Posts by Nicky_Da_B

Hey mapmakers. So the other day my Star Wars Left 4 Dead 2 map was featured by some youtubers. I didn't reach out to them, they just found it and played it I guess. But they have a huge following, and I saw a bump in downloads after the video was released. So it got me thinking about marketing my maps and what not. I was wondering, do any of you do marketing for your maps? Do you reach out to people and say "Hey try my map!" I'm wondering if there is something here to increase downloads or become famous or something. Like how do you help get the word out that you made a map? Thanks in advance to all who reply with feedback, opinions, and thoughts. I included the video for reference.

I published the map on steam workshop. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/fi…/?id=2313122612

Got custom music to work in the map.

Adjusted some lighting by adding in some fire rubble to darker areas of the map.[Blocked Image: https://scontent-lga3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-0/p180x540/101793265_10217414063326939_720595336451588096_o.jpg?_nc_cat=109&_nc_sid=e007fa&_nc_ohc=tUMjSngCo7UAX-wWxPL&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-1.xx&_nc_tp=6&oh=30ac19b4fe00d060b6db1c4170f6b12c&oe=5EFA603F]

Added in some dead clone props

crashed gunship?

Replaced the Reek.

all orange and grey box dev textures removed. now to replace the gunship and the beast.

worked on adding some rocky stuff to the upper area. enclosed the whole ring.... also added some geonosian eggs?

starting to look a little better

Looking forward to the updates. Looking nice so far.

also i think it would be a hilarious easter egg (from one of my favorite movies) for one of the bomb sites to have this on a wall.... basically saying, plant here, lol : [Blocked Image: https://i.redd.it/ordnqjluoft21.jpg]

by adding some silhouette and spikey variation it looks a little more geonosis.

Adding in a custom skybox for Geonosis was one of the easiest things to do on this project. I had never made a custom skybox for a map before. So plus one for doing something new and expanding my skill set.

ehh.. this project was over scoped for me.. and at this point i just want to be done small updates. working on the arena back walls. moved the sun. will do a custom geonosis skybox texture next.

- some more texture work - all stands have stairs and textured - in game view from stands

wow. some stairs

Experimenting with the underground area. This is the area under the arena floor, where extra zombies will spawn. A combination of the geonosian hives and eggs. Maybe a small section to the droid factory parts from episode 2.

Did some work on the VIP box area where dooku watched the fight during the movie.

Continuing with texture work

I continued bringing in some custom textures for the map. I ripped more textures from Republic Commando and did some minor photoshop work on them. Going into a little detail on the process. This first batch of textures I screen grabbed from the unreal editor for republic commando. Edited in photoshop, then imported into hammer. It should be enough for me to texture the map. If there is some glaring missing texture that I can't live without, then I will address after my attempt to texture the map using this texture set here first.

And then just to get started, and see some improvement on the map, I textured the arena.

Fixing the light issue

2 hrs

It was an issue with the angled stadium seating that was a world brush chopping up the bsp tree

Turned them into “func detail” ents as so they no longer chopped up the world…

Pc prob couldn't handle the math

Left them on initially to make more areas to chop up the map, but prob dont need

That piece would probably be a maya prop anyway

With manually drawn area portal cut offs?

But the map is mostly open air, so the whole thing would prob render

Only the back tunnels and basement would benefit from the old school quake room by room level design engine

Still dark, but fixed

Will adjust light source next.

Then cont texturing

I want at least the outside sun light source, so texturing / screenshots will look nicer

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