Posts by jackophant

  • [Wip] De_Croatia

    Firstly, please rotate your CT spawn! The flow of a map is really important and starting it with a compulsory 90° turn might not seem like a huge deal, but also unnecessary.

    In fact, I think most of this map's problems stem from his it flows: the route towards A as T makes you backtrack slightly, and the route towards B has you turn away from the site to then turn 180 back on yourself.

    If timing is an issue, you'll need to move things about as just making people zig zag to kill time is frustrating to the player.

    The map is wider than it is long so immediately channels people off and doesn't leave much space for a useful mid that doesn't have long connectors.

    I've suggested a couple of adjustments to your current mid but I think you should consider combining your "pre-mid" and mid together and slim them down.

    The pre-mid area is too safe for Ts, they can freely rotate if blocked from a site without taking a time punishment via spawn, or a faster/higher risk route through mid.

    Hopefully that all makes sense!

  • de_hoodoo

    Quote from Karthoum

    8 hours ago, Karthoum said: The bingo chart of my planned locations is almost completely filled out just from this one competition alone. Great choice, hopefully there will be a lot of verticality (my idea of Cappadoccia was more like Grotta Palazese, another entry into this contest)

    I don't even know if I'll finish this so don't feel bad about having a go at the same theme :)

    Verticality can be a little unforgiving, but the theme definitely demands something.

  • de_hoodoo

    Hi all,

    I've been away for a while so I'm not expecting much from myself, but here's my WIP post for this contest:

    Hoodoo is a defuse map based in the historical region of Cappadocia, now recognised as Central Anatolia in Turkey. It is well known for it's distinctive fairy chimneys, ancient homes built into the rock face and underground, and hot-air ballooning excursions.

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    Screenshot is a very basic theme test, don't take it too seriously :)

    Workshop Link: Hoodoo

    Cheers!

  • Exotic Places CS:GO Mapping Contest 2019

    Quote from will2k

    On 6/13/2019 at 11:19 AM, will2k said: This is a good time to remind newcomers to mapcore and/or CSGO level design about @jackophant's thread from the 2015 and 2017 versions of this contest.

    It has quite the info and links to have a smooth sailing in this contest (veterans can use it as a refresher too :))

    Good luck everyone!

    Thanks for the mention ?

    If anyone thinks it needs to be updated, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

    Might have to see what I can still do for this and then leave it to rot in the workshop for 10 years ?

    Good luck everyone ?

  • What's going on with your life?

    Quote from TheOnlyDoubleF

    3 hours ago, TheOnlyDoubleF said: Wooooh yeah Ford Focus RS (2016?), Good choice ! You're gonna be the new gymkhana king?

    Yeah, that's the one! Thanks :) I realise the car makes you feel like you're Ken Block but no way am I going to be doing any silly business... At least not just yet :D

    Quote from dux

    2 hours ago, dux said: You must be minted to buy a house and an RS. Congrats!

    Cash injection from the untimely passing of grand parents so not minted, just fortunate. It's not like they were cash purchases.

  • What's going on with your life?

    Hi guys, I've been away some time and thought I'd share some stuff.


    I married the love of my life :D

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    Became a house owner (mortgages, woo yay!)

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    Started a new job

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    Got a new cat :) called him Luther. Misty is the grumpy bag on the right.

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    Got internet in said house 6 months later (ISPs, woo yay!)

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    Got my dream car

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    This year has also not been without its upsets, namely we lost a dear old Cockatiel of ours to illness at 16 years old, and his mate not long after to what we suspect was a ferret (long story :|) who was sadly only 3.

    I hope no one takes this post the wrong way. I know I'm very fortunate to be where I am, and I would just like to share that happiness with friends and peers.

    The new job runs a slightly tighter ship than my last so mapcore time has tanked, but I'll hopefully be getting a bit more into the swing of things from now on.

    See you around guys :)

  • Tips on creating my map layout?

    Don't forget to try and incorporate balance into the map. If one bombsite is particularly open maybe make the other bombsite more enclosed to give variety to the gameplay. Again, balance long sight lines with short ones so sniping and shotguns both have their chance.

    Also balance height: One flat level isn't fun and on a 2D surface it's harder to make gameplay more interesting. Experiment with increasing or decreasing the elevation of certain areas and then converting the floor to ramps to meet them but being careful of how steep these ramps are. I think a good measure is for every 2-4 units forward, go up 1 unit.

    Other things include making sure you're always "moving forward" toward an objective, you don't want to be taking turns over 90 degrees that make you feel like you're walking back on yourself.

    This is from the perspective of counter strike mapping, but I would hope this generally covers other games.

  • What's going on with your life?

    It's been nice to have a quick read and catch up here, it's been a while guys :)

    When I'm back properly I think I'll do a teeny update as I've been quite busy, but the real limiting factor is that I'm now into my 24th week of having no internet!


    Quote from Vaya

    8 hours ago, Vaya said: I'll need to find out where herds of pretentious film critics hang out.overpriced bars seem like a good place to start :)

    Go find some fucking hipsters, I'm sure Edinburgh's full of the fuckers :P <3

  • EU Referendum

    I wanted to write some rant about how politicians making power plays and serving a shotgun referendum has fucked us, but as rick said, it won't change anything.

    I'll just post this:

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