a little map that's in the works

[Whirlingdervish]

I've been pokin around in my editor this last week and I think I'm about done with the architecture on this map I've been fiddling with. I still need to fine tune the lighting, make sure the textures are lined up a bit better, place spawns, and decide on the weapon loadout.

[X7[Q2C]]

looks good Whirlingdervish




X7

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Looks great WD, iam a fan of gothics..
-W1

[Derimok]

Looks good so far. It will be interesting to see what you come up with.

I know that you said you'll be tweaking the lighting, but will you be using that yellow tint, or going more for a white/purple colour?

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Looks really nice!

[Whirlingdervish]

at the moment the sky lighting is handled by the actual skybox having a texture painted on it and a light value of around 500 applied to it.

I used one of the greyish/yellow textures in the Basic folder of the stock textures for now, but I'm hoping to make it match that sky a bit better.

I'm not entirely sure how good it will look with a whiter sky lighting tho, since between the lamps the sky and the _ambient command I've done all of the lighting so far in shades of grey and white and I dont want it to look too washed out and monochrome.

A little bit of ambient lighting to wash it out helps give it an aged feel that a gothic map needs, but I dont want it to come out too boring and I'm thinking that I may do a batch conversion/change to the sky itself to match the slightly more yellow/brown tint that the current lighting gives, just to see how it looks with a little more color.

[X7[Q2C]]

Mar 31, 2009 15:34:33 GMT -5 Le Ray [Q2C] said:

Looks really nice!

OMG LeRay



Its good to see you again



X7

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Apr 1, 2009 5:28:55 GMT -5 X7[Q2C] said:

Mar 31, 2009 15:34:33 GMT -5 Le Ray [Q2C] said:

Looks really nice!

OMG LeRay



Its good to see you again



X7

Who is LeRay??



W1

[Sabotuer [Q2C]]

I see grenade launcher action, shotgun action, railgun action and what not. Seems like you can always be a target (love that), looking forward for the result!

[[EoM] Pr0c3550r® [Q2C]]

Apr 1, 2009 10:15:05 GMT -5 Wixen1 [Q2C] said:

Apr 1, 2009 5:28:55 GMT -5 X7[Q2C] said:

OMG LeRay



Its good to see you again



X7

Who is LeRay??



W1

yeah, who is LeRay ?

[Whirlingdervish]

^ He's the clan founder and the author behind the 20-30 leray maps.




On topic tho, I believe that I've finished this little DM map, and I put it up on my site for download.

You can find it here: dervish.tastyspleen.net/files/wddm05.zip

Give it a whirl, and let me know what you think.

[X7[Q2C]]

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Good map there Bro



X7

[Sabotuer [Q2C]]

Apr 3, 2009 22:10:56 GMT -5 X7[Q2C] said:

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Good map there Bro



X7

looks like you lost that duel

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Great map WD.. . Fantastic gameplay and maybe one of your best effort to date, I really like these map styles.

-W1

[Derimok]

Good to see your getting better at q2 mapping visually.

I'm missing a texture though:
Couldn't load textures/zone66/teleport.wal

in the zip its linking to a metal folder.

In regards to the map: I felt the weapon & items needed more tweaking, especially the redarmor/mega - they were a little too campable with the teleport.
Where the chaingun was, looked like a nice place to put one of the armors.

Also the water is nicely done but felt like it slowed the map down a little too much, and would be a place I would avoid altogether in 1v1.

In saying all that I think this is a nice map for friendly duels and dm in small numbers.

Good effort for 2 weeks worth.