Sticky: The original VALVe maps (Great Reference)

[Jag]

IF Anyone had Trouble Dling them my friend Dl them and send them to me i made a Zip with all them here is the link

http://rapidshare.de/files/39554885/valve_maps.rar.html

 

[Ace]

TBH, I decided to decompile them all myself when I want some inspiration. I found that the ones on FBSbanana are quite out of date. By out of date I mean they were decompiled by an older version of VMEX than the current release. I assume that the newer maps are OK but the original maps were no where near as good as if you do it yourself, and unlike compiling, decompiling only takes a couple of seconds so thats no excuse.

 

[Géza!]

I just had a look at 2fort and... Whoa... I wonder how the Valve guys didn't get confused looking at the 2D view...

But I learned some useful things from it...

 

[YM]

I wonder how the Valve guys didn't get confused looking at the 2D view...

Cordon tool

 

[Géza!]

Cordon tool

Now that you mentioned...:blink:

But as I said, I learned some useful things such as where to place brushes with hint texture, where to use areaportals, and such.

 

[joshman]

Can somebody add the NEW version of CTF_Well?

 

[FaTony]

Added Lumberyard and Ravine

 

[10fps]

Did you mean Ravine?

 

[Master of Spes]

Someone decom badwater

 

[FaTony]

Nothing interesting there.

 

[R!ghteous]

Can someone decompile CP_steel?

 

[Vicenti]

I was under the impression that Steel was a user-made map.

 

[Ida]

It is. I think decompiling user created maps takes the whole "wrong" thing to a new level.

 

[Bonafide]

You can just decompile the maps with vmex if you really want to look at them.

Also that copy of lumberyard had a ton of errors when I loaded it. Missing displacements, walls, etc.. (lumberyard is the one that uses the forest skybox right?)

 

[grazr]

Yes, it is the one with the alpine skybox.

if you want to find these files you'll need gcfscape from Nem's tools site to remove the desired encrypted bsp files; to decompile with vmex.

http://nemesis.thewavelength.net/index.php?p=26

 

[Master]

Awesome list

 

[JosephOhSnap]

It is. I think decompiling user created maps takes the whole "wrong" thing to a new level.

I couldn't find the .bsp files for valves maps, so i couldn't decompile any of them. i eventually went so far as to decompile pl_dustbowl_b4. ya... i really wanted a reference point for my work. this would have been a lot faster. but knowing myself, i had to go and do it the overly complicated way.

 

[JosephOhSnap]

It is. I think decompiling user created maps takes the whole "wrong" thing to a new level.

I couldn't find the .bsp files for valves maps, so i couldn't decompile any of them. i eventually went so far as to decompile pl_dustbowl_b4. ya... i really wanted a reference point for my work. this would have been a lot faster. but knowing myself, i had to go and do it the overly complicated way.

I am not entirely sure i get why decompilig a user made map is wrong though. i asked the maker of ctf_mach4 if i could convert it into a 5 point cp map (at the request of my clan) but he said no. could someone explain the psychology of this for me.

 

[Ida]

I am not entirely sure i get why decompilig a user made map is wrong though. i asked the maker of ctf_mach4 if i could convert it into a 5 point cp map (at the request of my clan) but he said no. could someone explain the psychology of this for me.

The psychology of whether it can be considered a bad thing to do, or why Vilepickle said no? I think the reason he said no is obvious - it's his own work (I know it's a remake, but he made it from the ground up as far as I know), so of course he won't let anyone edit it and do whatever they want to change it around.

If you're talking about why I (among others) think it's a bit wrong...well, the answer is much of the same. Make something original instead of tampering with other people's hard, loving work for your own sake. Of course, I don't think there's anything wrong with it if you're just going to use it for reference (like looking at the entities or something), but looking at that old comment I made, I guess my message wasn't very well explained.

 

[Ida]

I just remembered...maybe this should be added to the first post?

It's going to be updated with Valve's new payload map when they release it, of course.