Ns_osiris
Azraiel
Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12868Members
Join Date: 2003-01-27 Member: 12868Members
<div class="IPBDescription">My first map.</div> Ok, here is the begining of my first map ever! WOOT! So far I only have one room done, lol, but it is a hive room. Here are some pics of Hive Location-Pumping Station.
<img src='http://www.geocities.com/lord_azraiel/ns_osiris_beta0002.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
<img src='http://www.geocities.com/lord_azraiel/ns_osiris_beta0000.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
ok, it did some wierd stuff at first, but i think i have it all sorted out now. well the second one is a shot of where the doors will go, at the end of the catwalks. The first shows the hive in clearer view. The pumping station is where the kharaa bacteria made its entry into the Osiris research station, and normally there would be equipment hooked up in this room, but the researchers recieved warning and the company controlling the station quickly uprooted all portable equipment and evacuated the station. The only thing left here is the water pump, which is positioned below the hive. I am aware of certain things that need to be changed, and keep in mind that these pics are darker than they are ingame. Please tell me what you think, but be kind, its my first map!
Other locations planned for hives are Engineering, and Organism Research Lab.
<img src='http://www.geocities.com/lord_azraiel/ns_osiris_beta0002.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
<img src='http://www.geocities.com/lord_azraiel/ns_osiris_beta0000.JPG' border='0' alt='user posted image'>
ok, it did some wierd stuff at first, but i think i have it all sorted out now. well the second one is a shot of where the doors will go, at the end of the catwalks. The first shows the hive in clearer view. The pumping station is where the kharaa bacteria made its entry into the Osiris research station, and normally there would be equipment hooked up in this room, but the researchers recieved warning and the company controlling the station quickly uprooted all portable equipment and evacuated the station. The only thing left here is the water pump, which is positioned below the hive. I am aware of certain things that need to be changed, and keep in mind that these pics are darker than they are ingame. Please tell me what you think, but be kind, its my first map!
Other locations planned for hives are Engineering, and Organism Research Lab.
Comments
Very nice start but it looks dark, try add some spot lights to give contrast and more detail.
Also, I don't like that water you use there very much. I suggest you use the one in ns.wad, I think it's called !r25_stagnant.
Any static lights (lights that aren't switched on/off, they're always on) aren't considered entities after the map is compiled, so they don't count for the entity limit. (Make sure the light doesn't have a name or hlrad will think you <i>can</i> switch it and leave it in). And lights that are switchable, but are switched at the same time. (they have the same name so they are switched together) are considered to only be one entity after the map is compiled.
Also, might try to break up that big flat floor area on the lower pic with something?
And I think that water looks a bit odd. Maybe its just the sshot tho.
Good to see a first map that isn't a big box in fullbright with the hives half a mile up a shaft and the
rine start at the bottom once in a while.
*edit* fixed some typos and missing characters...
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