ITT: Post maps/scenes that never saw the light of the day.

[JeanPaul]

ban jeanpaul

 

 

Oh shi- 

 

Does this mean I have to finish the map now?

 

Oh man, Imbricatus was a great map. Not because it was fun to play (because the layout had a lot of issues), but I would want to play the thing just so I could look at it. He also made a couple of other TF2 maps that never got to the detailing stage, but gosh are they cool looking regardless.

 

Ha thanks bro!

 

The reason imbricatus was such a massive workload/failure/whatever was because it had zero planning (I knew what I was getting into with that). The only concept I required in my head while making it was to have the layout overlap itself. Other than that, I just would open the map every day and make whatever came into my head until I was happy with it. I was also still learning the tf2 scale - something that threw me off more than Id like to admit. Chateau was a product of trying to visually explain the imbricatus layout overlap via that bridge but I just never finished it.

 

I will return to chateau in the future - I have so many good ideas for it. 

[ZZZ]

 

To be fair, this map did saw the light of the day, but I've trashed it shortly afterwards.

 

It was to be a funnel map. Funnel in UT is a game of spam frags, you place all spawn points in some narrow space and weapons with splash damage at the end of some corridor. The idea is to score multi kills easily, untill some player make its way out and kicks whoever was spamming before him. I trashed the map because it doesn't fit the funnel idea, there is a cube in the middle with a teleport inside the black sphere that randomly teleports player to one of the six funnels connected to the cube with seamless portals to give the illusion of a distorted space. The spawn points aren't placed in the cube, but in the funnels, where there is a nuclear warhead floating in the middle, they can't be placed in the cube because it's a gravity zone that drags everything towards the "black hole".

 

The idea came from this:

 

Edited July 20, 2014 by 0kelvin

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

I've been working on this map where I've tryed to recreate a part of the AMC The Walking Dead's Prison, I've got so much problems which the props that doesn't appear when compile, the lighting, the scavenger gamemode and the source scripting that.....ppfffffff 

 

I really want to publish this map but I'm demoralized when I simply open it. May be I should start it from scratch again to work on a clean projectn and get some help from someone that knows Source better than me   

[will2k]

I've been working on this map where I've tryed to recreate a part of the AMC The Walking Dead's Prison, I've got so much problems which the props that doesn't appear when compile, the lighting, the scavenger gamemode and the source scripting that.....ppfffffff 

 

I really want to publish this map but I'm demoralized when I simply open it. May be I should start it from scratch again to work on a clean projectn and get some help from someone that knows Source better than me   

 

It's a shame for this work not to see the light. The Walking Dead would make a perfect setting for a L4D map.

 

You could always start a WIP thread and post the problems in details with compile logs and what not, and I'm pretty sure you will get help from the many members around here who know a thing or 2 about Source .

 

It would be also aweome if you branch this campaign into 3 maps: the first in the prison, the second sees the survivors escaping through the woods and the third/finale takes place after they reach the terminal (all plot credits go to AMC ).

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

 

I've been working on this map where I've tryed to recreate a part of the AMC The Walking Dead's Prison, I've got so much problems which the props that doesn't appear when compile, the lighting, the scavenger gamemode and the source scripting that.....ppfffffff 

 

I really want to publish this map but I'm demoralized when I simply open it. May be I should start it from scratch again to work on a clean projectn and get some help from someone that knows Source better than me   

 

It's a shame for this work not to see the light. The Walking Dead would make a perfect setting for a L4D map.

 

You could always start a WIP thread and post the problems in details with compile logs and what not, and I'm pretty sure you will get help from the many members around here who know a thing or 2 about Source .

 

It would be also aweome if you branch this campaign into 3 maps: the first in the prison, the second sees the survivors escaping through the woods and the third/finale takes place after they reach the terminal (all plot credits go to AMC ).

 

 

 

Thx will2K, i'll create a thread as you said because in fact, I was so disappointed by myself  yesterday that I've started it again from zero and add a friend on the project. It revives me to finish this work!

 

Previously, i was making this map to be played as a scavenger map, but your idea of making a three-part campaign is really interesting... Even if I have absolutely no idea of how to make a campaign like that. 

We're are just thinking about making it after the season 4 event so we can, first, have more flexibility on the prison design with destroided parts. 

 

So this project is walking and isn't dead anymore

Edited July 23, 2014 by TheOnlyDoubleF

[tomdon]

This thread is really making me want to dust off some of my millions of canned maps! I really want to dust off my Hammer and make some levels again as well!

[TheOnlyDoubleF]

This thread is really making me want to dust off some of my millions of canned maps! I really want to dust off my Hammer and make some levels again as well!

 

Just do it

[tomdon]

At the very least, here are some very old maps that I never finished. Made for Battlegrounds 2 8 years ago:

[dux]

I remember you posting those shots as if it were yesterday.

[⌐■_■]

lol yup me too

 

still looks good!

Edited August 15, 2014 by killertomato

[tomdon]

Hah, that is awesome. Glad I am bringing back some nostalgia, was not expecting anybody to remember them! I have one more old school image from the same time:

 

[Jenn0_Bing]

I remember that hospital shot from HL2W!

[FMPONE]

Hah, that is awesome. Glad I am bringing back some nostalgia, was not expecting anybody to remember them! I have one more old school image from the same time:

 

 

This still holds up!

[tomdon]

I still like the general composition and colours. The actual implemtation of it all is a bit ropey, it was my final year uni project, so was really rushed by the end. These are the final shots of it:

 

http://tomdon.net/images/signy.jpg

http://tomdon.net/images/ward_small.jpg

http://tomdon.net/images/stairs0034.jpg

http://tomdon.net/images/small_tree.jpg

[FMPONE]

Those shots were not aided by the Source engine's lighting at the time, it would look a lot better now simply because the engine handles sunlight a lot better. Still nice though!