Look what I found!

[ComradeBadger]

Some really old pics of my maps (bad I know )

I'll do a few new ones, but like I said, I'm no decent mapper

Opinions?

 

[Sprafa]

Better than anything than I can do...

 

[Maxi]

Or what I can do.

 

[ray_MAN]

Or what I can do.

 

[Ti133700N]

Not bad, I'd need the .map file to tell you what you could improve... The textures are so so... HL I guess. Not much details but the lightning seems good. And it should run very well on low end computers

 

[ComradeBadger]

They were done on a 333mhz so, kinda designed for that

Nah, this wasn't asking for suggestions for improvments, just saying, look, this is what I used to be like

 

[Ti133700N]

Yea it's good to see how we started and see the progression. Too bad I've lost all my old maps. Are you gonna map for HL2?

 

[ComradeBadger]

Hopefully

Yeah, definatly

 

[Anable]

I've always had the problem when mapping that my maps are bright everywhere. I've looked at some info online and it says it's usually caused by leak but I know that's not the problem because I build my maps in a hollowed out box.

Better than anything than I can do...

Ditto

 

[ComradeBadger]

You probably compiled them without RAD

Easy error to make, I used to do it all the time

Anyway, don't use hollow, build ALL walls yourself, and make sure they TOUCH, not go through each other

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

They're shi...uh. Good work

 

[ComradeBadger]

Farrow, I need to talk to you about something, contact me tomorrow please

 

[Loke]

Nice maps.

The biggest room I've made is about 2 meters high and 3 meters in width... with some Assassins in the middle. I added a Big Momma too, but that wasn't so good.

I did a fire fight between some Barneys and plenty of Marines, the Barneys died quick and the grunts killed themselves with hand grenades.

 

[Antan]

I've always had the problem when mapping that my maps are bright everywhere. I've looked at some info online and it says it's usually caused by leak but I know that's not the problem because I build my maps in a hollowed out box.


Ditto

Creating your world in a hollowed-out box ain't a good thing to do, as it will force the HL-engine to.. erh.. I don't recall what, but it's not good. One thing in this is that you make a polygon too big for the eninge, and this ain't good

I can remember how I struggled with my maps for ages! They just wouldn't work, I had the compiler skipping RAD, just like it did to you!
The main reason to this was that I made all the outer walls to [func_wall]-entities

No, I had absolutely no idea but nowadays I'm a fullfeathered(if that's a word, I'm swedish ) mapper!

 

[The Dark Elf]

Creating your world in a hollowed-out box ain't a good thing to do, as it will force the HL-engine to.. erh.. I don't recall what, but it's not good. One thing in this is that you make a polygon too big for the eninge, and this ain't good

I can remember how I struggled with my maps for ages! They just wouldn't work, I had the compiler skipping RAD, just like it did to you!
The main reason to this was that I made all the outer walls to [func_wall]-entities

No, I had absolutely no idea but nowadays I'm a fullfeathered(if that's a word, I'm swedish ) mapper!

If you surround your map with one big hollow box it forces it to calculate everything, even those area's you'd never see, result = probably wont compile atall, and if it did, it would be very unoptimised.

 

[Frank]

I only knew how to change the playerskins, the .wad skins, so I made all the CS skins red so they were easy to locate...

 

[ComradeBadger]

If you surround your map with one big hollow box it forces it to calculate everything, even those area's you'd never see, result = probably wont compile atall, and if it did, it would be very unoptimised.

Yep, Always build a skybox that changes with your map

You know what, once I've sorted my 3d view problem, I'll get a few Opposing Force single player maps up

 

[Farrowlesparrow]

Farrow, I need to talk to you about something, contact me tomorrow please

:O I hope i talked to you about what ever it was you wanted, because i never saw this post. Oh well...

 

[ComradeBadger]

Nah, don't worry about it