Disposal - Beta | Quadropolis

Windecker | 2009-06-16 04:01

Disposal - Beta

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Blurb Small deathmatch map made primarily from curved surfaces.

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A small Deathmatch map based in a Six-way 90* pipe joint made primarily with curved surfaces, with large bulkheads on all pipe connections except the immediate bottom. The location is more or less a giant pipe where waste water traverses.

fully pathed for bots. ( lots of waypoints )

Map is in the Beta stage and there are bound to be problems here and there, please help point them out and give your ideas and opinions about the map. I'm always open to new ideas. =)

ALSO: Need somebody to help work out the spawn point problems for Team DM- Id like teams to spawn at opposite ends if possible.

Updates:
Made the light textures for the red lights actually red ( thanks to Kaiser for showing me how to )
Made the blue lights a bit more white
Added sound
Noclipped the edges of the walkways.
Remembered to include the waypoints and readme this time too!
Updates on the Updates:
Fixed sounds by using some that I THINK are included with the game, if not, tell me.
Also edited light a bit more.

Map file disposal.zip (3.04 MB)

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Windecker | 2009-06-16 04:04

I forgot the readme, but will include it when I update the map.

Megagun | 2009-06-16 10:43

Wow, great map. I love the architecture in this! :)

The lighting could use some work, though. The red and blue looks pretty stunning, but I don't think it really works in this map, at least not when the lights themselves are colored white, yet they emit blue light. Plenty of areas of the map are also really dark. Perhaps it would be a bit better if you made the red and blue lights a bit more white so that the area gets lighted better. I had to adjust my gamma settings to really see things. :/

Also, the walkways could use some work. The ledges are a bit too high, causing you to keep bumping up and down against them. I suggest either clipping the low areas, or noclipping the ledges.

EDIT: As for mapsounds:
/mapsound "ambience/cavedrip" //Sound slot 0 now contains packages/ambience/cavedrip.ogg
/newent sound 0 100 //Sound slot 0, range 100.
There's some more to it (like max samples played at a time) but I don't know about those. The docs might, though.

Windecker | 2009-06-16 13:49

I'll tune them lights up to make it more visible and play with the clip and noclip.
I'm gonna try the sounds again too. thanks =)

Edit: I got the sounds working! XD

MeatROme | 2009-06-16 13:54

As always: one of the best ways to learn to do new & more complex editing stuff is to just find maps already doing something similar and the analyzing how that was managed.

For mapsounds you need to first register any new mapsound-slots you might require - I find it beneficial to already have 2 or even 3 of heavily used samples, giving them lower and lower base-volume, this way I can better handle hallways where you "half-hear" some sound and stuff ;-)
So - you have like a 255, a 128 and a 32 volume-version in the CFG .. and have found out they got the indexes of 23, 24 and 25 (mapsoundreset used?) ..
.. then you place "newent sound" with one of those indexes in attrib-#1 and give it a radius of 5 and a size of 5 .. then twiddle with those two until you get how you can make it work the way you need it to .. a size greater than the radius is the same as size equal radius .. but that's already explained in the docs, just fiddle about a bit - you'll get the hang of it.
Sound entities can work great toward a deeper immersion of the players into your maps, so they're definitely worth some effort! :-)

For textures you need to set the shaderpixelparams .. again I often find adding a number of variants for a given texture right off from the start to avoid later pains. Like having 90° rotated versions of useful textures, pixel-shifted maybe even in some cases ..
.. and if you have one white light-fixture texture at hand - this is how to have it available in a range of colours:

// R E D
setshader glowworld
    setpixelparam 0 1.0 0.0 0.0
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
// G R E E N
setshader glowworld
    setpixelparam 0 0.0 1.0 0.0
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
// B L U E
setshader glowworld
    setpixelparam 0 0.0 0.0 1.0
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
// M I N T Y - F R E S H N E S S
setshader glowworld
    setpixelparam 0 0.4 0.4 1.2
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
// W H I T E
setshader glowworld
    setvertexparam 0 1 1 1
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg"
    texture 0 "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
    texture g "than_ind/light03.jpg" 1
setshader stdworld

Windecker | 2009-06-16 14:02

Made a mistake with the sounds, they come from a custom map I think so i need to change them. cant right now though.

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