hey guys,
perhaps as some of you have seen a few of us have decided to start a community project and create a website that ultimately deals with ever aspect of mapping, meaning we would keep up to date with the latest mapping files -maps -wads -models ect ect ect and also create and insano tutorials database, so essentially this would be a one stop shop for mappers be an entire resource center for everything mapping.

hopefully we can kick off this project very shortly, and with the unity of this community we can get somewhere with it, I myself will be providing the webspace + bandwidth + doing things all round on the site but we need more help,

currently we have TheNomad and sly assasin who have jumped on board this project, we need more people to help make this a more productive team so that being said i would like to call for volunteers basic things we will be covering is

-Files (maps,wads,sounds,models,utilities ect ect)
-Tutorials (mapping tutorials)
-News (general news about all things mapping and dod)
-Webdesigner, were probably going to need someone who can knock up a functional php site - nothing flash

if you think you can help us with any of these please do so as I think in the end it will be beneficial to mappers, we dont currently have one definitive resource for mapping you have to goto 5 different sites to get what your looking for - if all goes to plan we can roll this all into 1.

please if you can help in any way beit big or small contact me
email - Travis*at*expesports.com
msn - TravisChristie@hotmail.com
irc - #EXP on irc.enterthegame.com

thanks,

Sounds like a good idea, I'll contact you through MSN and maybe we can talk ;)

Yes, it does sound like a good idea, random i emailed ya.

Awesome,

Don't think I can be of any help though but I support the idea!

Succes,

tomato

I have been mapping for a few years now, and just started with dod not too long ago and have found the lack of tutorials explaining dod entities very frustrating. I would love to find a site that provides tutorials explaining them in an orderly fashion. Good luck.

i would like to help, but unfortunately i dont have the time.. but good luck.

so far we have some good keen mappers ready to help out, so i hope once we get this kicked off it will be of help to everyone.

*edit* thanks for everyones good wishes :carrot:

Hey random did you get my email?

yep, just trying to work out exacly who we got and what were doing ;)

Like I'v stated before, think this is an excelent idea!
Sorry I cant help much, all I know about is textures,
pretty weak at the mapping front.
But if u need me for something I will try to help.
Will give all support I can!

EDIT: spineroyal"ATT"hotmail.com

Originally posted by spine
Like I'v stated before, think this is an excelent idea!
Sorry I cant help much, all I know about is textures,
pretty weak at the mapping front.
But if u need me for something I will try to help.
Will give all support I can!

EDIT: spineroyal"ATT"hotmail.com

well, we could do with some tutorials about making and using textures.

How about you start by writing detailed descriptions about dod entities and how to properly set them up. That imo should be numero uno on the list of things to do considering verc's descriptions are about as generic as you can get. :angry:

Originally posted by DjBourgeoisie
How about you start by writing detailed descriptions about dod entities and how to properly set them up. That imo should be numero uno on the list of things to do considering verc's descriptions are about as generic as you can get. :angry:

yes vercs one is useless imo. im gonna write a complete and detailed entity list in the next few days.

On anotherfront i think ive just organised us a website so yep things are looking up and of course spine anything you can offer is awesome especailly on the tutorials front it would be most helpful to have some texture tuts thats for sure ;)

Random my msn addy is Racktor@hotmail.com if you haven't already got it, I'm just trying to sort out my other comp now so I can actually get onto the net ;) Then i'll start finding models,maps, textures etc etc

Originally posted by DjBourgeoisie
I have been mapping for a few years now, and just started with dod not too long ago and have found the lack of tutorials explaining dod entities very frustrating. I would love to find a site that provides tutorials explaining them in an orderly fashion. Good luck.


http://www.mardymouse.co.uk

Helping Newbie dod mappers for over two years ... thank you.


This site is the best there is at explaning dod entities:
http://www.tanelorn.org.uk/~nick/dod/

Originally posted by haircut

This site is the best there is at explaning dod entities:
http://www.tanelorn.org.uk/~nick/dod/


^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i used this quite a lot when i started mapping, its invaluable but hopefully with the project we can go above and beyond, s2 mardymouse

Thank you so much for posting that link haircut, funny thing is I am good at searching google for answers to problems and believe it or not I have not found one site that explained how to setup dod entities for a particular map type. Now I can get back to work on my map :) Thx again :sheep:

Originally posted by RaNd0M
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
i used this quite a lot when i started mapping, its invaluable but hopefully with the project we can go above and beyond, s2 mardymouse


My intention has always been the Newbie mapper, sandbag ents, flag / area capping etc ... all the questions that pop up all the time.

If mappers need more advanced details I always point them to this forum.

argh Haircut i love your contribution to mapping and i have used mardy mouse so much in my earlier days,

s2 is the same as <3

so when saying s2 mardymouse i mean i LOVE mardymouse, you have made great contributions and i have experienced this personally and its great that you put your rmf's up there too because they really have given me a good insight into vis blocking and brushwork ect...

i love mardymouse!

:cool: