Its a snow/ice map but with a house/office, stairwells and whatnot. its a bomb defusal map and im a rather noobish mapper so please bear with me as i noob my way through the whole mapping process..
Yeah chapters are for any map type, and I think the original idea was to have new chapters for different stages of development (alpha, beta etc?) but in general it is better to just stick to one chapter, as it's less confusing. People don't often know where to click to read the most recent updates, and oftentimes people will post in the intro chapter instead of the most recent one, like I'm doing now :smile:
I think chapters are intended for single player maps, like how HL2 had fourteen or fifteen "chapters" - but I could very well be wrong.
Just seems nice to me to have all your suggestions from inception to final product in one long thread instead of splitting it up into different threads of varying length and content. shrugs
well the first chapter was more of me feeling sorry for myself ahhaha.
and ive already gotten very very fast response with all my questions n
all that s**t. snarkpit is f**king great, makes it alot easier than
just looking and looking in the endless pages on google. thanks again
and ill keep ya posted on the progress!
Oh, you started a new chapter.. weird how it divides up like this. Hm. I'd personally stick with just Intro so you can pool ideas in one place instead of splitting it up into two "chapters" although it's the same map.. but that's just me. shrugs
To be honest, if you want to do this map well, I'll bet it will take more than a week (or maybe not, if you work very fast..). I've already been working on my current map, dm_residential, for a month and a week and I'd say it's maybe 70% done; I have plenty more to do (though I'm a rather slow, careful, perfectionist-ish guy).
Oh, and you'll get suggestions and critique as long as there's something to respond to. :smile: Keep us posted with screenshots and you'll probably have a steady stream of responses and suggestions.
Well, i got inspired as s**t last night and started mapping. added a
bunch ot the map. lights, props, all of that. but theres still plenty
to do. ill try and post some screenshots when i get it to looking
better. its in that stage where it looks wierd cause there are parts
done in a area and then parts that are half done in the same area.
anyways its coming along very nicely.
well i think that it might also be that the only time i work on this
particular map is between midnight and 6am.. so the fact that i cant
seem to make it as sharp or anything like that is because i get only
3-5 hours of sleep most nights and i only work on it when im about to
pass out. im not sure but im going to dedicate a week all to making
this map.. not just a week with a few hours here or there. a week of
mapping, sketching out on paper, all that jazz.. and if i dont finish
this map as soon as i would like.. then ill just postpone it for when
im not so sleep deprived all the time. plus ive been in a s**tty mood
for the past week because i blew my amp out :sad: cheap amp but i dont
have any money ever.. still paying off my computer. But im sure that
once i get ina better overall mood and get more energy ill feel
more enthusiastic about making this map. thanks for giving the tips and
all that s**t. im actually surprised that for only reistering on
snarkpit last night ive gotten this many replies and suggestions n all
that s**t.
Just get an idea for a small area you want to build, and see if you can. Take it as far as it will go. Don't try and tackle a full map until you're ready to really dedicate yourself to it. I honestly think coming up with many small projects (and finishing most of them) will be more rewarding than starting a few big ones and never getting anywhere near done.
well its not really that im not confident, its just that i get
discouraged easily when it comes to mapping. so ill work on my map for
a while, get on my css clan server and play a few custom maps, and then
feel s**tty about how good their maps are lol. meh im sure it will pass
but i just need to practice more stuff..
