Dublin City Centre map

Winters

Looks great.... Where did you get all thoese pictures from though

Hows the map coming along though... cant wait to see it on a server or two! Ill set it up on a 2man lan in my house

Anima

For your new splash screen you should try and use dark colours other wise the text is hard to see on the buttons.

banquo

yeah i'm still looking for a sub for it. got the Gpo finished.

RopeDrink

Or you could simply reduce the brightness of the picture with PhotoShop...

It took quite a while for me to perfect my VAR Mod Splash pic, so don't expect to get it perfect on the first go. Other than that, I like it. The buttons are quite nice too.

Jim

but the pic was from the civil war, and not 1916, so he'll have to change it anyway:p

RopeDrink

Hmmmmmmmmmmm.
Spanner in the works, anyone!?

manic1

when i made that splash screen it was only temp screen
while isort out the avi for the main menu the splash will be a full colour front pic of the gpo during the 1916 rising and it is lookin sweet

banquo

i've seen it tis most sweet. we've got the last few bars of Aran na Mbhiann replacing the DoD Victory song.
map news comin soon... its BIG news

Anima

Robb when do you want me to make your models? I thought you were gonna send me pics or something.

banquo

ok the map has really taken shape, i'll be able to release a release date soon. in the meantime here are the latest screenshots...

happy to announce the north quays are nearing completion, all i've got to do are 2 unfinished buildings u can see in the foreground

banquo

i've really not been looking forward to doing the south quays. perhaps i'm a little biased. judge for yourself.
if you're a southsider, you'll be pretty angry after downloading this picture. but please, don't take my total apathy for you personally...

banquo

IT'S THE EASON'S CLOCK!!!! this took 10 seconds but i'm still proud. i've since added the actual clock. I'll show you easons when it's finished. i couldn't be arsed making the shop beside it so its just rubble. anything i don't want to do becomes rubble.

banquo

its in there......

banquo

this is where i put all the crap i don't want anymore so i don't have to delete it. i was looking for something to take a pic of for u people and i thought, "People are going to be sorely pissed after downloading this."
so here u go...

DRakE

[PISSED ORF]
oh
my
god.

This 6page thread has all been about that? Good god. I could whip that up in 10 minutes. All of it!
[/PISSED ORF]
[CRITICISM][BEINGAWANKER]
Map is uber bland. No details or anything. ast tie i was in Dublin I was sure i saw buildings, no big huge empty spaces. None of the textures you use are suitable to the time period and most of them are even aligned incorrectly.

Building exteriors are not made of indoor office walls (last time i checked)

Eason's clock pic, south quays,wasteofspace walls pics are all totally irrelevant. Probly would have been better had you not posted them. The only pic wth promise (albeit a small amount) was the first one, and even then i can spt some major texture mistakes.

If this looks/plays well I'll eat my hat.
[/CRITISICM][/BEINGAWANKER]

I had to get this off my chest. You understand I hope.

Patrick

What program do u use to design those maps and what program to view them?

banquo

one of the first things i learned about mapmaking is that people are vultures, always nagging at you for more details, screenshots, info, and i was getting pretty angry about all that, so releasing crap screenshots and making people download them was my way of getting that off my chest.
you'll ge proper ones tommorow... promise

Winters

Originally posted by DRakE
This 6page thread has all been about that? Good god. I could whip that up in 10 minutes. All of it!

Most of this thread is spam now dont forget that.

Originally posted by DRakE
Good god. I could whip that up in 10 minutes. All of it!

Its the first real map rob's done, in the sence that its gonna be avelable to download. Its not gonna be the best map the world has ever seen. Id say lots of us made lots of maps that dont live up to your standards (Dont kill me .... joke).

I think it looks great.... dont know why the tunnel is in there though.... its kinda a mix of everything since 1916 and not just stuff in 1916 ... still cant wait to play it. If you make sturmbot waypoints for it come over to my gaff and we will have a lan on my 2 PC's with a load of bots

banquo

ooh, i;m tingligh with excitement. as for the tunnel, i'll explain that in person, it;s a SECRET! SHHH!
and whenever you're ready winters, i've got 53 ****ing tutorials, faq's, hints, wads, prefabs, and a whole load of other ****e taking up half my hard disk when u want it

DRakE

Originally posted by robbb_mm
one of the first things i learned about mapmaking is that people are vultures, always nagging at you for more details, screenshots, info, and i was getting pretty angry about all that, so releasing crap screenshots and making people download them was my way of getting that off my chest.
you'll ge proper ones tommorow... promise

Do you not think that releasing terrible screenshots (ie the hollow rusty box you call a tunnel) will just entice people to ask for better screenshots? Tbh, they are nothing to get excited over. And please dont post "in-editor" screenshots.. At least have the "cop on" to post them ingame. They WILL look better.

banquo

i try to put up actual in-game shots when i can but for the last week i;ve been getting a compilre error AllocBlock: Full, which basically means iv'e got to resize every texture individually.

and can anyone tell me how to use the file on another computer without leaving behind all the textures, etc?

Winters

Compile all the textures and bsp file into a zip or somefin. Put it on a CD or try to squeeze it onto a floppy.

A lot of the textures you use (hopefully) will all be in DoD/HL! If not you have to make your own wad file or somefin ... not to sure cos of my anti-1337 mapping skilz. Anywho... come over to my gaf fand ill setup a 2 player lan or somefin...

/me has bad news... no more Diagnosis Murder RTE showed the last one in the series today

Jim

OMG!!!!!!!!! NO MORE DIA MURDER!!!!!!!!!![who cares:o ]

anyway back to the subject [or wat i precieve as the subject] ill b over in ur gaff oin sunday winters:p

DRakE

Originally posted by robbb_mm
i;ve been getting a compilre error AllocBlock: Full, which basically means iv'e got to resize every texture individually.

Thats not what it means at all. It means that you have too many wads loaded into Quark. There is a texture memory limit of like 4mb in WC, not sure about Quark, but I'm sure it's around the same.

Reduce the amount of different wads and compile.

Winters

He, He. You really should try and stick to the normal wads on DoD.. It would cut down on the problem.

Im not too sure if ill be able to see you on Sunday... free gaff next weekend so we can have a laugh then

RopeDrink

If this is Rob's first map, then fair play (Regardless of wether people think it's absolute toss or not) because it's obvious you're putting a lot of time and effort into the work, and haven't given up and thrown your monitor out the window like I usually do after 10 minutes mapping.

DrAkE, It's not up to us what pictures he posts - That, aswell as how he textures / aligns / comprises his map etc. I can't see why you're getting so huffy.

All Im seeing here is some picture from a mapper who is working hard on something, and a bit of annoying spam. I mean come on, I remember when I posted my first map picture yonks ago. It wasn't an attempt at a city, is was a rake of over sized blocks that I called buildings, and a few HUGE crates... despite being laughed at for some time, it evolved into de_gravel which is still ****e, but I'm proud of.

Give the guy a break, let him map his heart out and help him rather than slate him, and you never know what might happen.

Jim

i actually played an early version of the map and its not half bad so far, just a few rough edges to sort out [such as large unexplained chunks of rubblee in o'connell st ]

shud b quite goud wen finished, look forward to playin it.

Jimmy:p

banquo

HEY!
those are fine chunks. they exist purely to make the map less dull. Lets not forget that o'connell st is more or less one long road, with a few side roads (talbot, henry). so i;ve had to incorporate large, unexplained chunks of debris into the map,. amongst other things such as rubble solely so the map is play for more than 5 mintutes and then someone says "say, THAt was pretty. lets play that CS stephans green map by jimeats, the talented one..."

Anima

Robb maybe you should edit the layout of the city for r_speed reduction because ifs its just one long street then they will be threw the roof. Also how big is the map?

banquo

i know, i'm a bit worried about that. the map is huge, as in it takes up the entire area so i'm REALLY worried about the speed. how do i solve my compile problem?

banquo

how do i transer a .qkm file to another computer, complete with wad file?? how can i tell quark where to find the wad file enclosed???
drake this means you

Winters

You need to get a program that will compile the programs into .wad files as far as i know. Check the Quark site for downloads of compiler program things. You could get them from DoDHQ but the download site is still down..

banquo

i have the file, andihav the wad but how do i tell quark where the wad files is on another computer.
Not using the texture browser.