Our Very Own Do0blex's Map...

[Dubbilex]

Which is an area that scares me more than a little - you see, most maps are lit by large, bright texturelights.  In my map, the green lighting and much of the blue lighting is accomplised with 'light' entities (the blue texture lights are more for standout detail).  

My problem is this:  I'm deathly afraid that I'm going to run into my 200 entity limit on light entities alone.  If that happened, I would have to use texturelights and hope that I cn get the same effect  :huh:

[Uranium - 235]

Can you give us a comparison?

[XeerO]

i have seen dubb's map when he first posted it, and it looks to me one of the best maps ive seen. Great Job Dubb!  <3

[Geminosity]

looks loss lets cluttered than the usual NS Maps but that's a good thing =D
prettty!!!!  ^^

[Lightning Blue]

Moved to the new mapping forum.

[Niteowl]

yeah, this looks really pretty. i'm worried about the overall darkness of it though. it also seems to have multiple lvls. in my experience multiple lvls, darkness==rines death.

i hope it has some areas that are more open, and brighter. currently, a cloaked alien will be totally invisible in this map.

but definitely some of the prettiest lighting i've seen.

[Uranium - 235]

He said he's making the hive areas lighter then the marine spawn to sorta mix it up a bit. I dunno, it'll be interesting to see how it goes.

[Malevolent]

Wow, that looks amazing and a little creepy (which is good). I love the lighting.

[LaYkE]

Nice work there sonny. Looks pretty amazing, got a release date yet?

Also I like your Lunixminster logo at the bottom of you posts.
Where can I obtain such a shiny item

[Dubbilex]

About the release date:  I have absolutely no goddamn clue.  I'll take the 'Flay' route out and say "when it's done"  ^_^

And my logo in my sig?  I made it myself.  If you wish, you're very welcome to use it yourself  

[CommunistWithAGun]

yeah thats probably the best use of green lighting Ive seen....ever. ^_^

[Dubbilex]

I don't know if anybody heard about my 'difficulty' in the newbie mapping forum, but needless to say the files got corruptedz0red.  Thnkfully, i was able to load the .map file and salvage it - I just needed to realign every texture in the map  :huh:

That done, I have around two more rooms nearly completed, but i won't be showing them until i have a bit more content - you guys gotta have something to look forward to, right?  Right?

[Uranium - 235]

*cough* backups.

[Dubbilex]

Well, I'll explain it this way:  throughout the cycle of me making this map, as I added a particularly big part I'd save it as "dubbilex X" ("X" being the next sequential number over the last).  The corrupted file was "Dubbilex 16" : If i were to roll back to "Dubbilex 15", there would be oodles of architecture changes to do.  So I simply loaded the .map file and copy + pasted  ^^

Of course, I had to realign 'every' texture in the map  <_< ....but that only took me about 30 minutes.  Now, I'm in position to actually make some new strides towards completing the map!  

[Grimm]

The map looks great so far, Dubb. I like that you're going out on a limb and trying stuff that people normally would avoid.

I'll be here waiting to try it out when its released.

[Fewlio]

The map looks great so far, Dubb. I like that you're going out on a limb and trying stuff that people normally would avoid.

I'll be here waiting to try it out when its released.

rewfles, if I attempted to make a map, it would be "ns_boxwithmanydoorsandpitsofdewm" with some full bright areas, and some no light areas .

[Dubbilex]

Aww it's not sao hard - I doubt you'd believe me if I told you, but this is indeed my very first map ever  :blink:.  

Well, the first mapping project that I've cared enough to continue, anyhow  ^^

[Venmoch]

Well all I manages to do is create a room with a sign a magnum and barney. That was it.

I call it hl_crapz0rmapz0r

[Grimm]

I would get into mapping for HL & mods, but I don't know the firts thing about mapping. Someday I will learn, but not right now.

[Fewlio]

I just get too bored to *learn* how to make a map, so yeah :p.