[UPDATE] 9/2/04 Screenshots on page 3
[UPDATE] 8/30/04
[UPDATE] 8/28/04

Looks a bit plain IMO. More bombed buildings and rubble etc. A few bombed out cars and/or tanks would make sense too. Also random mortar or air strikes raining down on the streets would be cool too.

Originally posted by Steel Blade
Looks a bit plain IMO. More bombed buildings and rubble etc. A few bombed out cars and/or tanks would make sense too. Also random mortar or air strikes raining down on the streets would be cool too.

Yes, its a rough build atm, there will be rubble and other stuff, after i get the layout completed.

Too many windows.

windows are your friend! well mine anyways, looking good perhaps name it dod_flasher :D? haha jks keed digging away at it! ever considered making it a night map with some streetlights :D? that would make it look nice imho

Hopefully it doesnt look completely like flash, i hope the layout will look different, its a great i dea to make a map in the country but if the roads twist and turn like the roads in flash then u got yourself a copy, take no offense, and u did say it was like flash.

Originally posted by Cole
Been working on this for about 2 days now, the map is/will be similar to flash, most buildings are/will be enterable, teams will be axis/allies, heres what i got so far.



i believe he did.

Ha my bad i apologize, i acidently hit n't on did by mistake, i tell you the truth i did read his post but i typed didn't instead of did, funny how one word screws the whole messeage up.

Anyway what i mean was, no one dislikes another flash type map, just a map with the same layout, by layout, i mean the roads go in the same direction as flash roads did, and all the buildings in the same place.

Im not telling you to stop working on the map, so keep working on it all u want.

This map is to flash as switch is to avalanche.

The layout is completly diff.

I think making it a night map would change the mood, or maybe some snow?

Heres some with a night look.

id say go with the night time idea, looks good that way IMO, and it seperates it from flash a bit.

it may be a little too blue

Originally posted by Neutrino
it may be a little too blue

Heh yes i did it in a hurry just to see what it would look like il fix that =P

small update, though not much of a change as i deleted the original rmf had to remake a good amount of this, added a couple trees, some hay in the bottom of the building, and some rubble, also aligned some of the textures a bit better then b4.



Still not happy with the lighting, trying to find a good look might try a diff night sky.

looks a lot better than the original blue-ish lighting :)

sidewalk looks a little high

Make the lighting the way you want it...remember that despite those in here who might prefer the darker look...very few people in the general and custom world prefer really dark maps. If you like it dark and don't care too much about numbers go for it...dark maps can look great if done right.

PS. I liked the first screens on page 1 the best. Looks very promising...good texture usage.

PPS. You guys might not like the new "blue" lighting on Flugplatz but I've got a solid 15-20% increase in servers and players since I made the change. Since there were few outward brush changes I have to give credit to the lighter environmental for the increase.

Would it be hard to add snow? I like it at night myself.

Originally posted by FuzzDad
Make the lighting the way you want it...remember that despite those in here who might prefer the darker look...very few people in the general and custom world prefer really dark maps. If you like it dark and don't care too much about numbers go for it...dark maps can look great if done right.

PS. I liked the first screens on page 1 the best. Looks very promising...good texture usage.

PPS. You guys might not like the new "blue" lighting on Flugplatz but I've got a solid 15-20% increase in servers and players since I made the change. Since there were few outward brush changes I have to give credit to the lighter environmental for the increase.

FuzzDad? Can you please give Flugplatz the same sky and lighting as Para_Raiders? Looks much better. Plus, i played a map dod_flugplatz_day, which just lit the lighting a tich more and changed the sky to the one used in caen. it filled the server within minutes! It allowed you to see the beauty of the map and things stuck out before that I rarely recognized before. Just seemed more fun to play in, and I think thats why the server filled up as fast as it did.

Cole, whatever happened to that map you were working on that had the U-boat in the docks? That looked promising at the time.

Originally posted by Locomotion
Cole, whatever happened to that map you were working on that had the U-boat in the docks? That looked promising at the time. Didnt work out to well, with the big open space, might give it another go after i finish this one.

Update.

looks damn good cole ... use [img] tags

Originally posted by Thursday
looks damn good cole ... use [img] tags

Better? :) forgot the img code worked here.

renember what we talked about on icq

Crispy's Ye Olde PUPPYPUPPYPUPPYPUPPYPUPPYhouse and Winery....


or Crispy's Bar and Brothel!!!


heh.

Reminds me of flash.

Hey there Cole! I see you keep getting better at this mapping business. Looking good so far.

I was just gonna say...

Is that flash?

Maybe use some other textures? looks good though.

Originally posted by Cole
Been working on this for about 2 days now, the map is/will be similar to flash, most buildings are/will be enterable, teams will be axis/allies, heres what i got so far.

Screens on page2

Yeah, looks far too much like Flash in my opinion.

Yeah malark. I freakin saw that, but perhaps not looking like flash is better than looking like flash.

[UPDATE] 8/27/04 on Page1

I feel its still a bit plain any suggestions would be helpful.

Originally posted by Cole
[UPDATE] 8/27/04 on Page1

I feel its still a bit plain any suggestions would be helpful.

Cars, holes, fires, rubble, burnt buildings, bombed buildings, maybe dead bodies?, bushes, hay, chicken huts (ala sturm).

Originally posted by Steel Blade
Cars, holes, fires, rubble, burnt buildings, bombed buildings, maybe dead bodies?, bushes, hay, chicken huts (ala sturm).

Not realy going for the destroyed town look as far as buildings are concerned, its been done, im going for more of a "the war just got here look" Though there is a few mortar spots ive been working on, chicken huts il be adding shortly.

Looks nice Cole, only thing I think is looking a bit wierd is the high edge on the sidewalk.
Looking forward to the release.:)

If it's playable get someone to host a play test. I think you've done an excellent job so far...do you have an overview?

some of the buildings looks like their supports arent strong enough otherwise looking nice, my 2 cents

looks very good cole.

if oyu want to get a playtest going we can hit up my server with sv_downloadurl

let me know on aim

Rgr will do.

Well, i think it looks very nice. :carrot:

[UPDATE] 8/30/04
Again some changes to existing stuff, sidewalk is now a little lower, and a couple of new buildings i did the other day but didnt post.


Was working on some newer stuff this morning but while i was doing it the power went out so i gota redo it all =( should be back on track by tonight though, il post some new pics in a day or two.

Old screens removed.

that seriously looks so much better than flash. Flash is devoid of any detail. That monster is full of detail. I'm lovin' it more than mcdonalds.

[UPDATE] 9/2/04

After running through the map the other day with Thursday it became apparent that alot of the buildings were a bit large in comparison to the player models so i went and scaled them down a bit thx for the help thurs il be needing ya again in a day or so =)

Heres some pics of the updated stuff, dont plan on adding sanbags in this map as the war just got here, though "most" waist high objects will be deployable with your mg be it a wall, a barrel, a window, the back side of some steps, or even a fence, thx Crisp for helping me get these pics.

Still need to scale down the fences a bit, forgot about those =P

http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/9204-1.jpg
http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/9204-2.jpg
http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/9204-3.jpg

Some of the textures in the screen below will change, im curently waiting on watchtower to finish them up =)

The eta on this thing keeps changing as i keep finding things to perfect, so im not gona give any more eta's until its actualy done, im curently working on redoing a building that is not in these screens gona turn it into a barber shop, gona try to get all buldings/homes furnished to an extent, im trying to go for a semi realistic environment here =)

Nice, i like it :cool:

Maybe you can use a smaller tree model ?

Nice Cole!
This is turning into a real eyecandy map!:D
Lovely details!
LOL @ the Bar sign, hehe, hope that stay's in there for final release! I'l camp there forever...:p

What's with the rubble coming out of nowhere in the first pic?

Originally posted by Dwin
What's with the rubble coming out of nowhere in the first pic?

One could ask the same question about a few default maps, its there because its there.

Originally posted by spine
Nice Cole!
This is turning into a real eyecandy map!:D
Lovely details!
LOL @ the Bar sign, hehe, hope that stay's in there for final release! I'l camp there forever...:p

Actualy im changing the bar sign as crisp gave me the idea for the bar i told him id put his name there =P thats one of the textures im waiting on from watchtower, but dont worry il be using several of your textures in the map =)

Originally posted by PeeZwee
Nice, i like it :cool:

Maybe you can use a smaller tree model ?

Heh funny you should mention that i was/am planing on changing the tree to something beter =P

the new look is better.

http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/4.jpg

in this pic, at the bottom, the hole in the ground is way wrong. these are stones on the ground, not solid concrete. I would get rid of the hole all together.

Originally posted by Neutrino
http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/4.jpg

in this pic, at the bottom, the hole in the ground is way wrong. these are stones on the ground, not solid concrete. I would get rid of the hole all together.

Yeah i removed that, you can see in one of the newer pics, im working on a better crater for another location though.

:( Awh I was gonna get pissed in my own bar duuude!
Hehe thats ok Cole;)

Great looking map you've got here, kinda reminds me of flash, even tho it doesn't look like it, but thats good, flash is a top map, keep it up.

Very nice. I hope final version will look less flash-y.

Need any more testers?

HINT

:p

Anyway this map is looking really good, and with watchtower on the textures you really can't go wrong :)

Heres a hotel i started last night, 3 rooms total
http://files.dodnetwork.com/users/27/images/hotel.jpg