New Map
Rufas_the_Red
Join Date: 2003-04-23 Member: 15777Members
Join Date: 2003-04-23 Member: 15777Members
<div class="IPBDescription">Just starting out</div> Right. I am a nebie mapper of 2 (ish) days. I've made up already a rr, and one of the rooms in a map I'm making. The map I plan to make is a exploration ship which picks up a hostile life form <!--emo&::skulk::--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/skulk.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='skulk.gif'><!--endemo--> . Anyway Here are a few pictures. The first two are of the ready room, the second two are of the medical bay.
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(or in other words.. you need:better architecure, lightning and textures.. well.. lets say.. everything.. dont take it to hard.. my first map was terrible even my second and my third)
the only problem I have is gewtting my maps to work, the maps somehow don't show up in the create game list, I remember reading something about info_player_deathmatch bu I 'm not sure.
i'll show you some screenies when I've got a connection to my room
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I am going to add some more detail. Thanks for the encouragement.
You've obviously got a good grasp of how to get around in Hammer already, which you'll be able to expand your skills in once you get a few weeks of experience under your belt. And if you spend enough time lurking around the Mapping forum, you'll find a lot of good suggestions, hints, and methods already posted that you can apply to your current and future maps.
One hint you could possibly try to apply to your existing rooms - just mess with the lighting (<i>ie: make it a bit darker, and mess with the gamma</i>). IMO, it's the lighting that will make or break a map. Layout and architecture are way up there on the list as well, but it's the lighting and ambience that will usually get us forum zombies drooling when a mapper posts screenshots of his/her latest project.
Good luck! <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif'><!--endemo-->
[<i>edit1</i>] gah, punctuation.. english goooood <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif'><!--endemo-->
and I get an error message when trying to compile with hammer, so far I've exported my .map and .vis(or whatever its called) into my maps directory, but I can't actually see the map in my in-game maps folder.
thanks for any help
(plz don'tflame me I'm not a noob), I'm just confused
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Yeah I thought it would be a bit worrying to have one of those normally in a medical bay
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I reallise now that my map so far is too bright, I will now try to correct that.
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Keep at it!! <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif'><!--endemo-->
I'm new at making maps to, but you don't want to see my map <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif'><!--endemo-->