TF2Maps.net Major Mapping Contest #11: Mercs vs. Aliens UPLOAD THREAD

[Fruity Snacks]

TF2Maps.net Major Mapping Contest #11
Mercs vs. Aliens

UPLOAD THREAD​

Greetings Earthlings!

It's that time. We're finally winding down with the Mercs Vs. Aliens Mapping contest! Oorah!

This is the UPLOAD THREAD. That means, if you are submitting your map to the contest and hope to have a taste of that sweet, juicey, grace period. Your map needs to be in a working, non-fullbright state and posted in this thread by 7PM, November 10th, 2014.


If your map is submitted into this thread by the above mentioned time, you will be allowed to use one extra week to finish tweeking, polishing and other wise spit shining your map!

Please leave this thread for upload submissions ONLY, any posts beyond mine that aren't a submission will be promptly deleted and fed to the alien pet living in my basement. If you feel the urge to say something about a submission, or the contest itself, feel free to PM me on the forums, or leave a post in the main discussion thread.

For submission, please follow this outline:

Name of Map:
Map filename:
Map Download:
Author(s):

Goodluck to all who enter!

 

[Idolon]

Name of Map: Byre
Map filename: arena_byre_b4
Map Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/37624951/tf2m/72h/Byre/arena_byre_b4.bsp.bz2
Author(s): Idolon

contains content by umbratile, BANG!/Ronin, and the Construction Pack team

 

[Freyja]

Name of Map: Inari
Map filename: pl_inari_b2
Map Download: Dropbox
Author(s): Aly


Custom content used:
Custom particles - (,.o.,)
Harvester Model - Emporium Vehicle pack
Mothership model (MvA pack)
Mothership explosion - Myself
Custom overlays - Myself
Custom blend textures - Myself
Custom hopper car - Myself
Custom setup gate - Myself

Update 17/11/2014: updated to b2

 

[Fantaboi]

Name of map: Backwoods
Map filename: koth_backwoods_b13
Map download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/h5ioiu5yf5sb0qk/koth_backwoods_b13.bsp.bz2?dl=0
Author: Fantasmos

Imgur album

Eligible versions: b10b
B12

Previous versions (Ineligable): B1 B3 B5
B6

Content pack: https://www.dropbox.com/s/iu31l2z39cbdwku/NIKORI_CONTENT.zip?dl=0

Content pack 2.0: https://www.dropbox.com/s/3iunhl66fgfo5b1/backwoods_b12_pack.zip?dl=0

Well, post-mortem

Well, they always say never to leave things to the last minute but sure did it get me racing around to make this the best darn map I could produce. With a day left to go I rushed out the optimization and if you ask me did a sloppy job at best. BUT turns out there was a day left, and somehow someway I managed to make what I believe is a map tot he best of my ability.

I've finally made the swamp-themed map I always wanted to do and in a measly month and a half. It's hard not to feel an incredible sense of pride of making the psuedo-horror Swamp themed map that I had spent years thinking of in classes while bored, or even proud about introducing something as fun as jump-pads to an already locked meta.

I'd like to thank Tumb, Aly, Metroid-Man in particular with this and anyone else I annoyed with my constant questions and jabber in the chat or on this site.

Vote for who you all think deserve it guys, it was a short hell of a ride and I hope you guys will look past the cinematic-gameplay experience and enjoy yourselves in the voting process!

 

[DonutVikingChap]

Name of Map: Invasion
Map Filename: pl_invasion_a3
Map Download: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bj51gshx5ard567/pl_invasion_a3.bsp.bz2?dl=0
Author(s): Donut the Vikingchap

Custom content:
Obligatory alien stuff
Particles by (,.o.,)
Rockwall with $nodecal by myself

 

[Berry]

Map name: Mudwater (thread)
Map download: Dropbox ()
Map filename: cp_mudwater_b3b
Authors: [url=http://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198030362593/]Berry, TheoF114

Custom content:
MvA stuff (obv)
FissionMetroid's MvA particles - link
Construction pack stuff - link
Props_foundry (not sure who made this? sorry. not cp_foundry, that's under props_harbor)

Good luck all! :woot:

Edit: Updated to b1b, Nov 11 7:06pm
Edit: Updated to b3, Nov 15 7:42pm
Edit: B3d, Nov 17 10:59 (t-minus 1 hour 1 min to deadline)

 

[StickZer0]

Map name: Kalamity (thread)
Map download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1471205/Games/TF2/Maps/koth_kalamity/b1/koth_kalamity_b1.bsp.bz2
Map filename: koth_kalamity_b1
Authors: StickZer0 (Puffbit~)

Custom content:
The given invader_props pack
(,.o.,)'s alien particles <3

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[Egan]

Name of Map: Watergate
Map Filename: pd_watergate_b5
Map Download: BZ2
Author(s): Egan, Bakscratch


Custom content used:
MvA Prop Makers - UFO model (which I enlarged)
FissionMetroid - UFO particles / Watergate particles
BulletCrops Pack - boat model among other things
Neodement - watergate model
All other assets made by Bakscratch and I


I think I found out why people have been having problems with soundscapes lately since the thing same has been happening on watergate with the overrides on powercore models. It seems that if you reload a map that uses overrides (soundscripts, soundscapes, pack overrides) then the overrides will break for you. So for instance if you play watergate twice in a row then the powercore models might not show up (changing to a different map and coming back seems to fix this sometimes - 5 out of the 6 times I tried).

Edit: Updated to b5

 

[Spipper]

Name of Map: Felgen
Map filename: ctf_felgen_a2b
Map Download: http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=5893&act=down
Author(s) M-L-J

Pretty rough at this point, but I'm nearly done with a pretty big update.
Also, I really wanted to participate in a major contest.

 

[Crash]

Name of Map: Probed
Map filename: koth_probed_b6
Map Download: Here (bz2)
Author(s): Crash

Custom Assets used:
Lots of FissionMetroid's Particles
MvA prop pack
Almost a Sphere by Aly
Alien ship support beams model created via propper from my own brushwork
Construction Pack concrete blend

 

[ibex]

Horrendous isometric screenshot I made the other night while playing around with that feature...I had hoped it would turn out nice, but if anything the three levels makes it moderately worse:

This map has become a mess that I don't have time (contest time) to fix. So I'm going to go ahead and pull it now. Was fun trying to finish it up these last few weeks, and now I've got a base that I've got lots of plans for (that don't align with the contest theme anyway). Not that my map was much competition.

Good luck to all the other entrants!

 

[Sergis]

Name of Map: 3some
Map filename: cp_3some_b1
Map Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/9180221/TF2/TW/cp_3some_b1.bsp.bz2
Author(s): Sergis

updated despite battlefield
still its half done anyway

 

[Fruity Snacks]

I didn't ask for it directly, but could you guys post some screenshots at some point too? It just saves me time down the road.

 

[EArkham]

Name of Map: snowycoast
Map filename: pl_snowycoast_b1
Map Download: https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/764491/maps_tf2/pl_snowycoast_b1.bsp.bz2
Map Thread: http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=22808
Author(s): EArkham (map)
props_invader authors
particles by FissionMetroid
icicle cart by Tyker

Screenshot:

 

[PyroDevil]

Name of Map: Cliffside
Map filename: arena_cliffside_a5
Map download: dropbox
Author(s): PyroDevil

Underdetailed, but will update.

 

[Izotope]

Name of Map: Hale Harbor (thread)
Map filename: sd_haleharbor_a5b
Map Download: BZ2
Author(s): Izotope, Light08

Custom Content used:
MvA Prop Pack
Alien Particles by (,.o.,)


So we started working on the map too late and had to make big changes close to the deadline, we give up.
RIP this wonderful idea.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Cool, so any new submissions past this point won't be allowed to enter the contest.

If you submitted BEFORE this post, sick-nastey dude and dudettes, you get a 1 week grace period, che'ya.