WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Vincent]

complicated and advanced

Hahaha.

No need for the ego, just letting you know everyone is gonna look down on you for those textures. At least here they will. Generally most of us aim for Valve quality in our maps so seeing a map using HL2 textures just kinda, seems off, I guess.

Hope you have a fun and enjoyable mapping experience.

 

[Sergis]

i get the strangest feeling of deja vu

 

[soylent robot]

(At least I'm doing something more complicated and advance than many user here <_<)

no youre not. youre making a direct copy of another map into tf2. thats hardly difficult or original

 

[re1wind]

obvious cross-post and pimpage.

Floating cactus, joshua tree, and fences are TOTALLY intentional.

 

[LeSwordfish]

I don't much like the metal/rock. Perhaps wood would look better, particularly with those fences? Or concrete and tthe metal fences?

 

[soylent robot]

not sure how to describe it, but the opening in the hill in the centre of the picture looks odd to me. the perfect rectangle cut into the rock and all that

 

[Skibur]

no youre not. youre making a direct copy of another map into tf2. thats hardly difficult or original

The complicated and advance part is about designing their map without using 3D modeling.
I didn't say it was complicate to copy lol.

 

[Vincent]

The complicated and advance part is about designing their map without using 3D modeling.

What would you call mapping then..?

 

[Wilson]

The complicated and advance part is about designing their map without using 3D modeling.

Wait what..

 

[Sergis]

The complicated and advance part is about designing their map without using 3D modeling.
I didn't say it was complicate to copy lol.

if anything, proper porting is more difficult than making a map with no custom 3d models.

in any case, the way you describe it gives off an unpleasant, arrogant vibe of empty bragging.

 

[grazr]

Porting maps 101: creating an exact replica of an environment from one game, in another, will not result in good gameplay. The the gameplay mechanics will often be completely different. Halo isn't a class based game, it has weapon pickups and vehicles. TF2 has a 1.5x scale ratio, damage falloff and medics.

Porting a map requires compromise. This is why badlands is infinitely better gameplay wise than dustbowl or 2fort. Dustbowl and 2fort are near faithful replica's and both have terrible balance issues.

Secondly, if you're going to port a map into TF2 and ignore the art style what's the point in porting it to TF2 at all.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

in any case, the way you describe it gives off an unpleasant, arrogant vibe of empty bragging.

I don't think it does, if he's doing a port and can't use 3D modeling, then yea, its tough...

And to back up what grazr said, porting is good for a "practice with hammer" or "practice your first TF2 map" ... but if it isn't your first TF2 map, then you should really be sticking with the TF2 artstyle (well, whats left of it) ... and making sure that you are VERY strict on keeping to the playstyle of TF2, not HL2.

Whatever you wish to do, we will respectfully help you with your endevours, but note that we will be more bias towards making it a "Standard" TF2 map.

 

[Shanghai]

It is perhaps more labor-intensive to port a map into TF2 without custom content, but is it really more "complicated and advance"?

With a fully original map, one must come up with a layout, build it, and refine it again and again through the (rather limited) feedback from playtesting. On a map port, one takes an existing layout, recreates it to the best of their ability in TF2, and (in this case) refines it only slightly.

And while you're up on your high horse, I'm going to ask a few questions. Do you have any knowledge of entities and game logic? What about optimization? Lighting? How does the map look in a compile?

Perhaps it will serve as a good introduction to the Hammer editor (my first mapping attempt was a port of a CTF map from World of Warcraft), but in the end, I doubt this map will ever see a release day.

 

[Batandy]

 

[TheKieranator]

That's not a pump action on a double-barreled shotgun, is it?

 

[re1wind]

its like an unsawed-off F.A.N.

 

[Batandy]

Yes, it's a double barrel pump action.
I've originally had the idea from the Remington 1740, but then i thought
"The engineer is a texan, let's make it look like a coachgun"

This was the result!

Don't forget to check out this video of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxOH_5c3zcE

 

[EArkham]

Why, I, too, am contributing to the downfall of TF2 in the form of non-vanilla hats and/or weaponry!

Vote for mah junk!

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=5280

 

[Ida]

Why is there an utterly random shopping list on it? I don't get it. It doesn't seem to have any relation to the hat, unless there's some (obscure?) reference I'm not getting. Also, why isn't this a Demoman hat?

 

[EArkham]

Why is there an utterly random shopping list on it? I don't get it. It doesn't seem to have any relation to the hat, unless there's some (obscure?) reference I'm not getting. Also, why isn't this a Demoman hat?

Fail a reflect, catch it with your head instead.

The note is purposely random just to break the colour up a bit. Maybe I should have gone with a feather instead.