THX,

I already try that a long time ago & the pics are so small you don't see a thing. It's lot's of steps just to see some shots. It's to long bro..... or I'm to exhausted, I didn't sleep at all since Friday :(

Mapping addiction !

LOL

Well...........

It's my starting point. I delete all unnecessary stuff & building the map with the added content.

In fact my working version is CTF-UOF-Aly

I'm surprise you thought of that. TBH, maybe everyone is tired of ear of Aly here & Aly there........ dunno

The map will be a small CTF for 6 players. I found it safer to build instead of Citius which is much to big for my first attempt.

Your meshing on the first level is amazing Steve. You're an inspiration ;D

I'd say you should probably stay away from having 2 maps with the same name too though. It gets confusing.

Can you post up a top down version of this map Steve? I'd like to see the layout of it.

Well, THX all for the nice comments.

@Brandon,

I'm building the layout so it's to early to show more. Citius isn't canceled & I presume the pic you like is the one in the first post ???. No worry, I continue working on it when I get some inspiration (like today) :) What as been done is what I have post. I have nothing more to show atm.

The small CTF won't be name Aly after all because there is nothing really in common between them. I just start use some of the same materials but it's only a few.

Ha, that pic is the shock location. In a earlier post, you see a pic of the spot lighted & unlighted. It's the same but from a different angle.

I can't show pics of the layout because 50% is indoor & on unlit mode you can't figure out the layout & in lit mode, I only have the spot done you see in the pic.

-- Edited by stevelois on Monday 15th of February 2010 06:18:27 AM

Well, you see the layout in the earlier post where there is 2 pics. I show the paths in different colors in the indoor area (the shock area).

When I start a project, I must have some small ideas of the general layout but it always change in the dev process. I'm not able to draw something & after make it. I make the level while I work on it & add / cut this or that if I don't like the gameplay.

THX for showing interest dude ;)

I just a made a vid. It's incredible, a 1.6 GB file is only 15 MB after mp4 compression, totally insane !

The vid as been crop to 800*512 so it look crap but it's only to show a general idea of the size / layout.

Note that the middle section where you'll see the shock isn't lighted since I didn't start to work on it. Only the shock spot is lighted & it's far from finish since there is no ambient lights.

Also, the blue flag placement is only for testing. In fact, the big platform will be the center point between the flags.

Pre-alpha vid # 1


-- Edited by stevelois on Saturday 27th of February 2010 01:57:31 AM

Vid looks great M8!

The layout looks like there's a very healthy serving of z-axis gameplay and I like the fact that you've got both indoor and outdoor areas and a good mix of open and tight internal areas. Map appears to have many paths to get to the flag bases as well which is good!

Good choice on having a large part of the map an outside area. I can tell the map will play quite interestingly in this area as it looks like you have a nice spread of paths comming out from the interior areas out into the open area. Anyone in that open area will have to keep their eyes open as enemies can come out from anywhere!

You're also keeping up standards on meshing as well! The meshing looks great so far and you have a good talent for mixing tech with rock formations!
I will say though that on my 2 screens here that some of the interior areas were very dark in the vid. But what I could see is looking excellent! I can't wait to see how you do the interior areas on the red team side!

Last thing is that I like is that the map isn't a symetrical CTF map! I understand that symetrical CTF maps are more fair and they suit competition but I prefer the variety in non symetrical CTF maps and this is looking very interesting from the layout.
Admittidly I think you'll get criticized from the community for this however I hope you keep it non symetrical!  It keeps the map a lot more interesting!

Now just a couple of comments on the flipside of non symetrical maps....
Your biggest challenge on this map is to make sure it's balanced.
From the vid only, it appears that the red flag may be easier to get to compared to the blue. The red flag appears to be out in the open, and easy to get to, whereas the blue seems to be harder to get to as it's buried deeper within the blue side of the map. I'm interested to see if you leave out jumpboots so players are forced to make their way around to cap the read flag?
These impressions are from seeing the vid only and without actually playing the map and using the layout you've comeup with I can't be sure about the balance in difficulty on capp'n both flags.
How do the bots fair on the map so far?

Very nice!

The map looks colossal! and in a good way ..

At times the vid looked a bit dark so its hard to tell everything that's going on, but from what i could see i like what you've done so far. The map has a nice feel to it, the right kind of atmosphere IMO, a good mix of indoor tech and outdoor realism.

I wish you would have taken a few seconds in the video to cut a path directly from flag to flag to give me an idea of the shortest possible route, (i'm more curious than anything) all the alternatives routes are great especially when they build off of a solid core path to battle between bases.

Good work.

From what I can tell, it's shaping up very nicely. The shock room is look very good in both the lighting and meshing departments. I agree with others that having a mixture of indoor and outdoor areas will help mix the "feel" of the map in a good way.

My only concern is when it will be done, given the level of detail you seem to be adding to it. 

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I am sure you will get what you want out of it.  With the 3 maps you have created, plus their variants, I think you have the experience to make what you want come to "reality".  The only limitation you have is custom content, but you seem to be able to do enough with the material editor.

That pic looks great M8!

Very nice indeed, can't wait to play it :D

Well, that's a good thing that everyone like it so far :D

@blitz, I knew you would like the red lights since they are very strong ;)

Updated screens look very good, dig the lighting.

Everything fits IMO,  except maybe the UN_Rock Blackspires.


-- Edited by 1xTrEmE on Monday 15th of March 2010 05:28:20 AM

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Dig can also mean that they like it

Grab a shovel and start digging!

Thrallala wrote:

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Dig can also mean that they like it

Grab a shovel and start digging!

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That's the one ..

LMAO

Must be a California thing (me originally being from Cali) we used that term often. -  But i've also heard other's use it on the forums & maybe it has rubbed off on me.

From the song "Good Vibrations" Beach boys -

"I'm digging her good vibrations, she's giving me excitations .. good good good, good vibrations"

I manage to make some progress since last friday. In fact I think I slept around 5 hours only each day lol Damn mapping addiction.

It's my first time with decals. Not to bad after all.

You can see "Level 1 Gen. A" which stand for Level 1 = ground level & Gen A for Generator 'A' :) Since machines don't fit with my theme, I just decide to use sounds which some sort of meshes arrangement to fake the industrial machine.

Lighting isn't finished there so there are some dark spots & I plan to add some water steam coming out from the walkway :D

THX & I'm happy you like it dude :D

I try to mix HU + Liandry at the same time. It's not obvious but I'm going in the right direction :D

Great, THX m8 :D

Merci Éric :)

C'est déjà mieux avec la fumée & un meilleur éclairage :D

Brief, I add some custom smoke emitters & work on the lighting as long as making my custom material for my water effect along several other things :)

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Looking good there man.  Are you making the "signs" on your own or someone else doing that for you?

 

Updated screenies look great M8!

@lord,

THX dude :)

@Ode

Yeah, I know about the soft. It's well popular, it's just that I'm to lazy to learn another thing & try to stick the basics tools. But THX for the suggestion ;)