[WIP] cp_shipwrecked

[roninmodern]

Ok. Those of you that remember me know that I have a habit of starting a map and abandoning it.

Not this time I say! Come hell or high water!

So I'm starting cp_shipwrecked. The story is that red and blu were at sea and crashed on a tropical island, destroying their ships. They've found a cave with a seemingly functional ship inside it, however, and now they are both fighting to see who will make it off the island.

There are two ways of attacking the center and through to the other base. The beach offers a route through mouths of the cave on both sides, and then there are rope bridges attached to many cliffs and protrusions allowing you to zip across the level but providing you with minimal cover.

So far this is all I have, the hull of red's old ship:

Red's ship will be made of wood while Blu's is metal.

I want to get some custom overlays made for each one, one that says U.S.S. Red and one that says H.M.S. Blu, so I'll need to learn how to make textures.

 

[AWESOME-O]

Textures aint the hardest problem, mayby its a good idea to make the boats a model?

 

[roninmodern]

For something that big, make it a model?

I don't even know how to model...lol.

 

[Nineaxis]

It'll definately look better as a model... much smoother, less blocky, etc.

 

[Shmitz]

It would be a model broken up into different parts, mostly due to collision hull restrictions, but yes, you would have much better control over the surfaces and detail of something like that.

 

[roninmodern]

I'll see how well I fare learning the modelling tool, otherwise it's gonna stay as brushes.

 

[roninmodern]

Small update, some new pictures

Started working on geography.

You can see the map is sorta broken up into 5 areas. 2 on each side and the cave in the middle. The area right before the cave on each side will have some buildings made of wood and metal for red and blu respectively. Before they dug out the entrances to this cave the got settled in!

 

[Laz]

gonna be hard to optimise this :s

 

[MangyCarface]

Throw in a tonemap controller before that hdr keeps blindin ya

 

[roninmodern]

Yeah it'll be hard to optimize it...but luckily its a very small map so hopefully it won't be a terrible issue.

 

[Ida]

I think the ship looks great. Perhaps you should scale up the water, though?

 

[oxy]

I was pleasantly surprised when I looked through this thread. Keep it up!

 

[roninmodern]

I think the ship looks great. Perhaps you should scale up the water, though?

That water is already at 1.00 scale - it's the distance that makes it look repetitive.

You really think I should scale it up further?

 

[Snipergen]

Yea make it quite huge, its the sea after all. I shall follow this map because it has potential!

 

[Vander]

I too am following it. Looking forward to a playtest!

 

[roninmodern]

my map isnt finishing compiling anymore...all of a sudden. I really have no idea why.

 

[Randdalf]

If you've done no optimization, than your map will take CENTURIES to compile (Trust me, I've had a similar problem).

 

[roninmodern]

I've been making things func_detail as I go along. It went from taking 10 minutes to compile to never finishing...I found what it was. Made some brushes to func_detail and it went through - as world brushes it never finished

 

[roninmodern]

Ok small update.

All spawn rooms (first and advance) and CP's work, so the map is technically playable.

Redid the red ship - it was sloppily constructed the first time. Started doing rope bridges.

TODO:

Create all new blu ship - still using old red ship as placeholder
Tweak Pirate ship - still using streched old red ship as placeholder
finish displacements for cliffs and caves
finish rope bridges
create shacks for red and blu sides
make 3d skybox
decorate map so its not so bland
add proper lighting

2 new screenshots:

Rope bridges

new red ship