So not sure if you changed anything, but several things strike me as wrong about your map when I look at the screenshots in the OP.
Your textures are very flat.
Your architecture is very, very primitive and blocky, and for some reason you just don't seem to use many models at all to help with that.
Your gas station doesn't have any advertising on indicating that it is a gas station. Just sort of a vague reddish plaster building with gas pumps out front.
Your zoo is smaller than someone's back yard. What kind of animal would you keep there? Chickens? Racoons? Cats or dogs maybe. Possibly mice? Similarly, the parking lot for said zoo looks like cars would be half in the middle of the road.
[QUOTE=lyosea;50158488]Richard I'm so sorry you had to read that my little brother was using my account and made that retarded post. I don't think he knows that Richard Simmons is a homosexual gymnast and not yourself.
I like the criticism you give cause it helps me to do better. God I wish I could just delete that post he made, can you even do that or no. Anyway the haunted mansion is my attempt(I use that loosely) my attempt to try to bring a horror level to the roleplaying map kind of like rp_bangclaw has.
Yes I know it is not really that great of a interior but it was an attempt.
Anyway I did update the map a few days ago is there ANYTHING you like about the zoo I put there.
It doesn't have any hl2 animals/aliens cause it was made in counter strike source.
But help me here.
Also just a question what did you exactly make in rp_evocity_v2d cause you said you helped on that project sgt sickness did.[/QUOTE]
I've been apart of the development since the first Evocity release. In EC2v2d, v5p, there is approximately 2 building blocks and a house that I've done. Some textures here and there.
Previously, I have made the enormous lagscraper known as the Government center (Prior EC2.2)
You need to firstly own up to your mistakes and shortfalls. Blaming it on your little brother, mother, dead gerbil or a hacker is just a harder way of saying "I'm pretty terrible at owning up to my mistakes". just fess up to it and admit you're being out of line. Pushing blame to other parties that are not responsible is incomprehensible behavior. The one thing in growing up is admitting to your mistakes, and taking the necessary steps into improving your work. Just quit making excuses, especially shit ones like that. Whats next? My dog was chewing my keyboard and made these terrible posts!
And I know you're lying because no ones brother would go out of their way to sound and type the exact same as you, defend your previous arguments and continue to misconstrue everything. Just because you got the most skookum computer in the house isn't going to sound exactly like you and defending your stand just like yourself. No one is going to take the ol excuse game, especially with ones that are old as dirt.
Anyways, this thread is not supposed to be a synopsis of someones character. This is a thread on map afterall.
As for the rest of the stuff, HL2 animals/aliens, spooky houses and alike, well thats unnecessary tat. This is an RP map right? Or is this supposed to be some spooky RP map with the singular spoopy house of horrors? If so, you need to focus more into that house, and maybe make it a focal point. I'd say scrap it and work on building the fundimentals of level design a bit more.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;50172198]I've been apart of the development since the first Evocity release. In EC2v2d, v5p, there is approximately 2 building blocks and a house that I've done. Some textures here and there.
Previously, I have made the enormous lagscraper known as the Government center (Prior EC2.2)
You need to firstly own up to your mistakes and shortfalls. Blaming it on your little brother, mother, dead gerbil or a hacker is just a harder way of saying "I'm pretty terrible at owning up to my mistakes". just fess up to it and admit you're being out of line. Pushing blame to other parties that are not responsible is incomprehensible behavior. The one thing in growing up is admitting to your mistakes, and taking the necessary steps into improving your work. Just quit making excuses, especially shit ones like that. Whats next? My dog was chewing my keyboard and made these terrible posts!
And I know you're lying because no ones brother would go out of their way to sound and type the exact same as you, defend your previous arguments and continue to misconstrue everything. Just because you got the most skookum computer in the house isn't going to sound exactly like you and defending your stand just like yourself. No one is going to take the ol excuse game, especially with ones that are old as dirt.
Anyways, this thread is not supposed to be a synopsis of someones character. This is a thread on map afterall.
As for the rest of the stuff, HL2 animals/aliens, spooky houses and alike, well thats unnecessary tat. This is an RP map right? Or is this supposed to be some spooky RP map with the singular spoopy house of horrors? If so, you need to focus more into that house, and maybe make it a focal point. I'd say scrap it and work on building the fundimentals of level design a bit more.[/QUOTE]
Everything you said is correct, Tyrone. I will admit that the 5 last posts I made were pretty shit and I will never say what I said in the last posts cause looking at it made me look like a complete moron.
As for the "spooky house and zoo" as you put it I am continuing to use that in the map. I feel that it will be executed well. The next update to this map I will try to do much better. I just thought the people on these fourms would be pushovers. But I was wrong. I will try to put my heart and soul in this map because this will be the ONLY rp map I will make for a while. I'll admit that yes I did lie and I can't believe I thought I would get away with it. Ive just been going through a lot in real life and I want to have fun with making this map. What got you into mapping? For me it was because I wanted to make a map that wasn't a downtown_v4c_v2_v3_v4_v5 or whatever map that could be remembered and praised. I also started this cause I got inspired by 3kliksphillip and Tophattwaffles videos.
[editline]21st April 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;50166902]Best thing to do on facepunch is to take constructive criticism and ignore none constructive criticism. Everyone will get criticised at some point.
Stuff like horror rooms, destructible walls and zoos are fun but theyre a gimmick. The more people see the gimmick the less novel it becomes and might become detrimental to the experience. If you want gimmicks either make a map dedicated to them (horror map, physicals puzzle etc) or make them subtle to the point where most players won't even know about it (like a reward for the player who explores).
Don't start out expecting your maps to be used. You spent lots of time and effort making it, sure, but theres lots of competition. And most of that competition is stuff like downtown remakes or other well established maps. You're very lucky if your map becomes widely adopted. Aim for other things, excellence in your mapping skills, respect in the mapping community, experience for future jobs, fun in making maps, artistic expression or a portfolio with the hope that a community will hire you to make them a map. If one of your projects catches on and becomes huge in that process then its like icing on an already delicious cake.
Someone like stiffy has been mapping for years, hes made loads of maps/concept pieces. Many you'll never see again (that tropical island with the road round it, santorini thing, desert map with the legit grass fading). He gets hired by communities to make maps, some of his maps have been adopted by servers, he's respected in the community, he's probably got a portfolio good enough to get him a job, I think he got featured in PC gamer magazine and hes learnt to model as part of all that. He's got all that coz he just loves doing it and keeps trying out new things.[/QUOTE]
You seem like a good man. I would love to make maps for other servers and people. Guess I'll have to work to get there.
If you're a "nice guy who sometimes cracks", maybe you should put the brakes on mapping and take a breather while you recollect and think what you could do better/how you could handle situations better. Otherwise your cracks are going to get bigger and you'll be blaming more nonexistent people for your own rudeness and other trivialities.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50172663]If you're a "nice guy who sometimes cracks", maybe you should put the brakes on mapping and take a breather while you recollect and think what you could do better/how you could handle situations better. Otherwise your cracks are going to get bigger and you'll be blaming more nonexistent people for your own rudeness and other trivialities.[/QUOTE]
Listen, I am not trying to be rude anymore okay. Just please forgive me... I'm trying to relax. I would just like if people were more friendly thats all.
P.S Why the use of the big words " trivialities" "skookum"?
[QUOTE=lyosea;50172695]Listen, I am not trying to be rude anymore okay. Just please forgive me... I'm trying to relax. I would just like if people were more friendly thats all.
P.S Why the use of the big words " trivialities" "skookum"?[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I guess everyone has got to put their two cents I guess. And none of those words are big. One is formal, other is informal.
[QUOTE=lyosea;50172695]Listen, I am not trying to be rude anymore okay. Just please forgive me... I'm trying to relax. I would just like if people were more friendly thats all.
P.S Why the use of the big words " trivialities" "skookum"?[/QUOTE]
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Yeah but whenever someone offers any sort of criticism, you fly off the handle and blame it on people that don't exist. That makes your true intentions [b][i]ambiguous[/i][/b].
[QUOTE=SoggySocks;50141914][img]http://i.imgur.com/w4To6E7.jpg[/img]
I assume this means you don't know how? Because it is pretty complicated.
Also most tutorials online aren't even correct.
Also if you're wondering why i have 1000hp, it's because there's so many trigger_hurts.[/QUOTE]
can you send me that texture? i could use it a lot.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50174071]I
Yeah but whenever someone offers any sort of criticism, you fly off the handle and blame it on people that don't exist. That makes your true intentions [b][i]ambiguous[/i][/b].[/QUOTE]
I only did that once gnampf.
[editline]21st April 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=ROBOT EVAN;50174126]can you send me that texture? i could use it a lot.[/QUOTE]
Really? Eh sure. Where should I send it?
[editline]21st April 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;50173728]Yeah, I guess everyone has got to put their two cents I guess. And none of those words are big. One is formal, other is informal.[/QUOTE]
Maybe to you they're not but to some people they are.
Everyones different.
P.S to everyone can you guys just forgive me Im trying to hold my tounge now.
Anybody home? You guys are all quiet now.
Gonna be upfront and honest;
It looks like a piece of shit
Give us some new content to comment on and we'll talk.
[QUOTE=Grenade Man;50388262]Give us some new content to comment on and we'll talk.[/QUOTE]
Don't encourage him! There's only so many right angles and flat surfaces a sane man can take!
Yes, encourage him. Everyone starts somewhere and this ain't a bad start, and people have given helpful tips on how to improve from here.
[QUOTE=paulisdead18;50390333]Yes, encourage him. Everyone starts somewhere and this ain't a bad start, and people have given helpful tips on how to improve from here.[/QUOTE]
I agree it is not a bad start, well actually, making a whore RP map is a dodgy start. He should of tried starting off with a building he knows, god forbid when I started.
This isn't really a bad map at all! It's actually quite original! I like the horror level to the one house in the suburban area. One thing Id suggest is to optimize it better since its a bit laggy. I don't really think that Richard was right to call the buildings uninteresting. I would say if I were to give this map a score it would be hands down a 8/10. I may not use it on a server yet but definitely keep working at it. I had a website called Motherboards.org before some snakes took it from me but I worked on that for 20 years! The key thing is to take constructive criticism. Always be cool with hearing that , no exceptions! Also that gnampf guy should cool it!
[QUOTE=Elric Phares;50432501]Also that gnampf guy should cool it![/QUOTE]
I was cool until he couldn't take constructive criticism but w/e.
Also I'm pretty sure "that richard guy" was saying it wasn't uninteresting because they were just blocks with default HL2 textures to them. Almost everything is a right angle.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50434147]I was cool until he couldn't take constructive criticism but w/e.
Also I'm pretty sure "that richard guy" was saying it wasn't uninteresting because they were just blocks with default HL2 textures to them. Almost everything is a right angle.[/QUOTE]
Well yeah but most peoples first maps aren't always going to be that great. Look at that one Downtown_v1 map that was very unfinished, blocky and didn't even have a police station.
Now I see you said about it having a lot of right angles. That isn't really bad, but I understand it can get unoriginal too don't get me wrong. I think optimization is the key thing with this map.
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=lyosea;50158488]Richard I'm so sorry you had to read that my little brother was using my account and made that retarded post. I don't think he knows that Richard Simmons is a homosexual gymnast and not yourself.
I like the criticism you give cause it helps me to do better. God I wish I could just delete that post he made, can you even do that or no. Anyway the haunted mansion is my attempt(I use that loosely) my attempt to try to bring a horror level to the roleplaying map kind of like rp_bangclaw has.
Yes I know it is not really that great of a interior but it was an attempt.
Anyway I did update the map a few days ago is there ANYTHING you like about the zoo I put there.
It doesn't have any hl2 animals/aliens cause it was made in counter strike source.
But help me here.
Also just a question what did you exactly make in rp_evocity_v2d cause you said you helped on that project sgt sickness did.[/QUOTE]
Aw man why'd ya do the classic internet mistake man. You should never use that excuse. This Richard Simmons guy may seem like an idiot to you but I don't think anyones that stupid. But I'm glad you accepted that you need to take criticism. People can be too critical I'll admit but most of what he said other than saying your buildings were uninteresting seemed pretty calm. When ever you work on a map or game you do need to take a break from it for a while to rest and or think of new ideas! Well anyhoo good luck man and hope to see the new update to this soon!
[QUOTE=Elric Phares;50434258]Well yeah but most peoples first maps aren't always going to be that great. Look at that one Downtown_v1 map that was very unfinished, blocky and didn't even have a police station.
Now I see you said about it having a lot of right angles. That isn't really bad, but I understand it can get unoriginal too don't get me wrong. I think optimization is the key thing with this map.
[editline]31st May 2016[/editline]
Aw man why'd ya do the classic internet mistake man. You should never use that excuse. This Richard Simmons guy may seem like an idiot to you but I don't think anyones that stupid. But I'm glad you accepted that you need to take criticism. People can be too critical I'll admit but most of what he said other than saying your buildings were uninteresting seemed pretty calm. When ever you work on a map or game you do need to take a break from it for a while to rest and or think of new ideas! Well anyhoo good luck man and hope to see the new update to this soon![/QUOTE]
Geez whos shill account is this?
This was the best thread so far. Can't wait for the OP's third sockpuppet.
[QUOTE=Elric Phares;50432501]This isn't really a bad map at all! It's actually quite original! I like the horror level to the one house in the suburban area. One thing Id suggest is to optimize it better since its a bit laggy. I don't really think that Richard was right to call the buildings uninteresting. I would say if I were to give this map a score it would be hands down a 8/10. I may not use it on a server yet but definitely keep working at it. I had a website called Motherboards.org before some snakes took it from me but I worked on that for 20 years! The key thing is to take constructive criticism. Always be cool with hearing that , no exceptions! Also that gnampf guy should cool it![/QUOTE]
Thank you for your reply Elric, I actaully am trying to better optimize the map better by using hint and skips and areaportals but its just taking a bit and I hope to release this FINALLY by next week. Btw I can see your banned but I hope you can read this still. I will try to take criticism better seeing how with Richard and Gnampf I was a bit of a jerk. P.s who took your website away?
How did the name lyolux even came to be? Sounds French.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50452380]How did the name lyolux even came to be? Sounds French.[/QUOTE]
It came from my name lyosea and the word luxury like its a luxury place. I kinda wanted to use a absure name like "bangclaw" but original so I used "lyolux". Also gnampf, I'm not mad but why do you keep rating my comments dumb? When I responded to Elric Phares you rated me dumb and Richard Simmons and Aerocastle rated it funny. I don't understand? Also you said in another comment my "third sock puppet" Anyway in about a week I'll release the map so you guys can comment on it. Trust me this time your like something about it.
I mean that Eric guy was a pretty obvious sockpuppet but w/e, I'll be looking forward to seeing if I'm really gonna like the new map, like you're assuming I will.
[QUOTE=gnampf;50454552]I mean that Eric guy was a pretty obvious sockpuppet but w/e, I'll be looking forward to seeing if I'm really gonna like the new map, like you're assuming I will.[/QUOTE]
Wait, you think I was the Elric guy?
LOL Wow. You really think I'm that retarded? I'm 21 dude yes I admit I lied before but seriously? Gnampf some people just like the map. I don't understand how 1 person can't at least like the map. Also Elric Phares from what I looked up really did own that motherboards.org site. But enough about all that shit. I have added areaportals and hints and skips to what Elric suggested and made another portion of the map. I'm pretty sure you andf Richard probably wont like the new edition but I think it will make sense later on when I explain it.
[QUOTE]LOL Wow. You really think I'm that retarded?[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Richard I'm so sorry you had to read that my little brother was using my account and made that retarded post.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]P.S Why the use of the big words " trivialities" "skookum"?[/QUOTE]
Plus, I really really doubt that the guy who formerly ran a website about motherboards would come on here, have one of their first posts be in this thread, and have a manner of dictation and writing quirks similar to you or [URL="http://www.realultimatepower.net/index4.htm"]Robert Hamburger[/URL]. What will make sense later on when you explain it?
[QUOTE=lyosea;50455148]Wait, you think I was the Elric guy?
LOL Wow. You really think I'm that retarded? I'm 21 dude yes I admit I lied before but seriously? [/QUOTE]
Wait...
[QUOTE=lyosea;50158488]Richard I'm so sorry you had to read that my little brother was using my account and made that retarded post. I don't think he knows that Richard Simmons is a homosexual gymnast and not yourself.
I like the criticism you give cause it helps me to do better. God I wish I could just delete that post he made, can you even do that or no. Anyway the haunted mansion is my attempt(I use that loosely) my attempt to try to bring a horror level to the roleplaying map kind of like rp_bangclaw has.
Yes I know it is not really that great of a interior but it was an attempt.
Anyway I did update the map a few days ago is there ANYTHING you like about the zoo I put there.
It doesn't have any hl2 animals/aliens cause it was made in counter strike source.
But help me here.
Also just a question what did you exactly make in rp_evocity_v2d cause you said you helped on that project sgt sickness did.[/QUOTE]
Oh god.
[editline]4th June 2016[/editline]
Yeah and it was someones shill account. Maybe it was Lyosea's brother who is probably 30.
Can we please go back to talking about my map and not my past events. The whole reason I got to arguing with you guys is because gnampf was mentioning about my grammer and you Richard said something about my paragraph structure. I just really don't want to fight anymore. I want to be taken seriously. That Elric guy WAS NOT me lets get that clear!
[editline]4th June 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;50152622]
You just have poor structure in your paragraphs and the context got confusing. So if this got YOU riled up, sorry.
[/QUOTE]
>grammer
I mean it's blatantly obvious you were Elrich. Hell, yall were even posting on the same version of windows and using the same browser. Fucking Goebbels held his composure a lot better at the Nuremburg trials than you are on a forum and that's saying something. How about you take a look at what you're doing wrong, fix it, and come back (both with your map and your attitude)?
[QUOTE=gnampf;50457714]>grammer
I mean it's blatantly obvious you were Elrich. Hell, yall were even posting on the same version of windows and using the same browser. Fucking Goebbels held his composure a lot better at the Nuremburg trials than you are on a forum and that's saying something. How about you take a look at what you're doing wrong, fix it, and come back (both with your map and your attitude)?[/QUOTE]
Just drop it? This is the mapping section, how about we give constructive criticism when he posts new content and not manufacture drama.
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