WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
- Thread starter Arhurt
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can we post some wip shots to stop this thread becoming terwinockland or the one with the donkey?
- Mar 20, 2012
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Cool your jets. You posted your map on this website, and thus it's fair to assume you wanted feedback on it.
However, telling everyone to just "deal with it" when numerous people bring up a problem in aesthetic compatibility is in itself childish. There's no reason to go off and post that everyone is "butt hurt" over your map. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to maintain a level of maturity.
I'm absolutely willing to wait and see how the map develops. Understand though that many of the users on this site have been developing Source maps for a very long time. If all of us see the same problem in the map, it's generally because it's true. The aesthetic style and the game you are designing for don't match up, and it will nullify your immersion effect.
No one is forcing you to change anything. We're just giving feedback - it's what we're here to do.
However, telling everyone to just "deal with it" when numerous people bring up a problem in aesthetic compatibility is in itself childish. There's no reason to go off and post that everyone is "butt hurt" over your map. If you want to be taken seriously, you have to maintain a level of maturity.
I'm absolutely willing to wait and see how the map develops. Understand though that many of the users on this site have been developing Source maps for a very long time. If all of us see the same problem in the map, it's generally because it's true. The aesthetic style and the game you are designing for don't match up, and it will nullify your immersion effect.
No one is forcing you to change anything. We're just giving feedback - it's what we're here to do.
It uses a bunch of elements from a Halo map. Which isn't necessarily a bad thing, but I'm going to assume that's why it doesn't look very TF2-ish.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zevoEKl9fUw
It appears to me a number of assets are straight recompiles from Halo.
Though I get the feeling I'm stepping into a conversation where a bunch of posts got deleted, so maybe this was already covered.
i thought it was okay to post non-tf2 stuff in this thread, cos i remember somebody with lots of nice portal 2 and amnesia work here.
it is, that is why the original post is still there.
all the random flak was removed.
It is a remake map from Halo Reach: Powerhouse. I stated this before in page 444 of this thread.
No, not one single assets were decompile from the game itself. I had to model them and texture them using HL2 texture using 3ds max. Then from there, I export the model into Source SDK. There were a few brushes in hammer that were converted into props using propper.
And not quite, a bunch of deleted conversation were mainly about how people arguing about why my map have HL2 for TF2.
Thanks although!
I'm still not sure why the choice was made to forgo the TF2 theme. If you don't like the TF2 theme and want to use HL2 textures then why wasn't the map made for HLDM. I think this is a reasonable question to ask without being provocative.
Obligatory and non provacative "Porting maps between games is never a good idea unless you are willing to sacrifice and adjust certain parts of the map" - comment.
Oh well. I can ban you if you'd like.
I already talked to the original maker of this map, from Bungie. They allowed me to do such so.
yyler, stop making useless comments in this thread. I strongly suggest you to use the private message to prevent spamming off topic conversation in here.
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- Oct 25, 2007
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That wasn't my point. Halo maps are made for Halo, not for TF2. The mechanics, and gameplay flow is much different in Halo than TF2. If you are doing a direct port of Halo to TF2, the TF2 counterpart will NOT play well unless you make serious changes.
Just a thing to note when doing ports like this.
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Wow. Do me a favor and make this a Half Life Deathmatch map. I think it would be perfect for that.
It would make more sense, if you're going to the trouble of recreating the models from scratch, to also learn to texture in the TF2 style and make your own textures for them as well. It's basically just a hand-painted style, which I imagine Bungie already used to do the concept art.
- Feb 26, 2008
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He had a valid point that's worth responding to with more than flippancy IMHO. They may not have been good posts but it's kind of weird to censor
You're right, my apologies. This reaction was coming off a previous event (the day before) where something similiar happened and it just because a bash fest (much like this did.
I removed the posts because I didn't want to see the arguing and bickering progress any farther, and obviously I can't lock this thread. I know that there is still some bickering going on, but I felt that if the posts did stay, it could have progressed to much worse.