Hitting The Wall..

[Fletch]

Stop mapping for 4 years. Works wonders.

[FrieChamp]

Yep. Had a loooot of these periods.

For me they pass away after a while (sometimes it can take really long tho). Usually I regain inspiration from a movie, pics or something I see just or whatever. Yeah playing some games can get you back as well.

I usually play levels by other people, that gives me inspiration and switches the competitive side inside of me back on again.

Movies can be very inspiring as well!

[MJ]

What RD said, stop mapping completely then after awhile you'll eventually get the bug back to start your mapping again. Works for me.

[Schmung]

gah, I've tired most of those.

I just feel burnt out. THe problem is, I've got stuff I pretty much have to have finished fairly soon. I've played games, not mapped form weeks on end, read tons of books, listened to all sorts of music. I fire up hammmer and just spend ages flying round the level looking at how bland chunks of it are and I have literally no clue what to do with those areas.

It's driving me nuts.

[Kosmo]

gah, I've tired most of those.

I just feel burnt out. THe problem is, I've got stuff I pretty much have to have finished fairly soon. I've played games, not mapped form weeks on end, read tons of books, listened to all sorts of music. I fire up hammmer and just spend ages flying round the level looking at how bland chunks of it are and I have literally no clue what to do with those areas.

It's driving me nuts.

Sometimes these things happen.

I have had a long pause on modelling now. Almost a year or so.

I just don't have the drive anymore, and I just draw concepts for models that I can do when I get my drive back.

Maybe it is stress or something.

[D3ads]

I have this and it's bugging the fuck out of me, I open Hammer and there's just no desire to work on anything properly. I still work on textures and produce test maps but I haven't worked on any proper levels for awhile now, I spend a lot of time either on the Internet, at work (obviously) or listening to music/reading and I still don't have any yearning to go and map. Please make it go away, I want to finish my project sometime before 2007

[rockdude86]

i have tried most of the above... but since i live in the netherlands... most of the time i just go to a coffeeshop... score me some weed or hasj and smoke my brains to another level of inspiration lol

[RD]

It helps when you have some kinda brilliant vision of your map before you start building it. Unless you are trying to map something boring, you'll wanna finish it. I guess thats why brilliant mappers finish more maps

If youre bored with your own map, it might be a sign that youre intelligent and realise the truth: your map is boring.

Noobs usually finish lotsa small maps because they think theyre amazing, and they have specific ideas of maps before building them (like "a deagle5 map but with more columns" or "the stairway from scarface"). You just have to get in contact with the noob in yourself :derp:

And d3, for you obviously its because you have unrealistic goals, like making massive mods or porting GTA or Quake2 to HL1 when you cant model, code or texture and have problems finishing a map.

[⌐■_■]

And d3, for you obviously its because you have unrealistic goals, like making massive mods or porting GTA or Quake2 to HL1 when you cant model, code or texture and have problems finishing a map.

[Schmung]

hmm, quite possibly, the maps got some nice-ish features and interesting areas, but I can't quite glue them together convincignly enough and though I have ideas for most places, nothing seems quite right when I try making it.

[dux]

I had the problem for 2 months . I didn't touch hammer at all, instead I worked out like a rabbit on steroids and played as many games and mods I could in my spare time to gather up ideas an inspiration, which oddly enough worked. (I don't know what the deal is with excersize and mapping, but it works somehow.)

Opened up hammer oneday and couldn't stop mapping. The ideas were flowing ! Btw, when I get the feeling of 'this just doesn't look how I want it to look' I just delete it all and start over. Failing this I suggest you take mind bending drugs.

[Taylor]

Yep. Had a loooot of these periods.

I read that as "loot." See previous post.

[Schmung]

Opened up hammer oneday and couldn't stop mapping. The ideas were flowing ! Btw, when I get the feeling of 'this just doesn't look how I want it to look' I just delete it all and start over. Failing this I suggest you take mind bending drugs.

Bastards made 'shrooms illegal in the summer or I'd scoff a ton of them. Nowt like it for a mental work out.

[ginsengavenger]

A deadline does wonders for me. There are times when you simply have to hunker down and work on something even if you don't want to and what you're doing is crap; something good will usually come of it.

[cdxx]

read a book, that usually works for me.

or download every crap map out there and play only those for a week or so. You'll be so repulsed after a week that you'll have to start mapping again ;-)