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[Boylee]

Yeah although I don't really mean a guide on how to design an are so much as how to signpost it and add visual clues once you've done so.

Either way, requesting a guide is just me being a bit lazy really. If I had more time I'd sit down and do some analysis of Valve map signage and possibly even write a guide myself. Alas, real life demands are restricting mapping time a bit at the minute so it will have to be a cursory examination of best practises.

Recent testing has thrown up a few issues, signage being one of them, so I'll try to push out a release in a few days that will (hopefully) address that and the other problems (most notably the defensibility of the cave and the second to last point, and the spawn timings).

 

[Boylee]

Just a quick bump to ask if anyone has anything to add before I release the next version.

 

[Loc_n_lol]

Those stalactites are made from displacements ? :O

 

[Boylee]

The stalactites and stalagmites are made from cone primitives, the rock pillars that they surround are made from displacements of cylinder primitives.

At some stage I think I'll probably enlist the help of a modeller to make some better ones as they're very simplistic at the moment.

 

[grazr]

When ever i see someone say "I may need to employ a modeller" i hear this cheesy generic 60's music and picture Rexy pulling off his shirt, popping his buttons and revealing an poorly chosen Times New Roman "R" on his chest and landing in the thread with a big blue cape flapping behind him to leave a comment.

 

[Wilson]

When ever i see someone say "I may need to employ a modeller" i hear this cheesy generic 60's music and picture Rexy pulling off his shirt, popping his buttons and revealing an poorly chosen Times New Roman "R" on his chest and landing in the thread with a big blue cape flapping behind him to leave a comment.

Thanks for that Grazr, now i can't unsee it.

 

[LeSwordfish]

Funny, i've only just trained myself that a modeller is not someone who wears clothes for a living.

 

[EArkham]

When ever i see someone say "I may need to employ a modeller" i hear this cheesy generic 60's music and picture Rexy pulling off his shirt...

Here in the states we call those "porn stars."

Kep

 

[Pocket]

When ever i see someone say "I may need to employ a modeller" i hear this cheesy generic 60's music and picture Rexy pulling off his shirt, popping his buttons and revealing an poorly chosen Times New Roman "R" on his chest and landing in the thread with a big blue cape flapping behind him to leave a comment.

Well, we do already have the Rexysignal.

 

[Leminnes]

 

[Boylee]

He won't come, he's busy building the Rexy cave.

 

[Godslayer57]

Stage 2..... The Rexy cave... it has a nice ring to it...

 

[Boylee]

a7 update bump, the entire map now has displacements.

I've also redesigned these two points with the intent of making them more fun and also a tad easier to defend:

Check the OP for more pics and a download.

 

[Boylee]

Bumping for the test today, sorry I couldn't be there folks, baby stuff happening at my house. :C

 

[Boylee]

Well since no-one had anything to say I went ahead and started detailing.

Stage one is almost done for now I think, might have to redo those cliffs first though...

 

[Micnax]

Whoa whoa, is that a custom left/right sign? Or just the normal one with two bars hanging down?

Looks very good too, especially the capture point area.

 

[Boylee]

Thanks dude.

As for the sign, it's just two normal ones back to back with two cylindrical func_detail brushes.

 

[Seba]

I love your detailing, although the ladder at...whichever point it is that has a ladder next to it looks odd. Makes no sense, imo. Also, when can we expect a release?

 

[Boylee]

I love your detailing, although the ladder at...whichever point it is that has a ladder next to it looks odd. Makes no sense, imo. Also, when can we expect a release?

If you look closely there's a ladder poking out of a hatch above the point, which is supposed to give access to the tower above, the step ladder is there to allow access to the hatch.

Not sure about a release, might wait until I've textured the rest of it too.

 

[Seba]

Ah, I see. Oh well, keep going at it - looks great!