Custom Map Makers

Yea its very simple (in my opinion), and really makes modeling convenient. That is, outside of the model's texture meta data haha Thanks for the encouragement as well, i really appreciate it! With some luck, ill have more screenshots up tonight with the model ingame and textured.

P.S. Two quick questions, if anyone wouldnt mind
-What are the benefits of .ase over .md3 in a nutshell?
-And how can i change my maps textures (ones with alpha channels) to appear properly? I only know how to do that with models, just by using a custom shader

Edit- Here's a quick review video of my renditions of Jack's House, the Town Hall, and Finkelstein's Lab. None are in final form just yet, but they're getting to a final stage- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7zUpFXP1dI (Unfortunately the "youtube" forum function isn't working?)
Once these are done i intend to start on actual Gtk geometry buildings which can be entered/exited as well as whatever else i plan on adding

Another edit here (im hoping double posts on my own topic are allowed haha)
-Finished with my most prominent secret held within the level
-Working on the "choking fountain", just got the water to appear appropriately
-Finished the first of many enter-able buildings, just have to spice things up with details and decor
-Completely redid the terrain, made border hills so that the player will have an illusion of actually being in a world that carries on outside of my map
-Got the town hall in game
-Reworking some of the models, mostly textures though

Again, please let me know if any of you have suggestions! I would have more done but recently got a virus on my mapping computer called "Cloud AV 2012", and ever since i got rid of it, my computers been rather slow ah well, ill get done what i can and bring the urban terror community something obscure, dark, pretty much completely grey-scale, and wonderful wish me luck haha

Good luck Lunaxe - keep going with this map, I'm looking forward to seeing it.

I will man, and thank you I just thought id take a quick teaser screen for you all-

It's a bit dark, but not to worry, everything lighting related looks great in-game!

Just one thing i'd like to know. Do you have any layout plan?
I hate to see god maps wasted becouse they have no real layout.

Well here's how i map (i know youre scared already )- I have a terrain, general layout, and some buildings and models made. Once im finished populating certain areas with "reference points" (perhaps a specific model, building, etc.) i take a walk in game and decide various things- how i can populate a certain area? How can i add strategic cover? What needs more detail? And on that list goes. So in a way, yes i do. However i dont make a strict layout which i never stray from- i prefer to experiment through gameplay in order to concoct the perfect (or close as i can get haha) map. Sorry about the essay of an answer, i think it's important i convey my intentions appropriately haha

I actually mentioned somewhere on this site that i would upload my layout of sorts BUT i have decided to do most of that in secrecy. I want whoever plays this map to turn every corner and think to themselves, "What was this guy smoking?!", in a good way of course

Edit- And another teaser shot of one of my greatest modeling achievements! The choking fountain

Here i am, double posting again, primarily because no one can see what i update unless i do that haha So to the community here, i have two questions-

First, does anyone know how I can make the fountain look like it's spewing glowy green stuff from its mouth? I've tried learning Null's particle studio, but i dont know how to incorporate anything there in-game, or even save it correctly!

And second, i would like it very much if the community could come up with some strange ideas that i would include in my map. Whether it's architecture, gameplay concepts (such as rooftop play, which my map will have plenty of ), or secrets here and there- the more opinions and ideas i receive, i would imagine the more varying the map would become, equaling a broader range of players who enjoy it! Thank you!

Regarding the particle studio, it's really easy to use and is a good way to waste weeks of your life, just changing stuff.

Here's one I used for the fountain thingy.



Notice how I've got everything filled in, I'm on Linux so the paths might look a bit weird.

base path : your mapping folder where you have you maps, scripts, textures, etc

shader name : thats the name of the shaders directly, so if your shaders file is called azlcmb1_fountain.shader you'll have a azlcmb1_fountain folder in your textures, use this

texture name : is the image that will be used in your particle, make a green blob for green blobbiness, a .tga with transparency.

Fiddle around with the studio, make something you like then click the export tab at the bottom, this writes a file called ps_test.txt in your mapping/scripts folder, you can either copy the contents and copy them to your shader file or better still rename ps_test.txt to be mygreenstuff.shaders and include that name in your shaderslist.txt

You might want to search and replace the "textures/ps_test/ps_test" shader names out to be something else.

Erm, last bit

Make a small nodraw brush and texture one face with the first shader in the ps_test.txt file - the end

Short, understandable, and to the point- thanks much man! I plan on getting plenty done tonight, so hopefully you'll see the "fruits" of your teaching sometime soon

About secrets n stuff. I think we would have to play it to be able to say something like that