You're alone 7 days in Northern Canada
<div class="IPBDescription">You're not fishing or hunting</div>You're on your laptop outside, and you reach into a bag of roasted pine nuts, wondering how much work you should be able to accomplish throughout the day. Suddenly a bear wonders by you, with it's rear coarsely drifting across your face; and in the deepest of introspective thought, you do not notice anything and continue thinking.
How much mapping would you guys say you can get done in a week if it is your number 1 priority, and you have no distractions? If it's a brand new map from scratch, what would you hope to have done? Do you have any methods of maintaining concentration within the editor? Do you have any methods of canceling out bad habits and improving work flow?
I ask because I cannot be the only person to open the editor, fly around, sigh, and close it. Just to reopen it an hour later, build a fancy wall, fly around, just to sigh and stop working again. It's not that I do not enjoy mapping, it's that I have this crazy focus issue even when I'm deadly bored without distractions. Like my mind is too busy pontificating to do any real thinking. That is why with this trip I have coming up to a new summer cottage up north, I have nerdily chosen to enjoy the outdoors, as well as reboot my mapping enthusiasm.
Any interesting stories I'd like to hear. pSyk0mAn for example, needs to spill the beans. I think we all deserve some beans.
How much mapping would you guys say you can get done in a week if it is your number 1 priority, and you have no distractions? If it's a brand new map from scratch, what would you hope to have done? Do you have any methods of maintaining concentration within the editor? Do you have any methods of canceling out bad habits and improving work flow?
I ask because I cannot be the only person to open the editor, fly around, sigh, and close it. Just to reopen it an hour later, build a fancy wall, fly around, just to sigh and stop working again. It's not that I do not enjoy mapping, it's that I have this crazy focus issue even when I'm deadly bored without distractions. Like my mind is too busy pontificating to do any real thinking. That is why with this trip I have coming up to a new summer cottage up north, I have nerdily chosen to enjoy the outdoors, as well as reboot my mapping enthusiasm.
Any interesting stories I'd like to hear. pSyk0mAn for example, needs to spill the beans. I think we all deserve some beans.
Comments
What you have to do is find the mapping equivelant. In my map, I have it set up so in the dead center, there is a gigantic room containing an enormous piece of experimental and highly complicated equipment which is so large, you could fit a hive / base in there. I have the layout designed as to (hopefully) focus most of the attention on the center of the map, which is the only room (other than the marine/alien start) that has both a tech point and a res tower.
Even after you've found what you want to do though, sometimes you have a hard time trying to physically map it out. I've found that having a pen and paper can help out draw out what you want your thing to look like.
Since you're going up into northern Canada, I suggest you use that as inspiration for some kind of atmosphere for your map. If you are near the rockies, maybe do a map like summit that involves a skybox with mountains. Or if it is more of a pine forest or a lake nearby, you could incorporate some of those visual styles as well.
It doesn't work out well.
It doesn't work out well.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->
hope you at least took pictures for inspiration