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Radon

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It's similar to my last map. But it puts more emphasis on unconventional architecture and cares less about extreme detail.
I heard it reminds people of Halo in a way because it has many edges and 90 degree angles. I think there is indeed a similarity although I did not intend to copy the Halo style.

The map got bigger than I first intended. I started with a few areas and connected them with paths. In the process I underestimated how the paths add up to a lot of space. This is especially true since I didn't use narrow hallways but tried to make cool areas out of it.

In the end it took rather a lot of time to finish it. It was one and a half years since I started to build the first blocks. But it only took so long because I pretty much stopped working on it during my semesters and picked it up again in the holidays. So it took a while but it was not that much work.

What else is there to say? Give it a go and I hope you like it :)

_r1 in the filename means: revision 1
fixes a problem that made it impossible to play the map on a dedicated server
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Phew! Finally done.
It took almost a whole year to get it finished.
In this map I reused most of the brushwork in several places to speed up the mapping. For example all the stairs pretty much look the same. I hope this doesn't appear boring. While working on the brushwork I discovered a little trick that allows one to create a 45 degrees rotated version of some given brushwork where all vertices are on the grid. Moreover it makes it very easy to combine a "45 degree version" of some brushwork with an unrotated one. I'm not sure if the trick is already known. If not, maybe Reno wants to write a small tutorial in case anyone is interested :)

Layout: I'm very satisfied with the layout of the map. It seemed very good to me and it kept me working on the map until it was finished. I tried to get some crossfire-feel to it with some sort of building (one looking a bit like a bunker). The textures also resemble a bit to crossfire. Still I think it got quite different.

Props and weapon placement: I didn't put a lot of props in it. They are rather placed like weapons (which they are). There are more props on the lower levels and fewer on the higher ones simply because there is more space to fight with them on the lower levels. Explosives are also to be found mostly on the lower levels because they are too devastating when shot from a high position (especially the RPG). The more precise guns tend to be on the higher levels (with exceptions).

Beta: Actually the map IS finished. But since I didn't put it up here on Snarkpit before, I decided to call it 99% finished and wait for some input. If anyone finds some errors I missed I can easily correct them.
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It's the map i made for AG? quite some time ago.
Unfortunately the AG? mod died due to a lack of coders. I then gave the map to HL2DMpro.
Well I also wanted to make a HL2DM version... the only difference to HL2DMpro is that there is no gauss and no longjump

There is one thing: the map hardly has any props so the gravity gun is almost useless. This is mostly due to the fact that AG? did not want to have props and the gravity gun like HL2DM.
If there is enough demand I could also add props and release another version.