Half-Life 2: Deathmatch 1024-unit Competition?

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    As for not having "these last hours of Sunday" - you do know the deadline was moved back to the 30th, as in next Monday, right? Go check the first post in this thread again, it's been updated Smile Hope that gives you the time you need to sort out those bugs!

    !!! Yay! :F How unexpected. *Shines of happiness to be able to fix all stupid bugs and stuff.*

    Great stuff Reno. Got a UT style thing going there. Looks fun.

    And I got to get around to posting mine. All these deadline pushes have made me lazy.

    i like it reno

    i am still trying to get a nice lightning (it has now an evening setting, hard to get some real good lightning without making it to dark or to bright..)

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    hehe i need some optimizing.. vvis did 24 mins to calculate (normal), after done 3 hints placements it allready was 12 mins.. still way to much

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    My map still makes very little sense whatsoever, but its coming on quite nicely. Pretty slow progress, but I should be able to get things finished off for next Monday. Decided to call it "dm_weaver" as the wooden walkways on the top two floors look like, well, a weave when you view them from above

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    As allways impressive there, Reno. Not a bad name for the map too.

    Best map wins!

    Isn't it really weird when you are testing your map and suddenly someone joins your server? I was just trying out some different sun positions, when BAM, I am face to face with a guy named Mike from Canada. He was a nice guy too, ran around the map with me and gave me some ideas and pointed out some problems He also offered a name for the map, which is what I shall hereby be calling it; dm_rockhill.

    Well, my task of displacementising every surface is still in progress; its not difficult really, just slooow. The big problem I am faced with right now is how to light it so that the rocks don't look washed out; I need to find a way to make the forms easier to see; perhaps I can find a decent sun setting, or perhaps I shall have to make it at dusk and have some other light sources...anyway, time will tell.

    Oh, and the bigger pain I guess will be using NODRAW walls to attempt to block VIS in the map since displacements can't do this. I'll worry about that once all the rock work is done though.

    Oh! And, Half-Life 2 seems to have a precious lack of natural props other than rocks and trees...oh well.

    Anyway, progress is apparent but I don't have a lot of time each day to work on it; I doubt I'll get it done for the deadline. No matter though, it's gotten me off my creative ass and started doing something, and hopefully I shall have a fun unique DM level by the end

    There are some really cool looking maps being made for this competition anyway, so maybe once I get to play them I can get some ideas.

    Some quick points about plans for my map: There shall be no RPG (spaces are too tight), and probably no crossbow. The main collectable weapons will be shotguns and magnums, and satchels; but I shall put a single combine gun in somewhere.

    I also plan on having some rock falls which are a source of physics objects for the gravity gun; if possible I will make it so that if you pull one out, another drops down in its place, so you can hang around one of these rockfalls and use it as an inexhaustable gravity-gun supply cache.

    I did have an picture of the updated map...but my internet is being screwy and I can't upload to imageshack or my FTP. Hmm.

    Yay, a kind friend of mine uploaded it for me.

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    You could afford to put a lot more faces on those tunnels to smooth them out - at the moment they look really angular and retro. Watch your texture alignment across the curves too - use alt-right click with the lift and select mode to wrap seamlessly from one face onto another (keep running into people who weren't aware of this feature, I'd be so lost without it!).

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    Ain't nothin' mo' slick than alt right click.

    I finished my map this weekend. I'll post it tomorrow, just need to tweak some light-values first. Total compiletime is 4 minutes, so it shouldn't take long.

    im doing some testing with a upload script, so if you need a upload you can use this

    http://%7boption%7d

    for the maps. think they looks pretty cool but then again its source. im more of an oldschool "hl 1 / cs" i like the "Rockhill"

    @ zeon

    Can't connect to teh ftp.

    Anyway:

    http://www.tcmagazine.com/bluestrike/dm ... espitt.zip

    Original idea was this conveyor thingy players had to use to get higher in the map and plateau's at the sides, and tubes at the side where they spawn.

    At the top they would find a good weapon.

    Then I played with the idea of a giant incinerator (spelled wrong probebly) in the middle, and the player what got to the top would fry everybody else by pusing a button.

    In the end I ended up with this,

    pretty much made everything up as I made progress with the map.

    Had to remove the railings on the moving plateaus because they gave stuck issues.

    Well at least its better then the one I sent in for the Valve dm map contest

    Click to enlarge

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    Looking cool Bluestrike, another map that kinda reminds me of Halo in its style and architecture. How do you get around though? You said you had planned on using a conveyor but ended up with something else, but I can't see that many linking routes. Lots of ladders, or jump pads or something that are hard to notice?

    A wee update on mine - this is a shot of one of the outer passages that surrounds the central room, connecting the different stories. Progress is still pretty slow, being too much of a perfectionist given I've not even blocked in much of the layout yet (though it is planned) so hopefully I'll get over that and start getting the critical stuff in before pissing around with minor lighting tweaks

    [Blocked Image: http://www.snarkpit.net/pits/reno/images/dm_weaver2.jpg]

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