Boa - Now playable. | Quadropolis

Kaomé | 2008-10-10 23:12

Boa - Now playable.

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Blurb Named from a snake, because of the curvy and spiky part.

Screenshot Boa - Now playable.

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Detailed description

New release, without too much lava. It does not feel the same anymore, but now it runs... There is also a few improovement concerning lightning; and now I hope it'll receive gameplay review.

The map was initally planned for CTF, but can be played on every mode. Item placement should be improoved, and I post the map on quad in order to have advices about that.

I want to thank all these guys for making a little part of the map:

Argh! (he does the spiral column, and an other little thing) Skylax (a few texturing and geometry), Misan (there is still part of a Misan's thingy somewhere), Hoffi (have no idea who is this guy and what he did, but I wrote his name in my credit.txt XD), and Daniel (he did nothing but gave usefull advices).

Map file boa.zip (9.92 MB)

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Comments

cube_zero | 2008-10-11 00:36

Appreciate the effort put into this map but unfortunately it is not very playable although you say "it was intended to be playable" so I think it just got taken a little to far.

demonmoooseguy | 2008-10-11 06:04

Looks great kaomet - you rly have some talent on steroids

-MoooseGuy

Quin | 2008-10-11 07:28

You might want to consider a better screenshot, upon first look it appears to be a jumble of colours, only on closer inspection can you actually tell it is a map.

Kaomé | 2008-10-11 08:53

To cube_zero:

Seems like you missed the word "artistic"...

To Mooseguy: Thanks.

To Quin: ... OK.

Justin | 2008-10-12 14:35

looks good except for the texturing.... fix all the texturing and i'll give you a 5/5

Kretren | 2008-10-14 23:38

I love this lol. I agree, this is mostly artistic. This is because so much work was put on small details that aren't even meant for playing on (like those intricate things you put basically everywhere...) but also because there's so much lava... It looks awesome but my computer can't take all that lava lol. Thus it's not playable for me. But I'm holding on to this one. Yes the textures need work. They seemed misplaced in really obvious spots which makes me wonder why you submitted this so soon. Like that default rock texture... It seems to be everywhere.

Also, when I entered the map I had to calclight (otherwise it does that partial fullbright thing).

I'm not just saying this to help my slow-as-hell computer out, but the massive amount of lava-pillars doesn't actually look that good. Individually they're cool but no structure needs that many pillars. You may as well opt for a wall :P

It's only because they're quite thick for pillars.

Finally, you have too many healthboosts. I think one is enough for a map this size, maybe two if they're tough to get but you put two within walking (lol) distance from eachother and the other in an easy spot.

Good job though. 5 stars once you get the small stuff done and I will always consider this a concept map (no offence that's not a bad thing at all.. It looks sick no matter what, and you'd be in good company for concept maps... look at skycastle).

Kaomé | 2008-10-16 20:40

"there's so much lava"

=>I don't think lava affect performance a lot. Water reflecton is far worst for that.

"I had to calclight"

=>This one should be OK, now. I have even made the pvs culling.

"the massive amount of lava-pillars doesn't actually look that good"

=>At the begining, all the pillars were differents. But the double helix pillar was the only that look good enought :D. And it is a lot cheaper to render than my intricated things...
About the use of so much pillars: as I said, I always start with the general layout of the map. At the very begining, those pillars were only stacks of cubes... and there was no structure above XD. They were only set for gameplay purpose.

About HB: I removed some...

admin: use the reply link, plzkthx

cube_zero | 2008-10-20 02:19

Marginal improvements on this map but still way too much lava. Kaome, I didn't miss the word "artistic"

Kaomé | 2008-10-24 18:02

There is too much lava and it affects hugely the performance. I thought that the water reflection were more consuming, but that's not the case...

The good point: now I know how to release a playable version of the map (and also that my geforce 8 doesn't suck as I thought it did), on the other hand it breaks the esthetic I chose at the very begining of the map (not exactly btw, the first idea was even worst in term of perfomrance - Yes we can ! ;-) )

So, it comes back to the 80% achieved... Damn, I would like to make something different.

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Edit: avoid double post

I try to emove some lava, and now when I'm looking toward some direction, I got this:
http://img525.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot8119963ku6.png

A little mouse move later it came back to what it should always be:
http://img116.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshot8125205nt5.png

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