This is a map that has been under construction for QUITE some time now.
It began as an Apple Store map, then the community said there should be a surrounding atmosphere, so it turned into a mall, and following my recent obsession with aircraft, it has been transformed into, a fictional Arrival and Departure terminal in Los Angeles International Airport.
Here's the pictures of progress. Please remember, it is still VERY WIP!
The Store that started it all:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0209.jpg[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0210.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0211.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0212.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0213.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0214.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0215.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0216.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0218.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0219.jpg[/IMG]
Starbucks Coffee:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0220.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0221.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0223.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0224.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0225.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0226.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0227.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0228.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0229.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0230.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0230.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0231.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0232.jpg[/IMG]
Departures Schedule Screen:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0233.jpg[/IMG]
Microsoft Retail Store:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0234.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0235.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0236.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0238.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0239.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0240.jpg[/IMG]
Airliner Gates:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0241.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0242.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0243.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0244.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0245.jpg[/IMG]
Jetway:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0246.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0247.jpg[/IMG]
Hall:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0249.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0250.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0251.jpg[/IMG]
Burger King:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0252.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0253.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0254.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0256.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0257.jpg[/IMG]
Player Owned Shops:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0258.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0259.jpg[/IMG]
Target:
[IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0260.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0261.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0262.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0263.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0264.jpg[/IMG][IMG]http://i532.photobucket.com/albums/ee322/h3r35j0nny/Airport%20Map/apple_store_final0265.jpg[/IMG]
Please share any constructive critisism.
Looks pretty nice
I like the looks of it. I admire your use of custom textures. Watcha doin' later?
[QUOTE=zeebiedeebie;14920136]I like the looks of it. I admire your use of custom textures. Watcha doin' later?[/QUOTE]
What do you mean what am I doing 'later'? :P
Blocky, waaaaaaaaaaaaay too blocky. Stretched textures galore, no real architecture. Get some refrence pics of LAX and base it off that. I'm sure it's not as flat.
Great stuff :cheers:
What's with the title name?
A target in an airport?
Sure... why not. Awesome work on the Starbucks by the way.
Also, it's Apparel, not Apperal.
Very, very blocky. Looks very little like LAX.
Even though it looks very little like LAX I have always wanted an awesome airport map, YAY :)
Dear god, what were you thinking when you made the map? You have non-func_detailed brushes cutting into the world (and even a cylinder in a few places) which significantly raise compile times, make the intersecting areas look horrible and drop frames in-game from unnecessary rendering.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;14922181]Dear god, what were you thinking when you made the map? You have non-func_detailed brushes cutting into the world (and even a cylinder in a few places) which significantly raise compile times, make the intersecting areas look horrible and drop frames in-game from unnecessary rendering.[/QUOTE]
Welcome to Facepunch's mapping section.
With a little work, this could be as good as the mall map that was never released
[QUOTE=Jimmy422;14922755]Welcome to Facepunch's mapping section.[/QUOTE]
or any mapping forum with people who really know what they are doing..
VVIS can be a bitch if you don't optimize properly
why does everything in the microsft store float in the air?
Yay Apple :D
Nice work!
Well, I accidentally deleted my entire post. I was going to break everything down picture by picture, but I will need to shorten it considerably.
The 'apple store':
Too many light props, all the textures are too low res, the light is overpowering, the one image in the back looks like a shot of Half-Life one from the bad lighting, blocky brushwork and brushwork chairs I strongly suspect are not actually yours.
I can tell when the textures are too low res by the way the stock hl2 low res barstools look so highly detailed they are out of place.
The 'starbucks':
Here you have a slightly nicer wood paneling texture that helps offset quite a bit of the blurriness of the other textures.
The store would look quite a bit better if you actually had a floor, there are too many light sources again and you are using normal lights on the ceiling instead of spotlights, the matte black texture on the counter is not aligned properly, you are again using that nasty low res wood texture as a huge eyesore in the middle of the room as well as a weird floor space eating border thing at the bottom of the walls.
Again, what looks like brushwork chairs of higher quality than surrounding work, and when we go into the storage room you have these weird silver pillars that are slightly smashed into a oval shape, looking entirely out of place.
The storage room has nothing of interest because it is a colored box, with floor eating border thing.
The 'departures schedule board':
This looks alright, but the wall behind it looks terrible, the textures are anything but aligned.
The 'microsoft store':
Ridiculous.
Dragonsdoom of the San Francisco Limes said it was "[I]A huge waste of brushes and light props, culminating in a complete lack of floor or support for the absurdly thin glass walls.[/I]"
The airliner gates:
These look like a complete lack of effort. I mean seriously, when was the last time you saw a airliner desk like this? You have a plaque, a round thing and a oddly textured flat thing that might be a desk if it was cast out of solid steel sideways in the mold.
The boarding tunnel/platform looks quite good compared to everything else, I think you were improving here. Less light props and fairly decent texture work make it look quite a bit better than everything else so far.
The plane, much less so.
I will not go into the plane because I can only see one angle of it, but suffice to say if it is built the way I think it is you probably added about two hours to your compile time right there.
The hall:
I already commented on most of the general hall stuff from earlier, but the only point I want to make here is the texture on the conveyer belts or whatever those are is stretched so much it could be compared to a [U]rubber stocking[/U].
The burger king:
The way the bk is built it actually came out fairly well, it actually looks like it belongs in this building.
However, it is still very blocky and lacking detail.
The player owned shops:
These actually came out fairly well, but we run in to our old nemeses again; Absurd glass, stretched textures, no entrance, too many light props and a new foe to the fight coming to us from the ceiling: repeating textures.
The target:
As to why there is a entire department store in a airport, I don't really mind. However the slab of ceiling out front is the most boring mall or airport architecture I have ever seen.
It is literally one huge slab of tiled drop ceiling.
Anyway, on the inside the lighting works surprisingly well, the floor texture is fairly good and the ceiling texture is not too bad.
However again it is blocky and low detailed, with some mismatched textures and odd lighting patches.
My recommendation is to fix the issues i have presented to you, which in the case of the apple and microsoft stores is basically to delete them and start from the ground up again.
I also recommend doing some tutorials; I personally find the half-wit 2 ones quite handy, and I also recommend you learn how to use the texturing panel, which would make everything look about twice as good if you fixed everything.
And finally take the time to up your graphics to maximum,(especially AA,) and turn off the crosshair when taking pictures.
[QUOTE=johan svensk;14926990]why does everything in the microsft store float in the air?[/QUOTE]
Everything is made out of Windows.
i like the look of this map, nice custom textures
did you make the custom models too?
I like the starbucks. Sure it's not perfect but it's a pretty chill map.
Thanks a lot everyone for the idea(s) and criticism. Thanks A LOT Dragonsdoom. I'll definitely do my best go down that list, and fix the things you listed.
Here's an answer to the most frequently asked question:
Yes, I did make about.. 80% of the custom textures, I made NO custom models, most of them are from sources on [url]www.garrysmod.org[/url], I'm still working on a credits sheet so than the creators don't get pissed off.
[QUOTE=Heres Jonny!;14939668]Thanks a lot everyone for the idea(s) and criticism. Thanks A LOT Dragonsdoom. I'll definitely do my best go down that list, and fix the things you listed.[/QUOTE]
Thank you, glad to hear it.
Just make sure you don't lose interest in mapping because of hard criticism, it really helps you get better.
[QUOTE=Strider_07;14921622]Very, very blocky. [/QUOTE]
What are you talking about? Have you ever been to an apple store? That's pretty accurate.
I absolutely love it! Although lacking in certain artistic quality in certain areas, this looks VERY fun to roleplay in! The lighting in some areas is pretty repulsive, and I like the way you made target (although I have never seen one in an airport though XD) The starbucks is nice to! I see you used that coffee machine Prefab lol, that one actually isn't that great, it would be better just to use a coffee machine model and then make it spawn coffee props, it would be much more practical to gmod. You should also make it rain (we need some maps to break the constant flow of sunny cs_militia skybox'd maps everywhere) also every airport I've been to it is raining for some reason o_o Also that little tunnle that leads to the inside of the plane is very nostalgic
do the macs have gibs? just looking at that pic makes me want to go in there and break shit.
will help me vent whenever someone says "macs never get viruses lolololol"
brush based airplane?
:barf:
Are you planning on making the planes flyable or be able to make them move or something because that would be really awesome.
... I just shat my pants. :3::fh:
[QUOTE=Nutnoze;14955012]... I just shat my pants. :3::fh:[/QUOTE]
Ew... You fap after you shit in your pants?
On topic:
This is a pretty low-detailed map. However, I truly want to roleplay on this. I have wanted an airport map since... Forever ago. If someone were to make an airport RPing script, and when you go into the plane, you change servers to that one Airplane map, this would be truly fascinating. Good luck on finishing this.
Your modeling skills are better than your level design skills, that Is very rare!
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