[QUOTE=MindMuncher;13915574]I have a few suggestions.
[img]http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/3500/castlesuggestions.jpg[/img]
-Red: Castle expansion down the hill, or raise the hill to meet it. There needs to be walls encompassing this area...
-blue: a nice well.
-pink: A possible entrance to some caves below the castle? Maybe connects to the well and has some water in it.
-green: Farms and farmland. Just some nice plants in fields surrounded by some fences with one or two farm houses.
-maroon(dark red... looks like a bridge in the picture): a bridge that crosses the stream. Made of wood and allows peasants across.
-brown-ish yellow: paths. Dirt paths.
-yellow: farm house with no crops. Just a pasture surrounded by a wooden fence. Owns the docks over there.[/QUOTE]
wow this post makes this map 10X better XD
[QUOTE=swerik;13931391]Ok, I'll se if I can come up with anything... But I sort of wanted this castle small and simple...
But i agree in what you say.[/QUOTE]
You could release it with the vmf so people could add it if they wanted.
[QUOTE=supatails;13932714]wow this post makes this map 10X better XD[/QUOTE]
I'm glad you liked my suggestions! I can't see the other side of the castle so I'm not sure what should be put over there.
[B]Edit:[/B] And on the red lines that curve, that was just encompassing the area... the walls would be straight just like the other ones... It would look really dumb if you made one part rounded, and the rest of it blocky.
[QUOTE=SSBMMASTER;13934542]You could release it with the vmf so people could add it if they wanted.[/QUOTE]
YES. I need a nice map to edit for this one gamemode. This map would be great with a little tweaking.
Its a V nice map , I like the ideas of the "Pink" :D
[QUOTE=loafage;13989627]Its a V nice map , I like the ideas of the "Pink" :D[/QUOTE]
I have made the pink part
maybe you could add underground tunnels, for some reason I love maps with underground tunnels and stuff, maybe make them go all around the map
[QUOTE=stedeo;14005044]maybe you could add underground tunnels, for some reason I love maps with underground tunnels and stuff, maybe make them go all around the map[/QUOTE]
I dont think you should add to many tunnels, it will get clutered and unrealistic...
Just my opinion
I wont add any more tunnels. If so only one more.
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What? no tunnel picture? No well that connects to the tunnel in a little pond? Wha-?
And why no more tunnels? Tunnels are fantastic. Maybe no more tunnels in the castle, but tunnels elsewhere wouldn't be cluttered or unreal- oh wait. Yeah it would be unrealistic, but then again, so is gmod. I want fun, not your snazzy realistic, because if we're going to argue that way I can go find some large books on castles and tell you how "unrealistic" this her' castle be.
[B]Edit:[/B] NVM. I see the well, so just forget about that part of my rant.
[QUOTE=MindMuncher;14033799]What? no tunnel picture? No well that connects to the tunnel in a little pond? Wha-?
And why no more tunnels? Tunnels are fantastic. Maybe no more tunnels in the castle, but tunnels elsewhere wouldn't be cluttered or unreal- oh wait. Yeah it would be unrealistic, but then again, so is gmod. [b]I want fun[/b], not your snazzy realistic, because if we're going to argue that way I can go find some large books on castles and tell you how "unrealistic" this her' castle be.
[B]Edit:[/B] NVM. I see the well, so just forget about that part of my rant.[/QUOTE]
Well, i don't think it's fun with alot of empty tunnels :) I like having all my space in the open (lol that sounds ridicilous but w/e) Rather move the ground closer to the bottom of the hammer grid to allow for higher skybox :)
For the farm (If you make it) use the L4D crop props and the such. Just a suggestion :)
[QUOTE=Blah360;14042492]For the farm (If you make it) use the L4D crop props and the such. Just a suggestion :)[/QUOTE]
Well i would if i could. But this map is in HL2 format so those models aren't included. :(
Really nice work so far Swerik. You make me do something similar :)
You have my download once this is finished. There aren't enough good castle-ish maps around, I think.
Nice to hear that!
Here are some pics from the latest version so you'll have nice overlook in the progress.
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I wonder how much water that should be in the well... Up to the edge, so you can swim up? Or just at the buttom, (so you can't swim up and enter...
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Jeez! nice dark interior! but still no tunnel pictures like I requests... I feel unloved.
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You should make the central part of that corridor slant and the side bits level... like, so the doorway floors don't jut out. here... I'll gimp it for you.
That's what that hallway should be like... and here's a gimp of the well.
[img]http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/5508/wellaqn.jpg[/img]
The well hould have a small pool of water that's shallow, but prevents you from taking damage when you jump down the well... Could even be a mafia hangout if you play rp... and make at least one tunnel branch off from the main cavern below the castle into another smaller cavern... little caves system... I'll gimp that to if you'll wait.
:fap fap:
NICE castle.
-Red=doors. should be unlocked so that the map can be used even in gamemodes besides RP.
-green= stone walls. The green dots are crumbled bits.
-blue=water
-brown=dirt
-black=well opening on ceiling
-green-ish-blue-ish-grey-ish= sewage pile under drainpipe or lavatory... a hole you poop through... under that.
general: in the main caverns, no light, or dull lights that have no source and don't look like thier coming from anywhere. In the areas sectioned off by doors it is lit by torches. Out in the main caverns, maybe torches should be like stuck into the ground on poles that light it or something.... Make a nice ambient dripping noise in the caverns.
[img]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9017/cavesystem.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=MindMuncher;14068648]-Red=doors. should be unlocked so that the map can be used even in gamemodes besides RP.
-green= stone walls. The green dots are crumbled bits.
-blue=water
-brown=dirt
-black=well opening on ceiling
-green-ish-blue-ish-grey-ish= sewage pile under drainpipe or lavatory... a hole you poop through... under that.
general: in the main caverns, no light, or dull lights that have no source and don't look like thier coming from anywhere. In the areas sectioned off by doors it is lit by torches. Out in the main caverns, maybe torches should be like stuck into the ground on poles that light it or something.... Make a nice ambient dripping noise in the caverns.
[img]http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9017/cavesystem.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I Would rate an agree, but no ratings...
[QUOTE=swerik;14033253][IMG]http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/8168/gmcastlehill560007.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
I love that screenshot.
ok, maybe a cave, but not that large... cause caves are quite difficuilt to make...
Oh, and i've started on the town by the lake to...
If you have a suggestion for a house then tell me.
So far i will have planned for these houses:
A blacksmith and combined weapon shop...
One or two regular houses
A house related to the docks, with some storeage and stuff...
a market in the middle (food shop)
a random store (to sell whatever you want)
A tavern (bar)
A windmill
A storeage tower
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How did you get your grass like that? What texture?
it's called blendrockgrass something... I'll check it up
Caves may be difficult, but they look great, especially with stuff in them.... and They aren't [I]that[/I] hard to make... Infact I could make it and I'm bad at anything in hammer that requires more than brushwork and some basic lights... my brushwork is decent though.
[QUOTE=MindMuncher;14078920]Caves may be difficult, but they look great, especially with stuff in them.... and They aren't [I]that[/I] hard to make... Infact I could make it and I'm bad at anything in hammer that requires more than brushwork and some basic lights... my brushwork is decent though.[/QUOTE]
When it comes to caves you're usually using displacements.
[QUOTE=Hellsten;14079191]When it comes to caves you're usually using displacements.[/QUOTE]
I assumed you knew displacements come from brushwork... I was considering them the same thing. I'm perfectly good with both.... well, my caves would be convincing at least, if not beautiful, but along with some nice lighting, good dripping ambience, some crumbling stone and some torches, it would look nice any way. And I DO know how to make crumbling stone very well.
Are you going to release this map?
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