Gms_castaway beta - Developers

My first released(!) map, I made a couple before this but since you shouldn't release your first few maps so I didn't... Anyways! Here is my map, Gms_Castaway. Set to an island, just as a lot of other survival maps. [b]Reqs: HL2 for the engine Garrys mod for the game CS:S for the skybox[/b] Please note that this is a beta, so please give me suggestions on what to add, remove, move, change etc etc. Feel free to critique! .zip on garrysmod.org - [url=http://www.garrysmod.org/downloads/?a=view&id=66667][img]http://www.garrysmod.org/img/?t=dll&id=66667[/img][/url] ~2,5MB .7z on dump.no - [url=http://dump.no/files/6a32a506d25d/gms_castaway_beta.7z]Click here![/url] ~1MB Pictures: [IMG]http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb250/NoobieNo1/gms_castaway_beta0000.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb250/NoobieNo1/gms_castaway_beta0002.jpg[/IMG] [IMG]http://i209.photobucket.com/albums/bb250/NoobieNo1/gms_castaway_beta0003.jpg[/IMG]

I love the way you used props for the cliffs, could be fun! :D

Edit: Never mind, didn't see the CS:S for skybox. Why don't the pictures have the skybox, then?

[QUOTE=Sirrus;14603696]Edit: Never mind, didn't see the CS:S for skybox. Why don't the pictures have the skybox, then?[/QUOTE] The pictures do have the skybox. I could upload the material if it's legal... [QUOTE=Agent Cobra;14603614]I love the way you used props for the cliffs, could be fun! :D[/QUOTE] Thanks! I fail with displacements so I decided to use props as cliffs, would be fun too seeings as now you can mine all over the place (They should be unlimited since I used the same as in rollinghills)

Impressive! Looks like a nice simple Stranded map.

Why everyone is using prop cliffs nowdays? My fault?

[QUOTE=oskutin;14606410]Why everyone is using prop cliffs nowdays? My fault?[/QUOTE] Pardon? If you are wondering why everyone is using that prop it's because it would take 1000's of rocks if I would have picked rocks. And they are unlimited

Very good for a first release, It looks nice, it has nice lighting, and it is simple. Suggestion: add a 3D skybox with never ending water.

[QUOTE=uberjaypee;14607393]Suggestion: add a 3D skybox with never ending water.[/QUOTE] Thanks for the suggestion! It's got that already, quite big and I wanted to think about size but hell I'll just throw in a bigger one and see if I can get the texture size to match! But I'll wait a few days with releasing an update thought. See if you can find anything else!

Wow got my download, looks awesome to spawn a lot of zombies around and make a fort at top, would we awesome with a night version too.

I like it. :D And I see some cool gameplay values for it too. I haven't played it yet, but if all the spawn points are on the beach area, people could effectively create a fortress by blocking off the one pathway up. Then they could negotiate with new players by having them give up all their resources in order to work on the grassy plateau. [img]http://d2k5.com/sa_emots/emot-v.gif[/img]

Take this map and make it 5 times larger but keep the cliffs and beach in the same order, just a little higher up in some places.

Those elevation paths remind me from the ones seen on Starcraft. I do not know why that was the first thing I thought of. Anyways, pretty map.

[QUOTE=NoobieNo1;14607414]Thanks for the suggestion! It's got that already, quite big and I wanted to think about size but hell I'll just throw in a bigger one and see if I can get the texture size to match! But I'll wait a few days with releasing an update thought. See if you can find anything else![/QUOTE] Try adding some very distant fog to the 3d skybox. That way the water'll fade out into the distance... :sax:

I love the looks of this map.

[QUOTE=Skyhawk;14617013]Try adding some very distant fog to the 3d skybox. That way the water'll fade out into the distance... :sax:[/QUOTE] I was thinking of that yesterday before I went to sleep! Also I am going to fix the water texture, if you look at it you can see where the skybox starts and that annoy me Thanks for the amount of positive feedback guys! I really appreciate it! :D EDIT: comming to think of it... The fog will be very FPS expensive, I shall just expand the skybox - a lot

Thats a lovely, simple, pretty map. And it has great scope for gentle expansion. Slightly grow the island perhaps, put on a little hut, some Ep2 Foliage, a jetty. Good luck with this, it's an excellent first piece, now featurize it!

[QUOTE=mandible;14621499]Thats a lovely, simple, pretty map. And it has great scope for gentle expansion. Slightly grow the island perhaps, put on a little hut, some Ep2 Foliage, a jetty. Good luck with this, it's an excellent first piece, now featurize it![/QUOTE] Maybe, I think I have the EP2 models around somewhere on my disk, haven't gotten the game thought. I'll see what I can do, and maybe release an EP2 version of it?

Really cool map, except it would only work well with a few players, since the island is small. You could expand the island and make other ones, which would make it better for larger groups of people.

[QUOTE=wolfspirit;14622781]Really cool map, except it would only work well with a few players, since the island is small. You could expand the island and make other ones, which would make it better for larger groups of people.[/QUOTE] I am as we speak adding new islands. Island requests? Big, small, tall, plain, lakes etc.

GOOD I think Skybox From cs_militia....

Make a island with a clean water in the middle of it.

[QUOTE=NoobieNo1;14603467]My first released(!) map, I made a couple before this but since you shouldn't release your first few maps so I didn't... [/QUOTE] Thank god someone gets it! But anyway, Nice map bro, i can see a lot of uses for this.

uhm very nice map, specially how u've done the cliffs, btw under water_lod_control increase the distances :D

Good VERY GOOD infact the only way i think you could make it better would be to make the island bigger maybe some caves and another island

I like it, could you make the taller side of the island not have sand on it? Like, a small cliff to fall into the water from. (bonus points if you could make the cliff more steep) Like this: [media]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/ef/Tory_Island_Cliffs_2005_08_10.jpg[/media] Also, consider adding some smaller rocks scattered a little here and there. [editline]04:47PM[/editline] [QUOTE=NoobieNo1;14622812]I am as we speak adding new islands. Island requests? Big, small, tall, plain, lakes etc.[/QUOTE] Could you make a small and tall island with a small trail leading to the top :3:? [media]http://i96.photobucket.com/albums/l189/Simski_2006/smallandtall.png[/media] I just like the idea of having a small island I can build a hut ontop of.