Hey, i'm working on my first map, it's kinda pacific theatre jungley lookin to an extent (although it could easily be swapped to a european forest with a few texture changes) I was wondering what you guys think of the textures i'm using (i'm a noob texturer) and what you thought of the map layout (also a noob mapper :P) it's meant to be fast and furious constant action, there's only 3 flags and it's a pretty small map with 2 spawn exits (out of 3) for each team very near the other team's (on the other side of the central island) Obviously i intend the central island to be the main battleground, but each team has a spawn leading to one other flag. the map is pretty symmetrical (in this picture the forested area for one part isn't finished yet) http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermapfinal.bmp


Here's a couple pics of the textures (most of em') in the map (although this is a pic of a much earlier version the textures are the same)
http://plobe.com/~orb/eh_1.jpg

I know it isn't exactly a show case but i'm not home to go screenshot happy right now, i'll post more later. just curious to see if i've made any humongoid flaws that i should be beaten for. or if my textures/lighting look like ass and i'm blind to it.

one nice feature is there's 32 spawn points crammed into each spawn, so you can go 31v1 if you want :P

it look great !
more ingame pics !!:D :D

looks like it has potential to have major fps issues :)

we´ll see. please post screens with r-speeds.

and dont post .bmp's or me and my band of 56kers will hunt you down :eek:

this is ETO or PTO - ....

You what?

This sounds a bit like forest-meets-flash (from the description); but the overhead view seems to show that this will be rather interesting...

You could set it in Austria or something, that way, the texture alterations wouldn't be TOO radical (but they would need alteration).

Looks good mate.

it look great !
more ingame pics !! :D :D

Okey!
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0021.jpg
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0022.jpg
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0023.jpg
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0024.jpg
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0025.jpg
http://plobe.com/~orb/EHMOD/eh_rivermap0026.jpg
(keep in mind the map is being rebuilt so these are from the previous beta, but the style is still the same. I hate that water texture though.)

looks like it has potential to have major fps issues :)

Actually i've redesigned it to minimize vis (the first alpha had excellent FPS, but when i redesigned it the first time the fps dropped to 40, but so far on this brand new build, the fps is great.

we´ll see. please post screens with r-speeds.

I'm new to teh mapz0ring, how do i access r_speeds exactly.

and dont post .bmp's or me and my band of 56kers will hunt you down :eek:

Word, i wasn't comfortable posting that bmp but i wasn't home so it was all i had available to link to.

this is ETO or PTO - ....

It's either/or. my original alpha of it used forest's textures to see if the map idea would look good, and it did. i made new textures that are similair in idea to forest's (the trees and whatnot) but i don't think they look as good, so if the team gave me permission i'd prefer to release an ETO version using DoD textures. :P

You what?

This sounds a bit like forest-meets-flash (from the description); but the overhead view seems to show that this will be rather interesting...

You could set it in Austria or something, that way, the texture alterations wouldn't be TOO radical (but they would need alteration).

Looks good mate.

Well, it's deffinitely forest meets something, but a lot fewer chokepoints then flash. basically the whole 'square' the map is made of can be traveled in by anyone (except the spawns which are team exclusive and have nifty spawn protection). I'd say it's closer to an original concept with 'dod_forest' looks though.

And thanks :)

its ok, but change the water, it look a bit weird.

i've remade the water 4 times. i'm just no good at water textures :P