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!