You know ur addicted to mapping when...

ThrAx

You know you're addicted to mapping when...

1. People ask you what you are doing, and you like to throw out complex terms like "Patchmesh, R_speeds, Vertex editing, and Edge manipulation, just to confuse them.
2. Your parents ask you why you "waste" so much time mapping, you remind them someday you will be making more than them.
3. Every time you see Z-fighting you feel sick to your stomach.
4. You are mapping you wonder why you don't have a life, BUT when you aren't mapping, all you can think about is mapping.
5. Your mood for the day is determined by how well your level is coming along.
6. You find yourself verbally encouraging your curves to line up.
7. While working on your level, you cackle incoherently about "my baby".
8. You curse out loud when you can't get that damn endcap to line up exactly.
9. You can't figure out why Ctrl-Z doesn't work when Windows freezes.
10. You have nightmares about bad level designs.
11. You walk into a building, all you can think is "nice architecture, but these people need to learn how to texture."
12. You find yourself trying to use Q3R keyboard shortcuts in AutoCAD at work.
13. Your "real life / job" starts to get in the way.
14. You stare at the DOS compile screen for more than 20 minutes.
15. You post more than 10 messages a day to the level editing forums.
16. You start dreaming about q3radiant - this is a bad one!
17. Q3r & Q3 shortcuts are on your desktop, task bar and start menu.
18. You lose the plot watching Star Trek because you're concentrating on watching the walls in the background.
19. You take your eyes off Brittany Spears dancing in a video to look at the stage design.
20. You have a low opinion of "real" architects because all they build is boxes.
21. You think about decorating your house with a nice rusty metallic rivetted texture.
22. You wonder why you can't buy wallpaper with shaders.
23. You want to build your own house one day with no help from anyone.
24. You wander around the house trying to think of something else to do while your map is compiling.
25. You stick your hand in front of the screen in efforts to block vis. (only the l33ter mappers do this
26. If you ever win the lottery you plan to turn your back yard into Q2dm1.
27. You leave work early because you just had a kickass idea about a way to make your bots use a jumppad.
28. You cant keep the words "Ancient Archipelago" out of your head.
29. You look at walls in buildings and everywhere you go and try to envision it rendered in the quake engine.
30. You take the previous vision and actually do it.
31. You take the previous "do it" and move things around for game flow.
32. Spontaneous mapping ideas put your entire life on hold until you actually build them.
33. Quality time with your family seems to correspond directly with long compiles.
34. Your family and friends have learned to avoid the subject of computers and video games.
35. You habitually close all of the doors in the house to improve \r_speeds.
36. You look at ID's maps and think: "I could do that...only better".
37. You always wonder if the Light phase is doing something or has crashed, no matter how much you tell yourself it's fine.
38. You can't refrain from adding to your map while the compilation takes place, only to crash your computer.
39. You have 6 Quake3 related icons on your desktop, none of which load Vanilla Quake3.
40. You start mapping at 8:00AM only to look up 20mins later and see that it's now 3:00AM.
41. You want another idea for a map you look around your room in the hope of finding one.
42. You seem to think that the best map in the world would be your house, only to find out that once you've made it, it's crap.
43. You have zillions of unfinished maps dating back to Doom.
44. You’re wandering around in your house, you are afraid to see what’s going on in the other room because it will make your eyes go slower.
45. You are shopping, and you can’t stop thinking about why can’t this make its way into the game?
46. You ask yourself, if a roofer rocket-jumps up there.
47. You wonder about the bot-roams at the traffic lights during rush hour.
48. Looking out the window, you wanna know how that guy made that skybox.
49. You hurt yourself again and again on lamps and bushes, because you think it's a misc_model, and you can go through.
50. You try to select files in windows and other programs with CTRL-Shift.
51. You go out for a drive and all the architecture you see makes you think... That would look good in a level.
52. You walk into Durham Cathedral and wonder why the fps are so high.
53. You ask to be excused from the dinner table so you can carry on building your battle ship.
54. You're trying to get some feature in a map working, but you can't. So you get up, walk downstairs... Then, halfway down the stairs you figure it out and run back to your PC laughing like a giddy teenager. (or maybe you ARE a giddy teenager)
55. You are always eating cold food.
56. You press the ` key in any game to type a command.
57. You bang your knee on a desk or table and think "someone should add a clip brush there".
58. You own a second computer only for map compiles and/or to keep a clean install of Q3A to check for missing textures.
59. You always pick up any loose objects when your walking around for fear of running out later on. (ammo)
60. In math when doing Trigonometry, etc. you get a little carried away with your diagrams and before long you have the blueprints for a new map.
61. You go to lan-parties to compare and work on maps, not to play games.
62. You argue with the architect and builders of your new home saying they have no idea how to build a proper house and tell them you could have done a better job.
63. You ask your manager if you can install Radiant on your computer at work.
64. You spend more time in game getting killed while admiring the architecture rather than fraggin other people.
65. You ~will~ the computer on during a long compile.
66. You spend more time asleep at the keyboard than in your bed.
67. You tell your Career Advisor that you want to become a pro mapper when you grow up and be like the guys at ID.
68. You turn your lights off in your room while mapping because it creates "Atmosphere".
69. You tell your girlfriend that she can come over, but only for an hour, because your DOS window is on 9 with two dots left to go.
70. You buy a new mouse every time you go to the computer store, just in case.
71. You make comments to your non-mapping friends, like: You know that movie The Matrix? I made that yesterday, and the movie is true, no really it is, I was there.
72. You make comments to your non-mapping friends, like: God these stairs must be 16's right?
73. You make comments to your non-mapping friends, like: Look at this bevel here on the door, you can just use the clipper, and get that same effect.
74. If you press your fingers into your eyes really hard, instead of seeing little floaty black things like everyone else, you see vertices, vectors, and an FPS number.
75. You find yourself wanting to jump off a 20 foot high wall because you'll only lose 5 health.
76. You figure that your house has less curves than q3dm17.
77. You've got a book on Warwick castle on your coffee table.
78. You walk down the street and wonder if you can patch curve a lamp post like that.
79. Your girlfriend says, "beautiful sky", and all you can do is think about taking a photo of it, and importing it into Q3radiant for your newest map.
80. You walk into a store and wonder why the doors slide open at 360, when the design would be much more pleasing and efficient at 180.
81. You cut a sandwich in half and snicker knowing that was a good clipper action.
82. Someone tells you, "Get a hint", and you just look at them, and say, "No, that won't work"!
83. You rent videos just to check out the architecture you dimly remember from when you saw it 3 years ago.
84. You stop at building sites to see how they're vis-blocking the walls, and constructing the roof.
85. You forget to take back all the books on architecture that you got from the library and they shout at you because you had ALL of them.
86. You get nervous in cathedrals because of all the camping points.
87. You consistently try to use Radiant shortcuts in other programs.
88. You have no problem conjuring up sexual innuendos from mapping terminology. "caulk all unseen surfaces, and apply the slick shader to major collision areas."
89. Your personal activities revolve around long compiles.
90. You constantly try to reduce your world into convex structures so as to keep the tris down in your own house.

ThrAx

91. You try to tell your housing company to change the elevator into a jump pad.
92. You think about botclusters while looking at the people running around in a big city during lunch time.
93. You want to place heavy botroams / camp here infos while standing in a crowded bar where you can see only one spot.
94. You try to change the func_bobbing value of your girlfriend without a recompile.
95. You start to think about item placement while filling your fridge with food.
96. You start thinking about placing a quaddamage under the bed to lure your girlfriend/wife there more often.
97. You try to reboot the people you talk to only because they don't get the hang of what you do.
98. You think of sports cars in terms of .md3's.
99. You try to run a Brush cleanup tool instead of cleaning up your home.
100. You start to think about the new Doom game every time you switch on/off the lights in your home - it's dynamic lightning.
101. You move entities (couch, chair...) around to see how they affect gameplay and shadow casting.
102. You try to press the "screenshot" button every time you see a real beauty somewhere.
103. You try to toggle the views while watching TV.
104. You ask for a brain / Radiant export interface in your local hardware shop.
105. You call your housing company to ask for the mod code of rotating doors. If they don't give it to you, you make a post in Quake3World with the headline "Paul - people are violating the EULA again". Right after that you tell your housing company that they're in deep trouble.
106. You load 3DSMax to make new furniture instead of going out to buy it.
107. You feel happy about the lost feeling in your legs.
108. You start to judge overweight people automatically as having high IQ's (man look how fat he is - he must be a genius coder since the age of three).
109. You try to link your favorite song with a worldspawn entity as sound world looped on to hear it the whole day.
110. you look around anywhere you are and figure "wonder what the r_speeds are of a place like this?"
111. You go into any building and try to figure out how long it would take you to build it in radiant.
112. You begin to set your alarm clock to go off earlier and earlier each morning so you can get up and map before work/school. Soon you are down to a couple hours of sleep and you feel good.
113. You've stopped dreaming during sleep because all your creative energy is being channeled into the mapping.
114. You find yourself constantly thinking: "I must buy a digital camera ..."
115. Crossing the street while looking up at a building to admire some architectural trim results in being struck by a Metro bus and while you ride in the ambulance to the hospital you think, "How can I capture all that with models/map/mod?" and the speculation doesn't stop there.
116. You're wandering around the city gawking at the architecture and thinking, "Thank God I work in DC." (Saying this out loud around here will result in a one-way trip to St. Elizabeth's.)
117. You are in the middle of a war-zone and just stop to look at some architecture and you get killed. Then you keep trying to get back there not even paying attention and get killed over and over. Then by the time you get to the area you want to see, the scoreboard pops up and you start cursing out loud
118. Your eyes hurt.
119. Your eyes hurt some more.
120. Your finger starts hurting.
121. Your brain hurts.
122. Your legs hurt.
123. You have huge piles of either/and/or: cigarette butts, coffee cups, soda cans, discarded hardware, unread computer books scattered around your work area.
124. You fall of your chair hitting the ground with a thud only to wake up 4 hours later and continue mapping.

Anima

Heh, good stuff