This is something that has annoyed me right from the beginning when I started playing Dust in June last year. There are almost zero indoor places on all the maps in Dust. The only ones I can think of are two small rooms in the communications outpost, and the little bunker that is part of some of the small socket infrastructure, usually only found inside the red zone.

I'm posting this in the 'Outposts' section, but I'm talking about all the level geometry in general here. There are so many buildings, towers, warehouses and what not on the maps, and almost all of them are just solid blocks. I can walk around them and at best climb on top of them. But why is there never a door in them? Why can't I go inside them, shoot on someone outside through the window. Why can't I enter a building at the front and leave it through the back door, instead of just going around it without any cover from snipers and tanks? Why are there no stairs leading to the roof from inside? Why are no stairs leading to elevated platforms on all of those towers?

The lack of interior space can make the maps quite dull to play for me. Especially on the large maps with many sockets, all I do is running over plain, open terrain and around the corners of large, solid objects. Dear level designers, maybe you could address this in future iterations of the level geometry? It would be much appreciated

btw here is how I would handle it

Make 4 texture sets. One for each race. Inside each building of each race can just use the same texture set. You can make endless different interiors with 2-3 maps per race, and yet still give enough tools to the artists to make an endless number of rooms without increasing the memory toll.

Way ahead of you. =)

This is due to our memory budget. When we begin to add lights and shadows, more textures, etc it adds up. We recently found a new way of working with textures that should help alleviate the lack of interiors, but it wont be highly significant. That isn't to imply there will be less interiors. We already are working on areas that have some more interiors, or feel like they are interiors.

and besides if you little infantry men went inside buildings us tankers wouldnt be able to gun you down

and besides if you little infantry men went inside buildings us tankers wouldnt be able to gun you down

RIGHT! that would be the balance for tanks. You can't use them to take points if they are indoors.

RIGHT! that would be the balance for tanks. You can't use them to take points if they are indoors.

Still doesn't help dropships against tanks. Plus, LAVs and HAVs can go in the warehouse pyramid thing and dropships can't.

btw here is how I would handle it

Make 4 texture sets. One for each race. Inside each building of each race can just use the same texture set. You can make endless different interiors with 2-3 texture maps per race, and yet still give enough tools to the artists to make an endless number of rooms without increasing the memory load.