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[Jess 90]

Well I'm finally getting around to making my first ever map. I don't have any experience in hammer at all over a few hours so i'm not making maps for people to play i'm learning as i go along

My map plan is for red to have a villian lair inside of a volcano with the point in the middle underneith a mass of tv's and computers all comic styley (Sorta like the original glados too)
gonna be hard for me to do and even then it'll probably just look like nucleus ha! Picture is the rough draft of the villians conference room (map is a placeholder for the tv)

Yes i know it sucks

 

[TheKieranator]

Yes i know it sucks

Sucks? I would say that is a solid effort. Most beginners (I'm probably guilty of this too :O) get the scale completely wrong and make the geometry far too big. I like what you have and encourage you to keep working. After all, not enough maps have volcanos and/or lava.

 

[Jess 90]

Thanks ^_^

The lava may be on hold though as i can only find one texture that works and it's HORRIBLE. the one on this website looks like lava only when you get right up to it (otherwise it changes to a repeating texture of the loading screen map) and the rest are just checkerboard (not sure if i have to do something more then add them to the mat folder)

Ignore everything else, and you can see my problem

 

[re1wind]

hmmm. model of the big brush block in this screenshot. need more ref's.

 

[Godslayer57]

the onion bulb rock?

 

[re1wind]

*spam*

Green is the brush model exported from hammer.

some physical labour work now, prop model later.

 

[grazr]

Be careful with your rock designs, The TF2 ones may look reserved and simple but it makes sense if you consider players don't get stuck on them. Many custom rocks cause gameplay problems because the author was a little too experimental with the shapes.

I've noticed this in Rexy's zinkenite map as well, you'll probably have to do some over zealous clipping or have an unrealisticly abstract collision mesh (unrecommended).

 

[tyler]

Thanks ^_^

The lava may be on hold though as i can only find one texture that works and it's HORRIBLE. the one on this website looks like lava only when you get right up to it (otherwise it changes to a repeating texture of the loading screen map) and the rest are just checkerboard (not sure if i have to do something more then add them to the mat folder)

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Ignore everything else, and you can see my problem

I actually can't see your problem. Okrag thinks you have a leak into the void, hence the repeating loading screen thing. That's probably correct.

 

[Fredrik]

 

[Jess 90]

I actually can't see your problem. Okrag thinks you have a leak into the void, hence the repeating loading screen thing. That's probably correct.

The pic was actually just a pic of the bad texture.. it's static and doesn't glow. I'll try and get a pic up of the one i have a problem with (i think it was the tachyon one (sp?) (I don't think i have a leak as the pointfile tool doesn't generate a file for me)

edit: well i will when vvis lets me compile and doesn't just crash my whole comp :L

edit: well the texture doesn't show up at all now, but i do get this error in the compile
error: material TACHYON/LAVA001 doesn't have a $bottommaterial - I don't really know what that means but i did copy all the files from the rar into my mat folder :S

 

[Shanghai]

Say, what ever happened to that art-deco PL map? I forget who was making it, but I was looking forward to it.

 

[re1wind]

I've always wanted a crimson-red canyon map

 

[Shanghai]

I've always wanted a crimson-red canyon map

Finally, a map where RED can use camouflage!

 

[tyler]

 

[Jess 90]

I don't have a clue what i'm doing anymore xD I think i went a little ambitious but i shall presevere for the sake of knowledge

Still barely rough but i added some details as i got bored of looking at blocks.

That overhead shot may look like most mappers worst nightmares xD

I have no clue how to texture circles and curved shapes so i'm dreading that part.

 

[grazr]

Well it might look like a mappers worst nightmare if we could see what was going on! It's dark as hell! Also you're worrying too much about texturing a circle, just use a texture that doesn't obviously repeat too much, like the ibeam texture which you appear to already be using.

 

[Jess 90]

Well it might look like a mappers worst nightmare if we could see what was going on! It's dark as hell! Also you're worrying too much about texturing a circle, just use a texture that doesn't obviously repeat too much, like the ibeam texture which you appear to already be using.

Sorry bout that. I only have a few guide lights dotted around to avoid fullbright. I'm of the understanding proper lighting is the last step

 

[Shanghai]

Do we even want to know what those path_tracks are for?

EDIT: Upon further investigation, you appear to be making a haunted tree to roam the center of your map, striking fear into the hearts of players.

 

[Jess 90]

I think i'm going abit overboard with the rock props

 

[AgeNt_]

This isn't tf2 related but I thought I would share.

I'm programming this Unity3D game with a few other people (who did the models/art assets) for this class. Our theme was cancer and you are a prototype nano-bee going around and killing leukemia cells.