[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

If any of you have Half Life 2 or Garrys mod, tell me because I am on a mapmaking spree for both, and am currently working on a fairly large mapping project myself. Keep in mind, my mapping skills aren't awesome yet, as I am still experimenting with various tequniques and tools, but I found that I am especially goos at making building, and shaping terrain.

Gotta experiment more with lighting though.

SO anyways, I am open to ideas, I have a few for myself, but hearing ideas from other people would be an interesting change of pace: keep in mind that I will not make overly complex maps for you, I'm already making a pretty complex one, and I'm predicting that ti will take me a month of on and off work to finish.

I can do small cities/towns. Outdoor environs, underground, anthing as long as its limited. I actually think I will start working on a Gmod map tomorrow based on an island, with a dilapadated town in the middle, and old broken building near the shore cliffs.

If I get your map suggestion completed, I will send you the .bsp file for you to put in your maps folder.

thanks!

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

Noone wants a map in their honor?

I'll model one off an anime location/city if you want... I'm running out of ideas!!

[DicyDax]

This might be too big a project... But... The town the story of Elfen Lied takes action in...

[jopojelly]

Hmm, don't know if it's been done, and it will take a lot of skill, but I've always wanted to see someone make the floating castle from "Castle in the Sky" (Laputa) into a FPS map. Now that would be amazing.

(Or maybe the train from Baccano.)

I don't have HL2 at the moment though...

[Quicksilver]

This might be too big a project... But... The town the story of Elfen Lied takes action in...

Maybe instead of an entire town which would be a massive project, you could just do the Dyclonius facility and have it as an island map with maybe some vehicles on the outdoors section?

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

Yeah, I will look into doing the Diclonious factory... I may need you to provide some more details though, I know it has a few layers underground..but how many? I can fo the topside surface fine, and as far as I know, there is only one elevator. As for vehicles, I am only limited to the HL2 airboat and buggy...

can you post a picture of this 'Air-castle'? I have a feeling that that one may have already been done...

I could attempt doing the elfen lied town, but it wouldn't be doing it justice, since making a real town (with buildings you could actually go inside) would take forever and the map itself would be astoundinglyu huge.. although the bay idea for a town seems interesting.

[Quicksilver]

For the facility, you should only really do 2-3 levels underground (although there's many more, it' be too hard to do all of them) and add a couple of labs/rooms (Kisiragi's secretary room?) or a security booth.

Vehicle-wise, the airboat and buggy would be fine, that's all the scientists would need (Although a helicopter would be great if you could find one).

[jopojelly]

you mean you haven't seen "Castle in the Sky"? *shock*

http://www.geocities.com/tokyo/5858/laputa.jpg
http://bp3.blogger.com/_fLLvv47Dwt4/Re2yDH_oV-I/AAAAAAAAABc/sU0vG2QcGD0/s1600-h/laputa.jpg
http://www.compagniadelgiardinaggio.it/albums/miyazaki/laputa_3.jpg
http://www.compagniadelgiardinaggio.it/albums/miyazaki/laputa_2.jpg

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

you mean you haven't seen "Castle in the Sky"? *shock*

Holy crap that looks cool! Just looking at it I see a few skills that are required that I would need to ask about, but I could definately make that. It would, of course have to be a bit condensed.

OK I'll work on the Elfen Lied lab when I get the chance, I don't think I'll be able to put a Helicopeter in, because that would require scriptingand modelling, and while I'm ok at scripting I haven't done any modelling at all yet.

Also, the helicopeter avaliable now are pretty crappy controll wise, and are prone to glitches.

I'll work on the lab a little later today, and I expect it to be done in maybe two or three weeks, if I can fit it in with the rest of my schedule and my other maps.

[jopojelly]

Holy crap that looks cool! Just looking at it I see a few skills that are required that I would need to ask about, but I could definately make that. It would, of course have to be a bit condensed.

Yeah, it's much bigger than I remember. I was actually going to make this level for Jedi Knight, back in the day, but it would've been too hard considering the way levels were made.

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

Buy my god, this is entirely possible! The only major problem I forsee is how the player would get from level to level... doing an entire interior hallway system would take an age...

its perfect possible though.

One main question: I assume many if not all of you know how to use photoshop? Becaue I need new textures period. The Valve textures ar really, really boring. Ill post a link later showing you how to make textures in photoshop for Hammer...

[Issitheus]

maybe some doom levels... that would be cool

[Filleraol]

Minas Tirith :P

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

Whats that! ???

[DicyDax]

Whats that! ???

If you are referring to Minas Tirith...
http://www.tuckborough.net/images/minastirith.jpg
... It's like the castle of Gordon in the Lord of the Rings...

[Quicksilver]

That picture makes it look small....

For all those who haven't seen Lord of the rings, Minas Tirith isn't! It's huge!

[TheEndOfAllThingsGreen]

*facepalm* Now I remember!

Hmm, it may be a bit of a chellange getting all the details in. I still need new textures by the way...