TC_Untitled

[Laggy]

I am going to start making a map like hydro, drawing sketches of it right now, it is gunna be a 3 part map, most likely with high buildings city style from now it looks like it will go from ruralish areas to a city my the third stage.
also help is welcomed if you want to talk on aim it's Ernesto00o =)


never mind original idea is back on I'll finish the map then deal with triggers or get someone to help me =)

[Levi]

May I suggest for a name and theme, tc_thefloorislava? Everything is better when the floor is freaking lava!

[Laggy]

Getting from one point to another might be hard though!

[Levi]

There would be beds and coffee tables all over the place to jump on. :)

[Laggy]

I'll add a lava pit for you Levi

[Laggy]

On second though I am going to start with a CTF map they are the easiest one to make, don't want to skip right in to the hard ones!

[SATAn]

You give up too easy

[Ripskin]

Hydro maps are not hard, you just tell CP X is available after CP x is capped.

The hard part is keeping gameplay good and balanced.

[Laggy]

Alright, we will see it is still just a spawn point

[Ripskin]

It really depends on the style of map. Are you going full Hydro with separate parts for each CP section or like Steel with all points around and you just open / close doors and allow caps after each proper point is open?

The real Hydro style is a little harder, but you just activate and disable spawn points through the random selector for each section. The mapping part is not that hard. The main entity that selects the random mode based on which mode was just played is the only hard part.

[Laggy]

full hydro, 3 part Rip want me to upload the VMF or BSP so you can check it out? or anyone actually

LINK! (http://forums.tf2maps.net/downloads.php?do=file&id=1483)

[Laggy]

These ones are of the red base (the very last red base)


I may add a waterfall there, as a spy with a normal watch you can run through half that hall in one cloak hide in a corner recharge, or there will be ammo packs for the engies to build on the ledge
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230002.jpg

sentry ledge, and there will be more corners to hide behind and what not!
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230004.jpg

The first floor is gunna be a few cardboard cows but no players can get in there. the second floor will be where snipers go
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230003.jpg

there is a ramp there I deleted it somehow O_o
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230005.jpg

A wall
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230006.jpg

[Ripskin]

Coming along :D Whats the green wall going to be in the first picture?

[Laggy]

Thinking about that probably gunna fence that off and put a sky box behind it or something along those lines.

made the house bigger addded cows and now adding details

[Laggy]

UPDATE:

here are screen shots!

1 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230012.jpg)
2 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230013.jpg)
3 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230014.jpg)
4 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230015.jpg)
5 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230016.jpg)
6 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230017.jpg)
7 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230018.jpg)
8 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230019.jpg)
9 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230020.jpg)
10 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230021.jpg)
11 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230022.jpg)
12 (http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230023.jpg)

I have to change the texture shift add a few walls I forgot and add more things in the middle but enjoy

[Laggy]

Alright working on the second part =) when I am finished I will release the alpha version for for playing and stuff!

[Ripskin]

Nice! Wish I was in alpha :(

[SATAn]

damn you're fuckin that shit up! good job. Now build my map next!

[Laggy]

http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230026.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230027.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230028.jpghttp://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230029.jpg
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_untitled1230030.jpg

[Levi]

My only concern is that it looks like it may have too much open space, but its hard to tell from pictures sometimes :)

[SATAn]

My only concern is that it looks like it may have too much open space, but its hard to tell from pictures sometimes :)

I thought you were going to say that your only complaint is that there arent enough floors made of lava

[Laggy]

My only concern is that it looks like it may have too much open space, but its hard to tell from pictures sometimes :)

Still working on it the second part ( the one that is not grassy) will probably have much more things including a furnace that uses lava instead of fire to burn down wood!

and the first one I am thinking of ways to eliminate space I am thinking of recreating Stonehenge :p

[Levi]

Hey Charles, do you happen to have a link to a tutorial/guide you are using for hammer? I used to have a good one, but I couldn't find it again when I looked for it recently(and I forgot all my basic knowledge of hammer somehow).

[Ripskin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valve_Hammer_Editor

There are other good sites, FPSbanana has some tips, TF2guides or something is another one.

[Laggy]

I use tf2maps.net and http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/SDK_Docs

also if you want to get started join the tf2mappers community on steam and join the chat very very useful!


On a side note I am going to remake all of my map everything is out of portion. Might take a few more days =)

[Laggy]

Here we go, I've been putting it aside for a while cause I bought alot of booze and ity's not gunna drink itself.

Here we see red final point then one of the points and another point so descriptive.
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0000.jpg

Here is the ramp-tunnel that connects this point to the other!
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0001.jpg

The entrance to this so-called ramp-tunnel
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0002.jpg

The Middle part of this ramp tunnel
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0002.jpg

Bird's eye view of the middle part
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0002.jpg

Red's final point
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0005.jpg

door way to red final point ramp leads to the second floor of that part
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/Copyoftc_tech0007.jpg

The exit of Red's final point leading to another point
http://i302.photobucket.com/albums/nn109/me101010/tc_tech0006.jpg

There is going to be a lot more detail this is just the basic draft soI don't get confused by going inch by inch.

[SATAn]

there this place here, and this too. red base, and this is here as well. If you look over there, there's a ramp somewhere.

[Laggy]

Most Definitely.

[Laggy]

hoping back on the map making train

I am gunna put the watchtower from Arena_Watchtower into my map, but am going to modify it to give red some advantages

[Ripskin]

Where are you planning on putting it?

[Laggy]

Reds final point will be it