First, thanks Mike for the comment!

if i have any critique, it would be that you've put too much into the scene

Hmm, I wanted more complex model. I want to look more interesting.

how long does it take to load...

This model gots over 20000 faces so loading time is "normal" but not verry long.

are those shadows 3DRAD  or lightmapped...

The shadows are lightmap because I saw it more efficient than the volumetric. First, in Gile(s) I can add more point lights and then the lightmap will be illuminated with these point lights. I'll add point lights in 3D rad but they will be rendered only by the cars to simulate really that there is light source. Second, the volumetric shadows want "closed hulls". In large models like mine it's a little bit hard to "close" everything. For slower computers there will be option that disables the shadows and light sources.

one more thing... at first blush, this looks like a good run around FPS type level than a car thing to me

... I chose cars because it's little bit unique and more fun. Also if it is FPS it will be a little bit difficult to make splitscreen multiplayer game because the keys are limited. And the roads are specified for cars, I mean they are 10m wide.

Thanks, Mike. The cars will have volumetric shadows but I will try to make for them soft shadows. The only lag is when a car goes to shadowed zone it still casts shadow. But I will try ro make something for this problem.

The model will be updated soon. If you are interested you will see more of it 

This is my project I'm working on - CarBattle NuclearPowerPlant. Sorry for no video or test project, but I'm still in the beginning. Here are some pictures.

The game is for two players on splitscreen only. For future I plan to make single player and LAN Multiplayer. Two customly selected cars are fighting on specified terrain(in this version - Nuclear Power Plant). The main purpose is to destroy the opponent's car.

The game will include:
  - SplitScreen Multiplayer;
  - Setting for quality of textures;
  - Setting for quality of particles;
  - Setting for density of particles;
  - Setting for bloom effect enable/disable;
  - High quality textures and particles;
  - Cars from 3D Warehouse (for now);
  - Two authorized soundtracks;
  - Interactive sounds;
  - Soft-body physics(http://www.3drad.com/forum/index.php?topic=10697.0);
  - Interactive weapons;
  - Elevator and door systems;
  - Extras and much more...

I think that I post it a little bit early, but I want to see what you think as idea.

all I have to say with those screenshot with that level design is...

thats all I can say while keeping my composure.

Thanks, dogtorque. Now the model is over 25000, but it will be separated to more parts because every part will have it's own shader(for example: metal, brick, concrete, grass, track...).

DDS? My dds convertor is a little bit laggy, and wants squared textures. But I've added a graphical option that will control the quality of textures.

LOW - 128p
MEDIUM - 256p
HIGH - 512p
MAX - may reach 4096p, Original size (recommended ONLY for very high end video cards).

Most of the textures are in .jpg format because it's more flexible. Some of the textures are in .png because they support alpha. At low quality texture's size is over 20kb so it's not very much.

If you can explain me more for .dds you are free. For me it's a poor image format because many programs I use (photoshop, IrfanView) do not support .dds export.

The screenshots are looking really good, did you made the powerplant yourself? Its quite detailed, the bloom effect is looking very nice with it,well, good luck then

Yes, it's made by sketchup. Everything comes step by step. I prefer to make it by myself instead of copying something another. The reason is that usually the copied models are too high-poly, or hardly editable, or even just if you make it by yourself you got a plan how to make your model.