Your feelings on your first map and what was it?

[Neo Kabuto]

[QUOTE=Juniez;31575171][del]none of the arches were[/del] nothing was func_detailed and I am pretty sure the sphere lights intersected the arches[/QUOTE]
But none of the arches were made by carving, right?

[Juniez]

I can't remember :pwn:

[bohb]

This is one of my early maps when I was still doing tech tests for D3D. The last time it was modified was on 3/8/2001, but it was made sometime in late 1997/early 1998. I still have most of my early maps from D3D, but lost all of my Quake 3 levels from the infamous IBM deathstar.

[img]http://img28.imageshack.us/img28/6665/75136475.jpg[/img]
[img]http://img841.imageshack.us/img841/5582/34139532.jpg[/img]

Sadly the same fate befell most of my early HL1 maps. I found a BSP of one of my early HL1 maps, but lost it again.

[FullStreak]

I've been practicing my lighting. Any suggestions?

[img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596944795907921265/7BA704F47E5195324D64D78FF64A1A48EE582B82/[/img]

[Sensation]

@Full, too boxxy :/.

[FullStreak]

Okay, but how could I improve?

[bohb]

[QUOTE=FullStreak12;31595238]I've been practicing my lighting. Any suggestions?

[thumb]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596944795907921265/7BA704F47E5195324D64D78FF64A1A48EE582B82/[/thumb][/QUOTE]

Unrealistic. Florescent lights aren't omnidirectional, they only output light downward due to the shroud above the light bulbs. Make use of light_spots and VERY weak light entities (between 5-25 brightness max) for ambient light.

Something like this:

[img]http://img38.imageshack.us/img38/1326/99495258.jpg[/img]

[Crawfordo]

My first map was some kind of water-fort-thing with the fort being on grass, the water inside the fort and a randomly placed destroyable wall just outside. I still can't beleive I posted it on facepunch and tried to defend it.

[HatredViral]

Zm_Insidenout

[video=youtube;-XSAYfRElRg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XSAYfRElRg[/video]

I wish I still had the original though so I could revamp it.

[Chrille]

[QUOTE=FullStreak12;31595694]Okay, but how could I improve?[/QUOTE]

Helpful tutorial:

[url]http://www.interlopers.net/tutorials/17779[/url]

[RaccoonBro]

My first map was hl2_wood
A stretched plywood texture on 3 brushes, a hollowed out box, a table, an airboat engine, and a briefcase. Fullbright, off grid, everything like that. (Some people might remember the thread from 07~)

[LATTEH]

this was my first level. [url]http://www.gamebanana.com/maps/113440[/url]

when i first started it was just a box i then tryed to make it into some kind of CSS bomb level.

i was really proud when i made it. looking back at it i cant believe how well i did lol.

[Tovip]

aside from the box that everyone made first this was my first map
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaM5hTolLIs[/media]

[street wizard]

shit, a box

[ZumZum]

[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/screenshot8fe.jpg/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8016/screenshot8fe.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

There you go, my first map. Made it a couple of weeks ago. CC anyone?

Edit: Sorry for low-res and large image. yuck.

[TBot Alpha]

[QUOTE=ZumZum;31619642][URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/screenshot8fe.jpg/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8016/screenshot8fe.jpg[/IMG][/URL]

There you go, my first map. Made it a couple of weeks ago. CC anyone?

Edit: Sorry for low-res and large image. yuck.[/QUOTE]

Liar. :v:

[ZumZum]

I'll take that as a compliment.
tanx.

[hillma]

[img]http://i.imgur.com/bNgH6.jpg[/img]

[.FLAP.JACK.DAN.]

[QUOTE=ZumZum;31625162]I'll take that as a compliment.
tanx.[/QUOTE]

I think you're lying because you have no source sdk hours. Also I think I've seen that screenshot before.

[Firegod522]

[QUOTE=.FLAP.JACK.DAN.;31625570]I think you're lying because you have no source sdk hours. Also I think I've seen that screenshot before.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=ZumZum;31525022]Hi there, my first map
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/534/screenshot7bq.jpg/][IMG]http://img534.imageshack.us/img534/6972/screenshot7bq.jpg[/IMG][/URL]
[URL=http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/14/screenshot8fe.jpg/][IMG]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/8016/screenshot8fe.jpg[/IMG][/URL][/QUOTE]
He posted it.

[FullStreak]

[img]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596944795933252101/C023610C8C728CE3161B5C7E20533246C4781B62/[/img]

Any better?

[bohb]

[QUOTE=FullStreak12;31628442][thumb]http://cloud.steampowered.com/ugc/596944795933252101/C023610C8C728CE3161B5C7E20533246C4781B62/[/thumb]

Any better?[/QUOTE]

Increase the outer cone on the light_spot so it has a wider casting angle. A env_sprite on the bulb would also help for a light halo.

[FullStreak]

[QUOTE=bohb;31640410]Increase the outer cone on the light_spot so it has a wider casting angle. A env_sprite on the bulb would also help for a light halo.[/QUOTE]

Yea I did that but I don't feel like uploading a bunch of pictures.

[editline]9th August 2011[/editline]

btw I'm posting these in the map pimpage thread. This map is actually a remake of my really old map.

[Sensation]

@Full that looks better.

[Atheist]

[QUOTE=Sensation;31647484]@Full that looks better.[/QUOTE]

This isn't youtube, just quote someone if you are replying to them.

[TCB]

@Atheist What are you talking about? :v:

[raubana]

Here's my first real map:

[img]http://s3.garrysmod.org/img/dl/72525_1.jpg[/img]
[img]http://s3.garrysmod.org/img/dl/72525_2.jpg[/img]

This map was based off of a real movie theater I used to go to quiet frequently. Unfortunately, I had little to no experience with mapping, so the end result was quiet awful.

It was fortunate (or maybe unfortunate) that right about the time I had posted this map, the [B]Garry's Mod Idiot Box 6[/B] had come out, where in the beginning of it there is a theater. I'm almost certain my ridiculous number of downloads was due to people assuming that my map was the one from the video. Since it's not, people had ridiculed me, saying I stole the idea. See? It's both fortunate and unfortunate.

[Hanibal]

[img]http://gyazo.com/1eaa3580e7237b27adba2d5cadcd36c5.png[/img]
[img]http://gyazo.com/cc6c0ab45f798c651cbe9a158066dfa7.png[/img]
I just now realised how horrible gameplay on it was

[bIgFaTwOrM12]

My first map was an old shack made of rotting wood in the middle of a snowy field, I wish I still had the file just so I could see how crappy it was.

[paulisdead18]

My first map, well, its right here. Yeah, don't download it, because it doesn't even work in gmod. XD

[url]http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=96457[/url]

So yeah, it had a very bright light_env, and it was just a flat desert place with a random house and a bunch of jumbled props. Although, i was proud of it, and the stone gate i made wasn't so bad, it was a good start I guess, even if it didn't work at all.