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ViperX07 | 2010-03-31 23:58

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ac_sands made by ViperX07.
I have edited and gone over this map so much since its original debut. Now the map is a detailed CTF map for games with 8-14 people. The game play is fast. Enjoy and comment.

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MeatROme | 2010-04-01 11:46

Please package it right - following the packaging guide, it also tells you about removing "__MACOSX"-stuff that only clutters the ZIP.

Your map is overly bright - doesn't look anything like the screenshot actually!
Your floor-work is full of texturing errors too; quite apart from using badly chosen textures in those parts where you have single cube-surfaces of the floor be a different texture than the general floor - they're always in such stark contrast to the overall texture used that the cubiness stands out too much, for my taste at least. If you picked more similar textures you'd probably get a much nicer visual effect out of it!
In (almost) all the places where you lowered parts of the floor the sides of those cubes showing have widely varying textures - fix those too!

Due to the screenshot and the amount of texturing issues I'm wondering wether you actually packaged the latest version of your map for us!

3 akimbos!? Are you serious - I also had the feeling other (more regular) pickups were too few.
149 light 17 playerstart, 8 CLA, 9 RVSF, 0 FFA 2 ammobox 8 grenades 3 health 3 armour 3 akimbo 115 mapmodel, 83 clipped 5 ladder 2 ctf-flag, 1 CLA, 1 RVSF 3 clip
Put in more health, less grenades, lose at least one akimbo and definitely put in more ammo (both boxes and bullets)!

ViperX07 | 2010-04-01 18:22

Wow, I feel like an idiot. ;) I uploaded the wrong file. Oops. i'll get to fixing that real soon. :(
The real map is lit exactly as shown in the picture. There is only ONE akimbo and there are multiple health packs as well as a whole different room sequence, and a much nicer mood to the map. I will fix this within the day.

MeatROme | 2010-04-02 11:23

Yeah, a lot better now! :-)
But, given as flowtron over on AssaultCube tells me you wanted to explain map-packaging to that community it's weird how you still haven't done it quite right - just lose the container-folder called ac_sands and remove all the "._DS_store" and "__MACOSX" files, then you're laughing!

You've also fixed that one stairs I felt was too narrow, good one - even some of the wrong side-textures of the uneven floors have been fixed; but not all. Look at the two bases, there's some left and over all your map I've found inconsistencies. And I really don't like the whole floor around your well - as I said the contrast between the sand-coloured floor and the two darker textures just makes the eyes focus on the grid - as a good mapper you'll hide such aspects of the engine as best you can - I'd suggest finding two/three textures much more alike, so the change in floor texturing doesn't leap out at the eye, but it will still make an impression - humans are just too hard-wired into detecting patterns so make them as sublime as you can, so that the subconscious notices a patchy floor but doesn't make the players consciousness notice that it's almost a checkerboard pattern they're seeing. ;-)

The layout of the map is quite good and the lighting is mostly believable; for full marks though you should've evened it out more at some points - like that one wall in the area of the well - it's showing stripes of light and shadow. And in some corridors you should've made some sources for the lights. Even without having played any matches on this map I'll give you 6 points - with a fully compliant package-structure and some tweaks in the texturing and lighting I'd go up to 8, maybe 9 points - but I'd have to play it to be sure those marks still hold up for the in-game aspect of the map, but artistically this is definitely worth up to 7 points (in my book).
Good work - keep it up!

ViperX07 | 2010-04-02 15:40

Lol. :D
well, using a Mac there is a way to go around the OS specific files but that takes a lot more work and time. I had to run to go to church and everything so I just had to do the easy thing. Oh, if you have a Mac you can't see those files anyways but I could have checked with VM ware Fusion... Oh well. I will fix it when i have the time.

ViperX07 | 2010-04-03 03:27

Done. I had to download YemuZip for my family's computer.
Sup Young Cook

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