CSS-Assault

Tisky · November 21, 2004 at 2:42 PM

Well, im makin a CS:Source remake of cs_assault mainly for me to learn how to use hammer. Only problem is, i can make powerlines hanging from roof to roof, but i cant seem to make a fu**ing ladder. Lasalas tried to explain, but he is silly. He sent me to countermap

Anyway, as you can see, my version is more of an industrial landscape than a city. (Although the skybox will prolly have big buildings in the BG)

What you can see on this little teaser picture is the CT start, just remember before you complain at me, that this is very WIP and thats why i put it in this WIP thread and it is also LIP (Learning in progress).

This is my first "real" map for the source engine, and ive only used Valve Hammer for 3 days. So i am still learning.

And i know this isnt much of a screenshot, but you will see more later.

/Tisky

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GrayFox · November 21, 2004 at 2:48 PM

Looks very promising. Good work.

cyberjunkie · November 21, 2004 at 3:04 PM

OMGF!1 tisky maeping!!1~

Good start!

Duff-e · November 21, 2004 at 3:15 PM

looks very cool

it will be an instant classic!

Marcos · November 21, 2004 at 4:00 PM

Looks good for a start, but green enviorment lighting?

hamst3r · November 21, 2004 at 4:21 PM

Are those css textures? If they are what map are they from?

Tisky · November 21, 2004 at 4:36 PM

Im currently playin around with some diff lights, trying to get something that looks nice ;P

Also i read a tutorial about overlays, so its gonna be even sexier.

Those texture are not from CSS. They are HL 2 textures.

thanks for the nice comments

st0lve · November 21, 2004 at 5:06 PM

Sorry to say: http://%7boption%7d

But thats the damn leaked beta bitches that have got like 3 months of practice and stuff.

But kinda good start

Nazul · November 21, 2004 at 5:13 PM

ive mapped with hammer for lik 2.5 years now but i still have the feeling i have to learn it all over ,it still doesn't feel right . but yours looks nice if ur coming from QuArK

Gj , and try to get dirt under those trees ,looks silly :wink:

Tisky · November 21, 2004 at 5:20 PM

awww fuck stolve.. shit fuck shit.

bohohohoooo

mikezilla · November 21, 2004 at 6:22 PM

that remake is awesome as hell.

Tisky, you can still beat it though.

You have to go all the hell out and make what you're doing look like an actual city, not an enclosed map area. So make your block building different sizes (some even many stories taller than the others)

I'd also spend a lot of attention detaliling out all your areas so they have their own personality.

make under the bridge feel like under a bridge. Graffiti, water, broken fences, trash.

Make the entry way to the high way feel like one. Make it feel like the highway keep going in both direction adn you're actually getting on an access ramp. Sorta like everything below the highway is the ghetto.

Populate the map with new life. Hl2 has tons of broken down cars and shit to use to make it feel dillapidated.

Mapcore will win on all fronts of css mapping. If you get stuck, pass it off to someone else, and let them go for a while. We want all maps killing in rotation.

Word.

Fletch · November 21, 2004 at 6:35 PM

As my dear friend Zilla mentioned, you might as well use the engine to good use. Yeah, it would be really easy to make a brush-for-brush remake of assault. So you might as well make this actually feel like something real.

Ideas/suggestions:

1)Embed windows into the wall instead of making them flat.

2)Make there be a reason there are ladders and such at stupid points in the map

3) Make the inside of the warehouse actually feel like one.

4)Make it feel like you're actually in a city with road markers, stop signs, sidewalks, trash cans, newspaper boxes, street lights, etc. Assault was always bizarrely scaled for some reason.

5)Don't be afraid to alter the layout/dynamics. People have been playing assault for 5 damn years. It's horribly repetitive and badly unbalanced. don't be afraid to chance the dynamics be altering the scale, adding windows you can snipe through, adding different ways to breach the building, etc. Sure, it's going to take playtesting to balance the map, but people would probably kill for a balanced Assault.

Duff-e · November 21, 2004 at 6:43 PM

i should really start mapping again now that source is here....the only reason i stopped was because the hl engine is so fucking ugly

MAPCORE SHALL BE #1

Tequila · November 21, 2004 at 7:27 PM

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Bic-B@ll · November 21, 2004 at 8:18 PM

put an iron enclosure around the ladders the iones that like, prevent falling n stuff

hamst3r · November 21, 2004 at 9:08 PM

How are you using hl2 textures... I even re-downloaded the sdk and i cant get hammer to load 'em.

st0lve · November 21, 2004 at 9:39 PM

http://%7boption%7d

Check that one.

Tisky · November 21, 2004 at 9:45 PM

Thanks st0lve for clarifying that. Ive spoken to mikezilla on irc, we got some plans for this map, and its turning out pretty nice, who knows, if i get everything right, there will be screenshots soon!