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Thank you for your comment, we take all criticism to heart. And it is a pleasure to award you a kick in the ass.
Good day!

Omg.

Why don't you show us how to use a spoon next

Ok, well done. Thanks for makign an example map.

3 Stars.

Based on teh useful-ness of the example alone. I've seen this question a few times before. I hope you included the fact that water itself has a damage amount you an set, without having to use any trigger_hurts anyway.

You should check out the previous full_city maps.. 5000 was it lol?

Why God, why..

Or perhaps look at the texture to make sure it doesn't look shit.

How about a screenshot of the map?

I tend to put random pictures insstead of map screens when the map is really shite, so please elaborate on teh quality.

The sky loosk wrong for the kind of ligth and shadows, apart from that it's ok, but seriously, dust remakes are so void now that Source is out and everyone is sick of all teh remakes and blah blah.

Thing abotu dust textures is, you can just steal teh architecture from the dust maps and make something that doesn't look too bad.

I would say chaneg the sky, and add in soem plam tree models, and a few burnt our cars to make it slightly unique.

Ok, well if it didn't do much to your r_speeds you might as well not do anything.
Perhaps making the books models? Would cut down some poly.
But tbh, a map can be playable on a moderately high spec machine at 1300 - 1400 w poly (Counter strike), so you don't have to try and get it down to 800 or anything, imho if you're still using a Geforce 32mb you deserve everything you get

Pity about the tampons, but yes, it would have been funny as hell, maybe a func_train where the tampons take a little ride around the room, I knwo I know, I am a strange person. Sorry.

The bed should be easy, I'm pretty sure if you set them up liek Half-Life's jump pads (check teh example maps, I'm sure there's a map, teh general q's forum had a thread about it not long ago) and I think you only need one, but maybe having more would be cool, liek different parts of teh bed are more springy etc.

Use the ZHLT Light Flags option in teh func_wall entity, you can set the func_walls to Opaque, ie; they create a shadow, but don't split faces.

Ideas for novelty items:

The fan could push people off the edge of the table, into a waste paper basket? Maybe =P

The bra/panties thing. Seriously, how many kids under 16 are there that play CS, any hint of the 'forbidden fruit' and your map will sell like hot cakes.

I know this sounds sick, but bear with me:
A box of Tampons, you could right, I know this sounds sick, tie the tampons to func_vehicles and have people ride around on them.
I'm not joking either lol, I don't know which is worse

If teh bed isn't a major part, or even if it is, have it set up like the jump-pads in Half-Life, so it looks, and feels, liek you're jumping up and down on teh bed.

I'll post more if you want/need any ideas.

You sound like you havwe a good concept of level design, try and put more of that focus into making the map look alot better, get some detail in tehre, perhaps use different textres.

It looks like that map is running in fullbright

Well, there's some really nice detail in there, perhaps you could func_wall alot of that shizzle,like the mirror and the drawers, and all that stuff on the shelf.

And just clip all things that touch the ground at one unit above the floor level, and func_wall that one unit piece.

On the whole it actually looks really good, teh best ratsmap I've seen for a long time, and that's a compliment coming from me, I tend to relieve myself over rats maps (and by relieve I don't mean anything pleasurable).

Nice theme, could you perhaps put in some panties?

Really? I just thought I was a pretty intelligent guy, intelligent enough to land a job where I can spend 90% of my day surfing teh web...

Retard.

Argh.

That's a Hammer screenshot btw.

I mean, it looks open*

Press Alt+P to look for bad textures etc.

And you just have one big detailed open map, with windows.

Look at soem tutorials about how HL works.

Holy shit.

A tip:

Texturing walls, floors, ceilings, doors, carpets, furniture, all with the same texture leaves a very bitter taste in my mouth, and a gap in my brain thnx to the 7iq points I lost after looking at this map.

A tip:

Try and give your maps 32 spawn points. You never know who will run them on their server...

cz dust textures? Sure do look like 'em.

If so remember to rename your map with teh _cz extension or face teh wrath of the secret VALVe agents. Apparently.

I don't like it, not least because it seems really random.

Two sets of 'stairs' facing each other with an arched tunnel in the middle. Pretty unimaginative, or how shall we say, pretty fucking wierd..

Also, there's too many of these feckin' aim maps about.

I, personally, am sick of them. I'm going to flood The world with aim maps in protest.

65 ratings lol, you must have pressed that button a hell of a lot of times to get it down to one, I remember it was on 6 stars at one point.

Wow, that was an angry rant, I thought it was over?

And I post during the day, because I "work", and soem evenings when I'm mapping or playing HI/AA.
Weekends are my own, to practice, play, or even... get this.. whack off!
So you don't believe me, awwwwwwwwwww www.christianblood.tk

Still flaming?

* PaLO laughs

Are there tutorials that give you a set of cliffs to use in a specific map? With full permission to use them?
Cool, I'll have the WTC in maroon red please!

And why are you still flaming my maps if this is over?

Oh, Vassy, it looks cramped, but when you have 8 peopel trying to leave at once it needs to be open, sometimes you gotta put gameplay over looks =/

I also thought teh brown colours of teh blanket and sheet went togetehr well, and there's a green light in teh room now, which actually offsets teh colour! so it kinda looks green, so I think I'll leave it as it is, also because I would have to find good textures for it, and it took me a whiel getting those.
Also, Op4 tex's are too old to be used in Hostile Intent, not least because they're bad. But I will check them out. Thanks for the suggestion though =)

I never asked for any help defending my maps against your comments.
They took it upon themselves.
These guys are not butt buddies, they are friends I/we have made by being at this site, I don't see you doing anything but stir up trouble.

I fucked up your maps because you posted shit in my maps trheads one after teh other in a deliberate attempt to stir things up.
That's the way I saw it, what is your opinion?

And to be fair, this is in Unfinished, I am asking for criticism, so at least, once again, try and say what's wrong with the lighting, why you think it's cheesy? (I'm using models for the lights now btw - looks a lot better, those brush lights are bit lame, too square)
The point of teh barracks was to have thigns uniform and tidy. It's supposed to be a military trainign camp (quite far from complete.. =/) so it needs to be clean and tidy.
I thought of adding some bed tables and soem photographs on teh walls maybe, of loved ones etc.

So can we kick this back on topic so I can get some constructive criticism.

Good thing I disabled teh rating..

Maybe I piss around in Hammer till I find something I haven't done before?

Anyway, it's for Silent Tool, he wanted an example, he got one.

Please die.

=) - update in 20 minutes.

Jaardsi's tech. is low poly, this is a poly munching method, for various uses.

You know nothing. Retard.

To reduce the lag, simply lower that sky brush, no need for it to be so high. Lower it so it is just touching the tallest part of those towers.

and no, those brick barricades aren't lagging the map, teh fact that it is very open is lagging the map.

Listen to 7th, and don't keep updating this, try making some singleplayer maps using entities and trying to get the scale right.
You seem to have a good grasp of the "basics" finally, so just refine those skills.

And to Anonymous: Fuck you, I flamed him in the Forums, I'm done here.

Triangles, it really is all about triangles.

Experiment, it's hard at first, but try tweaking vertex points and see what you can acheive.

Here's a tip:

Select multiple brushes, all around the single vertex point you want to manipulate.
Select the Vertex Tool, and 'drag' a box around the vertex point, now drag that box around the vertex in a side/top/front view, so a box is surrounding the point, now hit enter, it will select all vertex points within that dragged-box (on brushes that have been highlighted)
You can now cut down the time it takes you to vertex large areas.

To ZL:
Yes, they are high poly, but they can be used in a lot of scenarios, good thing about them is that you can use them as hills/cliff walkways, just retexture the top with a grassy tex and it works a treat.

Anyway, just thought I'd let you guys rip them apart seeing as a guy on the HI forums wanted 'em.

=)

I don't think anyone was truly happy with their pieces, btu we can only get better at making things under pressure and in a short space of time.. so it's gotta be a good thing

It's actually really cool man, I think you shlda won tbh, there was some really cool detail, but a bit of sloppy mapping like that mouse (which was a great idea) had a few misalgined briushed.

On the whole, awesome man

4/5

Did you make this?

I saw this map on Countermap over a year ago =/

You guys are so lame for flaming a noob, he's only here to get constructive crticism, and to learn, but you have to flame him now he's going to go and kill himself because of you, you guys should be ashamed!!

Look at how much effort he put into this, after al the threads he made about how to make certain things, he kindly gives us a box filled with monsters! Tell him you LOve him, not that his map sucks.

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It is a bit nuts lol, like I said in teh subcompo thread lol, slightly offensive but congratulations on taking first place, ya Nazi sympathiser!

Did I? lol, what tools are those? hlcsg etc? No way? Haha.. news to me lol, sorry

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I didn't realise he deleted it and reposted it, is he really that bothered by what some guy said in his thread? pathetic. If you don't remember what I said, I think I pretty much said it all over again in his new thread. the cliffs are flat and have no depth (at the back), which just makes it look a little odd, and some of the texturing leaves alot to be desired. HalfLife textures are so old and ugly that it's offensive to my eyes to see them used so much.

I think I might go and post this in his thread when I'm done here, yeah good idea, thnx Anonymous/Lucan

All i see you doing now is talking shit and not actually putting up much of an arguement for your stupid fucking behaviour the last few weeks/months.

If you actually look at this thread (the first time you reared your ugly head, that I noticed - which is why you are pissed off, taht I haven't been paying you any attention before this thread), you'll see that You posted first, then Funessen lost his fucking mind and went nuts, then I posted giving him what he wanted, and summarising the thoughts and feelings of those who posted but didn't download it (something you seem to be unable of grasping - I d/l the map... did you?!), I told him his map was pretty weak, great, he knocked them up in 10 minutes, great, woop-de-fucking-doo, not exactly a great example of mapping, is it? you fucktard!

This guy wanted suggestions on how to improve his mapping (apparently), then he should have posted in Unfinished. Like I said.

"sorry, your pathetic excuses for arguments disprove nothing of what i said... read more carefully and try harder next time"

- That just shows how uninterested you are at listening to otehrs, you're a fuckign reject from this community, and now you're pissed off because I insulted one of your shitty fucking maps, liek I really give a fuck what you think about me? or how you try and 'tear me dowwn', because it's not working, the more you carry on, the more people get sick of your shit, hiding it away in teh map vault is fucking pathetic, because you knwo people get sick of spamming shits, as I proved by releasing everything in teh forums, goes to show how little peoel actually care about your cause, no-one gives a fuck! you're fucked
! fuck off! noob.

I didn't get flamed, I got insulted and attacked, I have flamed maps and the lack of substance, I've never gone into someone's trheads and talked shit, like you have doen to so many ppl, you're a fucking joke, a hypocrite, and a retard, and if I am all teh things you say I am, that makes us equal, so why don't you just suck a cock and forget the whole thing ever happened? Or are you too much of a child to just drop something? I think you are, and if you reply to this, you're a fuckign bigot and a pathetic loser you can never quit because you're secretly gay and a pig sucker (lol), and if you don'y reply all I just said is true and I win!

try reading funz's map thread..

Is this guy some kind of negro? Probably some retard gook with one leg and a small cock.

heh

"you're scared because you hide behind your p.a.l. guise"

look at my profile, there's more info on who I am than you;ve had hot meals.

the reason you ain't sending private enmails is because I would then have your email address, I owudl much ratehr do this in private, as I won't have to watch my language or reduce teh severity of threats of violence.

You are such a non-memebr it ain't even funny, I'm glad you've been pre-occupied with me teh last week or two, it's good to get the heat off trapt and teh otehrs you were causing shit for.

Also, you're such a boring fucker I haven't read half thae crap you wrote, so good job on wasting your time, noob.

no, seriously, I haven't got the time of day for your bullshit anymore, you fucked up when you started to spiral into personal insults and attacks on character (not just me), you've pissed off alot of people here, me being one of them, and I don't bother listening to noobs talk about shit.

Especially now that you've suddenly changed your ways and started trying to be all polite and nice, you stupid fuck lol, if you're so high and mighty, and more importantly if you were right, you wouldn't need to change at all... I on the other hand will continue to "flame" fy maps.

You meanwhile, will stfu and get out of my MV threads.

hear hear

hahaha, I'm not the child on the internet trying to do a mods job, because you're desperately searching for attention, in any way you can get it.

The attention I get is limited to the people I choose to talk to..

No-one talks to you because you're full of shit..

"lol i'm so scared of an internet bully :D"
-well you obviously are seeing as you're hiding behind an Anonymous guise...

If you really wanted to change things you'd do it in teh open liek a man, but alas you are a child.

yeah you were, you spent ages writing thsi bullshit and I didn't even read it. Ride my pwny.

lose what? sorry have I missed something?

children huh