Big survival map - Developers

For a project me and my community want to start on we're looking for a pretty big map. Because we don't have time to map ourself we are willing to pay $200 for someone who's willing to create this map for us. We won't let you all work and then pay you by the result, but we want to select someone to map for us. We're planning on creating a survival gamemode, but I don't want to get into too much detail. [b]We'd like to have the following things in our map:[/b] - Mountains - Caves - Forests - Places to hide - Cliffs - Island with 3d skybox, having 'endless' water We understand that such a map is pretty much pressing Hammer to it's limits, but I think a thing like this must be achievable. We don't want the map to be publicly released, as in the .vmf. If you're willing to take this job for us, please post us some of your previous work, aswell as a 2d topview of how you'd see the map. We don't really have an estimate on when the map should be finished, not know how long it actually takes to make a proper map. If possible, we'd like to see a result within 2 months. [b]Edit:[/b] So a little more described of what we're looking for: For people that have been watching survival shows such as Dual Survival etc, probably know that in some episodes they're at some island where it's basically a jungle on a mountain. I'm looking for an island with beaches, open spots, crowded areas with trees and foliage, caves, overlapping rocks, a 'highest' point of the island would be a mountain. It doesn't have to be all mountains and hills, but I'd like to see some of this come back in a map. We're basically going to create a gamemode with a scenario that makes you survive on that island, alone, in the first place. After more people start playing people will start to meet eachother ofcourse, but I'm not looking for a map where you can go from A - B in 30 seconds of walking. At one point, like this, at the other point, I'd like it to be more 'mysterious' than this. [img]http://cdn.africatravelresource.com/africa/seychelles/inner/praslin/praslineast/round-island-lodge/0/stills/01intro/01CRON-IM1001-round-island-lodge-1475.jpg[/img]

When making such large requests as this, you should really put as much detail into the post as you can. How do you expect to get someone interested if all you say is you want X and Y?

[QUOTE=Shirky;40755574]When making such large requests as this, you should really put as much detail into the post as you can. How do you expect to get someone interested if all you say is you want X and Y?[/QUOTE] Because I'm not sure what is possible and what is not.

[QUOTE=Cyberuben;40755581]Because I'm not sure what is possible and what is not.[/QUOTE] Ask for what you want, we shall tell you if it is possible.

That's a lot of biomes for such a condensed space, you might have to think about limiting your selection.

Well...you could have a rocky forest area with caves. Either pick mountains or ocean for a skybox.

Updated OP

What you are asking for is definitely possible, just going to require a lot optimization tricks. What base content is acceptable (css, dod, hl2ep2, etc)? The biggest hurdle (besides the optimization) I see is getting good varied tree models. For some odd reason there isn't a whole lot of those.

Even though we haven't had any submissions here, someone contacted me through Steam and we agreed to go with him.

You could have a fairly large map and the sea outside of this map in the skybox. Add the hdr_militia map and you have a nice looking survival map. Assuming someone gets far enough to start doing that, however.

[QUOTE=Black-Ice;40776026]You could have a fairly large map and the sea outside of this map in the skybox. Add the hdr_militia map and you have a nice looking survival map. Assuming someone gets far enough to start doing that, however.[/QUOTE] We've already been in various calls to these mappers and what they are talking about looks very professional and they look determined to finish this project.

[QUOTE=Cyberuben;40776031]We've already been in various calls to these mappers and what they are talking about looks very professional and they look determined to finish this project.[/QUOTE] Is it cruma/kruma?

[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;40776975]Is it cruma/kruma?[/QUOTE] No, why?

[QUOTE=Cyberuben;40776982]No, why?[/QUOTE] Because he preys on people like you, he offers to make a map, demands an upfront cost. You see some work, then suddenly, all contact is lost and he walks off with the money. Avoid at all costs.

[QUOTE=IronPhoenix;40776995]Because he preys on people like you, he offers to make a map, demands an upfront cost. You see some work, then suddenly, all contact is lost and he walks off with the money. Avoid at all costs.[/QUOTE] It's not him who I'm talking too, though, he contacted me like you said. I was just more impressed by other people's work.

Some maps i made. I released the first one and after that i tried to make something larger, but i started getting errors because of hammers limits. So i started all over again and i'm now still not finished. :suicide: (first map) [url=http://postimg.org/image/s61j7ncyv/][img]http://s23.postimg.org/s61j7ncyv/flatgrass2.png[/img][/url] (second never finished) [url=http://postimg.org/image/rhsoope93/][img]http://s23.postimg.org/rhsoope93/flatgrass1.png[/img][/url] (still working on this one) [url=http://postimg.org/image/5wnm13hif/][img]http://s23.postimg.org/5wnm13hif/overview.png[/img][/url] [url=http://postimg.org/image/70k4w5rh9/][img]http://s22.postimg.org/70k4w5rh9/2013_02_26_00001.jpg[/img][/url] srry for the errors bug with css ... 800 hours source sdk and i cant make custom models, and only basic textures.

Looks really nice but I already posted that we have someone who we assigned the job to. I'm sorry!

[B][URL="http://steamcommunity.com/id/Paimail"]Stinger21[/URL][/B] and I were tasked with creating this map. After two long months we managed to fulfill our half of the deal, but unfortunately due to various circumstances the commissioner could not meet it himself - so we made the decision to release the map for the public to enjoy. I'll be cleaning up the remaining aesthetic and visibility bugs over the next two days or so, but here are some teaser images of the huge island. [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/001.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/002.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/003.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/004.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/005.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/006.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/007.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/008.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/009.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/010.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/011.jpg[/t] [t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/11039877/Screenshots/GM_BigIsland/012.jpg[/t] Look out for [B]GM_BigIsland[/B] in the Mapping subforum very soon!

Holy shit

Well done!

two months of suffering and stress-related health issues. :v: [img]http://i.imgur.com/SLGnlxY.png[/img] BIG Island

Very nicely done, really sucks that they didn't uphold their end of the bargin. I'll go ahead and add the Casual Bananas Community to the "Do not take requests from these assholes list" on the mapping request mega thread if you don't mind.

[QUOTE=hiyougami;41818209]-images and whatnot-[/QUOTE] You do realize that they are just going to take the map for free once you release it. Perhaps you could make it output a command to ban or fuck over whoever joins the map with the steamID of the owners/admins of Casual Banana?

did op not pay because he is a cunt or did his community close?

[QUOTE=mdeceiver79;41821034]did op not pay because he is a cunt or did his community close?[/QUOTE] as far as i can see his community is still open and pretty active, with jailbreak, darkrp, TTT, hl2:rp, and minigames (i think?). either the OP is being a [I][B]big asshole[/B][/I] or he just hasn't seen the progress yet (last activity was 3 weeks ago). maybe you guys should keep the maps public release on hold, and contact the person(s) on their own forums to see why they haven't kept their end. from what i can see his username on the forums is "Ruben" and hes last visited their forums days ago. Theres also his steam profile, too.

Imo immature and fickle. Changed his mind about what he wants now doesn't want to take ownership of his consequences. IF this is the case I hope he ends up living in a caravan.

add posters on the map saying that casual banana sucks lol

Holy crap! This is a fantastic map hiyougami and stinger! :D I've been looking for a map like this. I'd love to live there one day. Would be a nice place to get stranded, if it wasn't for Praslin being so close lol :D

Just some clarification, it was Ruben who let us down and not Casual Bananas. The community itself is not at fault. Edited my original post to clarify.

Make anti-Ruben propaganda posters.