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Mods please delete this thread... I hosed the map attachment.

Thanks,

-Mike-

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MoikeNET ~ www.moike.net - Bad Cat Racing ~ www.badcatracing.com

Hey Hey another guy from Santa Cruz!!! (I'm from the bay area as well)
Which explains why this map is quarky and "zaney" (KEEP SANTA CRUZ
WIERD!). While the brush work was very simple, the randomness and "fun
house" feel of everything made up for it.

But I must suggest that you work on the hallways a bit more (things are
bland and boring), touch up the rock work (make some lumps and stuff),
and add in some clip brushes (to make navigation easier). With some
work this map could be a good submission for the snarkpit contest.

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Yeah, it's quite plain and blocky at the moment. It will get dressed up down the road with proper textures/detail props/displacements... I'll worry about that once I'm happy with the mechanical aspects of the map. There are still empty areas/rooms that have themes currently in development.

Beleive it or not... there are tons of clip brushes in place already. Normally I'm very good about making sure there are not sticky areas. Where in the map were you getting hung up at? I'll make the fixes.

Right now I'm trying to see if there is a way I can tie in the trapdoor teleport deaths to award to the player triggering the trapdoor switches. This is proving to be difficult.

Thanks for the input!

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MoikeNET ~ www.moike.net - Bad Cat Racing ~ www.badcatracing.com

What kind of machine you building this map upon? The frame rates are pathetic considering the basic design. I think a bit more attention could be employed but thats just me. If you do not fix anything else, please align the textures in that barber pole tunnel.

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Underdog said:
What kind of machine you building this map upon? The frame rates are pathetic considering the basic design.

Yeah, don't sweat the framerates... that'l all get fixed. There's no optimization at all in the map you're playing. With a couple days of work I could easily quadruple the FPS in the slow places. But like I said initially, I want to test the playability and get some feedback on that before I start cementing the desigin and worrying about making it run fast.

Underdog said:
I think a bit more attention could be employed but thats just me. If you do not fix anything else, please align the textures in that barber pole tunnel.

That's as good as they get. I spent a day on that one to get it to look that nice. I must have tried a couple hundred different variations of texture scale and rotation to try and get everything to align. No dice. If you know a secret to get the textures to line up... I'm all ears, I'd like it to look nice.

Thanks for the reply,

-Mike-

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MoikeNET ~ www.moike.net - Bad Cat Racing ~ www.badcatracing.com

See the base of the tower, I bet you anything that the same issue was present. He solved it and so can you. I would contact this guy if possible. If not then I guess you're settling for what you have.

Sorry I cannot be more specific cause I do not know how it was done either. :sad:

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select all the similar textures with the texture select , and press the
button "set as one" then i think you could scale it down and rotate it
about 30 degrees if it looks like this

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instead of this

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its under the same menu where theres the rotation and stuff

depending on your texture it may help , give it a shot

edit: i've tried it with a simple texture and i've seemed to achieve
the effect with some simple button mashing and trial and error didn't
take too long , maybe 10 minutes

http://www.arclan.net/cpg133/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=1

It CAN be done

http://www.arclan.net/cpg133/displayimage.php?album=lastup&cat=0&pos=0

But , if you dont have the right scaling its impossible to perfectly align them all the way around

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That seems to have got it...

http://moike.net/dm_plastic_beta1/plastic2x.jpg

Thanks,

-Mike-

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MoikeNET ~ www.moike.net - Bad Cat Racing ~ www.badcatracing.com

any time ^_^ , if i see any more problems i'll try to help

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Preface:

I'm probably 75% done at this point. There's not too much left aside from tweaking the weapons placements, dialing in the lights, and putting in all the light props, detail props, decals, overlays... etc. The eye candy and dress up stuff.

Once that's all finished I'll do the Optimization overhaul. Which is a very tedious and boring task. So map Optimization is the LAST thing I'll do. So you'll see FPS down in the 20's in some of the large open places on the map.

With that in mind...

Remember kids, this isn't in any way a tuned final version, it's just a playable beta so I can get some feedback and comments for changes and improvement.

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The big new features...

The trapdoors have been rigged so that when the trapdoor operator captures someone they get credit for the trapdoor kill. This was no easy task to make work, but it seems to work well, and it's quite fun to toggle between trying to get people in the maze with the trapdoors, and defend assaults on the trapdoor control room.

A sniper tower has been placed in the glass maze. It has a floor made up of two large breakable crates. There are windows in the sides of the sniper tower that allow the crates to be shot out from under the sniper. This drops them down a shaft to watery death.

I was able to salvage one variable gravity room while keeping the 'in:' rate on the server under 300. It's filled with cars and trucks, all weightless and slow moving, all with a mass that will kill you if you get stuck between them and something else. Using the ggun to hop around the room weightless while fighting is a blast. It still may prove to lag the map too much, so the jury is still out on if it will make the final cut.

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Map: dm_plastic_beta2a
Map Type: deathmatch
Rel: In a few months
Author: Mike Jones - [EM] Moike_the_Squid
Email: moike@squick.net
Spawns: Several
Size: About 7.5 megs

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• Screenshots:

http://moike.net/dm_plastic_beta2a

• Download

http://moike.net/dm_plastic_beta1/dm_plastic_bet2a.zip

• EFNet #Motorcycles Server with the map in rotation

66.127.103.165 / moto-games.squick.net

Since this map is in the very early stages, Feedback is Greatly Appreciated...

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Features:

• Four player controllable trapdoors. Three of which cause death, scoring the trapdoor operator a frag for the trapping of the opponent.
• One large variable gravity room. Effects objects and players, and prone to violent chain reactions.
• Rotating center column containing a ladder that leads up to the trapdoor control room. Sits on a triggered moving platform, confusing -and- fustrating.
• A sniper tower in the glass wall maze that has a floor that can be shot out from below. Dropping the sniper into watery death.
• Hanging heavy bag room that will kill any opponent in it with the loft of one grenade or combine ball
• Spinning puke tunnel that can kill you.
• End to end under map trolley system.
• Some hidden areas
• Glass wall maze

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-Mike- is: Biker ~ Slacker ~ Iconoclast ~ Eclectic Thinker
MoikeNET ~ www.moike.net - Bad Cat Racing ~ www.badcatracing.com