WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[English Mobster]

Jay go use the modeling skills I know you have and make some nice pagoda roofs, doing them with brushes is never going to look good.

If I can get all the bugs in this thing worked out by tonight and everything tested by tomorrow, I'll see if I can't model a bunch of 'em real quick. Shouldn't be too difficult, but deadlines and laziness don't mix...

E: Hell, most of 'em won't even need collision models, now that I think about it. I'll take a look and see if I can dig up some reference images.

 

[re1wind]

cp_wetstone_a2 candidate.

 

[littleedge]

I think that needs some more red or pink.

 

[Miauw62]

Hey guys, im back here to annoy the hell out of you!
My map is going pretty wel.
All the main buildings are now in place, my plans are basicly to improve the geometry to be more intresting (add cover, more variation), clipping brushes, underground tunnels to prevent sniperfest to a certain level etc.
Also, i got some doors that open up to below/above and thus block a place higher up/lower down.
Here are some screenies:

(My excuses if im somehow not allowed to use photobucket. i have made my way trough the sections but didnt find anything about uploading trough photobucket. Also, sorry for the screenshots beining in-hammer. im feeling lazy)

E: nvm the photobucket thing.
I somehow looked over the announcement.
i guess i have to use dropbox?
EE: figured it out.

 

[Kerch]

Did you make those hills by raising the ground?

If so I think that will really stretch the textures, so it's best to start with some vertical surfaces and displace those.

 

[Sel]

Not gonna lie that's really really bad.

Go look at the stock maps in the SDK and see how they made their displacements, and then work on recreating that for starts. As for the building try and recreate some generic tf2 buildings to get a better idea how to go about that.

You'd be best off scrapping what you have and starting over with something else when you have a better idea of what to do.

 

[Fredrik]

:O

 

[ScorpioUprising]

:O

Is that a 5cp? If so, and thats the middle point, be careful with that. Freight had a similar middle and comp players in the US find it a bit un-interactive. Having both teams just sit on opposite sides of a very small choke spamming each other can be not so much fun.

 

[re1wind]

then they should've learnt the map first and that there are more ways to flank the enemy than just mindlessly spam the middle.

 

[Prestige]

freight mid is cool, but the lower route is water and who likes water? fish. players are not fish. a 5cp with ashville's mid might be kind of cool. wonder who could/has already made this (SCORPIO).

 

[tyler]

Clocktower works without a path under the point more or less

 

[AgeNt_]

going to optimize it then get a new fixed version out. hopefully by tomorrow.

 

[Miauw62]

Not gonna lie that's really really bad.

Go look at the stock maps in the SDK and see how they made their displacements, and then work on recreating that for starts. As for the building try and recreate some generic tf2 buildings to get a better idea how to go about that.

You'd be best off scrapping what you have and starting over with something else when you have a better idea of what to do.

I have loaded dustbowl, (because that seemed the one whit the most loose generic buildings to me) and on load it said that it found 2 invalid solids.
any idea if this is normal?

 

[soylent robot]

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1827972/lordsaveusall/cp_alborn_township_a50002.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1827972/lordsaveusall/cp_alborn_township_a50003.jpg
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1827972/lordsaveusall/cp_alborn_township_a50004.jpg

going to optimize it then get a new fixed version out. hopefully by tomorrow.

looking good!

 

[grazr]

Why are you using harvest's trees?

 

[YM]

Why are you using harvest's trees?

I've spent three weeks telling him not to, now he isn't you ask why he is?

you perplex me.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I've spent three weeks telling him not to, now he isn't you ask why he is?

you perplex me.

Just because you say something, doesn't mean everyone knows automatically


I personally didn't see what the issue was though in the first place.

 

[AgeNt_]

plus if you want to be literally correct, the harvest trees are maple trees while the manor trees are oak.

 

[Shanghai]

plus if you want to be literally correct, the harvest trees are maple trees while the manor trees are oak.

Congrats on finding what is possibly the strangest reason to use/not use a certain type of tree. Who, in the middle of a battle, is gonna look at the leaves and the tree, and say "Those are oak leaves, while that is clearly a maple tree. This mapper should be ashamed of himself."

 

[soylent robot]

trying to get my gun into the game using the itemtest function in the sdk

well...it sort of works. i assume im skinning the weapon to an incorrectly named bone or somesuch. is this my mistake or is there something else?
(also tf2maps isnt sending me emails when threads im subscribed to get posted in, a little annoying)