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Title: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 18, 2009, 06:43:30 PM
Just a map ive been working on and some people have tested it out so i think it's good enough to post

here's a little telling you about the map:

you start with co2 one can equip large and another 20oz not equipt
guns: you start with a carbine in the base there is also a spawn point in the centre of the map behind the baracade u see in the ring when spawned there u have an autococker
the map is played as a 1-flag map capping at the opposing teams base PM me for any aditional information
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: idias on August 18, 2009, 06:48:50 PM
Please post some info about tha map and some ss's
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 18, 2009, 06:54:34 PM
some pictures also....
 these are the new ones with no hud and fov 90
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: sean123 on August 18, 2009, 08:27:00 PM
cool you finshed this
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: KnacK on August 18, 2009, 08:32:43 PM
Now how about some screen shots with FOV 90?
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: Holo on August 18, 2009, 08:40:50 PM
Now how about some screen shots with FOV 90?
Also, cl_drawhud 0
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: idias on August 18, 2009, 08:42:14 PM
Perhaps a noclip screenshot also
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 18, 2009, 10:44:24 PM
srry guys ill take those down and get some new ones
oh and idias i think i spelt that wrong anyways those are all no clip they might just look like im standing there srry bout that
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: Spook on August 18, 2009, 11:06:28 PM
It looks better with lighting that's for sure. I pointed out a few things that needed work, but I know you'll get around to it when you can.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on August 19, 2009, 02:51:01 AM
Personally I think this map isn't too bad. There are a lot of mistakes though. Not to mention that side path (with the ice) is quite useless.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 19, 2009, 03:23:03 AM
in light of our recent quarrel i thank you for your advice =) and i don't want to go on with the grammer conversation thing i just won't answer no more
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: UDead on August 19, 2009, 04:03:06 AM
If you get the most recent BSP you will be able to make arches that look better than trying to make them your-self. Nice start.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on August 19, 2009, 07:19:32 AM
Things you need to fix (starting from blue spawn and going towards red base):

- There is a random bar over the middle archway. I don't know if you meant to do that, but every time I look at it, it looks weirder.
- The archway walls look a bit too thin when you look at them from right outside the base.
- That jump outside the base with the small box doesn't seem too right. I can make the jump fine, but it seems I get stuck.
- The textures of the sides of your trampolines need to be changed.
- A few blocks (of your railings) go right through other blocks. It looks weird.
- Some of the railings' textures need to be rotated.
- The middle wooden platforms sides' textures need to be rotated.
- The lights in the middle aren't exactly centered on their boxes.
- Right outside the red base, in between the center and rightside archway, you have a weird cut wall piece there.
- In the same spot, the wall has a ladder surface.

Just so you know what to fix.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: T3RR0R15T on August 19, 2009, 12:48:59 PM
new map: Champion (first Beta)

Renamed to "champion_b1.bsp".


Uploaded to our beta server.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: _burnt on August 19, 2009, 12:54:04 PM
use lowercase only for filename

Are you sure it's not leaking? The archs are black from inside! Also they look horrible when they're 2 units thick. Brush work is bit sloppy is places.

I don't know about the gameplay, not a big fan of tiny maps with that kind of mid.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 19, 2009, 01:31:02 PM
thx music for the list ill get right on it and i can make the arches walls thicker dunno if itll look loads better and as for the game play ive had a couple of people play it and they love how the map works smoe say they may even use it as a 2v2 match map  :D
oh an about the black ceilings the lights stick out of the ceiling there for not lighting the imediate sections next to it and T3RRORIST thx for uploading it it means alot to me
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on August 19, 2009, 01:37:03 PM
No problem. As I've said, I think this map isn't too bad for a beginner mapper, I have no way of trying gameplay as of now, but I'm sure it's more fun than competitive. Would probably work like Robbie's "Narrows" map.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 19, 2009, 03:04:56 PM
a new beta the wood still might look ugly tell me if it is and how you would fix it
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: Termin8oR on August 19, 2009, 09:35:37 PM
Tiny.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on August 19, 2009, 11:29:26 PM
The railings now look waaaaay too big. If you can just shorten them, they'd look perfect. Doesn't look like you did too much other than fix the wood. You should work on more things before releasing the next beta.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on August 20, 2009, 02:17:56 AM
thx for the advice but do you have anything else in mind should i add something change something i really don't know where to go from here it's my first legit map
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on August 20, 2009, 02:45:50 AM
Fix everything on the list I gave you and make that the 3rd beta. Then from there, we'll all try to help you out some more.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: jitspoe on August 27, 2009, 09:57:31 PM
You need to fix the leak.  This map should not be put on servers until that's fixed.

Other issues/suggestions:
- The archways are super thin and don't quite line up with the walls.
- Several lips and edges could use clip brushes.
- You should put a ladder to the top.  The fact that you have to climb up the face of the flag isn't very intuitive.
- Ceiling entrance is probably the coolest looking part of the map, but also probably the last seen.  Maybe make it visible from below as well?
- There is some brush overlap on the railings around the flag.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 03, 2009, 08:23:13 PM
k thx jitspoe and a leak is just when the map is open?
i.e. light could escape from the map, if this is what is happening can't i put a giant box around the entire map?
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 04, 2009, 02:10:12 AM
okay here's the beta 3 these are the things i have changed...

- the railings look alot better and u can now use them to get to the roof
-the tunnels are thicker
-the ramp to the ice path has been clipped and i added more detail
-the 6 lights by the flag have been replaced with 4 tiny ones
- the bridge ledfe has been clipped
- a ladder has been put in instead of the flag that was there
- and plz tell me if there is a leak if u would like to help me out i will understand 100 times better if u can tell me after ive given u the map file, just ask for it
- and finally tell me for any new features and or tweaks you would like to see

thanks, SubZero
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 04, 2009, 11:30:38 AM
Well, no matter where you are in the map, the entire thing is drawn, so there IS a leak. It's also terribly dark in a few areas, another sign of having a leak. Send me the .map file, I'll try to help you out.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: RiMiNi on September 04, 2009, 12:08:07 PM
Go to: File -> Leak Check -> Load (.pts) -> Choose the current version of your map.

Then do: Group -> Omit World    and then search for the yellow line, once you have found it, do: Group -> Omit World again and follow it until you find the hole where you're map isn't closed off. Also remember to check the compiler each time and check for ***************Leaked****************
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 04, 2009, 03:18:54 PM
okay music here's my map file. im also gona try rimini's idea and try to fix it myself so get back to me when u have figured it out.

EDIT: Rimini when i went to file leak check and load(.pts) it said load (.por) and nothing showed up when i was in my map folder also when i go to load leak file it crashes my BSP help plz?
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 04, 2009, 08:41:36 PM
Fixed the leak, as well as detailed all the wooden posts, barrels and a few other stuff. Now, your map should compile much more quickly.

Because of the leak fix, the map is now a lot brighter, too bright in some areas. I also fixed those ladder walls that were still there, beside the archways outside the base.

You might want to edit the brightness of the lighting (_sun_value). It's way too bright inside the bases.
Also, you have an error inside the .map that I didn't spend time trying to find. It's a trigger_push error. I think you have 2 sets of them in the same place, but one of them has a wrong targetname or something. Check it out and try to fix it.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 04, 2009, 11:14:19 PM
okay thanks music very big help ill get to fixing it thanks again just to avoid confustion the _sun_value will go under worldspawn and have a low number right?
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 12:16:39 AM
okay i belive i have the lighting so it looks good there are no leaks thanks to music and the mid has been changed a tiny bit so that there isn't akward mogles
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 05, 2009, 09:12:20 AM
Looks tons better. There's only one thing. The ground of the little area under the flag looks weird. You should try to use the texture that changes from grass to mud/dirt. (Shown below)

Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: T3RR0R15T on September 05, 2009, 09:51:12 AM
Beta 4 is online at [OTB] Beta (IP: 92.51.145.48:22222).
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 11:20:25 AM
yeah i figured that would be a problem too i had it changed before so that it did to that and the transfer grass was a diffrent color should i still put it in?

and i love the textues you have where u get em  ;D
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: RiMiNi on September 05, 2009, 12:31:15 PM
Musickid999, why don't you tell him what you did to fix the leak. Otherwise, everytime he gets a leak he will have to come here and get someone to do it for him.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 05, 2009, 02:40:06 PM
(You can just call me Musik btw, seems a bit weird hearing people call me Musickid999)
Sorry, forgot about that. The leak was inside the blue side ice tunnel, closer to the mid. Because your roof wasn't properly aligned to the grid, you had one side just a bit short of the wall, creating a small, triangular gap that you couldn't see because of the darkness. I merely editted that roof brush so that it reached the wall. Make sure the next time you create a map, try your best to follow the grid.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 02:43:50 PM
OH DAM i knew it!!!! i was looking frantically at that spot but instead of looking at the roof i was looking at the floor well anyways can u please tell me where u downloaded the textures u have music, or at least what they are called
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 05, 2009, 03:17:36 PM
My textures? They're in the HR4 pack.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 07:49:06 PM
okay i am all done what i think is the final version of this map but i need some advice i might take the flag cap spot and put it up on a box what i mean to say is you will have to dj to it if your not useing the roof or ice tunnel to cap
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: musickid999 on September 05, 2009, 08:03:28 PM
Can't really get opinions unless you show screenshots of it.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 08:22:04 PM
very true here is a screen shot of what a propose to do don't comment about the mis aligned textures i just put it together quickly.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: RiMiNi on September 05, 2009, 08:23:48 PM
No, it just makes a campable map more campable, and less friendly to newbies.
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: SubZero on September 05, 2009, 09:12:41 PM
okay
i understand the logic
by the way im gona put up a beta 5 i made some gameplay changes so it flows better
Title: Re: new map: Champion (first Beta)
Post by: jitspoe on May 24, 2011, 01:02:38 AM
I've attached a demo with feedback and put the map in rotation on the beta server.