WiP in WiP, post your screenshots!
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SnakedSnack
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TFBotEnthusiast
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That area looks great!
Working on a new payload map, thoughts?
Working on a new payload map, thoughts?
SnakedSnack
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After the Amai playtest, I was working on an A2 with a new B point, but the more I worked on it the less I liked it. So I decided instead to remake the map. I wanted to focus on a map with more height and more options, as I felt the first version of Amai was very linear and boring.
Here's some shots of the currently in progress A point. The building over the ravine is where the point will be when the map is finished.
This is the A building from Blu side
Likewise from the Red side
Inside the main room looking at the interior
Here's some shots of the currently in progress A point. The building over the ravine is where the point will be when the map is finished.
This is the A building from Blu side
Likewise from the Red side
Inside the main room looking at the interior
Here are some various screenshots from a MvM_Helix artpass I started for the last April Fools contest and stopped working on a third of the way through.
The lore was that a small group of Gray's bots had faulty loyalty chips, and one day they all failed simultaneously. They decided to break off from the main group and form their own army to take down the mercenaries. They started construction on a manufacturing plant just outside of a farm owned by one of Mann Co's shell companies, so the mercs were dispatched to neutralize the rogue bots before they grew too big in number.
The lore was that a small group of Gray's bots had faulty loyalty chips, and one day they all failed simultaneously. They decided to break off from the main group and form their own army to take down the mercenaries. They started construction on a manufacturing plant just outside of a farm owned by one of Mann Co's shell companies, so the mercs were dispatched to neutralize the rogue bots before they grew too big in number.
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D.C.V.
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I have to gave you guys a notice, my work I showed on November 6th. It didn't go well... the problem is, the Kei body model have some bad edges and terrible shading. So I went back to the drawing board to do over the body of the Kei car piece by piece, it took me 1 week or 2 weeks hard time to get this done. Well, here is the 4 door Kei vehicle (CityCar) that I do over.
Here are the screenshots when I testing out the Kei prop on TF2 hammer.
Here are the screenshots when I testing out the Kei prop on TF2 hammer.
Whenever I'm bored and want to come up with a new map idea, I either rummage around in my old files (or someone else's, thanks to the Orphaned Map Repository) and mess around in one of the vmfs I find. Using one of Dayal's abandoned MvM maps, I started adding tweaks and revisions until an idea sparked. Not long after I started I discovered, to my shock, that someone else already adopted the map, and released it to boot!
No point in letting my work go to waste though. I'll share the few changes I made, and start from scratch in the morning. Since my idea (Robot Destruction with the Mannpower grappling hooks) has some striking differences from the map's original intent, working from scratch can only help in the long run. After all, making a square hole for a square peg is easier than trying to force it through a round hole.
...Anywho!
Here's what most of my work was focused on. Since the only official RD map has the easiest path to the flag blocked (or good as blocked, at least, with those lasers there) until all the robots are destroyed, I tried to design something similar. When the robots are alive, this generator keeps the fences electrified and the middle section up. When the robots are destroyed, the middle section falls and you can touch the fences as much as you'd like and receive no damage. This might've not been enough, though, since the two side buildings are still open and accessible at all times.
I've marked different spots on this wide shot since it shows off some of the more minor changes I made.
A) I opened up the back wall of this shack so players could sneak past the B/C area, since it's a pretty decent defense spot.
B) I added a little shack area that can only be accessed by grapple hook. It doesn't have much of a purpose beyond that, although there's a set of medium pickups.
C) I reworked this lower area a bit. Originally, players here had a massive sightline over the area behind the buildings on the left while being heavily protected. In the map's original gamemode, MvM, this is fine. In the PvP gamemodes, this is problematic, especially for a proud Sniper Hater such as myself. While the sightline and protection are still there, you can't have both at the same time. I still want to fiddle with this area, but I'll wait until I start on the "from-scratch" version.
D) This area was literally just designed because I wanted to put something there. No thought put into it whatsoever. I didn't even get to finish it, since I decided to start the entire map from scratch halfway through it. It's heartbreaking, really.
No point in letting my work go to waste though. I'll share the few changes I made, and start from scratch in the morning. Since my idea (Robot Destruction with the Mannpower grappling hooks) has some striking differences from the map's original intent, working from scratch can only help in the long run. After all, making a square hole for a square peg is easier than trying to force it through a round hole.
...Anywho!
Here's what most of my work was focused on. Since the only official RD map has the easiest path to the flag blocked (or good as blocked, at least, with those lasers there) until all the robots are destroyed, I tried to design something similar. When the robots are alive, this generator keeps the fences electrified and the middle section up. When the robots are destroyed, the middle section falls and you can touch the fences as much as you'd like and receive no damage. This might've not been enough, though, since the two side buildings are still open and accessible at all times.
I've marked different spots on this wide shot since it shows off some of the more minor changes I made.
A) I opened up the back wall of this shack so players could sneak past the B/C area, since it's a pretty decent defense spot.
B) I added a little shack area that can only be accessed by grapple hook. It doesn't have much of a purpose beyond that, although there's a set of medium pickups.
C) I reworked this lower area a bit. Originally, players here had a massive sightline over the area behind the buildings on the left while being heavily protected. In the map's original gamemode, MvM, this is fine. In the PvP gamemodes, this is problematic, especially for a proud Sniper Hater such as myself. While the sightline and protection are still there, you can't have both at the same time. I still want to fiddle with this area, but I'll wait until I start on the "from-scratch" version.
D) This area was literally just designed because I wanted to put something there. No thought put into it whatsoever. I didn't even get to finish it, since I decided to start the entire map from scratch halfway through it. It's heartbreaking, really.
