Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by wil5on on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 3:30am
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What more is there to say, what games do you map for most often?
Damn there being only 6 options...
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Vash on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 3:35am
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Half-Life.
Im pretty much a free-lancer, mapping for MODs I actually like, and having a little though that if I mapped for them, maybe more people would play the maps, thus improving the MODs community (Scihunt is an example).
I know how to use radiant, but Ive never gotten into Quake 3, COD, Or anything else, because they never really caught my attention. Half-Life is the one game that seemed to catch me, and hold my attention for quite some time, while Quake and all its predecessors just seem's to come in and provide me with entertainment for a few good hours, then its just time that I moved on.
Some people say that you should map for the most powerful game out today (Like Quake 3 I know its not that powerful, but its still an ok engine I suppose, or UT2k3, or 2k4), but when it comes down to it, I learn the editor a bit, start to map, then I relize I have no motivation whatsoever to make a map, but in Half-Life, I always seem to want to make something bigger and better. Opening old maps and correcting the things I did wrong, then opening those same maps in a few months and actually correcting the corrections :biggrin: .
Re: What game do you map for most?
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Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 3:38am
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HL also. I've got the same problem Vash. I once tried to learn UTed but I couldn't work up any enthusiasm for the project. I honestly don't know what it is about Half Life that I like so well...
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by wil5on on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 3:58am
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The HL engine seems to be alot of fun to map for. I only map for CS more because I dont like DM all that much. However, if I didnt map for CS, I'd map for either HLDM or DoD.
D'oh! Forgot to put Unreal on there... oh well, if anyone can figure out that editor, and would use it more than HL, I'd be surprised.
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Gorbachev on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 4:18am
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I'm mostly DoD. As well as a tiny bit of CS and also a lot of Triforce.
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Jinx on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 5:59am
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seems like a dumb poll to post at a HALF-LIFE MAPPING SITE :rolleyes:
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Crono on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 7:09am
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Something everyone always forgets is Medal Of Honor :smile:
I wish you could change the wad format in Hammer, then you could easily use it to edit MOHAA (taking that it's quake II based as well as HL).
But I voted dod. Because if I were to ever complete any of my practice crap it would be for dod.
Re: What game do you map for most?
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Well I hope to map for the game I'm writing now. I just got the level rendering part of the engine done, still needs some tweaking to render huge outer areas correctly, but indoor areas render correctly. Just need to learn how to use the Portals and BSP tree together to render that area correctly. Basically the engine uses Q3 BSP files for the maps, so anyone who can map for Q3 should be able to map for this engine. Not sure if I'll get the curves rendering soon, mainly due to the fact that an instructor of mine took 3 weeks to get it to work...and I don't have that time. I still have to get the models and particle effects rendering. Still have a lot of work to do, and I need to have the engine done by the end of the first week of April. Thankfully I get the previous week off. :biggrin:
Re: What game do you map for most?
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Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 2:40pm
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The Specialists. 6 out of 8 maps Ive released is for TS.
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Kage_Prototype on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 3:33pm
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I really have a thing for single-player half-life maps. I like to mess around with scripted sequences, atmospherics etc.
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Adam Hawkins on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 4:23pm
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I've mostly mapped for Frontline Force (i'm a member of the team), though more recently i've completed a fair few DM maps :smile:
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Crono on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 8:56pm
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Wil5on, no big deal. I was just pointing it out. it would probably be easier to do engines and/or popular games under and engine.
Since HL and MOH are both from the Quake II engine, they could be under that. and Unreal Engine, too many games to list. I'm not sure if CoD actually used someone elses engine as the base. If they did, it was probably QuakeII, like MOH.
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Crono on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 9:25pm
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ah, so a Quake engine, would be a good poll option then....
Thanks, KoRn "Call of Duty" Flakes :smile:
Re: What game do you map for most?
Posted by Myrk- on
Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 9:54pm
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It's not just HL, it's just that this site started that way...
Re: What game do you map for most?
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Fri Mar 12th 2004 at 11:00pm
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How come no one maps for quake 3? its a much better engine than HL (I dont know about anything else). Is there any way I can change my vote, if I knew there was no one for Q3 then I wouldn't have chosen HL