The golden age of mapping

[Duff-e]

I didn't make any maps but I agree

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDVhB0jGP7I

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[Erratic]

So basically that page is my level design education in HTML form. Goddam. Ivy league motherfuckers.

[insta]

No Day of Defeat maps? That's racist!!

[Puddy]

Ah yes... the good old times. When everything was so cheap to make and every possible mod idea was in production.

I was around 12-13 at the time Had a shitlong mapping hiatus after that, until I started working on my failed TF2 map and Precursor.

btw... does anyone have bright.wad? You see, I actually found one of my old maps re-mirrored here after googling it http://www.gamefront.com/files/1896336/CS_UrbanSiege

But apparently you need bright.wad to open it. Any ideas? Want my nostalgia-trip!

[Izuno]

Oh man that takes me back. Golden age indeed.

[ElectroSheep]

Can everyone can post all their old map ?

[Minos]

The indie community is indeed big now but it's not the same. Indie devs make games to survive. We made maps to have fun back then

[Pericolos0]

dunno, a lot of indies make games for fun too. the golden age of modding is over but right now it's the golden age of indie games and that's very exciting too I think .

[2d-chris]

Is it weird that seeing my work on that site gives me more excitement than my professional work on the webs biggest gaming sites? Guess it's because custom mapping is a one man band

Don't think I'll ever top the awesomeness of those days, now you need 20 artists to make something so visually impact-full it changes you forever

Top 5 maps on that list are ...

1) de_volare - incredibly unique, amazing art and full of fun little touches

2) de_clan1_mill - perfect layout and visuals for clan games

3) cs_industrywest - a fine work of art, unique assets and looked like no other industrial map for cs

4) de_karachi01 - amazing texture set, awesome music, fun layout, made podbot waypoints for it

5) de_morningstar - godly architecture and textures, made podbot waypoints for it

[Mazy]

de_volare, dammit I was furious when I first saw that map, looked so fucking good! (still does, actually) Then I begged for the wad, got it and made a clone

[Minos]

Don't think I'll ever top the awesomeness of those days, now you need 20 artists to make something so visually impact-full it changes you forever

Yeah but that's rapidly improving. It's much easier to make a 100% custom map today than it was when HL2 was released. We now have tools like nDO, Crazybump, CGTextures.com, etc... I can make a "current-gen" material at least 70% faster than I could back in 2005 or something.

I think the hardest part is to find an audience. People only play arena maps now (on CS:S that is).

On the bright side: I released DM_zest on a few sites and got emails from server admins praising the map and even got it pimped as map of the month on a german site. Who could say people still play HL2DM? The community is still out there. It's just a lot more spread.

[ElectroSheep]

TF2 modding is in a good way too. because of valve putting map in the game, peolple aere very motivated to make map on TF2.

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Guess I'm the only one here that barely touched Hammer editor! Also, remenber guys that modding wasnt gldsource exclusive back in the days! There was quake, max payne, unreal, etc.

[Sentura]

":3fnpl3sf]Guess I'm the only one here that barely touched Hammer editor! Also, remenber guys that modding wasnt gldsource exclusive back in the days! There was quake, max payne, unreal, etc.

all the cool mapperz used goldsource