I've been playing a little bit of Balloon Race lately and I noticed that a lot of people bug out on the map. They fall through the ship, the ship jags back and forth while on it's course from A to B, etc. I'm far from the mapping expert as my expertise's lies with 3d modeling.
So, I propose (hopefully with the permission of the original creator) to make a 3d model of the ship, and add a few brush volumes such as glass windows, "buildables here" volumes, etc).
I don't want to change or add to much to the original creation, but I would like to add one fun feature. I'd like to add an area where you can build in the cargo area of the ship. It would act as a platform for a sentry. It would be the only area you could essentially build on the ship. Once it's built, any player can press a button and a door opens in-front of the sentry and the platform extends partly outside the ship. These openings for the sentry platforms would be on the sides of the ship and would act as a traditional cannon.
I want to keep the layout for the ship fairly canonical to the creators original version of the ship.
Here is what I have thus far.
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/749/shipc.png
So, I propose (hopefully with the permission of the original creator) to make a 3d model of the ship, and add a few brush volumes such as glass windows, "buildables here" volumes, etc).
I don't want to change or add to much to the original creation, but I would like to add one fun feature. I'd like to add an area where you can build in the cargo area of the ship. It would act as a platform for a sentry. It would be the only area you could essentially build on the ship. Once it's built, any player can press a button and a door opens in-front of the sentry and the platform extends partly outside the ship. These openings for the sentry platforms would be on the sides of the ship and would act as a traditional cannon.
I want to keep the layout for the ship fairly canonical to the creators original version of the ship.
Here is what I have thus far.
http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/749/shipc.png