Hl2 Map contest.

KdjaCL

http://steampowered.com/?area=map_contest

few punts for winner.


...... contemplating.

kdjac

DRakE

Yeah, i saw that.. i'll try and rig something up when i get a chance to look at the new SDK

SantaHoe

If they offered a 500th place prize, I might be tempted

Anima

I'll try and make one aswell. Need to download the SDK though, on ISDN.

Feck

tba

is there going to be a redist of the SDK did anyone hear?

DRakE

redistribution?

the sdk is a hundred megs Anima .. might be less if you have some of it gotten already..

laterz

DRakE

Started my map for the map contest today.. I'm recreating the trainstation at the beginning and its surrounding area for deathmatch

Don't worry, I'll add a public toilet somewhere for all you sink throwing maniacs =D

SantaHoe

I've started a map aswell, but I don't know if I'll bother entering it... when you consider that we're up against teams of hugely experienced people.
I'm just mapping this for the reasons I've always mapped, for my own amusement

DRakE

Yeah, thats me too Though I'm also trying to learn the new stuff that came with HL2

SantaHoe

Yep definitly a lot to learn.
With all these new features, I find there's a lot more to go wrong... like the other night I load up my map to discover awful shiney surfaces that I didn't expect.
Even simple things like making a breakable window seem to go wrong to the point where they don't even appear in the map.
Argh headwrecking.

mayordenis

im trying to make a huge football field with a respawning explosice barrell in the centre you spawn at either end with a grav gun

SantaHoe

Yeah there's a lot of fun to be had...
I made one of those cameras that outputs to a monitor texture, parented it to an enemy sentry gun along with a dynamic light and lens flare to make it look like a real camera with a lamp... the whole idea was that players could watch other players being battered by a flying camera from the cameras POV... the only snag being - it doesn't seem to show human players, only NPCs. bah!

KdjaCL

Trying some different textures (2.2GB i have "acquired" over the years) see how they show up , this engine begs for a WW2 single player game with maybe a beach level


kdjac

SantaHoe

Yeah that terrain and water is just begging for it.
I'm still not sure how they achieve the whole 'giant ocean fading off into the horizon' effect though... 3d skyboxes maybe.

Did anyone else notice that distinctly normandy-style area in HL2?

Anima

I'm still not sure how they achieve the whole 'giant ocean fading off into the horizon' effect though... 3d skyboxes maybe.

I think its just a fairly long brush for the water and then in the 3d skybox they have fog to hide the transition. Plus most of the skyboxes have water in them.