I was actually looking online for surf map servers to see if any could host my map. That would awesome!

Dude i downloaded the map, and already told you what i think, this map
is awesome, release the final version, and ill tell my friend, who owns
a server in my country, to add it to his server :biggrin: , if you like
ofcourse./..

Waiting for tommorow dude :smile:

Well I cannot disagree with your opinion on its ugliness, it would be much more open minded to give the textures a make over but I like how it looks.. i'm a fan of the combine texture. Anyway, I was just wondering, underdog, how the map ran performancewise on your PC when you played it. I optimized the map as much as i could, anyway.. talk to you soon. The map is already on its final compile and it will be permanently submitted on sunday morning. Talk to you later!

ohh.. and I really appreciate your opinion underdog, no matter if it's postive or negative.

I talked to my son and he confirms the "Great fun" aspect of Surf maps. He said that this one is a bit ugly but "LOOKS" like its supposed to architecturally.

I trust his judgment on maps "fun" so...

Fix the ugly portions.

Personally, I reflect Cap P's comment. Why do fun maps have to be so ugly? Why cannot people break the mold and make a fun map, look good?

i voted terrible, just to try and balance out the fact that you called it beautiful. it didn't work though. :sad:

i've always hated those 'random block' type textures, so having one covering so so much of a map looks, to me, very very bad. [no matter what the gameplay]

Underdog said:
To be more informative on my part:

There is a map sort of like this one and if I can find it again, I will post a link. The only complaint that I had about it was its gargantuan download size. There was absolutely no way to run it online in a server because it was just not realistic. I am not saying this one will follow suit, but it is a consideration when creating this style of map.

I do not usually play these styles of map because I truly hate maps where falling off of things is an ever present situation. However, if done well, it can entice.

As to this map, the texture choices are currently its most obvious shortfall. One can have maps of this nature and never use the same texture more than once. I always found it difficult to understand how people can envision maps so well, but cannot texture them worth a damn.

I will go look for that other map. I may not be able to get a link, but if I can find the name, then you can look for it and possibly find it and then you will have a model of what this kind of map should look like when you complete it.

Surfing may be a different playing style than the map I am referring to, but architecturally, its similar.

BRB

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Look here

This is what a great platform map should look like. As I said, its only shortfall was its 40 meg, unzipped file size. It was just to unrealistic to place on any server. Even zipped its a fair sized file.

Use it as a model for your results.

Well i checked out that map, it's for a different mod! It is not a surf map, I see what you mean by how it looks like mine. But the only similarity are the blue and white combine textures.. obiously since our texutres are similar, they look the same.. but that isn't a surf map.. surf maps have to have jagged edges and triangles. If you ever built a surf map you would see why they look like that, the brushes in agora look displaced and i do not believe surf maps should have that kind of displacement in it. But if there will ever be a "surf_swej_2" then I will try displacement in my ramps.

Alright, i really downloaded the map, its quite surprising that this map, encouraged me to like surf maps O.o !!

I liked it, it was really fun, i love it lol..

But hey, there are some places that are hard to reach, for example, in
the first slope, when you go down, you should go right, there are like
3 triangles for you to jump on, i had some hard time reaching the last,
and the one that goes up to the ring, its really hard to go up with no
HIGH speed..

Fix these and this map will be fun and superb :biggrin:

Overall, nice map, im looking to download the map when you're 100% done :biggrin:

Why shouldn't such fun maps look good too? It'd definitely be a
winner... it might actually attract more people to fun-maps, rather
than sticking to bad-looking ones for the sake of it and never breaking
through that mind-setting.

Some people like to see something nice while having fun, you know... :smile:

Ok, I'm just going to say this because of 2 reasons. 1) I'm friends
with Swej, and 2) Because I dont think you guys are getting the concept
of the map.

A surf map is a map that has slope for you to... slide on. If you hold
the opposite direction then you can stay on it and slide, and if anyone
one here has played a surf map then youd get the picture.

http://www.csbanana.com/?section=viewlist.maps.maps.main.56

There is a whole genre of maps like this (im saying this because most
of you play HL2DM). It is either hated, or loved by people. Not a lot
of people a in the middle about it, some people like habboi think they
are good fun for a bit.

Now, compared to other surf maps, this map is very well done. Stop
complaining about the texturing, your not supposed to texture surf maps
correctly/good. And it seems he took the time to do it anyway.

Rated: Good

I find surf maps quite entertaining for a while...
Your map at first stunned me not cause of the metal but the mountain textures look good...Are they HL2 default? Anyway your displacements are good and the metal blends well...

My only negative is your name made of brushes...Looks weird.