Ideas for Maps

This is a thread where we can put all ideas, good or bad, into a big pot



My ideas:


- building a stairway like impulse and dont surround it with different rooms. Instead build a big circle around it, that's working like an assembly line and at fix points u get pushed into the mainroom with the stairway, that don't have 2 staircases, it has 4 and is symetric to both sides


Sorry for my awful paintwork

You said it, that paintwork is truly awful. You may be better off relying on telepathy.

Your idea sounds fine, that picture tho... kinda looks like the base of a pepper grinder.

Maybe I lack imagination tho.

I like this map:

http://www.utzone.de/include.php?path=content/download.php&contentid=5745

It's pretty big and very hard to make, but if one of you is able to convert, more make new, it, it would be great

Greetings, Thalan

Hard to rebuild for me.

And i don't have UT2k4 so i can't even watch the full level


But the core of the idea, an tropic island scenario with palms and barracks is definatly possible.


Nice input Thalan

same here, tough one to make/rebuild. but it's not impossible. however I prefer small maps to play on as when there 2-4 ppl on it its still fast game not running around for 15 minutes to find some1. I still would like to have the place of two deaths from 1st quake in Nexuiz, also small and fun map to play on.so far Ive seen PinkRobot was making it, but dunno if he made it.maybe I will give a try to make it.
yes Ur idea Thalan is nice

EDIT: roarrr I found q1 maps on Alientrap, converted , need only retexturing woohoo I will have my q1dm1 for Nexuiz soon !!!! woohoo just need proper textures XD

Buying UT2k4 is cheap and worthy it! If yuo don't want to - the demo works, too

Demo is good

But I still have no time to rebuild it

I might it when i have holidays and be sober

YOWA PEEPZ
any ideas for maps? for some small maps with fast action
c'mon dont be shy, post some
I have few ideas, for example rtcw-like map, small courtyard and castle walls + turret(s). and a cemetary map (smaller than mausoleum, somehow I like helluva much grim-necro-atmosphere).
share Ur ideas!

I would like to see a map in a ancient greek-temple style.
With lots of stairways and pillars in pure white

Stonehenge with two level, the old stones it couldn't be all...

What is with a mall with lot of little shops and big moving stairs ?

Maybe a big ship or a haven ?

A spaceship like the Event Horizon?

RTCW, temples, stonehenge - great ideas!

I saw this today: http://www.alientrap.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=4826

While it's not gone down too well over there, I think they're a little... harsh? Damn, they didn't even play it..

I edited a few things:



http://omploader.org/vMXFpbQ/mandatum11.pk3

I think it'll be fun for minstagib, the turrets still kill ya.

Ive fired it up and it's playable I know it's mostly the same texture everywhere, but does it make this map so bad? I think it makes it hmmm charming in some way those turrets can be destroyed (tho they respawn after a while) ^^
and what do U think about 5th element map revisited in ancient greek style ?
heh even if some1 doesnt like that idea...I already started doing it

Banshee wrote:

and what do U think about 5th element map revisited in ancient greek style ?
heh even if some1 doesnt like that idea...I already started doing it

Nice idea m8. I'm looking forward to it.

^^
any suggestions @ that map to make it better?
plz share

Nope.

It was a great map anyhoo, refreshing it with your new mapping skills would be enough & the ancient greek theme would certainly be a nice touch.

We'll always say if there's something we don't like.

^^
kewl ok doing it now, it will look different, gonna be bigger than before and instead of rooms on every side there will be 4 small temples around one big temple ^^ damn I want to know how they make that reflecting water! would be a great addition anyway I will do my best

A nice reflective water is 'textures/water/water2' - That's what I used on Tundramagi's Mandatum.

Gonna be a busy day at work then?

thanks T
hell yeah, it is ^^ over half of "sketch" is ready by now I'd like to make it with more eye candy heh maybe I can manage to finish it today

edit:
nah Im not gonna finish it today, it's gotta be really nice.

For more reflecting water: You should try to put a small brush into the wather with the glass_tube shader from "save_liquids". The glass reflected more as the wather only. But you have put it on the ground, becuase you cant pass the glass.
If you can fnd the .shader and .tga file from glass_tube you can edit it so that you can walk through like water and you can put it on the surface from the water.
Maybe a good effect ?

Here is an example.

^^
I have to take care of details, this is OUR map , and I have feeling this version of 5th element is going to be much better than 1st one. I will hopefully make it until next weekend. few screens of "sketch" phase. of course some things can change
many brushes are caulked so U wont see them

It's already very good lookin' m8 =)


It will surpass version 1 of 5th element a lot =)



U are really the best mapper in prophets

Thanks M U are great mapper too M, Impulse is very sophisticated map I wouldnt do them if I couldnt manage some spare whiles for doing it at work. I bet if U could "waste" some more time on it U would make many more great maps m8

One word - Awesome!

A little hint:

Maybe u can add some broken pillars or pieces of stone to the lvl?
So that the map wont be too open to shoot from one end to the other

It looks very spectacular, i am waiting for the result.