Days 1-3:
So yeah, I'm doing Trains like everyone else. Hmmm... If I run the winter option again I think I'll have to prepare a texture pack or something so that people have a good starting point.
So yeah, I've spent a fair bit of time going through different layout designs. There were a few designs that I felt could almost work, but one thing or another just didn't seem to click. One of them had some really interesting tactical possibilities, and I didn't want to give it up, but the flag routes were just too unbalanced. Hopefully I'll be able to approach that one again with a fresh viewpoint sometime in the future.
Anyway I'm really happy with the design I have now. It should be fairly easy to put together and play quite well. It doesn't do too much out of the ordinary layout wise. Though there are a few aspects different from the normal urt styles.
I should be able to start laying brushes in a day or two. I just hope I find enough time to complete it to a reasonable standard. I'll be pushing hard to find enough time, so I might have to do a bit of copy + pasting of building styles from some of my previous work.
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Day 5:
Decided on a name: ut4_unload
I've blocked out the layout including height variations et cetera. I'm pretty happy with how the layout has come together in the editor. Everything seems to fit pretty neatly with what looks like a good flow.
So basically I want to have everything done except for the aesthetics by the beginning of the weekend.
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Day 6:
- Added train models
- Carved out indoor area.
- Mostly flattened out/fixed up the ground.
- Enclosed the map in a skybox, added a couple of spawns and made sure it didn't leak.
- Compiled an initial version!
- Did some in map running around and checking it out. I think I might need to add anindoor route to give autos enough options... Or not.. Hard to tell really
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Day 7, 8:
- Added in steps where needed.
- Add ladders, and ladder entities.
- Add all the spawn points, flags, bomb sites etc.
- Tested it with bots. They weren't much help, but I got a good feeling from that.
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Day 9:
Huge, huge day today. Pretty much worked a 11 hour day to get everything done, not including breaks.
There's only a few things I'm unhappy with:
- The lighting is pretty damn horrible. I didn't get any time to work with it so it's just copied and pasted from austria. The sun could be in a much better position, colour is off, and everything's a bit saturated. Ugh.
- I need to do more ground and general lived-in-ness detailing. Some areas a pretty bland right now. Spawns and centre bottom areas mainly.
- I didn't really get much time to look at performance, so it could be pretty bad in some sections. I did some guesswork hinting so I hope that helps.
- Didn't get time to do surface sounds or the overhead map.
But for 17 hours, I think I got a hell of a lot done. It's pretty much a fully realized map and overall I'm quite happy with it. Just a matter of waiting to see if it plays as well as I hope it will. No matter how much work I do trying to get a map to flow well, it's virtually impossible to tell until you get people playing it.
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former FS member
No pictures today, I'm not at all happy with the lighting yet, so nothing to show off. I've got 2500 brushes already built though. 
MultiQuote
QA member
started with the texturing, took some pictures around the area, put them on, see how they look... added most of the models i want in the map <3 br
