[Mod Iye]

ut4_old_town

This is my very first map project, so don't be to harsh

Its basically a town with a restaurant, and store and some more houses.
There are pipes under the map allowing sneak attacks and you can enter some houses.

I know that the houses and rooms are all to high *sick* realized when i was nearly finished.... Arbitrary scale in radiant caused light fails (black walls) and q3map2 -scale didn't work right, so I'll keep it that way for now.

More info about the map at my site:
IyeOnline - Old Town

I'd ask you to do bug reports at the Form for it because that makes it much more easy for me.

Still, feel free to comment here! :)

Enjoy,
Iye


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This post has been edited by Iye: 22 August 2013 - 11:43 AM

[FS HappyDay]

It's nice to see some activity again here in the mapping forum. :) It's been very quiet here lately.

First of all, it's not a bad first map. You've got some nice architecture in your map. I especially like the style of these two buildings:
oldtown01.jpg oldtown02.jpg

Now there's a lot of stuff to improve. Here are just a few of the biggest issues to work on. Obviously you spent a lot of time on the map so far and you're still learning. I don't know what your intentions for the map are, how "perfect" you want it to be. My suggestions are merely a few hints where you could improve your map or learn some new techniques. If you have any questions concerning my feedback, feel free to ask.

Ok, let's get started:

• Something that always destroys the atmosphere of a map for me is when the floor just stops abruptly for no reason. Add another building, let the street curve around the corner or think of something else that looks realistic.
  oldtown03.jpg oldtown04.jpg
  
• Another very unrealistic thing is to clip paths that could clearly be used. In this screenshot there's enough space for about five people to walk past the cars at the same time. You should either make it obvious that you can't walk there or don't clip it.
  oldtown05.jpg
  
• Some car models are floating in the air.
  
• You've got a lot of light leaks in your map that need to be fixed. Part of the cause is your less than optimal brushwork, part is the fact that you build your whole map inside a big box. Which brings us to the next point.
  oldtown06.jpg oldtown07.jpg
  
• Don't put a big box around your whole map. You want to seal off each area of the map separately with its own sky. Have a look here and here.
  
• There are some textures that would do great with a phong shader. Basically add q3map_nonplanar and q3map_shadeangle to the shader of the textures that should have a smooth look. Here's a tutorial http://www.simonoc.c...ongshading1.htm.
  oldtown08.jpg oldtown09.jpg oldtown10.jpg oldtown11.jpg oldtown12.jpg
  
• The water in your sewers is really strange. t one point it flows upwards. You should probably remove or lower the amplitude of the deform function of the water shader. And add a lightmap stage.
  oldtown13.jpg oldtown14.jpg
  
• There are some places with missing textures. You probably cauked some of the faces on purpose but you should apply a texture again because you can see them in game.
  oldtown15.jpg oldtown16.jpg oldtown17.jpg
  
• You can jump outside of the map at some places. And you can also get on some roofs. This should get fixed automatically when you fix the skybox issue.
  oldtown18.jpg oldtown19.jpg
  
• A texture is flipped.
  oldtown20.jpg
  
• You can improve your overall brushwork. The compiler splits faces into triangles. with that in mind you can build your brushes in a way to reduce the tris count. You can read about it here in the spoiler.

I hope that helps

[Mod Iye]

alpha 02 is out now.
some changes (removed some clips and added others (see Happydays post above)
i also tried to fix the some of the lightning.

[Mod Iye]

Alpha 03 is out. i added more detail, so the map isn't that empty anymore.

Downloads and screenshots

[John McCain]

I think this map has a lot of potential, but the teams seem to be trapped in their spawn in TDM?

[Mod Iye]

John McCain, on 22 June 2013 - 10:13 PM, said:

but the teams seem to be trapped in their spawn in TDM?

Well...... yes xD

sadly i lost all my trigger brushs (locations, hurts, multiples). i did import the locations from a01 but forgot about the tiggers opening the doors.

I already got that fixed in the map file. it should be working in the next alpha.

[Mod Iye]

here you go. alpha 04.
Teams actually can leave their spawn now ^^
No great geometry changes, i only added some areas, which aren't reachable due to balance atm. (...)

i also added 'Juggernauts'. in TDM/CTF/CAH a team with at least three players will be able to get into a room, which gives one player all the game-items, nades and a negev (if he can carry it).
This is only available once every 100 sec (hope so.) still some bugs with closing the door but i'll get that fixed.

Map's Website

download current version 15.5 MB, mediafire

This post has been edited by Iye: 15 July 2013 - 10:23 AM

[wraith]

nice map

you may wanna fix these glitches.. or not :]

here's demo (right click/save as)

[Mod Iye]

wraith, on 16 July 2013 - 09:55 AM, said:

nice map

you may wanna fix these glitches.. or not :]

here's demo (right click/save as)

jump ladders.... omg. wouldn't have imagined that in a decade.... :).
fixed that. but the 'texture fails' (if you wanted to shot these...) are actually wanted. they are caulked faces, so they aren't rendered in-game (because you normally wouldn't see them)

thx for the demo :)

[wraith]

yep.. i know a little about map caulk :]

was just indicating how ppl could see other ppl without being seen up there ;]