file)
  
• Reduce cubemap resolutions to 256x256
  
• Remove LDR support for file size reasons
  
• Remove the sun overlay
  
• More physically accurate sun position
  
• Attempt to optimize the map (vertex count and possibly rendering in-game)
  
• Fix smoothing groups on brushes
  
• Fix up the navmesh
  
• Remove mipmap limits on the cubemaps to help reduce aliasing

Extract the vmt file located in materials/mapsrc from the addon and remove the vmt extension, so it becomes a vmf file.

• Steinman: Original Riverden map
  
• Navmesh and AI nodes from this addon