Another map from me

[4u2Squirrel]

www.clan4u2.com/downloads/4u2map15.zip

It's a Halo inspired map, so that was the look I was going for. There is a custom high-color texture pak out there that really makes the map look nice, so if you're a high-speed kinda person, dl that as well. I know I have a link to the textures somewhere, just gotta find it. No matter, the map works just fine without them.

I guess you can provide me with feedback, but it's not why I'm posting it. I simply want to make it available to those who still play Q2 DM. Have a good one.

[Panzer13]

The link doesn't work

[Sherm]

worked for me, nice work

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Good job. Big map...
Misses some sounds though.

[Panzer13]

Finally worked for me! Nice Job Squirrel

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Very nice map Squirrel !

Lot's of room and very good lighting.

This one might be one of the first maps reviewed here on the Cafe'.

Thanks for the link and keep up the great work !

[4u2Squirrel]

Found the texture pak:
www.clan4u2.com/downloads/texture_pak.zip

You'll need to use NoCheat (in nocheat openGL mode) to get them to work. As a bonus, they also replace the Q2DM1-DM8 textures with fancy new ones. I didn't make the textures, I just decided to use 'em.

Here's what it looks like with the custom textures:
www.clan4u2.com/sq/a15.jpg
www.clan4u2.com/sq/b15.jpg
www.clan4u2.com/sq/c15.jpg

Hope you can see a difference, I shrunk the pics to be more UBB friendly.

[FlashTBH]

Nice work and thanks!

[grieve[Q2C]]

great map, near pefect. really clean look, great connectivity, lots of nice jumps.

and I am still stunned by the closeup-quality of these high res textures. they are not only high color, but the wall textures have a size of 512x512. I expected to find a shader file within the pak that tells the renderer how to scale them, but found none. someone has to tell a noob (me) how this works that the renderer knows the right scale for the textures.



the other thing that stunned me was that I got no performance impact at all. it remained perfectly playable on my small rig (Duron 800, GeForce2 32 MB, 256 MB Ram), I didn't even had to stop winamp and Emule.

I don't use the complete NoCheat port when playing locally, my standard Quake 2 executable is the 3DNow! - optimized 3.20 exe that was made by AMD back in 1999. Runs fastest of all and is perfectly stable (other than some 3.21 ports).
I usually combine that with an updated gl renderer like ref_q2cpgl_dll or ref_ncgl.dll (which belongs to noCheat )

Switching to the NCGL renderer with the console was enough and sufficient to see the textures in their full glory.

absolutely great. mappers should start to take these possibilities into consideration, i'd say.

[WHO?]

mmm another 4u2map .. yummy mate ta .. enjoyed map 14 so this should be fun to if history does its funky thing hehehe .... thx

[WHO?]

mate it's been a while since I played in anything even remotely resembling the warehouse maps & had fun ....
as has already been said, some nice layout/lighting/jumps ... I liked it thank you ... might steal it & throw it into the server surprise the natives (again) see what the feedback is like.. with your premission of course

[4u2Squirrel]

Feel free to use it as you wish. Why make a map if you don't share it, right?In fact, you can use any and all of my maps, which can be found at www.clan4u2.com. Forgive my lack of updating to the webspace. I don't think I have 14 or 15 linked there yet. If there's something missing, maybe check our messageboard.

Glad you guys like it--that's why I make maps!

[4u2Squirrel]

Well, just for you guys (and I guess for the rest of the www), I updated the maps section of the good ol' [4u2] website. So now you can find the whole 4u2 series with ease. FYI, the last 2 maps on that page are from [4u2]Geikram (in case you wondering why they had a different naming system).

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Thanks Squirrel !

Hey maybe you can join the next mapping contest?

We would love to have you in it.

Keep up the good work

[4u2Squirrel]

maybe. Heh, everytime I either release a map just before the announcement, or just after the deadline. I don't go at it like I used to.