Announcing the Maps Workshop Beta!

[Kill_the_Bug]

I think this will be one of the biggest game enhancers or game killers of all time. If it's people from here posting maps, then there will be an overall high quality level, if it's your average yahoo out there that thinks making a box and putting in a cow model and then calling it a map will kill the game / workshop idea.

I've also noticed in console that it indicates that your custom map doesn't have the 'map workshop prefix' - anyidea what this is? do the old prefixes still count?

 

[Geit]

Of course this will mean a deluge in orange dev-textured maps, and the monstrosity that is Balloon Race, but I’m really excited to see how the map making community make use of this new change. Nice to see Valve not screwing up the Workshop for once.

http://www.destructoid.com/the-team-fortress-2-maps-workshop-beta-has-arrived-293207.phtml

 

[UKCS-Alias]

Though... for MvM maps, you can't pack in the missions and bot lists, can you? I seem to remember those had to be seperate or else they wouldn't work right.

It can all be packed into the map. Thats not a problem there, and for the workshop i would recommend that. Not only that, but since they explicitely require a bsp it is a must.

Time to get skullcove in it

You can pack all of the missions and stuff in, as long as it goes into the right directory it should be loaded on map start.

The mvm bug he refered to was that a packed popfile didnt show up in the vote options. I dont know if its fixed and even how long it was there. But it has been there for quite a while.

 

[worMatty]

Balloon Race a monstrosity? Christ on a bike. It's large, plain-looking and the gameplay feels a bit wonky sometimes but that comes from the nature of the way players progress through the map. It's a grand experiment in complex path_tracking and never seemed to profess to be amazing or intentionally crude.

Still, no such thing as bad publicity You should quote this on the map's workshop page, Geit.
"... the monstrosity that is Balloon race." - Destructoid.

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

Christ on a bike.

Now that's something I've never imagined up until now.

 

[Kill_the_Bug]

New Question - since I'm at work and can't check it out.

Under this new system- is there anything in place that stops some yahoo from uploading your map from their game and try to claim it as their's?

 

[Werewolf]

New Question - since I'm at work and can't check it out.

Under this new system- is there anything in place that stops some yahoo from uploading your map from their game and try to claim it as their's?

Sadly does not look like it. Good thing I put my name in the title card and put pictures of it on my items

 

[Sergis]

New Question - since I'm at work and can't check it out.

Under this new system- is there anything in place that stops some yahoo from uploading your map from their game and try to claim it as their's?

well you have timestamped evidence of your work everywhere you posted it previously

 

[Zed]

Don't worry Geit.

It's a monstrosity that we all love.

 

[YM]

Well I've put all of mine that are in a playable state up there, so here they are: http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454680074

I maaaay pick up Stark again since that one has potential and is nearly done.

 

[Snowbat]

Put MvM_Yucatan up here:
http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=454679673

Now I got another reason to hurry up and get a RC done soon. Plus hopefully, if Alias is willing to make the popfile, a wave 666-event type variant too.

 

[UKCS-Alias]

And skullcove is finaly uploaded

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=455168490

And as mentioned earlier. valve still hasnt fixed the bug where packed popfiles dont show up in votes. They work fine however but require the server owner to know they are there!

 

[henke37]

I am sure that they will add a separate workshop category for mvm missions eventually.

 

[DrLambda]

Anybody here who knows when ratings start showing? After 17 ratings, i still don't have enough votes.

 

[UKCS-Alias]

I think it was 25 as i had that before on a portal map. Its as far as i can see not 20 votes as thats where im at now.

Just to confirm its 25
at 23 i had no rating yet, at 27 it showed it.

 

[Crash]

So what I'm gathering is that cubemaps are being broken by the name change of the map when uploaded to the workshop.

 

[UKCS-Alias]

Well, at least on wubwubwub that wouldnt realy be a problem as the map still would be excelent. But on other maps that surely would be a problem. But if that is the case i wonder why on other games that never did show.

Or is it that you download it as vpk maybe? As originaly that was broken for that exact reason (and with that aswel for nav and popfiles).

 

[iiboharz]

So what I'm gathering is that cubemaps are being broken by the name change of the map when uploaded to the workshop.

They really need to sort that out. IMHO the maps should go to steamapps/common/team fortress 2/tf/maps instead of steamapps/workshop/440 or w/e. (or at least make them more easily accessible)

 

[Crash]

Yeah, but being a beta, we should send in our suggestions through their feedback form they linked on the blog post.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Like a better UI!