This is a view of the current level I am designing in Max. This is not in game. It will be exported once it is finished. I am very unhappy with the material around the doos so if anyone has a suggestion I'm all ears. Crits welcome.

*Updated* Here is the latest render with all of your suggestions incorporated. Thanks for the advice everyone. The encouragement has really got me pushing the limits. What do you think so far?

From what I can see I like it.

I think the ceiling looks a little too clean though.

Thanks. Needless to say the rendered scene looks good. Once I export it and import it into WED it looks bad, the textures get washed out for some reason. I've been wondering why. Anyone have any ideas?

The textures are blurry, there is no deeper details and it lacks life.

I'm sure that there's lot to improve!

I like it, gives me feeling of the old PSx games

What sort of details are you talking about? You mean like furniture and stuff. That's still in the works right now. This is just the basic floor layout. I'm working on props even now. I plan on using this in my portfolio i am putting together. Once it's finished I'll probably donate it and all assets to the community. I'm sure someone can use it.

lighting is the key to success. don't set the game time to midnight, but in the late evening, where the sun is low and orange-red. add light beams, dust, dirt, shadows from the window frames, furniture, pictures/dirty squares where the pictures would have been, add destruction to walls and ceilings and get some tiles out of the floor.

there's several things to make it look more "realistic".

first of all, when you can waste some more polies, try rounding the edes of the pillars, maybe cut away some bits too in that...

now the textures/materials:
The doorpost looks incorrect, change that to something that fits the environment (search google for reference pictures).
Another very important thing missing there is blending of the textures, if you look at the floor for example, good image, wall, good image, together.. too blend.
Try making the wall texture look more worn, you can see a hard edge on the bottom, towards the floor, try blending the texture with a dirt mask towards the ground...
If you wanna add some cool new effect, make dirt sprites and randomly place them over the ground, makes the ground look different as well, and in general look a bit more interesting.
and as said, the ceiling looks waaaaaaaaay too clean!

without bragging about my own skills, because they are far from great, you can still search for the sewer textures i once made, see what i mean with the added dirt everywhere.

regards,

for some reason imageshack doesn't show it to me... anyway it's a cool idea for a creepy level, i really liked asylum in Painkiller, you may use it as a reference

Something else I've noticed is that the scale of the ceiling texture seems a bit too big. Also as said the door post texture seems a bit odd.

So far so good though.

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