Where Do All These Neato Maps Go?
douchebagatron
Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
Custom member title Join Date: 2003-12-20 Member: 24581Members, Constellation, Reinforced - Shadow
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1) The mapper gets bored with the project.
2) The mapper hits the HL1 Engine Limits
3) The mapper doesn't properly promote his map.
4) Players dislike custom maps, it never gets played.
5) The map doesn't play well but looks good.
6) The map plays well but looks heinous.
And many more...
I can guarantee you that mapping will become 120% easier using the Source Engine, less compile errors, less entities to be hand-created. Less work and more product.
I'm holding off until then.
~ DarkATi
Ambeke suffers this as well... so does the rest of my work.
Ambeke suffers this as well... so does the rest of my work. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow, you scrapped the almighty sexiness that is Ambeke to work on co_siegedust_de_cs_aztec?
But yeah. Mapping is hard work, and the Half-Life engine seems to have a vengeance against mappers, especially people trying to make NS maps.
Contrary to popular opinion, however, i believe that HL2 mapping will be as difficult if not moreso than Half-Life mapping. Purely because more detail is required and it will still have the same abnoxious compile process. And i can't see this compile process getting any quicker, infact, i believe compiling will be a whooooole lot more annoying with HL2.
Ambeke suffers this as well... so does the rest of my work. <!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Wow, you scrapped the almighty sexiness that is Ambeke to work on co_siegedust_de_cs_aztec?
But yeah. Mapping is hard work, and the Half-Life engine seems to have a vengeance against mappers, especially people trying to make NS maps.
Contrary to popular opinion, however, i believe that HL2 mapping will be as difficult if not moreso than Half-Life mapping. Purely because more detail is required and it will still have the same abnoxious compile process. And i can't see this compile process getting any quicker, infact, i believe compiling will be a whooooole lot more annoying with HL2. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
HL2 compile times will be high, way high but the amount of errors both compiler and runtime will be considerably less.
~ DarkATi
Yeah. He needs a slap <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->