Speedmap Saturday
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by mazemaster on Sat Mar 12th at 4:46am 2005


Tomorrow (Saturday) is the start of spring break, but I don't leave campus until Sunday so I have a day completely free.

I intend to make a quality HL2DM map from start to finish tomorrow. The rules: everything must be stock, and everything must be done tomorrow. By everything I mean the whole deal - think up the style, plan the layout, make the geometry, add details, playtest, and edit. I don't know if its possible.

Anyways, I will post updates throughout the day. If anyone has ideas or would like to help do team-mapping, feel free to post or message me (email/msn messenger: n_alger_ at hotmail). [addsig]




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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Gwil on Sat Mar 12th at 11:37am 2005


Insanity, nothing but. I'm intending to "speed map" before April time, to get a release out at last, but not over a 24 hour period

Just use the time to fix the water bugs in Island17! *runs away*
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by azelito on Sat Mar 12th at 11:44am 2005


Speedmapping is fun. I used to speedmap maps for TS with a friend, we'd do one map each and see whos was the best.
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Orpheus on Sat Mar 12th at 1:26pm 2005


No offense intended, but i can recall only one map made in a day that was worth a s**t.

cannot recall its name, but it was a HL/DMC map. sadly even though i know the author I cannot recall which.

One day maps tend to be exactly that, one days worth.

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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Dark Tree on Sat Mar 12th at 1:33pm 2005


I have TWICE thought I would just make a mp in one day. A perfect example was my Dungeon Death mod for HL1. I originally only intended to work on it for one or two nights....I had just got done playing a small map called winter maze, and decided I would make a bigger, cooler maze. 4 months later........

So yeah...I would do a 24 hour map...but I know I would never be satisfied and keep building on it...thus destroying original intent. Also, when I only plan on working on it for a certain amount of time, the beginning parts where I "speed mapped" always look like sh*t.

I will not set boundries on my maps unless for a contest ...which by the way...oh Leeeeep!

edit:

My maps turn out to be sh*t usually anyways, so nvm. I think like 6.25 average rating on my maps.

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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by ReNo on Sat Mar 12th at 2:52pm 2005


I'd be interested if I didn't have other things to do today (and it wasn't near enough 3pm already!). I'm certainly up for giving it a shot in the future. Best of luck with it by the way Maze, should be interesting to see how it turns out
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Tracer Bullet on Sat Mar 12th at 5:09pm 2005


Maybe if you keep it SMALL and don't try any effects that you aren't dead-sure how to do... It takes me weeks just to tweak the lighting in most of my maps. [addsig]



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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Mar 13th at 3:50am 2005


Hmm, its not going so well... Still got a few hours... [addsig]



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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 13th at 3:54am 2005


I just finished a critique.. does that count?

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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by satchmo on Sun Mar 13th at 4:07am 2005


Does anyone know Kasperg from TWHL? I bet he can crank up a decent DM map in a day. He typically completes a map in three days, and they look very impressive. [addsig]



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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by mazemaster on Sun Mar 13th at 4:59am 2005


I give up. My map is crap. Maybe another day. [addsig]



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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by parakeet on Mon Mar 14th at 2:22am 2005


I think ill do that on the start of my spring break

Ill make my mother make me one great thing about parents is you can make them motivate you.
And it'll be the start of a mapping frenzy from me as soon as i get windows up and running again
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by thursday- on Mon Mar 14th at 7:02am 2005


Maybe 48 instead of 24hours?
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Re: Speedmap Saturday
Posted by Dred_furst on Mon Mar 14th at 2:16pm 2005


how did it go? i wanna know that rhymes lol
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