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Waterfall looks cool, and I like the setting.

Yea what force flow said rolls eyes , the only problem i had was the lay out , i could only find one bombsite, but thats probably me, and maybe the light could be a bit dimmer, other than that, great map, love thtee architecture on the rocks and those stepping ice stones and the water fall. Good job!

Really like the rockwork and the style in general, however some of it is a little simplistic in places.

Another lame CS map :smile: its mostly terrain with a few empty buildings, waterfall etc.

Waterfall and river
Rocks
And more rocks

It was entered in the ZTK mapping competition so it had to be finished for a deadline and theres some stuff that never got fixed - ice disappears in the river, overused textures, terrain clipping problems etc.

Save for about two texture misalignments, that's f**king impressive. Looks surreal.

So spend another couple of weeks fixing it, fool! :razz:

lol, i can't be arsed to finish it :smile: anyway, i've finished with HL mapping except for maybe the SP compo, will see how that goes.

Save for about two texture misalignments, that's f**king impressive.

Cheers ! i've got you to thank for some of it - i was well impressed with the rock textures in ts_foolsparadise and it prompted me to dig out some old tex's and spiffy them up :smile: btw, you should finish that sucker.

I like the looks of this one.

beer hunter said:
lol, i can't be arsed to finish it :smile: anyway, i've finished with HL mapping except for maybe the SP compo, will see how that goes.

Save for about two texture misalignments, that's f**king impressive.

Cheers ! i've got you to thank for some of it - i was well impressed with the rock textures in ts_foolsparadise and it prompted me to dig out some old tex's and spiffy them up :smile: btw, you should finish that sucker.

If only D: It appears that all my maps, since they're on computers used by my whole family, are doomed to death by reformat. Fool's Paradise, my old DoD map, now even Ribcage and Zombie - they're all lost to broken harddrives D:

That's why people invented CD-RWs and drives that write to 'em. :wink:

If only D: It appears that all my maps, since they're on computers used by my whole family, are doomed to death by reformat. Fool's Paradise, my old DoD map, now even Ribcage and Zombie - they're all lost to broken harddrives D:

Thats a pity :sad:

You might still be able to get things like maps back after formating the drive, provided you didn't change the filesystem. If you have just reinstalled windows, then it shouldn't have overwritten the place where your maps were, since windows will have been at the start of the drvice before the format. Get some NTFS recovery program, and it will be able to find a bunch of old files on your drive, a lot of which will be 100% recoverable.

Cassius said:
If only D: It appears that all my maps, since they're on computers used by my whole family, are doomed to death by reformat. Fool's Paradise, my old DoD map, now even Ribcage and Zombie - they're all lost to broken harddrives D:

1^st off, thats a crock of s**t cass.. the rmf and map are just to small to not have a backup copy uploaded someplace safe.. a bit of forethought could have solved your problem. most especially since you knew the likelihood was pretty high.

if you lose another map, you have only yourself to blame.

.rmf files compress like crazy, my 13MB .rmf is 600kb zipped, easy to fit on a floppy even.

i've ballsed up a few drives in my time, to a point that they would only show me a BSoD. but with every one of them, i managed to retrieve the data i wanted by changing the jumpers on the drive to slave, then using another drive with a working os as master, to get to it.

maybe worth a try?

cass has been here a long time, i am betting he has his own pit too. you can upload up to 2 meg zips into a pit.. worse case scenario, i can upload 15 meg files for him to my briefcase.

blaming his kinfolk, was a bit OTT. :razz:

The map is lovely.. but here is something strange... click on the image to bring it up on its own window then "restore it down" meaning taking the window and using the diagnol arrow make the window smaller and you will see black and white squares. Wierd.... maybe its just me.

Nah I see em too, must be the compression stylings or something.

Strange how the thumbnails differ from the images. I clicked on the images at first and saw a cool map, then when I looked back at the thumbnails I thought they were small photos you had based the map from!

lol, those thumbs do look a bit like photos now you come to mention it. The image glitch is prolly down to being too aggressive with the compression.

Wow I like this very much. The terrain looks great. I have started that terrain mapping with all triagnles its fun takes some time. I must say you have perfected terrain, make another beautiful map impress more... more... i say.... ok that was stupid

Triangle terrain is 1337, i started using it in my new map :biggrin:

This reminds me sort of Neverwinter Nights Shadows of Undrentide. I like the misty snow theme very much. The bridge in the 3rd shot doesn't look like it lines up with the cliff very well, is it just the angle?

i love triangle terrain its fun as hell to make and play with. Im using alot of it on my new map. How long did it take you to make your rocks in those screenies?

Wow I like this very much. The terrain looks great. I have started that terrain mapping with all triagnles its fun takes some time. I must say you have perfected terrain, make another beautiful map impress more

Thanks :biggrin: yeah, triangle terrain can take a while to do but the end result is worth it. No more beautiful maps for CS as this is my last one.

The bridge in the 3rd shot doesn't look like it lines up with the cliff very well, is it just the angle?

Errr, it doesn't line up with the far end but it should be wide enough not to cause too many problems. tbh i wanted more rickety looking bridges but ran out of time, ho-hum.

How long did it take you to make your rocks in those screenies?

It took maybe 16 hours to do the basic rocks and terrain layout but thats a very basic layout with no waterfall, buildings etc. and the terrain was made out of big brushes. It helps if you create a set of template rock brushes, texture them and then copy and paste.

Its hard to say how long it took to do the rest as it was all done im my spare time over 4/5 weeks - it was mostly vertex manipulating the rocks and adding irregular shaped rocks to make them feel a bit more random.

btw, you don't need CS to have a run around in the map, it should work ok in HL as all the media is there except for the skybox, snowfall in the desert looks very strange :smile: