Flatshaded (working title)

I'm considering somehow making some seagulls and having them circle around the map for another little ambience furthering feature...dunno if I could model them well though, might just scour the net for some and flatshade the skin.

A single brush textured with a transparent seagull tex should do it and will cut down on the polys. I dont think too many peeps will realise its flat if its high enough in the sky.

Using the same method - have a pirate ship circle round the map, dunno if this'll be possible as the maps maybe a bit too small/rectangular shaped ?

btw, that sky water freaks me out :smile:

a flat pirate ship? yeha maybe. but too corny to play on for sure.

but anyway the two diminsional things.

do the weapons. put them paritally in the ground so the normal ones dont show but when you walk over the 2d ones you touch the hit box of the weapon underground and get it. should work.

but spinning 2d weapons. gotta spin for multi direction veiwing.

so 2d objects and spiked theme.

like it?

A "spiked" theme? I'd say its kinda hard to use a primitive object for a theme :biggrin: I get what you mean but I don't just wanna re-use buildings all the way around. I'm unsure what I'll do you'll just need to wait and see I think :smile:

2D weapon images spinning is a cool idea, might give that a shot!

im just saying emphysis on a pirate theme is goofy. maybe. just stick to a serious theme with a cartoon map.

yeah do 2d stuff. would fit in well with this map. very well.

sharks are awsome and seagulls rock.

i think it rocks now. with no more buildings. an inside section. too much and it kills it to me. or too much complexity.

your map.

imo a pirate ship wouldn't look out of place, would be quite trick if it was firing cannons or maybe have a cannon where players could use it or you could climb into one and get shot out of it wheeeeeeeee !

Very sweet map. I really like it.

Blinding - in both senses of the word!

I hope that the new map is as good as the old. Keep it up.
I'll save this post for when I download the map and try it, than I can rate it.

Ayee, I played this map when it was smaller, and from what i've just seen, it looks f'ing nice, nice job mate.

The volcano and the paths round it look really cool :smile: Looking forward to seeing the next (final?) version...

Meh, can't get the thing to compile due to hitting just about every limit (clipnodes, leafs, planes...). If I could only find this damn leak I could cut out the underside of the volcano, which would probably bring me within all of them :sad:

Very nice! Get it fixed!

clip brushes :razz:

my map wouldnt' compile yesterday. I was hitting like everything 190% patches, clip nodes, leaks bleah!

I simply worked meh ass off, clip brushed everythinhg, used cagey's tools to get rid of patch problem, and voila I got it compiled, 20 hours later :X

Woohoo, all the leaks are fixed at long last (many hours of vertex manipulation later!) and the beast is compiling. Hope Lep accepts a late entry...the MAP was technically ready in time, it just had...unforseen complications :sad:

gogogo, open my rmf! its in my download lol

Its done...or at least its done for now :smile:

Well this looks like a giant improvement of the earlier conception, nice :smile:

It would look better with textures ! /runs

Well, it looks great anyway ... I really like the shape if the island, and the skull thing is very cool.

And according to my calculations it would have taken 5,1 days. :biggrin:

Consider the comment edited Force, I couldn't remember who had said it :smile:

This map has one thing going for it:

Unique Look ...and a shark (it is fun to ride him)

ok, thats 2 things.

r_speeds are strenuous, and I am wondering why the water is instantly fatal... This map is a uniquely cool feeling experience, however I dont know how well it suits multiplayer.

Well if the water wasn't fatal you could run all over a huge area, which would ruin gameplay more than instant death. Huge r_speeds was inherent with the design There are 3 sharks, which means its 3 times as good

Interesting, how did you work out the little bits of grass that stick up here and there? (Haven't played it yet, so...)

The grass edges are done using a masked texture, kindly made by Adam Hawkins. As its colour matches the grass colour it merges, and makes it look pretty awesome when viewed while standing on the grass looking outward.

Consider the comment edited Force, I couldn't remember who had said it :smile:

ty. :smile: Didn't have to, but ty anyway. :biggrin:

The VIS alone would have taken 5 days ... dunno 'bout the RAD. Anyway, it would have took you lifetimes.

I would play it, but I won't have half life installed till I get my new HD in about a week, I have no more than 50 meg left :biggrin:

RAD only took about half an hour actually forceflow - running with a
chop of 256 :smile: No point having detailed lighting if there aren't any
shadows in the map!

Ill admit that its superior work well done by reno i believe he will most likely win the competition good look reno and good luck everyone else

how come the r_speeds are so high?

i think the map totally rocks. just i seen the r_speed count and i was like woahhhhhhhhhhh

have you played the map? SO much is visible!!!! Its not reno's fault. Its just an open map. At least the wpoly does not affect FPS that much.

yeah...fast vis and open dont work

this will be very good for half-life 2

Those screenies are so cool i've set one as my background.

I've been watching this map since i first saw it, and for originality it scores a 10, but..i just can't get past the textures. stupid reason not to score it a 10 but its the best i got

The best looking map with the hl1 thing

But then they would move with you, which would look somewhat odd To be honest, in game the sun and clouds look pretty normal, so its not a big issue.

And no, you can't go in the lighthouses or the walls, they are much to small to have any worthwhile internal space.

Nice!Have in mind that the map it's heavy for some slower computers.