My Ideas Suck
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Join Date: 2003-04-19 Member: 15638Members
Join Date: 2003-04-19 Member: 15638Members
i need some insperation, i like to map but i have no ideas. any idea i start on ends up dead. could some some 1 give me a jump start? please <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif' /><!--endemo-->
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~ DarkATi
P.S. I was making ns_rats awhile back, I have several blown up models of weapons if you want them P.M. me.
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If you are having fun, you aren't doing it right; you need to be staying up to six in the morning tweaking one beam of a hall until it is just right. Thats when you know your having fun, right before you go insane.
i also wonder how you guys make maps so biutifull, becuz all my maps turnup dull and flat.
(does any1 have hints on this)
Another thing is that mapping takes talent. To be able to see something in you mind's eye and translate to a BSP is tough and what I would call a gift. Lucky for people like me you don't have to have this gift, you can practice and still get it right, it just takes awhile. From now on, don't play maps, study them, learn them and feed off of them. This will help you get a finished map fairly quickly and it will help your brain start making these things up on it's own.
Oh and working your **** off until 6:00 A.M. is what I meant by fun of course!
~ DarkATi
I start a map
i get really frustrated becuase i cant think of anything , or it looks to square
and usually close valve hammer :/
I want to see a rats map in the NS universe. Could be quite a challenge, when you think about it.
Ohhh, so many times i have been tweeking 1 little spot, only to decide to scrap the whole area the next week.
Just keep at it, more practice will give you better results.
Head to blockbuster, rent as many sci-fi movies as you can, watch them all, and find your entieusiasm for NS mapping skyrocket.
Seriously, movies like Aliens, Alien: Resurrection, Event Horizon, hell, even Lost In Space, all have fantastic sci-fi atmospheres. Just watch the movie and <s>rip off</s> use the locations to influence you.
Also. VHe in my opinion is not fun.
Sitting, looking at graphs and fiddling with masses of tools is not fun.
But the finished article! thats when you can justify the pain!
As well as the film inspiration, look at official maps. WHat do they do to add variety? how do they create rooms that dont look like blocks.?.. how do they make Hive areas interesting..?? etc.
Try to adopt a look to your map. A certain style which makes your map individual.
Its bloody hard.
Especially Natural Selection.
Good luck.
SO here's my idea for a map
Khaara map. You're on the completly infested Science Vessal Yanger. They were studying the bactiria that make up the Khaara, when there was an outbreak. Alarms sounded, the scientists sounded the alarm, but it was too late, the bactria spread. The captian of SV Yanger sent out the TSA distress call, bringing them in, opening the cargo hanger for their entry and activated the resource node in the hanger; but the TSA arived too late, their mission now: eradicate the Khaara threat, and not allow them to have access to a space ship.
You start off in the bay area, with the TSA Assault Transport Ship.
Now, design the ship <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo-->
im going a little off topic right now, is it possible to put a resnode on the wall?
o| o being the resnode and | being the wall..... is that possible?
For me, mapping, I do best right after playing some game or watching a movie. Alien, ns, unreal2. Pretty much anything that would spark an imagination... Does take lots of time, im in same as darkati, after 2 years, still nothing. I still have trouble with lighting sometimes. Its evil, but the heart of a beutiful map.
Nancy's cursed, I lost the source for my part of Port once during the project. <!--emo&???--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/confused.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='confused.gif' /><!--endemo-->
~ DarkATi
Make map where marines start in Goa'uld Ha'tak Pel'tak, and aliens are somewhere midlevel in cargo bay wheres the stargate. There would be transporation rings(wich marines, and everything else than onos can use). Then there would be 1 Level inbetween the Cargo bay and Pel'tak wich could be a Hangar with Death Gliders in it(i got model of Death Glider). That way ya could have interesting battles in the hangar while others try get to the enemy by rings. Ya would need much info on Stargate Series and how stuff are in it to make this map.
SO here's my idea for a map
Khaara map. You're on the completly infested Science Vessal Yanger. They were studying the bactiria that make up the Khaara, when there was an outbreak. Alarms sounded, the scientists sounded the alarm, but it was too late, the bactria spread. The captian of SV Yanger sent out the TSA distress call, bringing them in, opening the cargo hanger for their entry and activated the resource node in the hanger; but the TSA arived too late, their mission now: eradicate the Khaara threat, and not allow them to have access to a space ship.
You start off in the bay area, with the TSA Assault Transport Ship.
Now, design the ship <!--emo&:)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/smile.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='smile.gif' /><!--endemo--> <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
any more ideas? i am starving for them.
Make map where marines start in Goa'uld Ha'tak Pel'tak, and aliens are somewhere midlevel in cargo bay wheres the stargate. There would be transporation rings(wich marines, and everything else than onos can use). Then there would be 1 Level inbetween the Cargo bay and Pel'tak wich could be a Hangar with Death Gliders in it(i got model of Death Glider). That way ya could have interesting battles in the hangar while others try get to the enemy by rings. Ya would need much info on Stargate Series and how stuff are in it to make this map. <!--QuoteEnd--> </td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'> <!--QuoteEEnd-->
I love Stargate too, but as much as I love it... it just wouldn't fit very well <!--emo&:(--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/sad.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='sad.gif' /><!--endemo-->
..and have it **** up and unable to compile / have it compile with horrible rspeeds <!--emo&:p--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/tounge.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='tounge.gif' /><!--endemo-->
Alien, Aliens, Alien3, Alien Resurection, Event Horizon, Total Recal, Star Trek, Sphere, etc.
Read books with scifi settings:
no examples right now :/
Google Image Search!:
Search for things like 'space stations' and 'scifi'
Airlock deathtraps, massive long hallways, annoyingly dark rooms full of spaztic lights, and... oh yeah, the whole 'no gore' issue <!--emo&;)--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html//emoticons/wink.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink.gif' /><!--endemo--> (Swear to god to make that movie they just fed cows dynamite on the set)