I sat down tonite and watched Enemy At The Gates for... I guess the first time since it first came out. Man - inspiration. Last time I watched it I think I stayed up half the night starting Koln.

Advice of the evening... go watch good movies!

Okay, and what will bring your inspiration us this time? ;)

Movies are a good inspiration, last time I watched SPR I played Charlie for half the night :cool: , It makes it seem so much more realistic...

But beware of the crap War movies, man there are some horrible storylines out there (Windtalkers:confused: )

Its funny I get some inspiration from movies and tv etc but I mainly get mine from looking at real life terrain and thinking about how to make it look great on the source engine and how to tactically fight your way through it etc.

For instance there is a series of open fields in between the town and live in and the next town, its got this low rise in it that has a tree line of trees from the popular family, and then it levels out into a flat field again, the tree line would be perfect for have artillery or AT weapons dug in along with MG's etc. Once I get my current project done I'm going to be adding that nice little tree line into my next map along with some artillery etc.

HMMMMMM!! KOLN
Me drools

What happend to the beach map Waldo ?

For more inspiration, 'specially for Waldo's Koln: abandoned places. May have be posted before.

http://abandoned-places.com/

http://exposed.gemty.com/html/home.htm

The first one is better IMO, but a lot of interesting pictures.

I bet he moves Köln to a beach :p

Movies definitely are a great source of inspiration. I look at it two ways: design and flavor.

On the one hand, you can look at a setting in a movie and say "that would make a great map." So you study the movie and try to recreate that setting on a structural level

On the other hand, you can look at the style of a setting in a movie and make a map based on that.

So structure could mean: "Recreate the Pegasus bridge" or "Sniper trainyard in EatG" or "Neuville" in SPR or "assault on Foy".

So style could mean "snowy German town at night in the aftermath of a tank battle" or "house to house anti tank fighting in a little town surrounded by fields with haystacks etc" (like in CoD's Foy map in CoD:UO).

Heh yes inspiration from movies got me mapping.
I was watching the ardennes forest episode for the first time in a while, and instantly I thought "Im gonna make a forest map for DoD: Source."

Hmmm Waldo....can we take this thread as a hint too??? ;)

As for Enemy at the Gates...I watch that movie too much lol.

I made 1 map for DoD, and that was the unknown disaster named dod_loppem.. It was based on a really tiny bunker complex (read 2 bunkers) in the forest of "Zevenkerke", right next to a village called "Loppem" (both located in the west-flanders, quite close to Bruges).. My grandmother has been living there since before WW2 started, and stayed there during the war (in that forest) so that's where my inspiration came from for that map..

Other times I just base my layouts on everyday stuff (tried to map my school and house) or stuff I'd see in movies (<3<3<3<3ty ramelle attempt back in beta 1.3)

I watched 'Sweet Home Alabama' with my GF and wasn't inspired to do anything...

I get most of my inspiration from other maps, houses I see (in the UK country side there are quite a few oldish houses).

But the thing that drives me to map is playing dod. Every time I get shot from a random hide-y hole I want to fire up Hammer and make a map where that won't happen so much...

how about someone make a good sniper map, Enemy at the Gates style?

I watched 'Sweet Home Alabama' with my GF and wasn't inspired to do anything...

I get most of my inspiration from other maps, houses I see (in the UK country side there are quite a few oldish houses).

But the thing that drives me to map is playing dod. Every time I get shot from a random hide-y hole I want to fire up Hammer and make a map where that won't happen so much...

Waldo, how'd you do on your "Brokeback Mountain" map?

Originally posted by Shane
Waldo, how'd you do on your "Brokeback Mountain" map?

God, he just can't quit mapping.

Originally posted by Shane
Waldo, how'd you do on your "Brokeback Mountain" map?

Pretty good. It's got a lot of tight close quarters stuff - and I promise it won't suck!

i know what u mean. always happens when i watch an episode of Band of Brothers

Originally posted by Waldo
Pretty good. It's got a lot of tight close quarters stuff - and I promise it won't suck!

Cool! Will it have telescoping mortars that the user controls?

Let me ask you this, how much weapon penetration will you allow?

leather chaps soldiers
waldo merges band of brothers
with brokeback mountain

Originally posted by Shane
leather chaps soldiers
waldo merges band of brothers
with brokeback mountain 5-8-5 = not a haiku

Originally posted by Craptastic
5-8-5 = not a haiku

merges is 1 syllable.

wait....

leather chaps soldiers
waldo blends band of brothers
with brokeback mountain

----

Train tracks stretch for ever
Dashing across you feel scared
With a real skybox

Originally posted by Shane
merges is 1 syllable. Uh-uh (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=merges). :p

Originally posted by Craptastic
Uh-uh (http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=merges). :p

poster craptastic
will wag finger at you and
is haiku nazi

Shane takes many threads
Woefully off-topic with
His poor poetry

I'm still waiting for some Lava Planet DoD maps.

What is the entitity.......func_lavaspew? Or does it turn out that env_embers is the magic ent again?

Originally posted by Gurney Halleck
For more inspiration, 'specially for Waldo's Koln: abandoned places. May have be posted before.

http://abandoned-places.com/

http://exposed.gemty.com/html/home.htm

The first one is better IMO, but a lot of interesting pictures.

Terrifyingly beautiful. Thanks for posting those.