Ns hydra

ChromeAngel

<div class="IPBDescription">Floorplan</div>Here is NS_Hydra's floorplan.  What do you think?

Red stars are hives, white blocks are resources, the green star is the command console.

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<!--EDIT|ChromeAngel|July 17 2002,22:00-->

Battousaix

wow i like that idea of makin zig zag corridors.... its nice to make marines/ aliens take longer to get to other hives....... and also its a way to lower the r_speeds
nice layout man....... as usual <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

ChromeAngel

Thanks Battousai^^x.

Here's a pic of the big starboard room between the main airlock and the bridge.  Remember it's very early days i've just blocked in the main architecture with whatever  textures were to hand.  I'm having trouble finding a theme for this area.  Any suggestions?

Cremator

I recommend making this into sort of a reception area, kinda like the first room you enter in a hotel.  Perhaps you could include a map on the wall in this room to show where everything is...

ChromeAngel

ummm... nice try cremator, but why would a small attack ship need a reception room?

XHydralisk

BEST MAP EVER

JediYoshi

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Keep looking, no offense ChromeAngel.

Battousaix

umm.... maybe an hangar or somthin. or a weapon depot or somthin like that or u could just make a room filled with tons of boxes <!--emo&:p--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/tounge.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':p'><!--endemo-->

Biomechanoid

maybe one of two computer/missile guidance rooms (it IS next to the bridge and torpedo room)

Evil_bOb1

Yur layout looks good, just one thing...

u should make the ventilation shafts zig zag too for vis, cuz with those strait shaft hl will render both rooms on either side.

ChromeAngel

Thanks for your concern Evil bOb.  The vents actually do zig-zag, vertically though, so it doesn't show up on the plan.

I'm thinking in tems of some kind of torpedo magazine for lower area (to the right of the picture), with a general store/quatermaster's office in the higher part (to the left) and the far area could well work as missile guidance.

Thanks guys.

DruBo

torpedoes should be launchable, I think. just for fun. A flash of light and an env_shake should do the trick.

Tzarcon

Launchable torpedos sure would add that "professional" quality many maps lack.

The layout is very good, but it looks like it wouldnt take too long to go from one hive to another.

Sgt_X

That's the thing that jumped out at me, it looks like the aliens could of built the second hive and be half way to the third before the marines get there, of coarse im horrible at estimating anything, so ur free to disregard this. <!--emo&:)--><img src="http://www.natural-selection.org/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/smile.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':)'><!--endemo-->

realityisdead

I think the layout looks excellent. My only real gripe would be how closely connected the two side hives appear to be from the center one. While I don't think it would really be that big of an issue to have hives that closely connected, it somehow makes the lower half of the level appear as excess or wasted space... which probably wouldn't be the case, but I thought it was worth pointing out.

So... to encourage travel down on the areas closer to the marine start, why not make those hallways that connect the hives up top have a couple weldables in there somewhere. Judging from the shapes of the walls there though, it looks as though you may already be planning on doing that.



<!--EDIT|ken20banks|July 22 2002,23:27-->

KungFuSquirrel

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I'd call it more of a "pointless gimmick" quality, but maybe that's just me.

I mean, it'd be neat and all, but too much novelty value and too little practical value. I'd use the entities (as few as it would take) elsewhere, personally.


As far as the layout, I'll echo the concern about the hive locations... this also looks to be a smaller map, and that could be catastrophic for the marines with the amount of ground to cover to just reach one hive.



<!--EDIT|KungFuSquirrel|July 23 2002,01:43-->

Kidzelda

Perhaps if you were to put one more resource node in the hallway from the main airlock to the galley, it would give more incentive to get the aliens closer, as that hallway is fairly iscolated.