[Mapping] Making a transition of wall/floor/ceiling textures not look like crap?

[Konda]

During my mapping sessions I often have to deal with the problem of joining 2 rooms with different textures without making the sudden change of textures look bad:
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I usually solve this problem by adding a 16x64 (or 16x128) texture such as lights, DOORTRAK, or some metal texture in between:
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It may not look very impressive now, but it gets the job done and ends up looking better once I do some work in both of the rooms since I've just created them recently.

What I'd like to know is if there are some other interesting ways to solve this problem, that I'm not aware of. Other than putting doors, obviously.

[Guardsoul]

I usually make a 90 degrees transition with perpendicular angles like here:
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So the architecture changes like this:

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[agaures]

Guardsoul pls

This really is subjective though. My advice is look at other maps and see how other's do it.

[Guardsoul]

Guardsoul pls

This really is subjective though. My advice is look at other maps and see how other's do it.

He asked for new ways to do that so... I just posted one of the methods I use.

[Arctangent]

I personally find that doors, doorframes, and changes in floor or ceiling height to be good ways to solve this issue.

[IdeIdoom]

There is a method I used for one of my maps, here we go:
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It's better for hell-ish maps where you can spread the SKIN texture or the hellrock texture better.

[Ænima]

I usually make a 90 degrees transition with perpendicular angles like here:
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So the architecture changes like this:

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This is pretty much what I do too. It makes things look less flat than just sticking a DOORTRAK or light texture between two different textures and it creates the illusion that there are multiple building materials used to construct that environment, instead of having the walls just look like a mural with different textures painted on.

I think Essel also mentioned something about using the "edges" or dark lines within a texture as the edge of an overhang or other architecture, that also helps with immersion. (See the light grey N_* texture in the upper left corner of Guard's shot.)