Boatworld by [DS&CS]Toad

[toad]

After a lot of work, learning things about mapping, and fixing many mistakes, I am ready to release my map.

Boatworld

gtp.aaashare.com/boatworld.zip

2-16 players - Multiplayer (teamplay, deathmatch, CTF)

I did not make much of the content in this map, although I edited all of it and added many bells and whistles. I hope no one minds that I stole their content. Most of it was made 7-9 years ago. I'm making this txt file to give credit where credit is due.

The story of this map is long and probably pretty boring. Suffice to say that, way back when, a clan named Grand Theft Package joined a 7v7 Action Quake2 ladder and proceeded to camp the boat on Dock, blow the horn, kill the other team, and then follow it up with howitzering the crap out of them on Desert. I wanted to make a map where players could engage in full on naval warfare with whatever howitzer, missile, machinegun, and airstrike support they would ever want. Instead of forcing them to camp in order to fight on a boat, I made it so that the only place they COULD fight was on a boat (or in the shark-infested waters below). This map has so many entities that it had to stay fullbright (RAD can only compile maps with 255 entities or less, this map has about 320), not to mention the 65535 lightmap limit.

I refer to all the maps in this file as the names of their BSP files. They are made for Action Quake2 (but could be played in vanilla quake2 or CTF as well). Maps can be found at www.lahtela.com/aq2suomi/maps/ or quad.netdome.biz/aq2/maps/ among other places.

Thanks to the makers of the four boats:

KaRRiLLioN =AR= for Dock, possibly the greatest map ever created in any game.
Tipper B. Squakin for Seavill, an amazingly atmospheric and well laid out map.
Phat Al and Joemeister for Beachassault, which we played as often as Dock. The first time I saw this map I took 20 minutes alone in a server just checking it out. The cool background sound effects, the sharks, the machinegun near the crates, the helicopter idea, and the grey military style boat are all from Beachassault. This map may actually be the best ever.
Blownup and 8mm for Harbour1, which I don't think I've ever played on a public server but that was included in the uberpak. The MSS Fragtanic is a fine ship, gentlemen.

Thanks to the
[DS&CS]Bobert for the fish (from his giant-sized map of a kid's room, huge).

Creepy for Desert, another favorite 7v7 ladder map. We made so many clans cry on this one, it was great. The howitzer and the one-time viper airstrike come from Desert.

Regulator for River, whom I took the repeatable airstrike from (taken from the Dock boat).

KaRRiLLioN =AR= again for Highrise2, which has been played tons of times on pubs, and made everyone realize how cool diving boards were.

Thanks to gamesdesign.net and the following people for their brush prefabs (entities were my original):
Helicopter - by Hallucinator
Missile - by DMA57361
Cessna - by Hallucinator
Super Blaster and 4-Laser cannon - by [Q2C]WhirlingDervish

Thanks to Shane "Fishman" Sherman, GrrandMaMa, EutecTic, David Shaw for their excellent tutorials at files.volved.com/qsr/qoole250_cd/rust/tutorials.html

Thanks to everyone who helped me playtest this. Enjoy the map.

Now for some screens. Any of those guns look familiar, WhirlingDervish?

[Paril]

Not bad. Not bad at all. Could use some lighting, though.

EDIT: No credit to the A-Team for AQ?

-Paril

[Whirlingdervish]

way cool.
downloading now!

[toad]

Haha Paril, I knew I forgot someone!

Regarding lights, from the earlier post

"This map has so many entities that it had to stay fullbright (RAD can only compile maps with 255 entities or less, this map has about 320), not to mention the 65535 lightmap limit. "

I had to make a choice between "crazy entity-based missile/howitzer/airstrike/shark/laser/machinegun/etc... shootout" and "well lit map". Since I went into this project wanting to make an epic naval battle, I had to choose the shootout.

Thanks for checking it out.

[AAAGGHHH!!]

looking like fun so far toad thanks man!

[Paril]

I know, I read about the lights (how would I know about no credit to the A-Team if I didn't?), but it could still use em

-Paril

[toad]

gtp.aaashare.com/boatworld_all_textures.zip

Boatworld with all textures, including the base quake2 textures for those who deleted them. It also has some base quake2 texture replacements for those that don't have a set already.

This map was designed so that those who had the baseq2 and uberpak (action quake2 map pak) textures would only have to download the .bsp file.

[hardcoal]

cool map man.
funny and full of surprises just as i like.
you got good humor mate.
cheer h.coal

[Paril]

toad said:

Boatworld with all textures, including the base quake2 textures for those who deleted them.

Copyright infringement much?

-Paril

[AAAGGHHH!!]

finally got to check out the latest maps.. neat map Toad! like the moving water.. sharks.. lasers.. chopper.. sounds.. you got all kinds of stuff going on! good job

edited silly spelling error

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Looks cool! Thanks for sharing it with us!

[Paril]

Hold on a sec, show me that handcannon model.

[Skeetz]

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Why the f**k do you have a flat plane of water just floatin in the middle of space? Is it God's personal harbor or something?

Well, that doesn't really bother me too much, but it would be nice if you had some rock walls or something around it. Anyway, great idea, and some good brushwork on the boats... but could definatly use some lighting.

[toad]

I thought about making it in some enclosed harbor, but then I thought "screw that, let's put em in SPACE!" This map was my attempt to give players the most freedom as I could to kill their enemies... whether it be by howitzer, helicopter, laser beam, cessna driveby, etc. I felt that having it just hovering in the middle of space like that made it seem even more open. Plus, the lack of time put into rock walls allowed me to add things like the megaflush and the giant rotating fan at the end of the universe trap.

[toad]

Damn I miss this game...