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Finals are over so I will have time to work on this project again, and hopefully have a beta on the High Times server in a week or two. I know some people were left in a state of “WTF?” when update reports suddenly stopped. I’ll be sure to let you guys know before hand next time if there is going to be a lull in updates.

The mini-town from the original de_survivor will be making its come back, but this time more in the fashion of a small cabin mountain village. Very early WIP shot below…

Some shots from in-game. That is the old snow texture in these screenshots, but the issue of pure whiteness needs to be evened out.

The plane bomb site looks like its going to take me a few days to get into beta-worthy quality by itself. It is especially difficult to keep the important angles in this area consistent with the DEV version while trying to make it look somewhat like a realistic plane crash site. More updates coming as it progresses.

After many hours of dragging untextured boxes around, I finally have the plane bombsite ready to be terrain-ized.

I added some details in and around the canyon including a low lying fog there to give at least a little cover to the players on the bottom. Also made the make-shift road block stopping the CT convoy (truck bombsite) from advancing.

I did some modifications to the big cliff texture from HL2, and it’s working out pretty nice. I also did some more work adding terrain and the path from T spawn to raven is nearly done.

This CSS map is a remake of the classic original Counter-Strike map de_survivor. This is the 2nd map being made exclusively for the [DoP] High Times servers.


As with dade_vegas_css, this map’s layout and angles will be very close to the original’s. The biggest difference comes from the Source engine special effects and resource. For that reason, it is very important to keep the base frame rate as high as possible so there is enough leeway to add some expensive effects. In addition to the normal light flairs and fog effects, wind storms and snow effects are planned for certain areas of the map.


I am currently in the process of going through the map and changing the dev textured brushes into displacements.