WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[LMFAO]

Ooh, you mean that texture on top of a door? Didn't notice that. Will fix in next build.

 

[DarkApollo]

Deodorant is right. The "big chunk of terrain with stuff on it" approach would work in a game like Battlefield, but TF2 maps are very small, narrow, and directed compared to those kinds of maps. Think of the map as a series of big rooms, or areas, connected by routes. grazr did an excellent tutorial about this, read it here.

Also, please calm down. Nobody is insulting you by telling you how to improve.

It also was not a serious attempt at a fully functional map. Everything was an after thought.
Everyone who has said 'heres how to improve' I have thanked and taken heed to their advice. Im hardly upset at all

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Ooh, you mean that texture on top of a door? Didn't notice that. Will fix in next build.

No, the fact that you have completely black ceilings.

 

[LMFAO]

No, the fact that you have completely black ceilings.

They're not properly... lit yet. I don't know how to fix that.

 

[Trotim]

why are you spawning healthkits and ammo packs and crates(???) like that?

they're moving on a conveyor belt

 

[Fruity Snacks]

They're not properly... lit yet. I don't know how to fix that.

It's because you have a leak.

 

[Tarry H Sruman]

if you buil enough stuff on sai chunk, it can easily become a regular tf2 map. this approach can work just as well as builing room by room

If you don't know what you're doing, you end up with literally every shitty arena/koth map we've seen on here. *cough* Redwood *cough*

 

[LMFAO]

Where is de leak? I have coated every visible surface with a texture and used Cordons.

 

[Ælement]

Go to Map>Load pointfile

This will generate a red line that shows where the leak is.

Also, looks much better already. The theme is consistent this time.

 

[Deodorant]

if you buil enough stuff on sai chunk, it can easily become a regular tf2 map. this approach can work just as well as builing room by room

If you build enough stuff (In an informed and well thought-out way) on said chunk, it can easily become a regular TF2 map with large areas of pointlessly rendered displacement hidden underneath the floors, and where the design limitations given by the already made environment give you more work than building new ground displacements for the separate areas would have. Yay?

 

[RaVaGe]

Gaw gaw gaw ...

 

[eerieone]

like the point i do

feels really fresh and unused, as well as the rainforest theme you got going there in the background

continue a.s.a.p.!

 

[RaVaGe]

All the merits goes to heyo ;-)

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=17011

 

[Deodorant]

That looks so.. Refreshing. It almost makes me want to go outside. Almost.

 

[Seba]

After 30 minutes (of alone livestreaming)

The only thing more boring than mapping is watching others map.

 

[Sergis]

If you build enough stuff (In an informed and well thought-out way) on said junk, it can easily become a regular TF2 map with large areas of pointlessly rendered displacement hidden underneath the floors, and where the design limitations given by the already made environment give you more work than building new ground displacements for the separate areas would have. Yay?

nay. the preexisting isplacements will guie the map evelopment in a way planning woulnt have, efining areas an height ifferences for you resulting in an emergent map layout as oppose to a preplanne one an the "junk" will have serve its purpose as being the floor of the map much alike usually its just a single brush use for sai purpose. thats yay.

eit: plus if you hie the isplacements uner the floors, they will not be renere anyway.

eit 2: fuck my d key.

 

[Deodorant]

nay. the preexisting isplacements will guie the map evelopment in a way planning woulnt have, efining areas an height ifferences for you resulting in an emergent map layout as oppose to a preplanne one an the "junk" will have serve its purpose as being the floor of the map much alike usually its just a single brush use for sai purpose. thats yay.

eit: plus if you hie the isplacements uner the floors, they will not be renere anyway.

eit 2: fuck my d key.

Junk was a freudian slip, I meant to type chunk.
The idea of a broad strokes displacement layout to outline the shape of the map actually seems like a pretty useful idea, the way you put it. I do however think it seems more convenient to use it as a sort of template rather than the actual ground, and then discard it and make normal ground displacements once all the geometry of the layout is done.
If you have four giant displacements covering the entire map, place big parts of them under floors but leave sections of them open in the outdoor areas, every outdoor area will render at least a fourth of the map's total area worth of displacement, no?
I enjoy your lack of d key. It's like you're writing in some really adorable accent.

 

[Nytillion]

A few minutes into development...

Okay, so I have everything planned out for this except the first stretch. It's 3 stage CP, and the first point takes place on a beach, with a lighthouse being the cap point. The path on the left of this image is a boardwalk, which'll have interconnected buildings and storage rooms to run through and stairs down to the sand, and the raised path on the right is a payload track (to block off access to the beach).

This'll be my first serious map, so I'm pretty inexperienced at this. I'd like to know any good ways to break up the middle section a bit. It feels too open looking at it now.

 

[Spipper]

My entry for the 72hr contest so far.

 

[Ælement]

I'd play that