WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!

[Godslayer57]

Oh thats where I hide the explosive crates in a wooden building, ahhhhh I see.

 

[Seba]

I see no explanation for their explosiveness :v

 

[nik]

how could one access those crates

 

[Godslayer57]

Its kinda an inside joke, they are storing boxes marked 'explosive' in a wooden building. And now time to add either a door or a lock and some hinges

 

[Acumen]

loving these rocks !
I wanted to create such exact rocks, but lacked skill and patience.
Now I can just steal yours !

 

[Batandy]

the fur suggestions were correct, it helped a lot, and give a good amount of definition. I was hesitant because it's a fine detail that i really don't like to bother with in tf2 items sometimes, but it worked out. I've used normal maps before for things like this, not just for details, but for form, you've probably just never noticed them. I still don't like how source handles normal maps (and i've already made a large fool of myself on that topic, see the manor thread). Here's some hair:

oh god i love pugs!

 

[RetroGunner]

Hey guys, I'm new around here.

I suppose this could be considered my "first map ever" seeing as how this is the only one I've ever taken to a level where it was actually playable. Before this map I just kinda messed around with hammer, making giant rooms with low gravity and that sort of stuff.

Anyways, I'm hoping to eventually turn this into a swamp themed map because I think those look pretty cool, but I don't really see it used that much.

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-48-49.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-36-91.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-29-30.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-13-10-39.jpg

As you can see, I haven't even touched the skybox. I've just left it as a simple (and not so great looking) 2d skybox just so I could test it out and stuff like that.

Whoops, almost forgot to mention that it's a king of the hill map.

 

[Rea]

I can see gigantic sightlines nearly everywhere in each of those screenshots. The most egregious is the one that goes across the whole map in the 2nd screenshot.

Other than that, the geometry looks interesting. I'm curious to see how it plays.

(Also, change the skybox to a TF2 one, even if it's just sky_tf2_01. It's in Map > Map Properties.)

 

[Batandy]

Hey guys, I'm new around here.

I suppose this could be considered my "first map ever" seeing as how this is the only one I've ever taken to a level where it was actually playable. Before this map I just kinda messed around with hammer, making giant rooms with low gravity and that sort of stuff.

Anyways, I'm hoping to eventually turn this into a swamp themed map because I think those look pretty cool, but I don't really see it used that much.

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-48-49.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-36-91.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-12-29-30.jpg

http://i920.photobucket.com/albums/ad41/BionicGinger/hl22011-02-1203-13-10-39.jpg

As you can see, I haven't even touched the skybox. I've just left it as a simple (and not so great looking) 2d skybox just so I could test it out and stuff like that.

Whoops, almost forgot to mention that it's a king of the hill map.

Fix the sightlines,it looks very sniper friendly

 

[Fruity Snacks]

Yea, maybe add some buildings or something to break up the views, or props (don't spam). I don't really see a specific place to mention, they are everywhere. Place your map as a sniper and stand in places and see how well you could snipe (if there was people). You don't have to completely get rid of them, just make them shorter.

I do like the height variantion though.

 

[nik]

who can guess what I've made?

 

[Duke Silas]

A flux capacitor?

 

[DaBeatzProject]

a plrplrplrlrlrrllrppplrlrpl_map.

 

[Seba]

Something that will crash and burn very badly?

 

[Fruity Snacks]

A map in the shape of a small gun?

I can't tell if its PLR or just multistage PL to PLR to PL...

 

[nik]

:3

you'll see soon enough

 

[sniprpenguin]

Assymetrical PLR.

 

[RetroGunner]

I kind of figured I was going to get comments on the sight lines, but i wasn't quite sure where to begin on fixing them. After wandering around the map/playing with bots for a few hours, it seems to me that the only truly overpowered sniper spot is the one from screenshot 2.

So i'm gonna work on fixing that I guess. Thanks for the feedback

 

[lana]

Assymetrical PLR.

You guys are terrible. It's branching Payload.

 

[Fruity Snacks]

You guys are terrible. It's branching Payload.

I didn't even know that existed