Author Topic: New Map: dodged [beta2] (Read 4653 times)

k3y · « **on:** May 11, 2007, 06:23:24 AM »

Haha

I've done my first map called "dodged".
You can download it here
I would like it if you place a statement here!
mapname changed to: dodged_b2
updated: May 12, 2007, 01:08:35 PM
update notes: removed grenades, made the bunkers looking more softly
red spawn

blue spawn

red jail

blue jail

blaa · « **Reply #1 on:** May 11, 2007, 06:35:54 AM »

Could have alot more details than it has, but even worse thing is that the map is too small to be actually fun. The jail idea is quite fun and good, but maybe clip brush the wall between 2 jails aswell?

So, my suggestions are:
1. rename the map to dodget_b1.bsp
2. make the map a bit bigger - so you could actually move in that map
3. clip brush the wall in jail
4. add some objects to jail aswell

k3y · « **Reply #2 on:** May 11, 2007, 06:41:53 AM »

yeaa.. i wanted to clip brush the jail wall... but... the aim of the map is to kill the living one and not the jailed

y00tz · « **Reply #3 on:** May 11, 2007, 07:00:18 AM »

Well Linux user, could you please make some screenshots and upload them before I download/test it?

Cheers & Good luck,
y00tz

k3y · « **Reply #4 on:** May 11, 2007, 07:07:26 AM »

done, mate

y00tz · « **Reply #5 on:** May 11, 2007, 07:13:56 AM »

Oh sweet man, I really like it. I'll let Jitspoe do all the nitpicking, but I really like the lighting. Good job
+1'd

Cheers,
y00tz

Edit:
2 things you may want to fix/look into
1. A single well-primed grenade can eliminate the entire other team immediately, maybe remove grenades?
2. I often spawned facing backwards or sideways, leading to quick elims.

k3y · « **Reply #6 on:** May 11, 2007, 07:21:04 AM »

:] ty... and yes i wanted to remove the grens but dunno how to manage it

chef told me its a server setting.. not a map setting... the problem with the spawnpoints will be fixed soon

y00tz · « **Reply #7 on:** May 11, 2007, 08:01:42 AM »

I think it's in the world spawn.. you do
"paintgrenades" "0"

k3y · « **Reply #8 on:** May 11, 2007, 10:02:26 AM »

"SmokeGrens" "0"
"PaintGrens" "0"
"SmokeGrenades" "0"
"PaintGrenades" "0"
and everything with small letters isn't working, too!

KiLo · « **Reply #9 on:** May 11, 2007, 10:12:08 AM »

Grenades is a server side setting.

If you have admin all you need to type in the console is "grenades <paint or smoke> <#>".

kNoC · « **Reply #10 on:** May 11, 2007, 10:32:56 AM »

your map isnt bad, real small, but not bad, reminds me of that map jits made ?dodgeball? (think jits made it) where u spawn with pgp and theres a carbine in the middle...

question:

people in the jail portion, can they shoot below, through the spaces in the floor board and shoot the still living?

k3y · « **Reply #11 on:** May 11, 2007, 10:43:03 AM »

yes

they can shoot through it.. thats the sense...

and yes... my inspiration was dodgeball

kNoC · « **Reply #12 on:** May 11, 2007, 10:45:59 AM »

kk, thanks, k3y

jitspoe · « **Reply #13 on:** May 11, 2007, 12:37:52 PM »

Ah, revival of the dodgeball clones.

I remember when I first released that map, a whole bunch of people made dodgeball style maps.

To remove grenades, you need to set the following in your worldspawn:
"paintgrenades" "-1"
"smokegrenades" "-1"

You could also set "forcejail" "1" if you want to force people to go to the jail area, regardless of their jail settings (tip: you can just open up dodgeball.bsp in a text viewer and see the entity data at the end of the file).

As eiii suggested, you could afford to add some more detail into this map. The bunkers look like they were hollowed out of a solid chunk of wood. Try to think of how real bunkers would be constructed -- probably with some kind of frame (maybe 2x4's) with thin sheets of board nailed on. You might take a look at what I was doing with the arctic_dsm map for ideas:

http://dplogin.com/forums/index.php?topic=1405.0
http://forums.planetsuper.com/index.php?topic=1697.0

The tile in the jail areas looks a bit weird. Perhaps just make them all a single wood texture. Some occasional support boards running the other way underneath would help the believability a bit, too. At least a big one in the center. Also, the divider in the jail -- that texture is boards nailed to something. With as thin as it is, there's nothing for them to be nailed to. Might want to think about that, too.

Also, you need to make all the spawns face forward and probably keep them further back so people don't get shot at the round start so easily.

I'll go ahead and put what you have up on the beta server for testing. Check your PM for details.

KiLo · « **Reply #14 on:** May 11, 2007, 01:08:18 PM »

I just looked at the screenshots again and seen that this is almost an exact replica of another map except that the jails are in different places. I can't rememeber the map name but it had the walls in the middle, like the first and second screenshots. Then the jail was behind the other teams base and put up like a deck.

jitspoe · « **Reply #15 on:** May 11, 2007, 01:13:23 PM »

I think it was called tek9 or something like that. One of the many dodgeball clones.

k3y · « **Reply #16 on:** May 11, 2007, 01:31:34 PM »

yea im actually working on making the map more detailed... thx for the commands to delete the grenades

blaa · « **Reply #17 on:** May 11, 2007, 01:37:55 PM »

No need to try to make this map to be a map everybody plays in pub and stuff like that. Create a new map, which wouldnt be a copy of another map, which would be a new map, a fun map, a good looking, a map with good match play or pub play. Good luck.

y00tz · « **Reply #18 on:** May 11, 2007, 03:09:46 PM »

I knew there was an in editor option for no grenades... Thanks Jits.

bitmate · « **Reply #19 on:** May 11, 2007, 03:31:12 PM »

Speaking of pbcup_dsm: Will you ever finish that map, or is it one of the many half-way done, cool looking maps that are probably never relased?