Ive, always wanted to see a theme like this. Ive just never had time of my own. The lights look AMAZING! They compliment the green metal texture very well. I think you acomplished the "new colony" or "developing colony" feel very well. I hope to see many more maps with this theme.

You seem to have forgotten to include a texture, specifically packages/kretren/mech1_glow_blue.jpg.

Looks pretty good. Reminds me of some maps from Halo, and that's a compliment, since they almost always have heightened detail and a more modernistic sci-fi feel.

Actually the original concept (the map started with the observation room) was loosely based on halo architecture. So I'm glad you noticed the resemblence :)

I tried to veer off that course too.

I was playtesting it last night and I noticed the texture was missing too. I'll be sure to include that in my next update.

Thanks for the comments so far, + star content :)

Haven't played the map with others yet, but I did wander around it and loved the theme and execution. Outdoor environments are a challenge with this engine and you pulled it off quite nicely. I also like that it's a CTF map without being mirrored, since there are plenty of FFA and a number of mirrored CTF maps around it's nice to have a change.

There are a few textures (related to fc4's grass/dirt path textures) that cannot properly load in this because, I believe, even though it made it to the next release, the textures were either renamed or put in a different directory. At any rate I didn't end up using them, so only the grass and dirt should be an issue. I don't think it was because I put this in the SVN and it loaded the textures fine, and of course the one texture that I use mostly underwater was missing.. So that's included now.

Thanks for the comments all.

Honestly, I have no game systems lmao. I only have Halo CE for windows (which is slow.. at least for me). I only managed to play Blood Gulch on a friend's XBox like, once. I believe I enjoyed it but certainly it's a lot of work. Start it though! I'd like to see it made :)

Good Job ;)

After updating SVN and discovering your map, I couldn't restrain myself dropping you a comment: firstly, congratulations for getting it included within the next release, and second... wow, I haven't seen such a solid, original and pleasantly realistic map (contextually with its theme) since a long while: I care much about visual appearance, and this will surely belong to my favorite list! :)

I have a small note concerning my grass/mud textures, that you've efficiently used on the outside part of the map. Nothing has been really moved on a different folder: the blended textures have been completely removed, after eihrul and Nieb remade the muddy paths of my fc4 map using the new texture-blending function, since they became redundant.

So, in case you want to smooth out your grass corners, you could either download the whole texture-pack from my node (which I wouldn't suggest) or directly paint them within the game. You should first define the set of textures to be used to paint, in your map's cfg, then press a key from 1 to 5 ("0" to deactivate painting mode) on your numeric keypad to change the way both textures blend to each others and finally experiment with the left-mouse button, until you are satisfied (use the scroller to change brush-shape). You can find more details concerning key bindings also on "defaults.cfg".

5/5 :)