Your level looks nice.
But please, please, please, please, please do not use flat sprites for your chain model.
Nowadays graphics cards can render millions of polygons.

Some years ago I made a chain model for a drawbridge.
A chain model with 20 links only needs 1120 polygons, but looks much better than a flat chain.

@Harry_Potter
Yes fully modeled chains looks much better but this will be to highpoly in my opinion.
i need 2x 20 chainlinks = 2240 tris + the rest of the model.
This is to much... the whole jail just have 5000 tris.

btw:


regards Sebastian

actually, I´d just go with modeled chains if it just means like 5-10k more polygons in your level, as without it looks soo 2000 like

lacks of contrast. maybe add straw in the cells?

this screen was not designed by rvL_eXile
was just me trying to get a little closer to his design art, but i think i didn't got it right

but shadowmapping now works with one light

Well.. actually a lot of professional games use sprites for chains up until today. And since the project of rvl_eXile is supposed to be some sort of horror game there'll always be some light only. So I think to go with sprites is the right decision to save some performance for dynamic lighting and stuff. I won't go for high end visuals just because there are graphics cards which can handle that amount of polygons.

Cheers
Roxas

Or just add an option for model detail so users can decide if they want high end models or just the ones with sprites

Another chain option: Use LOD, in close distance you can use the highpoly version.

okay okay