Maybe. Have to ask slin. I am just making the models/textures... without slin this would be impossible for me to do. He is the one who makes the level look good - I am just constructing the geometry/textures
JUST making models/textures... You have no idea how many people around here are dying to know how to make this kinda stuff but yes, without the shader it would give a totally different feel (not nescesarily bad though).
great job, but it sounds like you can indeed do with less polygons, for example, chamfering everything makes no sense, the engine supports no edge normal data, so all edges get smoothed out anyway, keep that in mind
Maybe. Have to ask slin. I am just making the models/textures... without slin this would be impossible for me to do. He is the one who makes the level look good - I am just constructing the geometry/textures 
