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TF2Maps.net Mapping Contest #7: Payload (Dynamic element)
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To those who need it, I have started up a guide of sorts for Payload elevators (It's basically a list of things that I have done so far to get mine working, and will update it as I find solutions for issues I have)
Vaconcovat
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Well, I'm new to this whole competitive mapping thing. I'm giving it a shot though. I have an idea, and from what i managed to create today, i think it will work.
Prolly going to give this one a shot, but its been awhile since i modded anything let alone maps.
I just noticed this and I'm trying to decide if I want to give it a shot. I always try something new with each map so I think for this it would have to be designing the map for optimization while creating the map. Thus building the map to incorporate hint and skips into the map without feeling like my brain is bleeding.
I also have a lot of weird ideas that I probably won't incorporate, like blue starting a runaway bomb cart that red must stop, thus blue is attacking to make sure that red don't stop the car and red is trying to defend by stopping the cart. Would be a very interesting dynamic but I doubt I could get away with that.
Another was an old idea of using another vehicle as the car, like a truck, that failed so I'll leave that one there for someone.
And that is all I'm sharing. I did have another I would love to share but I suddenly have a feeling it would make an awesome payload map that would be very dynamic. All I must ask is, would it be allowed to have capture points for red to, say, add a diversion for blue? Switch the tracks or something.
Would that be too weird?
What I'm envisioning is fully optional for red to help improve their defense but if they wish they can just play the map as is.
I also have a lot of weird ideas that I probably won't incorporate, like blue starting a runaway bomb cart that red must stop, thus blue is attacking to make sure that red don't stop the car and red is trying to defend by stopping the cart. Would be a very interesting dynamic but I doubt I could get away with that.
Another was an old idea of using another vehicle as the car, like a truck, that failed so I'll leave that one there for someone.
And that is all I'm sharing. I did have another I would love to share but I suddenly have a feeling it would make an awesome payload map that would be very dynamic. All I must ask is, would it be allowed to have capture points for red to, say, add a diversion for blue? Switch the tracks or something.
Would that be too weird?
What I'm envisioning is fully optional for red to help improve their defense but if they wish they can just play the map as is.
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OH MY GOD YES NEW CONTEST
Gonna start designing tomorrow!
... So how's that coming for you?
EDIT: @PMA... it's there because I asked for it.
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It's more or less a joke, I don't expect anyone to try that, because as you mentioned, it's not really supported.
But you're welcome to try... I guess?
I, too, will be shooting this contest. Giving it a shot. Whatever.
ok i would like to enter but it would be my first map design i was wondering what i would have to do in order to desing my map
SuperNerd
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There is some downloading, reading and drawing required. (Or so I hear, I am not very good at this.)
Downloading:
ABS's Ultimate Mapping Pack
More on the link, but this is helpful for creating your map in Hammer.
Grazr's must-reads:
Scale and Your Map
Stairs and Your Map
Roofs and Your Map
Immersion and Your Map
Layout and Your A/D Map
Base Facades and Your Map
Objectives and Your Map
Eliminating Dark Rooms
Drawing:
Most people tend to draw up a rough sketch of their map so they can identify where the stuff actually happens.
It may seem like a lot, but ignoring that stuff could make your first map turn out like mine (broken and ridiculed).
Anything else I may have missed (myself in reading/doing or listing)?
I'm giving this a shot. I started being interested in trying TF2 mapping shortly after this contest started, and since I was thinking of making a PL map this is perfect. No guarantee at all that it will ever see the light of day due to life's other commitments, but it's been a lot of fun so far. I'm probably being waaay too ambitious for my first map, but hey, I wouldn't be a beginner if I knew my limits, haha.
SuperNerd
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Sound like me and my first map (it was real bad).
But submit the map anyway.
I know that my map won't win any prizes, but to get feedback and discussion on my map is my goal.
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as long as you show us what you're doing and not submit an untested final map in the last day, you'll be fine
You can still submit an untested map, but it helps a lot to do so.
Well, I've already got the idea, so I'm going to enter!
This "new dynamic" that I have in mind is a complicated one, but one that I think has never been used before. And certainly one that will increase the replay value of the map. However, I have no idea how I would even begin to pull it off.
That being said, my question to the staff is: Is it against the rules to contact a mapper a VALVe and ask how to make a certain set of logic/math entities create a given function? I would be doing the work, they would just be telling me how to make it happen.
This "new dynamic" that I have in mind is a complicated one, but one that I think has never been used before. And certainly one that will increase the replay value of the map. However, I have no idea how I would even begin to pull it off.
That being said, my question to the staff is: Is it against the rules to contact a mapper a VALVe and ask how to make a certain set of logic/math entities create a given function? I would be doing the work, they would just be telling me how to make it happen.
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Asking for help is not against the rules, but I wouldn't get my hopes up if you're going to send a tutorial request to valve...