Hey folks, I'd like to share a few work in progress screenshots before I log off to gather a few opinions on. Basically this is a small street section that leads to your objective (the main level area will be an abandoned industrial loading dock). Adding these more sprawling levels is now very possible at high performance because the damn occlusion culling seems to work well now with a little manual tampering. The area is mostly desolate with lower class apartment complexes, abandoned structures and a few small businesses still going strong. There is also a bar the player can enter to talk to a local or 2 and maybe find out some info as the actual loading dock can be infiltrated via 2 routes. One involving hacking, the other climbing the rooftops. I have a working ladder system to make these things less platformy too. While thematically its very reserved and concrete laden (a run down area like that can't exactly have a lot of NPCs and vehicles buzzing about a neon lit landscape) I think the oppressive atmosphere I went for already kinda shows.

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Loading docks are the part of the level that will see fire fights and are thus simpler in geometry. Mainly so the occlusion culling makes sure it runs on weaker systems well enough for the gunplay not to end in a lag fest. Up next for this map will be populating the streets and bar that I have shown last time with NPC's. In fact, there where several choices for this that I played around with and I think I found a happy medium. The tough part will be making the dialogue system I have planned. More on that at a later date though. Sound will be easy to do for this as I have a lot of city and ocean sounds. Duke229 also allowed me to use one of his splendid compositions for the bar music. Another cosmetic thing that I need to attend to is adjusting the style of the industrial buildings to go better with the run-down foreground.