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[Deloras]

Are those computers blocking people getting to those other computers?

I can ensure you they don't.

 

[skinnynerd]

The CP looks too dark. I almost didn't notice it.

 

[309blank]

Dambreak pre-Alpha

Yeah, after I abandoned my first project because it was very leaky and proving frustrating to fix, I started out on a new map. It will be payload badwater style, even though I don't know yet if I shorten it by one Point. The theme is the awesome swamp theme, which I have really fallen in love with.

Story: Blue wants to destroy a dam. That's it. Fortunately red build traintracks conveniently leading right into their base!

And here the first pic, it will be the starting area with the blue spawn building and I already blocked in a building that will be the staging point for reds defensive efforts.

I had one compile a few versions earlier to check the scale of the spawn. So just hammer pic for now

 

[3Dnj]

I's beena long time I want to make a egypt hoth map, so here we are :

 

[Okrag]

I's beena long time I want to make a egypt hoth map, so here we are :
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Very yellow, could use some team colors here and there to add some color contrast and direct the eye.

 

[Acumen]

do you have problems with your host ?
Cause these images load as fast as a 10 MB bitmap for me
Also agree on the too yellow comment.
I don't know why everyone destroys their egypt maps with this overly yellow tint. It already has sand and stone that is yellow. These 2 elements totally need a countercolor

 

[tyler]

They loaded fine for me.

Anyway, it looks great, but it is very yellow. Not sure about that.

What are those crate models?

 

[Seba]

I's beena long time I want to make a egypt hoth map, so here we are

Hoth is a snow planet :3

Yyler: the big ones are brushwork; the ones up top in the second screenshot are probably miningcrate001/002 (or whatever they're called).

 

[tyler]

I was talking about the ones that are brushwork. Just wasn't sure if it was a model using that texture! Thanks, you're probably right.

 

[3Dnj]

yes, this is a brush. For the color, i'm using a color correction so it's easy to make it less yellow, but actuallt I like the map like this. I will probably find something to make good contrast.

And it's koth of course

 

[RaVaGe]

You could add some torches lit at the outside for pronounce the contrast.

 

[309blank]

last link was in the wrong dropbox folder:

this is what im going for (without the cubemap errors) as for the swampy theme

 

[Mr Egg]

Some very early stuff =P

My first map ever, be gentle =)

 

[tyler]

That's an interesting corner tower, but extreme height differences often don't play well in TF2.

Also, add -noborder to you TF2 launch options to get rid of the border. (Unless you really want it there, but most people don't.)

 

[Seba]

I sure hope you made that tower using the Arch tool and func_detailed it, Mr. Egg. Also, your ammo/health kits are floating - place their origins 16 units above ground.

 

[Mr Egg]

Well that tower is meant to take players from the surface directly to the bottom of the underground part of the map (which is what I screened, and the only part I'm on right now). And thanks for the advice =)

Seba : Yes I used the arch tool, but what do you mean by "func_detailed it" ? Also, I fixed the ammo/health kits =)

 

[tyler]

http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Func_detail

basically, select the brushwork and hit Ctrl + T

That ties the brush to an entity, and the default is func_detail. There are some fields that you don't need to fill in.

 

[tyler]

Also, if you mean that's an elevator, no one ever likes those except other people that make elevators. They don't work in TF2 very well.

 

[Mr Egg]

Well ok, brushes are func_detail, but what's the point ? ^^

 

[tyler]

It's just to make sure the room is cut into better vis leaves, that's all. Since it's your first time he wanted to make sure you knew.