I AM A RUBBISH MAPPER Created 20 years ago2004-02-08 15:35:21 UTC by m0p

I am the worst mapper ever!

ok, right then..

Ummm... why you say that?

he finally lost it?

well, look at my maps in the vault, they are all crap!

You're not the worst mapper ever, you're just willing to display work that you're not happy with. Eveyone has a few skid marks on their underwear once in a while, you just shouldn't let anyone see them! Make sure you are happy with the map, then ask a friend to check it out, then fix it, then repeat the process. Or you could map for Ricochet, it's dead easy!

He says it because of some of our criticism about nuclear 2, but we've apologised to him, and he's calmed down. Shame other people don't do that to me hint hint kol hint hint...

Map lots, and then you'll be good. Seriously, it works.

Post helpful mapping tips here. I wasn't being sarcastic when I said helpful! No spam!

hahahahahhaha! hes the worst!

nah jk, anyone who likes sonic is kool!

Bartender, another bottle of self-confidence for my friend, Mop.

MoP,
Your maps might be "as you say" crap....
But I am guessing that there are Crappier Mappers out there.
HooRay for a little humility.
Shame it isn't catching

I can code. make prefabs and I know loads of cool little tricks and effects in mapping. But my level design is not great.

So practise. Just make lots of maps and pay attention to detail. Things like inset bits for doors.

make a map

delete it

remake the same map

notice the difference

dont delete it = 100 maps you dont do anything with

criticism isnt a bad thing. if summ1 spots summin wrong, make it better!

Kol yell at a lot of poeple it seems.

Woah! Ministeve, why are you dissing swan man?! I thought he was your hero!

He isnt dissing him, hes embracing him !

Well maybe I should bring back mullet swan man, Evereybody seemed to like that one better than the Mclaren F1 anyway.

Cars... : Yuck.
Cant everyone just has a picture of themselves!? (LI`KE ME !)

im changin swan man fouling the car soon. i just dont hav anythin else 2 change it 2. but bring back swan man mullet n i wont change at all ;). the original mullet was good though

The original ORIGINAL mullet? The guy with the circle head and pale face?

yeah.

A'ight he's back. Oh man! Look at all his coolness!

golf ball rolling in the mud!

Ministeve change to your
"Will have their balls removed" sign!

I dont see how his hair looks like mud, nor how it looks like he is rolling. Thats actually a national flag I made for a website called www.nationstates.net. Its a website where you start a nation and run it. I got bored with it after a few days but kept my national flag. Dont bother mssing around with nation states though. Its a real bore.

WCDUDE i made one called
"ZombieLoffe free socialistic republic" It owned! like 500 million people living there, then they upgraded it to v.2

Yay. Go Monkeysylvania!

My place was called Mulletmansville. Im suprosed you guys even knew about nationstates.

Just to divert back to the topic for a moment, try mapping real life things. I think ur skilled enough to make em look really accurate and its quite fun. My map 'Castle' is based on a real life castle.

We all start off as useless mappers. But eventually, you just get the jist somehow. It takes practice, trial, and experience. (Yea right look at me saying all this confident crap). Anyway, I remember the first map I ever made, It wasnt great, but it was in a way. It had this cool bridge thing through a big corridor, and alien slaves used to cool-ily fire at you and stuff.... Yea. (Infact, I think I have an Idea now!)

Um, I've been mappin' for quite a long time actually! Well long before I joined this site. I was a member of VERC for ages before I learned of this site. I used to map for Quake3 and RTCW but I wasn't that great really, but I could bust out some mean corridors and rooms, just not good overall design. I use QuArK for Quake3 and other things. Then I moved on to Half-Life mapping when I got WC3 off a magazine disk. I could'nt even create a solid object. Then I read some tutorials and started. Most of maps back in those days were absoloute crap!

If I could really be bothered to, I could easily churn out some maps that own you all. But I don't have the

1. Time
2. The patience and
3. I normally screw it up at some point!

I am working on a minimod thingy at the moment, the maps in that are good, a few labs, some offices and maybe a Xen level. And some of the maps are so detailed! Right down to the last little pipe ring. I will do some stuff for HL2 when it is finally released! Also, I will resume Black-Death soon as well. Some wonderful MoP Mappage on it's way! BD includes some nice work by Vassy as well!

I am certainly not the "crappest" mapper. But I'm not great either!

Well... if you're not great then I'm sure some people here could own you back

Want a copy of my cs_control for an example of a bad map?

You may well have mapped for that long, I started mapping about a year after hl was first released. I went from the old Wc 2.4, to Wc 3.4, right up to today's Valve Hammer Editor. The problem I seem to face quite alot is the kind of dedication you need to be a mapper. Sometimes I get 'mapper's block' where no matter what I do I always get frustrated with it and try to start something new. The best maps I have made were the ones where I actually made myself believe that the map would turn out ok. When I dont do that the map always fails miserably.... :