Ns_vertigo
Recoup
Join Date: 2004-04-25 Member: 28195Members
Join Date: 2004-04-25 Member: 28195Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Coming to YOU!</div> That's right kiddies, I'm making a new map: ns_vertigo. Here is the imagine I scanned with my HORRIBLE scanner after I hand-drew it on my coffee table that I made in woodshop, with some sprucing in Paint and Photoshop 7.
<img src='http://www.digitalizedzone.com/forums/uploads/post-34-1085718018.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The green blobbies are hives
The black circles are res towers
The red lines are areas elevated above normal ground
The yellow dotted lines divide the level into sectors
Whos your daddy? The room in the very bottom left is the Marine Start. Small, but affordable...
<img src='http://www.digitalizedzone.com/forums/uploads/post-34-1085718018.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The green blobbies are hives
The black circles are res towers
The red lines are areas elevated above normal ground
The yellow dotted lines divide the level into sectors
Whos your daddy? The room in the very bottom left is the Marine Start. Small, but affordable...
Comments
make sure you break it up with snake-like passageways, crates, and similar items to block line of sight and possible long-range snipe points.
ladders with hight variations are godlike for breaking up high-polygon hallways.
There was something in the layout notes for making NS maps that the aliens should have to go towards the middle of the map to reach another hive, otherwise gorges can just avoid conflic completley. And that room outside marine spawn is HUGE! Eitther that or marine spawn is too small. Keep in mind that a commander must be able to build a base in that area.
Try keep the hives out of line of sight from other rooms. So you actually have to go into the hive room to shoot at it. Try and fix up those corridors leadign to the hives. The one on the right is way too open. If you want to leave it like, make it like Drill hive in ns_mineshaft, with the many obstacles and such (just start a lan game and look at some of these places).
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Heres my revision of it.
I felt it needed to be a little more broken up from room to room. (too many 45 degree walls goign into other rooms is bad for wpolys and gives too much line of sight)
The blue spots are ladders/lifts/ramps
EDIT: whoops i forgot to put the rt's back in the center sorry <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
[edit] omg, I didn't even know what it was when posting. So sorry. <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
BTW: That long halway at the VERY bottom where the hive location is, is a sewer area.
That sign, the Level 1 sign is gone, I deleted it while it was compiling so dont expect to see it again. Also, by the door, there is a flickering red light. I just didnt capture the screen while it was flashing.
<img src='http://www.digitalizedzone.com/forums/uploads/post-34-1085763415.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
The electricity is a tad too transparent, brighten it a bit.
That monitor to the left is very thick... can you make it a bit smaller?
Also, no, Im not going to shrink the sign because when Vertex editing sideways I have to get things just right, lest it makes things look like crap like I spent 6 hours doing last night... <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
but u did a nice job with it.. good work
It's in the WAD file <!--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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wow cool. i dont know why but i love the red pipe!!
ok sorry, dont hurt me only! <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Got any back story to the map?