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Pigzit

Pigzit

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Da Spud Lord said:
Dude, that third sightlines is hella too long. First two look bad, but depending on the layout may be tolerable.

One way to fix sightlines is to add tall buildings (after all, downtown city areas have lots of these), and rather than making long, straight roads, make your roads curve and weave around buildings.
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Sounds good. My only problem is that if I have one road weaving around a bunch of buildings, it seems weird because most buildings/cities are built on a grid, and/or have more than one way to get somewhere. I'm modeling it off of the Pittsburgh uptown area, near Duquesne University, if you want some idea as to what I'm trying to make.
However, I do definitely want to fix that last uphill. I just don't really know how. I might make some kind of T bone intersection, and block off the long uphill with barriers or a fence. How does that sound?
 
Da Spud Lord

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Pigzit said:
Sounds good. My only problem is that if I have one road weaving around a bunch of buildings, it seems weird because most buildings/cities are built on a grid, and/or have more than one way to get somewhere. I'm modeling it off of the Pittsburgh uptown area, near Duquesne University, if you want some idea as to what I'm trying to make.
However, I do definitely want to fix that last uphill. I just don't really know how. I might make some kind of T bone intersection, and block off the long uphill with barriers or a fence. How does that sound?
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T- intersections will probably be a good idea, but a grid-based layout likely won't work well gameplay-wise in TF2. I'd recommend taking a good look at koth_king, another city map that kind of has a flexible grid structure and makes it work well. Additionally, you can diversify your gameplay by taking parts of your map into a building- I think you'll find you have more layout freedom there.

Be careful of not falling into the trap of getting so dedicated to your map's visual theme that you end up being unable or unwilling to make important gameplay changes, resulting in a map with glaring issues. This can happen pretty easily.
 
Yabayabayaba

Yabayabayaba

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make it a old city, or a set of back alleys, and use curved roads or roads with small angle turns (not right angles) to give variety while breaking up sight lines in a non abrupt way. Also consider height variation as a good way to break sight lines. Cars work well for limiting sight lines (if there is nowhere to stand to see over them unless you stand on the car, putting yourself in a bad position) but do not break them. consider badwater, second to third point, where there would be a massive sightline if not for the height variation.

Edit: babies first time being ninja'd
 
Sheltr

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thats shockingly like my own cauldron animation I made for ICS's haloween map.
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Yrr

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Sheltr said:
thats shockingly like my own cauldron animation I made for ICS's haloween map.
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i was very amused when i heard someone else was doing cauldron stuff for their map, yours is looking pretty good too
 
Seba

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Sheltr said:
thats shockingly like my own cauldron animation I made for ICS's haloween map.
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Haha, I had no idea someone else was making something that similar - lookin good though!
 
SnickerPuffs

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Yrr said:
man what is it with cauldrons
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Dunno, but now I want to make a map that takes place in a "cauldron emporium"
 
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