Map concept Thread

[The Letter Before A]

I mostly use paper layouts as a way to visualize my thought process and iterate upon it before committing to it and to jog my memory when it comes time to build the thing.



Thing is, nobody else has to ever see my crappy sketches. The above arrangement of boxes probably doesn't look like much, but when I look at it I know which boxes represent bridges, and which ones represent open space, and which ones represent enclosed buildings and so on.

That's a really cool design style, But the layout might be to simple. What is the gamemode?

 

[Beef Bucket]

Originally I had it planned to be a stage in a best of three multistage 1cp but it never got off the ground due to being not very good
The red bit with the white star inside represents the capture zone

It might be OK, but it came out of the same era as this monstrosity. Given my schedule right now I don't think it's worth the time it would take to build

 

[DrLambda]

I also consider myself to be a mapper that works with drawn concepts, but i'd like to say that it is very hard to convey the ideas you have with the map to other mappers that way. Per example, for the ones of you who already played on Ascendant, would you be able to see how this map will look like from this drawing?



Or even this one?


I mean, the map changed a lot over the last few alphas, and some of the layout decisions already changed for A1, but i still can see the basic layout on these shots - But even though i tried to make this sketch as easy as possible to understand, i still think it is hard to read for everyone else. Just my 2 cents.

 

[The Letter Before A]

I can recognise the second sketch, but not the first

 

[The Letter Before A]

I can recognise the second sketch, but not the first

Actually after looking at it some more, I can recognise the first one as well

 

[The Letter Before A]

This a small simple ctf map I made to solve the issue of ctf maps taking 30 minutes.

 

[SparkyShock]

This is my payload map i made in math class

 

[The Letter Before A]

This is my payload map i made in math class

actually I can still see whats happening.
Looks much cooler than my sketches.
Do you think you will make it a reality?

 

[SparkyShock]

actually I can still see whats happening.
Looks much cooler than my sketches.
Do you think you will make it a reality?

Yeah, most likely. After my koth_powercore, im going to work on an Attack Defense map that will be a Frontline submission. Thought, i could work on this on the side.
Would you like to see my ad map sketches?

 

[The Letter Before A]

sure

 

[SparkyShock]

Sry for the difficulty to see, tried to take the best pictures

 

[Erk]

This is my payload map i made in math class

You know, the Hammer editor has actually taught me a lot of things I can use in Geometry. Volumes and stuff.

I still suck at math though.

 

[14bit]

I'm just going to randomly start dumping some sketches here that I've done for various maps. To start, here's the sketches I made for my 7.2 hour map, ad_relay:

The sketches are out of order, I designed point 2 first, followed by 3 then 1. The final product is a bit different, (most notably I cut a bunch of the angular geometry between points 1 and 2 to keep my sanity during the stream) but you can still tell that it's the same map. I'll see if I can dig up my drawings for my various other maps later, as well as the initial sketches for what became Reactor (those might be a bit harder, some of them were in my AP Calculus notes (which I don't have with me)).

 

[Jusa]

Heres a couple of my sketches. The first one, which is for cp_kalinka, was more of a success since it only had the general rough idea of the layout which helped me a lot while blocking out the a1 in hammer and still left a lot of freedom to work with.

The 2nd one was more of a crazy experiment of what would happen if I sketched a level on the Z X axis instead of the normal topdown view. I did manage to make it into a playable map (ctf_bunker), but I dont think the gameplay was that great. Fun silly experiment nonetheless.

 

[The Letter Before A]

Heres a couple of my sketches. The first one, which is for cp_kalinka, was more of a success since it only had the general rough idea of the layout which helped me a lot while blocking out the a1 in hammer and still left a lot of freedom to work with.

The 2nd one was more of a crazy experiment of what would happen if I sketched a level on the Z X axis instead of the normal topdown view. I did manage to make it into a playable map (ctf_bunker), but I dont think the gameplay was that great. Fun silly experiment nonetheless.

Those are some pretty sketches.
I usually just scrible something up on some graph paper.

 

[Jusa]

Those are some pretty sketches.
I usually just scrible something up on some graph paper.

Yeah they were also messy scribles at first, but I like to take the time to polish them up a notch while thinking about the map a bit more.

 

[The Letter Before A]

I'm just going to randomly start dumping some sketches here that I've done for various maps. To start, here's the sketches I made for my 7.2 hour map, ad_relay:

The sketches are out of order, I designed point 2 first, followed by 3 then 1. The final product is a bit different, (most notably I cut a bunch of the angular geometry between points 1 and 2 to keep my sanity during the stream) but you can still tell that it's the same map. I'll see if I can dig up my drawings for my various other maps later, as well as the initial sketches for what became Reactor (those might be a bit harder, some of them were in my AP Calculus notes (which I don't have with me)).

Relay is really cool. It feels so distinct.

 

[nickybakes]

Relay is really cool

Yeah relay is relay cool.

 

[Umaroth-24]

Maybe the picture is a bit dark, but its a 3d drawing of a capture area with building which i probably will use for my map.

{Edit} got a 2d drawing as well

 

[Nixon]

aight I think this relates to this thread

Heres a sketch i made for my map cp_oblako. It plays terribly, can anyone explain why? Please halp I'm hopeless

https://tf2maps.net/downloads/oblako.3924/