WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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Have you been skipping school lately? (Just kidding!)
After 30 minutes (of alone livestreaming) and some more to fix some rendering issues, I managed to get Red's spawn done for the KotH contest.
I am not obligated at the time to tell you the name of the map, it would ruin the surprise I have planned.
You have a leak.
It also was not a serious attempt at a fully functional map. Everything was an after thought.
Everyone who has said 'heres how to improve' I have thanked and taken heed to their advice. Im hardly upset at all
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If you don't know what you're doing, you end up with literally every shitty arena/koth map we've seen on here. *cough* Redwood *cough*
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If you build enough stuff (In an informed and well thought-out way) on said chunk, it can easily become a regular TF2 map with large areas of pointlessly rendered displacement hidden underneath the floors, and where the design limitations given by the already made environment give you more work than building new ground displacements for the separate areas would have. Yay?
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nay. the preexisting isplacements will guie the map evelopment in a way planning woulnt have, efining areas an height ifferences for you resulting in an emergent map layout as oppose to a preplanne one an the "junk" will have serve its purpose as being the floor of the map much alike usually its just a single brush use for sai purpose. thats yay.
eit: plus if you hie the isplacements uner the floors, they will not be renere anyway.
eit 2: fuck my d key.
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Junk was a freudian slip, I meant to type chunk.
The idea of a broad strokes displacement layout to outline the shape of the map actually seems like a pretty useful idea, the way you put it. I do however think it seems more convenient to use it as a sort of template rather than the actual ground, and then discard it and make normal ground displacements once all the geometry of the layout is done.
If you have four giant displacements covering the entire map, place big parts of them under floors but leave sections of them open in the outdoor areas, every outdoor area will render at least a fourth of the map's total area worth of displacement, no?
I enjoy your lack of d key. It's like you're writing in some really adorable accent.
A few minutes into development...
Okay, so I have everything planned out for this except the first stretch. It's 3 stage CP, and the first point takes place on a beach, with a lighthouse being the cap point. The path on the left of this image is a boardwalk, which'll have interconnected buildings and storage rooms to run through and stairs down to the sand, and the raised path on the right is a payload track (to block off access to the beach).
This'll be my first serious map, so I'm pretty inexperienced at this. I'd like to know any good ways to break up the middle section a bit. It feels too open looking at it now.
Okay, so I have everything planned out for this except the first stretch. It's 3 stage CP, and the first point takes place on a beach, with a lighthouse being the cap point. The path on the left of this image is a boardwalk, which'll have interconnected buildings and storage rooms to run through and stairs down to the sand, and the raised path on the right is a payload track (to block off access to the beach).
This'll be my first serious map, so I'm pretty inexperienced at this. I'd like to know any good ways to break up the middle section a bit. It feels too open looking at it now.