An Offer To Mapping Community
Driftwood
Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8245Members
Join Date: 2002-11-11 Member: 8245Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Who wants a layout?</div> Note: I’m not a mapper. This isn’t a preview of a map I’m making - this is an offer to all mappers reading this. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This layout is free to use by anyone with the skills to turn it into something finished, be it an individual mapper or a group of mappers like I had with my earlier layout that after heavy modification by the team, turned into ns_leigonxiii. If you take up the project, you can change anything - layout, theme, setting, names as much as you like. However, if it loses all resemblance to this layout, forget crediting me for the original layout and consider this layout as a helpful tool that helped you spawn your own one – that way this layout remains open for some other one to map it.
Possible setting: military research base built into an old industrial station. Set on a planet, not space.
Suggested theme: Stark contrast between high tech west side and the gritty industrial east side.
Some notes:
- Sewage Pump Hive, Sewers and Reactor are on the same (low) level and the small pool of water west of Reactor is connected to sewers.
- Reactor is designed to be partially two stories a’la Sewer Vestibule in Caged or Refinery in Mineshaft. The elevator from sewers leads to this elevated walkway.
- Sewers has water underneath and a walkway running over it.
- I’ve tried watching out for possible r_speed traps by using twisting hallways, viewblockers and such.
- Vent system is just a suggestion and one that was added almost as an after-thought so it hasn’t been thought through completely.
- Res balance is in my opinion pretty good. All four start locations have a close by res. Reactor is the only one that isn’t “linked” to a hive or MS. It could even be a possible double res. Travel times between hives and MS are not completely equal, but they shouldn’t differ too much.
Feedback is naturally welcome, as is anyone willing to take up the offer. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
This layout is free to use by anyone with the skills to turn it into something finished, be it an individual mapper or a group of mappers like I had with my earlier layout that after heavy modification by the team, turned into ns_leigonxiii. If you take up the project, you can change anything - layout, theme, setting, names as much as you like. However, if it loses all resemblance to this layout, forget crediting me for the original layout and consider this layout as a helpful tool that helped you spawn your own one – that way this layout remains open for some other one to map it.
Possible setting: military research base built into an old industrial station. Set on a planet, not space.
Suggested theme: Stark contrast between high tech west side and the gritty industrial east side.
Some notes:
- Sewage Pump Hive, Sewers and Reactor are on the same (low) level and the small pool of water west of Reactor is connected to sewers.
- Reactor is designed to be partially two stories a’la Sewer Vestibule in Caged or Refinery in Mineshaft. The elevator from sewers leads to this elevated walkway.
- Sewers has water underneath and a walkway running over it.
- I’ve tried watching out for possible r_speed traps by using twisting hallways, viewblockers and such.
- Vent system is just a suggestion and one that was added almost as an after-thought so it hasn’t been thought through completely.
- Res balance is in my opinion pretty good. All four start locations have a close by res. Reactor is the only one that isn’t “linked” to a hive or MS. It could even be a possible double res. Travel times between hives and MS are not completely equal, but they shouldn’t differ too much.
Feedback is naturally welcome, as is anyone willing to take up the offer. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.natural-selection.org/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
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THANK YOU
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No, thank you. I like designing stuff and do it mostly for my own pleasure and for the chance of seeing it realized by someone else with the skills to do so. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo--> Hope you can work something out of it - good luck!
If you decide not to use the layout, would you be so kind to post about it here? <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
Anway... this will help me aloot <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
(yeeey, my first post <!--emo&::gorge::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/pudgy.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='pudgy.gif'><!--endemo--> )
And Vole, go ahead and see if you can use it in some way. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
<!--QuoteBegin--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> </td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->Well, building a map is a fun proccess... And bringing up ideas is another... There are infinite possibilities for ideas... Just look around, close your eyes and imagine. Let your thoughts flow freely. Think of some movies, think of the dark corridors, of flickering lights, of spaceships and stations, think of space marines fighting, huge cargo doors opening... And you're basically there. When you let the thoguhts flow, you don't need any help. Believe me.<!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->