Posts by Psy

Quote from ifO

Hate to be a ball-breaker but if you're making a CS custom map with lots of custom content (which therefore no-one is going to play) does game balance really matter?I really don't get why people waste their time making sexy custom maps for DoD or CS unless it's just for their folios. Where is the satisfaction in having your map never played.. or if played at all only by about 5 people..?

Why not find a worthy mod team and make the map for that?

Qft. Take Warby's map for instance. (The French one)

I have never played that map on a UK server. Nobody seems to host it because it's a 70mb map. D:

A few textures and models is fine as long as the person on the other end doesn't have to wait 10 minutes for the map to download.

It's funny because I don't understand a single thing they are saying and the author is applying some subtitles to make it humorous.

Good idea. It makes sense too.

Or I could just stick a ruler on the screen.

It might work!

Quote from MrBaracuda

Drink more water!

I just drank a whole 750ml bottle of water. It worked.

I'm too tired now anyway. I've had exams all week so I'll leave the blocking out of the map till tomorrow.

Well I'm going to be blocking this out later because now I've got a headache. No, really, I mean it. D:

Thanks for the feedback guys. Tis very helpful!

Quote from Rick_D

Sorry to keep going on about it but layout is pretty important, although there's no harm in changing it once you find out something doesn't work - as long as you have the patience to do it

No problems man. The point of all this effort into planning is so that I don't end up with a mess similar to the last iteration of the map.

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I removed the second way into the route between A and B because I believe it will just cause more hassles for the CTs at A.

I've added a lower area at A to provide some vertical combat. (Yay!) I've made the route from T Spawn to B a lower area as well and I've also merged the two areas into one.

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Righty. So I've connected the middle's balcony to the connection between both of the bombsites and I've widened the entrance to A for the CT's so it's more balanced.

Quote from Rick_D

...just give their entrance some kind of defensive point (book case with gaps so you can shoot through)

Good idea. I'll have to play around with cover when it comes to play testing. Thanks for the crits you helpful bunch.

The first pic...it makes me disorientated.

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I've change the way into bombsite B from CT Spawn. The player can either go up the stairs or go straight through the door.

I think I'll start blocking this out soon unless anybody has any suggestions?

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What the hell?

Quote from killertomato

How did you make such an overview?

Photoshop of course!

I was thinking of Pitfall not Fallout when it came to this thread...WTF!

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Quote from Zombie

No overlapping rooms? Just from a top down view, it seems the game play could be a bit flat. What sort of theme are you going for?

The same theme; A grand mansion. Obviously it won't be flat but you can't really show that on a 2D overview.

There's going to be a lot of vertical combat for sure and I am planning to have two floors in some areas.

It will make more sense when it's actually made. The overview is just to see how the general layout will flow.

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I've decided to start my art map from scratch. This makes it easier for myself and will inevitably make the map better for the end-user.

So, I've came up with this layout. The old one lacked flow and had far too many hallways, was a bit messy and overcrowded.

UE3 maybe? It looks pretty nice.

I really like the second from last shot.

Quote from ifO

Amazing stuff, I just don't ever see myself moving to an engine where I have to model everything in max.

Qft.