dm_riverstation

Hi everybody!

When i played Half-life 2 i really liked the chapter "Route Canal", and so i decided to bring it back for HL2:DM. Theres going to be a part of the river with a little combine station and a raided rebel station.

The map is really in early phase, so it will take a while before screenshots, but ill try to work hard on it

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Step back, citizen!

Not to complain, well actually I am forestalling the complaints:

Its best to start a map in your profile. Then once it reaches a stage where you desire some feedback you can begin a thread.

Its not wrong to do it this way, just odd.

Good luck with the map. Such an open one will be exciting, but difficult I imagine.

Keep us updated with at least some screens, even at far less than 25%. We might help prevent a reworked area. :smile:

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The best things in life, aren't things.

Yes, its pretty odd to do it this way, but screenshots are exepted(yes, i think its spelled wrong...) tomorrow.

Orpheus said:
Good luck with the map. Such an open one will be exciting, but difficult I imagine.

Yes, i think it will be bit hard to copy the valve's style and architecture.

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Step back, citizen!

Nah. I copied Valves work for HL1 and improved upon it IMHO. What I meant was, the particular theme you chose will be hard to make into a playable HL2DM map.

Your frame rates will suffer.

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The best things in life, aren't things.

I'm sorry, i were little busy today so i didn't add screenshots yet.

And Oprheus, the map is not going to be that big, and its dryed river so there will be no water. By the way, do you know a good tutorial for using of hint, skip and areaportal?

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http://www.student.ru.nl/rvanhoorn/optimization.php

The standard tutorial for these kind of things. Pretty advanced, actually.

Here's another one, more technical (you don't have to fully understand it). But it's good to get a feeling for how your map gets split into different areas during compiles:
http://qxx.planetquake.gamespy.com/bsp/

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Why snark works.

Thanks, reaper47!

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Aww.. im sry guy's, were going to trip to creece, i can't make the map in a while. Ill resume when i come back. Bye for a while, SnarkPit!

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Step back, citizen!