WIP - Trench Town [10% complete| Mapping by Stinger]

[beeng]

Heres a 4 v 4 map I've sketched up. I lack the mad mapping skills to actually create it. If anyone wants to create it or thinks it's a good idea let me know, I'll draw up some real images.

http://24.215.86.157/sketch_trenchmap_001_4Apr2005.jpg

http://24.215.86.157/sketch_trenchmap_001_NC_4Apr2005.jpg

[Stinger]

Yeah, it looks cool. I'd be keen to give it a go. I've been having problems thinking of cool map ideas lately. But I might need a couple of better sketches to go off.

[WPFever]

have two trenches on each side and have a big middle and call it no mans land ;)

[Murkrow]

oooh


dont keep that on paper! :D

[beeng]

A'ight, ill get a drawin.

Yes the two trenches in the middle of nowhere is coming. I designed this as a 4v4 map, the next map in this series would be an 8v8 with two front-line trenches and a shitload of communication trenches. And a lot of grenades.
I mean a lot.

Also; a larger map would need some kind of heavy-weaponry... like a stationary machinegun or something at each trench line.
Trench warfare is supposed to be hell, so I want to make it as hellish as possible.

[beeng]

Shall i draw it on a napkin then murk? ;)
I'd map it myself but I don't have the 1337 hammer skills like some of these guys. :(

[Stinger]

you have the 1337 drawing skillz tho...

[beeng]

i used to be better :P
havnt touched a pencil in years. YEARS i tells you!

[fearian]

Im digesting a pencil right now.

[beeng]

stinger; you going to have a go at this?

[Stinger]

Yeah, I will go hard out on Saturday probably. School ties me down during the week. But yeah, I will have a good crack at it.

[beeng]

yeah i'm pretty bogged down with exams and end-term papers... but this weekend should be alright for working.
so if you need any specific sketches of things done lemmy know.

[Stinger]

Comments? And yeah, I know I haven't made much progress, I've been having heaps of problems with Hammer, so this only represents 30 minutes of real work, but hours of frustration.

http://img106.exs.cx/img106/9241/sftrenchtown00009ni.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Dred_furst]

mm, pretty nice, displacement it all :D

[beeng]

sexcellent job stinger!
howd you do the trenches anyways? hammer displacement? or jiggawha?

[Stinger]

They are just simple brushes... but I will displace all the terrain and add puddles/fog/trees/rocks etc, but what are your opinions on actual build areas displacement?

[beeng]

why does everyone call the boxes brushes -_-

yeah the first two tunnels should be skinnier.
the one in the middle is the big one.
and uhm... yeah.







boobs

[Stinger]

Sorry, I don't understand, do you mean the two trenches closest to the teams should be narrower? They all look the same on your drawing.

[beeng]

yeah sorry; i drew them smaller in my head ;)
theyre smaller. believe me >_>

also, next screenie you post can you do it with someone standing in the trench? just a static model would work. just trying to get an idea of the scale

[fearian]

they are called brushes BECAUSE THAT IS THE NAME FOR THEM!

if you made a shape in hammer it is a brush. withing brushes you can have blocks (th emost common) and arcs, shperes, other wiered shapes etc.

and if its not a brush its a model

[Stinger]

Until I can get it working in game again... the "connecting" sort of trenches (the little zigzags) are just wide enough for a player.

[beeng]

as it should be. im just thinking those two trenches by the spawn points rae too large. they should only be like 1.5-2 people wide. think of a real trench O_o

http://www.harboro.ndirect.co.uk/images/ypres15d.JPG

[Stinger]

If you think I'm going to map something like that, you've got another thing coming...

[beeng]

heh ;)
that was just to give you an idea of the scale.

[WillyDavidK]

Damn a mapper is already on this. Well you'd better do a good job stinger ^_^

I'm working on a map called encasement. I occasionally host a server named "-=upside umop=- low-ping server" to beta test it, if anyone has played there before.

[Stinger]

Actually I haven't done anything with this for ages. I may come back to it, I'm not sure. I've been way to busy with other maps for this at the moment. Feel free to do it, if you want to.

[SwiftSpear]

they are called brushes BECAUSE THAT IS THE NAME FOR THEM!

if you made a shape in hammer it is a brush. withing brushes you can have blocks (th emost common) and arcs, shperes, other wiered shapes etc.

and if its not a brush its a model
Well... it could be an entity... but most of those can't really be seen as objects in game.