Help Me!

GreenStorm

<div class="IPBDescription">I just started to try to make a map</div> I need help i download the program to map make but i got lost and i don't know what to do can someone plz help me. I really wanna make a map for ns but i don't know how to make one

Mendasp

First: Read the <a href='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/index.php?act=ST&f=4&t=100' target='_blank'>FAQ</a>

Sycophant

The following is (IMHO) a great WorldCraft/Hammer tutorial that'll walk you through the basics.

<a href='http://www.planetquake.com/worldcraft/tutorial/index.shtm' target='_blank'>http://www.planetquake.com/worldcraft/tuto...rial/index.shtm</a>

It should be enough to give you some experience with the common everyday stuff like creating rooms, carving brushes, texturing the faces, setting a few common entities, and so on. Just ignore the fact that the tutorial seems focused on Quake mapping - they both use Hammer in much the same way. <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->

I'd suggest going through the tutorial, then try duplicating a few rooms from existing NS maps. That should give you a feel for how to get that 'NS atmosphere' while building your own map. Trust me, that alone helps more than words in any tutorial ever could. <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

evoLvingeviL

I wonder if they can, like, make the FAQ's font as big as the first screen of the forums.

But I doubt people would notice. They'd just stupidly, mindlessly scroll down and bomb the forum with the same questions over and over and over and over like they do now. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo-->

Greedo

<!--QuoteBegin--evoL:ving:eviL+Jan 20 2003, 05:20 AM--></span><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (evoL:ving:eviL @ Jan 20 2003, 05:20 AM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'><!--QuoteEBegin-->I wonder if they can, like, make the FAQ's font as big as the first screen of the forums.

But I doubt people would notice. They'd just stupidly, mindlessly scroll down and bomb the forum with the same questions over and over and over and over like they do now. <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' valign='absmiddle' alt='sad.gif'><!--endemo--><!--QuoteEnd--></td></tr></table><span class='postcolor'><!--QuoteEEnd-->
You were new once, too.

Is it a crime to want a more human response than can be offered by a FAQ?

Revenant

Evolving Evil has a point, maybe a thread thats sticky or something? To help out new mappers? Or maybe even the "new mapper" forum, like ns has the new player forum.

Infinity

mapping for NS isnt the best thing to start out with though

Fam

The brand new "NS New mappers forum". Featuring one post, entitled "Go make a HLDM map, then go to the other forum". I see it now!