rc_pinball

looks nice enough, perhaps height variation is a bad idea on such a small map? lighting is a bit bright mebe rc maps get a bit samey tho so i like to have as many as i can

if you need a host mail me ur map and i'll put it up

Thanks very much! I'll mail it to you now. As for the lighting, in my experience for Ricochet there is no lighting and the maps just don't use RAD. Thats actually (vile word) fullbright. Trust me, its the same on the normal Ricochet maps.

My first Ricochet map. VERY small. See what you think.

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You made a Ricochet map.

Yes Cass, a Ricochet map! Ricochet's great fun over a small LAN, and I've just bought myself a 5-port switch, so I thought I'd have a go.

What is Ricochet anyway? It comes with the 1.1.1.0 update for half life, but I've never worked out what it does really. I though it was just some sort of joke.

aaaaaaaaah s'a crap map :biggrin:

nah, sorry Loco but I'm not interested enough in Ricochet, and it seems to me like any one map in that mod is basically the same as the rest :sad:

It's a hop-around mod. You have to hop around from platform to platform and defeat the other players by shooting discs at them ...

It is quite fun in LAN-games, but it suckzors online.

I guess you found 15 minutes to spare?

ummmm , look again.. pads should not be that bright, not that its bad , it just isnt following rc's examples

5 minutes each for three nights running... but same thing! :biggrin:

Bah! You win I guess. Oh well... I'll change it when I can be bothered!

ricochets great for lans, gives me a break from the cs sh4ggers, in months of searching i only found around 4 custom maps for it :smile: i had a go myself but fukd up one of the jump pads and gave up :/

Bah, Ricochet sucks...

Speaking of ricochet, I used to play a game called Ricochet on my ancient computer, but that was years ago. I dare say that that game is better than this hl-mod :smile:

And speaking of Lan, spend the entire weekend on a Lan. The awesome thing was that we didnt play Cs! :biggrin: Yeah, I dont like that game either. Instead, me and my brother tought the others how to play Gloom, and they all loved it! Later we played Halo, and we also made up our OWN Halo game type: Warthog derby!! The 1 and only rule: No shooting. So everyone ran to the closest Warthog (a jeep) and ram into each other in top speed. Cars flied, bodies flied, and we all laughed out loud

Yeah, I realise now I really should not have done a standard "pads" map and should have done something with, say, corridors or cliffs. I'll try again this coming weekend!

I don't understand Ricochet properly, but my apprehension is that there is almost no scope for variety in the maps. This is mainly because there is no vertical aiming. So corridors/rooms could be terrible......

An interesting point I noticed which I noticed while fiddling with this map is that discs don't ALWAYS go horizontally. The jumps are brush triggers, and if the disc goes through a jump trigger it is diverted upwards. This could be interesting for some maps, but I'm no good with entities to do anything like that yet!

Wouldn't it be possible to make reflectors that would make the disks move verticaly? that way you would have to bounce your shots of walls and stuff to hit people...

Don't know...

All ricochet jumps work by aiming at an info_target, so you could try placing the info_target directly above the jump...

would be poss. in hl2 hammer then :smile: could parent a brush entity to a spawn :smile: then theres the prob of how do u throw horizontally :biggrin:

if ur gonna do corridors that r even slightly sloped makes sure to put freeze poweups almost everywhere :biggrin:

tbh think tron2.0 , that would be sweet in richochet

T'was what I was thinking. I'll get to work on textures this evening. Shouldn't be tool difficult even for me! :biggrin:

I've done a little work with Ricochet stuff. If you have an angled wall and the disc strikes it, the disc is deflected in the correct direction. Placing a little 45 degree block pointing upward would allow players to make vertical shots. You could set up a "periscope" shot thing with two of them to allow players to fire randomly at the levels above them. It's actually pretty neat, though the results can be unpredictable.

Also, I think if you have problems with discs getting knocked around by the jump pads, you should lower the height so the disc doesn't go through them but the player's feet will.

I'm not actually having problems with discs being deflected by the jumps. I worked out that you need to change the height of the jump brush!

looks nice enough, perhaps height variation is a bad idea on such a small map? lighting is a bit bright mebe rc maps get a bit samey tho so i like to have as many as i can

if you need a host mail me ur map and i'll put it up

Thanks very much! I'll mail it to you now. As for the lighting, in my experience for Ricochet there is no lighting and the maps just don't use RAD. Thats actually (vile word) fullbright. Trust me, its the same on the normal Ricochet maps.

ummmm , look again.. pads should not be that bright, not that its bad , it just isnt following rc's examples

Bah! You win I guess. Oh well... I'll change it when I can be bothered!

Hey, cool map. Finally a new map to play on. Just a thought, but I was
thinking this mod was suppose to be a lot better. But during the time
of making this mod, Disney already announced a Tron game. Valve
probably figured lets not make this mod after all. Even if was planned
as a free addon, releasing this would look "bad" on their part? Who
knows, but its make some sense. This mod could have been really cool,
but they scrapped it, and released it in this crap stage. Just my
theory.

Any ways, hope you make some more.

Its crap (the mod) In a way its about as fair away from the origional hl as any total conversion has ever been, its just a shame it plays so horribly.

Loco said:
Yes Cass, a Ricochet map! Ricochet's great fun over a small LAN, and I've just bought myself a 5-port switch, so I thought I'd have a go.

i agree small ricochet maps are fun with about 2-4 people. i tried making a ricochet couldn't be assed in the end and just played on the origanall ones. i looked on hl atlas and there was 1 map there and it was rubbish although that was a wile ago!!!

The Tron games originally planned weren't possible because of the graphics needed (neon thingys), and Ricochet was a compromise. The Tron and Tron 2.0 games have been released relatively recently compared to Ricochet... I think.