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Well, I've decided to take up mapping again, and now more than ever I realize how much of a bitch mapping is. Origionally I wanted to do a nice cave with a little tram and a big tree in the middle, but creating the cliff walls was frusteratin, so now I'm going to finish that remake of Mappy I planned on doing but never got around to.

I'm starting from scratch this time, since the origional layout was boring and it didn't flow as well as I hoped it would.

Mappy 2 is going to take shape whether I like it or not, no matter how hard it gets. Eat my vertex manipulation, bitches!

So far, my map looks like crap. I have the beginning hallway done as well as some form of reception area. Unfortunatly, the textures I used on the reception desk = crap, so I have to dig around for some new ones. I already have 450+ faces, so I don't know whether or not that's good. Hopefully the office area won't send r-speeds to hell.

Well, I've finally gotten started on my second map, "Mappy 2," an obvious remake of Mappy. This time around I'll have a lot more architecture and smaller rooms, plus more humor. I'm shying away from making maps with a purpose until I get a better grasp on this whole mapping thing. Hopefully Mappy 2 will look better, even though all I have now is the beginning hallway.

I can't decide what to do for my first minimod. I have all these ideas but I don't know which ones to choose. Maybe the Hax0r idea...or the spacestation. I'm saving the Escape from Purple Mesa one for another day.

Posted my first map. Yay. Have a look-see.

I plan to make my first map soon, called "Boxtop's Spacestation." Poetic, I know. The basic plot is that you're a guy who works on a Spacestation and is getting ready for a specimen extraction mission on a planet below (not Xen, although Xen wildlife will be there since I can't model for beans.) I'm to add some funny bits here and there (i.e. a couple scis watching Tellitubbies and some others playing Yu-Gi-Oh).

Unfortunatly, I'm completely stuck on the layout after Level B of the Station. It would be a chore for the player to waltz all the way from Level C to Level A, so I might have to add an elemavator. Of course, then I wouldn't be able to add the funny. Small steps, I guess.

EDIT: Whoohoo, bizatches! I got my microphone to work, thanks to the miracle of construction paper and the laws of sound!

"Hello Boxtop17! This is your 100th login!" Whee. Let's all dance or something.

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Sorry, couldn't resist.

Wewt! Just put up the theme song for my future mod: http://www.acidplanet.com/artist.asp?PID=641750&t=8776

Now if Hammer would stop pissing me off, maybe I could actually get started on that mod...

Well, another day, another dollar. Just found this site several days ago and have been using the map tuts to actually make something of myself. I almost feel confident to get started on my new mod: "Stupid HL: Escape From Purple Mesa", about a crazy guy who goes to a crazy government facility with crazy stuff. Hope to get the community in on it too. Could really use their help.

Just a heads up.