One of the most atmospheric and also the most original maps I've seen posted here. Very creative use of textures, especially that "tram tunnel" thing that you've used almost everywhere.. even as a texture light overlay!
Even though it's called Echo, <i>please</i> don't put any EAX sound entities in.. I know I speak for a lot of people when I say I can't stand the EAX echo effect. Besides sounding really harsh and annoying, it's also so buggy in the Creative drivers that it's barely even usable.. the echo switches on and off randomly and normally gets "stuck" on even after the map changes.
omg.... that's REALLY one of the best looking maps für NS I've seen so far. <!--emo&:0--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/wow.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wow.gif'><!--endemo-->
hope the gameplay will be also good. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
Heres the layout...its been re-worked a bit as I got a bit carries away whilst mapping. (The small green area surrounded by blue was laid out much nicer, but...the blue area sort of caved in around it <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->)
anything in blue are areas Ive already finished and the green is what needs to be done...my estimates in my first post may seem inaccurate but, alot of those green cooridors are pretty much copy/paste...most of the actual building time will go into the hives.
The lighter blue areas are higher elevation. The dimensions of this pic are the full size of the VHE grid space (+4096 -4096) so, its a pretty huge map.
Looks like a great map dude, keep up the good work. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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Even though it's called Echo, <i>please</i> don't put any EAX sound entities in.. I know I speak for a lot of people when I say I can't stand the EAX echo effect. Besides sounding really harsh and annoying, it's also so buggy in the Creative drivers that it's barely even usable.. the echo switches on and off randomly and normally gets "stuck" on even after the map changes.
hope the gameplay will be also good. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->
what's the status of the map so far?
anything in blue are areas Ive already finished and the green is what needs to be done...my estimates in my first post may seem inaccurate but, alot of those green cooridors are pretty much copy/paste...most of the actual building time will go into the hives.
The lighter blue areas are higher elevation.
The dimensions of this pic are the full size of the VHE grid space (+4096 -4096) so, its a pretty huge map.