my two finished maps, de_changes_2 and de_dust2_changes are up and running with SEVEN SECOND download speeds (speeds may vary depending upon your location and service).
de_dust2_changes, the 4 sets of doors change each round, sometimes open as you normally see them, other times flipped to be opened the other direction.
It's a small change, but a an interesting twist to the norm, without drastically altering the most popular map.
de_changes_2, was supposed to be an optimized rebuild of de_changes_1, with an appearance change, but it was such a change it became it's own map altogether.
There are FOUR bombsites, only TWO are active during any round. Doors will be open in different positions each round to change how you approach and defend different areas.
The weather changes from round to round, including the infamous "Sandstorm", where visibility goes from good to blinding by the end of the round.
with the download speeds, there's no excuse not to check it out.
I may (depending on whether or not I have things to do this weekend) host an event on my serer, inviting people to meet there at some particular time...
watch for a thread announcing such an event in the near future.
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so what's next?
I have several requests, and several oldies to rework into complete maps.
cs_office_flipped, a popular map from the early days, with no overview needs redoing and overviews, etc.
de_dust2_flipped, never quite finished, as the treee tops are tiny models for use in the skybox, and i never could get them to look right, but was still a fun play.
de_changes_1, the original map in a dustish setting, with underground water tunnel. It was fun and very popular, but very sloppy as it was my first map, which I was trying to rebuild from scratch and accidentally became de_changes_2 (mainly because Flying Mongoose wanted an upper and lower tunnel, giving birth to the Hotel).
I had created a bowling map wth 12 lanes to bowl in css, with a very good soccerball (was trying to make a pool table ball), and i completed sport_hockey which was a hockey ring with fully functional scoreboard (impossible to prevent people from shooting eachother, instead of the puck, might work with deathmatch style settings nowadays), i was working on combining all these into a sports arena with bowling, soccer, and hockey all in one map, just to play. do i make sport_arena ?
de_inferno_flipped, a request recently to do a flipped version of inferno.
(Flipped maps are done by inverting the direction along one axis usually, in office i flipped it along the long hall, all your lefts are rights and vice versa, can be a real head-opener.)
do you have any other requests/ideas to propose?
Help me decide the next project.:w00t:
I'm leaning towards a remake of cs_office_flipped at the moment, going to version 2 (i just LOVE to see someone get to the end of the hall, turn right, staring at a wall, and getting shot in the back of the head, or running into the stairwell, truning right, and SMACK right nto a wall.
and i'll need testers too, people to verify things work for them, and help spot defects and missing items (i might forget to place certain things like chairs, pictures, even not change the direction of items properly.)
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de_dust2_changes, the 4 sets of doors change each round, sometimes open as you normally see them, other times flipped to be opened the other direction.
It's a small change, but a an interesting twist to the norm, without drastically altering the most popular map.
de_changes_2, was supposed to be an optimized rebuild of de_changes_1, with an appearance change, but it was such a change it became it's own map altogether.
There are FOUR bombsites, only TWO are active during any round. Doors will be open in different positions each round to change how you approach and defend different areas.
The weather changes from round to round, including the infamous "Sandstorm", where visibility goes from good to blinding by the end of the round.
with the download speeds, there's no excuse not to check it out.
I may (depending on whether or not I have things to do this weekend) host an event on my serer, inviting people to meet there at some particular time...
watch for a thread announcing such an event in the near future.
--------------------
so what's next?
I have several requests, and several oldies to rework into complete maps.
cs_office_flipped, a popular map from the early days, with no overview needs redoing and overviews, etc.
de_dust2_flipped, never quite finished, as the treee tops are tiny models for use in the skybox, and i never could get them to look right, but was still a fun play.
de_changes_1, the original map in a dustish setting, with underground water tunnel. It was fun and very popular, but very sloppy as it was my first map, which I was trying to rebuild from scratch and accidentally became de_changes_2 (mainly because Flying Mongoose wanted an upper and lower tunnel, giving birth to the Hotel).
I had created a bowling map wth 12 lanes to bowl in css, with a very good soccerball (was trying to make a pool table ball), and i completed sport_hockey which was a hockey ring with fully functional scoreboard (impossible to prevent people from shooting eachother, instead of the puck, might work with deathmatch style settings nowadays), i was working on combining all these into a sports arena with bowling, soccer, and hockey all in one map, just to play. do i make sport_arena ?
de_inferno_flipped, a request recently to do a flipped version of inferno.
(Flipped maps are done by inverting the direction along one axis usually, in office i flipped it along the long hall, all your lefts are rights and vice versa, can be a real head-opener.)
do you have any other requests/ideas to propose?
Help me decide the next project.:w00t:
I'm leaning towards a remake of cs_office_flipped at the moment, going to version 2 (i just LOVE to see someone get to the end of the hall, turn right, staring at a wall, and getting shot in the back of the head, or running into the stairwell, truning right, and SMACK right nto a wall.
and i'll need testers too, people to verify things work for them, and help spot defects and missing items (i might forget to place certain things like chairs, pictures, even not change the direction of items properly.)
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