ol_styx (Off Limits map)

Hey,

Just finished my first complete map for Half-Life². It's for the mod http://www.off-limits.be. I started on it since the end of march, and took about a months break, so it's 3 months of late night work. I made a lot of custom content for it, such as textures (road/crossover/buildings/...) and props (subwaytrain/hospitalsign/powerpoles/...). Loom / Reko-dave also helped out with some props (signs/ticketgates/subwaybenches/...) a big thanks to them!. With this Off Limits gets another step closer to being released

To all the people who helped me with problems/errors/bugs: THANK YOU !

Here are some screenshots of it:

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more on my portfolio:

http://www.wesleytack.com

Hope you like it!

And I hope I'll see you in the map asap playing Off Limits !

- Wesley

Thanks guys,

Newpunk: It's my first HL2 map yes, and you can post it sure

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I will! And I really like it alot.. But as I understood, this map is not for HL2, its for some modification called off-limits And could you please tell me some more about it?

It's for http://www.off-limits.be a HL2 modification, so it will be used for source.

Tell you more about it? hmm well, most of the stuff is on our website, but in short: 2 teams, 1 alien, and basicly it's team vs. team vs. alien with teamplay ofcourse and drivable vehicles and spawn capturing as seen in this screenshot: http://www.wesleytack.com/level/styx/styx_28.jpg

Thats very short, but we have thought everything through, it's complicated but easy to play. We will release gameplay video's soon, but with summer here and temperatures of 35°C we aren't working that much lately So for more info go to the site and check out the "media" for team info and check out "info" for FAQ and other stuff.

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looks suh-weet indeed.one question, though: what is that red deal on the side of the pistol?

It's actually not a real weapon, it's an exact copy of an Airsoft weapon, so is the Omnicol (also one of our weapons). That red thing was on it, and it's the 1st weapon model i start back ages ago. And the red thing has always been there I think it's for a steady pose or something, since it was for pro-shooting (BB-gun wise). Here is a reference picture I used:

http://www.wesleytack.com/upload/pic-reddevil-left.jpg

Cheers,

- Wesley

Yep vivi,

as i posted in my post, loom and reko did some props, they both are pro's, love their work a lot, i was happy they wanted to do some stuff for poor me

Reko did some of the ad-signs and the JCV one

Loom did the subwaybench/telephone/adstands (with doom/ltj bukem/.. etc on it) He also skinned the pickup truck.

von*ferret:

You have to understand this map was made for Off Limits, the gameplay was kept in mind while building this map. It is indeed sealed off completly for the reason we will have an alien walking walls/ceilings, and will be able to jump high/far, so I didn't want the alien players to jump into air hitting an invisible wall all the time. The only place where this will happen is when the player walks upward in the outdoor area, after 6/7 floors they will hit the skybox top. Thats all, If i added gaps in the sides, going over to a horizon, they would also wanna jump in those hitting nothingness, and thats what i wanted to avoid.

About the hl1 look, I went pretty far into the limits of source. I hit limits on entity's, on sounds, it may look like hl1, but hunting an alien in a small map would mean short roundtimes and easy alien killing (also something our gameplay wont allow).

I already made a list of stuff i recieved from posting these screens, and i will still fix them. Mostly some more brushwork and texture allignments. But after those fixes I really will be moving one. A lot more work to be done on the mod that needs attention

Thanks for the crits d3ads, of course i'm happy with crits, anything to get it closer to perfection

With the post of these screens i found some stuff from when i started this level and that i completly forgot to fix (i fixed them already now) such as textures that were still their basetexture (not dirty'd up) and some area's in the map i didn't completly touch up as i intended.

About the shots you posted, the tunnel/subway hallway are both crits i recieved from multiple sources (i already rounded the subway hall yesterday and added supportbeams in the subwaytunnel). I also fixed the floor textures in the tunnelhall, they were a bit.. out of place

The parkinglot walls may be a bit bland yea, but i'm already pushing close to the max. entity's and entdata in this map. So i'm gonna just leave that area filled with just the props. The parkinglot deviders would mean edleast 50+ more overlay entity's (which is why i didn't add them).

The yellow circle is the same size as a trigger brush in that area, it's for capturing that base (Off Limits comes with a spawncapture system kinda like BF2). The yellow mark is to make it easy for players to spot that area, since some are in areas where multiple floors are as seen from the top/minimap. For instance, in the constructionbuilding, people might look for the spawn in the wrong floors, the yellow "CAPUTRE POINT" should help them spot it

I'm compiling my fixed version as we speak. I'll post some updated shots when i get back. (not much changed though).

Ok, here are Sunday's fixes:

rounded the pillars in the subway hall

added a bit more detail to the subway tunnel

fixed some texture to be more dirty

added a few more puddles of water

and some other small fixes

Anyway, now i'm calling this map really done, time to do some more work for the mod thats not map related so we can get this mod done asap

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I also found a good place to park my truck... not! ;p

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