Posts by fishingbrick

Quote from NikiOo

15 minutes ago, NikiOo said: Why do you think a 3 lane layout is not interesting? Most defuse maps follow a very similar four square pattern. That doesn't prevent them from doing a lot of original things within individual areas.

Also, I think you'll have better luck coming up with interesting ideas if you play around with it in the editor rather than on paper.

Here's something you can do - take a cool real life location that you would like to make in the game (this will motivate you) and think about how you can design a wingman layout around this location. You will find yourself solving interesting architectural problems and even if you end up with a three-lane layout still, it will be an interesting three-lane layout because of the constraints of the theme. You may not even notice that you have a three lane layout just like cache is pretending to not be a four-square layout while it is exactly that.

I took the liberty of doing this and found an interesting location. Now to port it into a layout. To me, coming up with the ideas is more time consuming and frustrating than actually making the map. One of the big problems I have is finding interesting locations in google maps or earth. The problem being that you have the whole world to work with.

That's the longest joke I've ever seen and I applaud you for that. All jokes aside, I've been working on a top-down layout for about 4 hours, and I've only come up with an extremely simple 3 lane layout that I don't think will play very well.

Now, I know that this may seem specific, but I'm genuinely having a difficult time making a top-down layout to get me started with my first mapping project. The best that I can come up is 3 lines like Rialto, and I'm seeing unique layouts all over the place in the workshop. Is there a formula to it or something? I'm just completely stuck on how to come up with a layout.