Silly things you did as a beginner

Da_Man

Da_Man

L4: Comfortable Member
Aug 23, 2009
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I think I still have the orignial concept for luna, which was a giant empty area with a cap-point right in the middle, about 2000 units from end to end.

And nothing else.

I redid it something like 3 times, and the "final" version had:

* Displacements that opened into the void (how was i supposed to know they didn't seal areas?)
* The above didn't matter because I had the entire map in a skybox brush.
* I didn't realize that you were supposed to nodraw invisible faces until about 3/4 of the way through the 2nd alpha.
* I clipped things willy-nilly, and was a pain-in-the-ass to optimize because everything was at a wierd-ass angle.
* I used an elevator, which i got from a prefab off Fps Gamebanana.

Maybe I'll try and dig up the first concept so you can laugh at me. It was horrendous.
 
Pocket

Pocket

Half a Lambert is better than one.
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Nov 14, 2009
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Making the initial skybox by making a giant brush and clicking Make Hollow
Carving to make arched doorways
Not using func_detail, ever, because I didn't know what they were
 
NinjillaX

NinjillaX

L3: Member
Apr 4, 2011
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I didnt know how to use displacements.
I over-scaled like a mofo.
I expected func_details to seal.
Used invisible to clip.
Made my walls one-unit thick, I have no worldly idea why.
 
Jeremy

Jeremy

L11: Posh Member
Oct 24, 2010
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I once overscaled a map, by accident, to the point where it might as well have been a ratmap.
 
Dragonstorm24

Dragonstorm24

L4: Comfortable Member
Nov 16, 2009
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I actually looked at a video on weather effects in Hammer using a huge trigger box around the map and I tried making a spawn from the TF2 level design SDK Docs
 
Ravidge

Ravidge

Grand Vizier
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May 14, 2008
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I made pillars of water/slime/lava, and a lot of blinking colored lighting. A brush-cannon that spewed gibs and the most retarded spiral staircases ever to be imagined.

This was for hl1 though, over a decade ago.
 
Empyre

Empyre

L6: Sharp Member
Feb 8, 2011
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My first maps were for Doom, so that's where I made my silly beginner mistakes, the biggest of which was making walls with zero thickness. I didn't want to waste space in the map.
 
REEJ

REEJ

L420: High Member
Aug 26, 2010
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9 years ago - mapping for Morrowind without any understanding of English
 
Wander

Wander

L3: Member
Sep 16, 2010
148
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hl2 textures everywhere
and colourless lights looked boring, flashy red blue or green lights, fun?
 
ok comp

ok comp

L2: Junior Member
Mar 16, 2011
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I basically learned everything engine related through mistake. I had a decent sense of scale and design from the beginning, but I had a great time learning what func_details do, after trying to compile a map that had a sphere brush and a rotated building with complicated brushwork that wasn't a func_detail. It took almost an entire afternoon to compile on my old laptop, and I knew something was wrong after that.

Nodraw on displacement surfaces is something else I was guilty of.
Also, using displacements with too high of a power in situations where it wasn't necessary.
 
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