When Is Somebody Going To Make Ns_nostromo?

Guspaz

Let's face it, NS borrows a lot from Alien. But to date, surprisingly enough, there has yet to be an ns_nostromo.

ns_bast came close, it uses loads of textures and architechture from Alien, (Most obvious example are the red walls/floors and the door shape, plus the space suits cabinet that appear to be directly ripped from the movie). It even has a recreation of the Nostromo's cockpit (That place who's downward ladder leads to Refinery's top entrance). But Bast doesn't actually recreate the entire ship, or even any large part of it.

ns_nancy threw a few hints in too, like the Mother hive (sometimes called noname) and Mother Interface, both of which refer to the computer on the Nostromo, named "Mother".

So, how about it? Anybody going to make an ns_nostromo? Most of the textures are already included in ns.wad <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

KungFuDiscoMonkey

You pretty much took care of it in your post. ns_nostromo is just spread out amongst two maps. bast and nancy. You're always invited to pick up Hammer and make ns_nostromo yourself.

Janos

Also on ns_nancy if u take a look at the corridor design on the way to noname hive its almost the same as the corridors in Aliens.

Lazer

Ya the hallways in nancy are a lot like nostromo. This I like :]

Jezpuh

<a href='http://nsworld.ns-central.co.uk/Map.php?UniqueID=211' target='_blank'>Gawd people, the best Aliens map, right here.</a>

blueman

Ok. if youve seen the film aliens then you will understand why its so dificult to do a map about it. Fisrt of all, there are the need of good textures which remind of it, and ns wad has not much industrial ones (imo). Another thing is that in alien film the corridors are small and octogonal, so this must change to make map fun (if not, marines would rock) but if we start changing things then itll not look like aliens map.

Its more complicated than it should. Look bast, it has some passages/rooms that remind of the film.

Hyperion

my map ns_attempt was originally going to be Hadelys Hope, and was going to be named ns_acheron, but instead, after trying to make it look right, i gave up and made my own.

esuna

I think ns_bast may have originally been intended as the nostromo. Most of the ns_bast textures are prefixed "nos".

KungFuSquirrel

esuna's dead-on. Relic was making a tribute to the Alien series prior to finding NS. Bast was transferred over to the NS gameplay. The water hive also started out as a test map he started in trying to make an underground cave. He stuck doorways in a couple spots, made a hole in the bottom, and then re-textured it with infestation <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->

KungFuDiscoMonkey

That's pretty darn cool. I think all the official mappers should write up short backgrounds and tell us all those cool tidbits about the history of their maps.