Sandstone (Pro)

KotH Sandstone Pro RC1

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Original Version
Latest Version: B19

Sandstone pro is an update to the map koth_sandstone with major changes to cater towards the competitive community.

Lore:
Sandstone_pro is a King of the Hill map set at another very similar Egyptian shrine. Redmond and Blutarch both believe there to be more of the Australiam like substance in the center below a large slab of sandstone, and being the pros they are have decided to fight for it during the day with their best mercs!

Imgur Album

Credits and special thanks

Frozen For always being there to help out, especially with feedback

Egan For testing this map over 40 times

Aly A lot of help with lighting and aesthetics

Sean 'Heyo' Cutino Creating the Egypt Theme

3DNJ Innovating the Egypt theme with lakeside

Last Order Fence texture

9jao5 Wallpaper commission

There are a lot of names I've forgot overtime, but if you had even the smallest contribution, thank you.

And the rest of you folks at the tf2maps chatroom, you guys bloody well deserve a round of applause.

Other threads:

Teamfortress.Tv thread, a lot more active

UGC

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Fruity Snacks

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I think that your egyptian architexture styling looks really weird. I don't think the panels with they hieroglyphs jutting out looks that great. Also, normally you wouldn't have a V shape to buildings (where the higher you go, the wider it got). As odd as it sounds, the Egyptians didn't really know how to do that on that scale. The very top is fine, with the angled brushes you have, but what could make that spot like 100% cooler is if they were rounded and brought in a little bit so the bottom of the curve wasn't lined up with the wall.

I'd have to run through everything specifically, but your displacements could use some work too.

(And that concrete bag in the last SFM picture is defying gravity! It should be bent more)

Beyond those things, its looking good. Just watch the things that you have sticking out from the wall.
 

Fantaboi

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I commisioned 9joao6 to make some wallpapers of the map in SFM, here they are!
Day Version
Night version

It was ONLY 1 scrap a picture, and the feeling of having an awesome wallpaper is amazing well worth more than the amount paid, and the publicity they bring is also phenomenal
 

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Map has been:
-Updated to b7c
-Posted to a lot of other sites
-Is now aimed at competitive 6v6
Happy playing!
 

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Map has been updated to b11 changelog is at the top.

Man this has been worked on for over a year.....
 

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In the gameday today most of the server reported fps issues. I know I had them, which is rare for a map. I think the main reason for your fps problems is that there are two large lines of sight (not really but vis thinks they are) that run through mid to both spawns. You could try fixing it with areaportals or occluders. I'm not entirely sure because I'm not a genius.

Someone said that the map was too white and some people on the server didn't like the environment lighting. I didn't care about it too much.
Also, someone said that they didn't like how the resupply locker was a little higher than the spawn room floor. Personally I think it looks neat. Although it makes you wonder how it even got up there.

I also recorded some w+m1 pyro footage of the map. Near the middle I demonstrate some "clipping"(?) issues with a rock and wood platform at mid. It's pretty minor but it's probably a big deal since this is the pro version of the map.
IMPORTANT: If you're wondering why the hud is broken in the video I'm pretty sure it's because some snowplow server plugins were still on and were screwing it up. You probably don't need to worry about it.
Sorry about no video sound
btw that !fb I made at the end was a joke, even if the sightlines are probably causing fps issues "technically"
 
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snowplow uses no plugins, everything is mapside... So it was something wrong with your computer :p
In that case, I know some other people were commenting on the checkerboard hud. I guess that means something really is messed up in the koth entities.
 

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Wait, so why did abp have a custom flamethrower model? I mean, I saw that when I was playing. Is that an actual item?
 

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You might want to update the thread download to rc1 while you're at it.