Thread: My map so far.

http://www.tacticalsites.com/~skylark/de_050a.bsp

Here is the current version of my map. It is about 15 megs... that seemed like a big file until I found that vegas was 51 megs.

It is a warehouse in an abandoned area of town. The EVIL CTs are performing illegal reserach of some kind. The terrorists are there to stop their mad schemes! (I like the idea of the Ts being the good guys).

I am looking for any helpful comments on it.

Things so far:
1) Elevator.
I have it on 3 floors. It works pretty well.
Push the up button to go up one floor, down to go down one floor. I didn't make it have buttons to go directly from 1 to 3. On the other floors, numbers light up to tell you what floor it is on and you can push the button to bring it to you from there.
I have a door on the elevator itself that works. I have some doors on the map on each floor that should be there and work.. but they just don't show up. Working on that to prevent people from falling into the shaft when elevator not there.

2) Sewers in place, could probably use a little more work. Details, maybe rough them out.. too smooth and clean.

3) Lights still aren't quite right. Trying to get the right balance between lit and dark. I want a dark map, but not too dark. I'm working on making sure the lights don't extend too far. I had it where lights could be shot out, but that just wasn't working. Too many "too many lights on a face" errors and the like. A few rooms need lights added. I may try adding some light switches in the small rooms. I may even put a breaker box somewhere to cut most power... don't sure how I feel about that.

4) Outside area: More trees are present, but am working on making sure they work right (some errors on certain models). I want it to be overgrown.. needs grass and the like. More rocks or junk?

5) The main (open) area of the warehouse needs more work. It is pretty open. I need to add more items in there. It gives a bigger area to 'snipe' in, but it just seems too empty. More props or something?

6) 2nd floor needs some more work - pretty bare. I've been working on it, but I want the floor to 'make sense' as I add props.

7) 3rd floor is almost completely bare. I've just recently gotten the elevator to work up there and the stairs installed. So you can actually get up there now.

8) The bomb sites are too close together. I want to move one of them. I'm not sure exactly where to move it to. Currently they are the science equipment itself and the big natural gas tanks outside. I thought about moving one up to the 3rd floor, but I don't have a "reason" for it yet. I thought perhaps some sort of computer mainframe storage or something? destroy the data?

So I'm still looking for more comments. Anything is helpful. I'm trying to get the map to work right, then I will begin adding in all the small details that make things better. (small trash, etc)


Realize this is my first map. So I don't expect it to be awesome or anything. It is turning out a lot better then I expected though. As I learn more things, I tend to add them into the map.