Quote from instaLooking forward to playing it! Do you have any estimations as to when it'll be released?
I was hoping to have it done last month, but Insurgency is stealing all my time 
Working on a 4th level and I might release when thats done,
Also waiting on Valve for the hdr code and a choreography tool that works with non english OS if I want to include a bit of story telling 
Now that the site is up I can start a thread
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Sounds like BF2 editor is much like Cryteks Sandbox then to me.
Future of level design community:
Well I am still impressed in what some people can make when just using the orriginal assets of a game. (well for HL2 anyway)
I agree that making a attractive level became more difficult, but as long as you can work with existing resources and can make something decent, a mod might be interested in the designer and with that mod the designer might have acces to custom content done by other members of the mod.
Now some knowledge on the different aspects on the design is nessesary but I doubt you need to be elite in all fields.
Now the future might be in 'game design shools' the people graduating will probebly contribute to varioes (mod) community's to practice their skills or making stuff with friends from shool.
So I don't see quality of levels degrade in the future or skilled people turning their back to the community.
The reason Valve didn't allow custom content is because they had no way to check who's property the custom content is, it might have been stolen from somewhere else.
Splitting design up
I can only speak from my mod expirience so this might as well be irrelevant, but my map for insurgency would look not half of what it is now if I had to do it all by myself 
I design the map and do the model and skin requests for stuff thats to complicated to do myself and request that stuff from someone else on the team along with reference or anything relevant and request changes to what they made untill its the way I want it to be.
But that might not work fast enough for a gamestudio
I believe Valve works with units: a team of (multiple?) leveldesigner, texture artist and modeler and design a map together.
When taking a brief look some splits I wonder if its like like one guy does his thing and send it on to the next in line like its a machine line constructing a car or something,
I can see that would not have great results for leveldesign unless you need to make 20x the same level 
So for me ,from a theorethical point of view, splitting a level up over multiple people should not be a problem as long as they work (and communicate) as a team.
Looks awesome. got stuck in the second level tough and found it a bit to dark there. He manages to keep you long in a single level (especialy compared to mine where you rush trough a level with the buggy in 5 minutes ) On the other hand, the backtracking got old fast.
Still the locations are very impressive Makes me wish I had more of an art thing/feeling/imagination
Militia is looking pretty darn good.
First map they changed that mutch gameplay wise if you ask me, extra routes you can take and different cover.
Why do people complain about inferno btw, I don't see what the giant changes are there and this map seems to go 2 steps further anyway.
He said the map was for a mod RD
The map looks pretty cool to me, I was wondering how you check with hdr on, just running the map in css?
Tought valve didn't release the code yet for hdr or am I wrong?
Spending some time on my lil singleplayer these holidays, intro map and first map are pretty mutch done here's a [wip] peek at the second map.
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Finished it,
After the demo I was a bit worried that all levels would look to mutch the same, but they have some nice settings/locations what kept it pretty interesting.
Hmm everything is pretty well explained, every time I select anything I get this explanation how it works and you can always press h for help
Took a look at the leveleditor but it doesn't use the same movement controls I could not rotate around, wonder if it was a bug
Played a demo a while ago and decided I would order it asap, and I did when steam opened the prepurshase.
My dad would just have pulled the plug, given me a spanking and sent me to bed.
I would do the same on my kids
Lol knowing how it works in other biznesses I really doubt they are selling under the costs value.
Mass production at a huge scale can make something really cheap.
Ofcourse they need a number of sales to be profitable, but if anyone actually believes that they need to sell the games itself to make the console sales profitable ....
Not all console owners are that fanatic gamers, alot have less then 5 games and trade with friends or loan at a video store ...
Gunman chonicels was picked up by valve because it was so promesing I believe.
Red Orchestra won the epic/Nvidea contest to that doesn't count
I guess Alien Swarm and They hunger source count as Valve is being their publisher.
Anyone knows where to send the bugs?
The gameplay video's they once released were not that interesting and for some even a bit of a dissapointment, so I don't mind them taking all the time it needs to build a good game.
Yes but is any of them picked up by a publisher without help of the developer who's engine they used to mod on?
lol what mod ever got picked up by a publisher?
As far as I know the developers of the game picked it up and sold it after some tweaking.
So modders should be warned if they are in it for the money/fame
Personally I do everything to fun and pretty mutch said yes to every mod that askes if I tought I would have the time and if I liked their setting enough. Some don't even reply back anymore, others never get really started.
I will never work in the games industry unless I win enough money with the lottery to start my own studio (must be able to pay the workers with my interests or no deal! :-P)
Making a map is for me not mutch different as making a city in sim city.
Hmm lisence agreements heh? I think I read the one for my first mmo
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Resolution and settings on there highest
layed on hard and watched been looking at leveldesign and the budget screen so it took me 20 minutes to complete it.
Going to play it again for the commentary now.
The combine gun was a bit disapointing, wel I didn't really see it, only the ammo load elevator
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Been looking in wireframe at the map, the biggest part are models and the top building is a model until you get close.
Hmm not all forums are the same, I prepared 4 different txt's, so I just had to copy it into the text fields and hit post.
Forum type's have different image code, some don't allow clickable images etc.
How can that be handeled?
