Obj_Mammut Radar (Official Beta Release)

[Shifty]

Ok finally here's the beta

As I've stated previously my main concern is the FPS, it's hard for me to gauge it as I think somethings wrong with my Gfx Card (ppl with lower spec cards get better fps then me)

If you want to view some pics check out my site at http://www.shiftys-bunker.tk or check out the other thread in this forum.

I hope you like what I've done as I'm proud of this map its gonna be my 1st proper release and when compared to war in a hall (which only got to beta) ill feel this is so much better.

Please leave feedback of any good or bad points

Before the download link i'd just like to take the time to thank everyone here at .map the best dam resource for mohaa around

Ok I'll bore you no longer

http://www.shiftysbunker.pwp.blueyonder ... -BETA-.zip (3.5mb)

Oh and I know about the Ladder in the mausaleum I'll fix it

[Axion]

Kick Ass!

[Arro]

MUAHAHAHAHAHAHHAA

I'm gonna go get some friends at see what I can find. Oh boy!

[Jack Ruby]

Downloading it as I type, looking forward to taking a look around.

Edit:

Just had a run around in there, looking very good, didnt notice any z fighting anywhere.

IMHO heres what you could improve.

1.
Get some fog in there, not a pea souper but some light mist to give it atmosphere it will also help avoid getting sniped from the extreme end of the map, right now can see the whole way across it.


2. I noticed in the sewers and the halls of the radar building that the lighting is really bright, making the textures look a little washed out, easily remedied by selecting the light entity give it a K/V of say 60-70, do it for all the lights in the tunnels, will make it look more moody and ominous. This may also be something to do with how much ambient light you have got, I find it nice to have the ambientlight so you can just about see where your going in a dark place without lights, helps bring out the shadows to make the map look nice.



3.
The door in the projector room opened towards me, easy one to fix too


4. The windows in the small houses ( didnt try shooting at any others ) they wont break and I couldnt lob a grenade through them which is important to fix man, grenades shouldnt bounce off your windows. Make one breakable window and just paste it, wont take half hour to fix that up but well worth the effort.

So far so good m8, well done, looks really promising, nice brushwork, didnt notice any errors there, so COOL

[Axion]

I hate to be a nitpicker, but I have to point out some more errors. Go to the link below to view pictures of them.

http://www.freewebs.com/axion9/images.htm

The biggest problem is centered on your grated door inside your bunker that opens into the underground tunnels. It opens halfway, but when I press the switch again, it continues to open and sinks into the floor.

Other than that, I didn't notice anything. The map looked great. I did get low fps when I would face in the long direction that the map runs, but some VIS leafgroups insode your bunker, buildings, and underground tunnels would do wonders.

Are there any severs that are hosting it? I would love to play it with a lot of people.

[Axion]

Oh, I almost forgot. The coronas in the two sniper rooms that are located at the front of the bunker (The ones with the tiny square windows) are misplaced.

Also, when I blow up the panel in the power room, everything just disappears. There is no ruined panel or anything left behind.

In the middle of your rivers (under the bridges specifically), you can go all the way underwater. I don't know if this was intended or not, but you could easily fix it by placing some clip brushes at the bottom to make it more shallow.

[Shifty]

1st of thanks for the replys

Get some fog in there, not a pea souper but some light mist to give it atmosphere it will also help avoid getting sniped from the extreme end of the map, right now can see the whole way across it.

I would like to have it raining for the final version with the animated shutters on the houses so yeah fog would be a good idea.

I noticed in the sewers and the halls of the radar building that the lighting is really bright, making the textures look a little washed out, easily remedied by selecting the light entity give it a K/V of say 60-70, do it for all the lights in the tunnels, will make it look more moody and ominous. This may also be something to do with how much ambient light you have got, I find it nice to have the ambientlight so you can just about see where your going in a dark place without lights, helps bring out the shadows to make the map look nice.

Currently ambient light is at 20 20 20 but I had no idea you could give light entitys number values so thanks i'll try that

The door in the projector room opened towards me, easy one to fix too

Darn I missed 1 lol

The windows in the small houses ( didnt try shooting at any others ) they wont break and I couldnt lob a grenade through them which is important to fix man, grenades shouldnt bounce off your windows. Make one breakable window and just paste it, wont take half hour to fix that up but well worth the effort.

Very good point I'll fix that to.

THANKS JACK

The biggest problem is centered on your grated door inside your bunker that opens into the underground tunnels. It opens halfway, but when I press the switch again, it continues to open and sinks into the floor.

Darn I only tried opening from the top and then from the bottom so i didnt see that, obviously a bit more work on the script doesnt work.

Oh, I almost forgot. The coronas in the two sniper rooms that are located at the front of the bunker (The ones with the tiny square windows) are misplaced.

I had to replace a few during the last build before the compile so I just missed those

Also, when I blow up the panel in the power room, everything just disappears. There is no ruined panel or anything left behind.

Yeah it would look better with remaining bits

In the middle of your rivers (under the bridges specifically), you can go all the way underwater. I don't know if this was intended or not, but you could easily fix it by placing some clip brushes at the bottom to make it more shallow.

I also intend to add Volume damage to water aswell.

CHEERS AXION and for your other pics i'll sort those aswell

Thats quite a bit to work on thanks very very much for the feedback

[Jack Ruby]

Shifty, I forgot to mention, to give the light entities a K/V:

light
60

Good luck

[Shifty]

Heres a copy of an email i sent to gamermaps (Holding back some emotions while writing it): -

Hi I'm Shifty the creater of the map obj_mammut radar, I was shocked when a friend told me it was on gamersmaps can you please tell me who submitted it? As this version was a pre-release for .map an editing site its not at all at beta also the screenshot used is crap and immediatly shows some early errors.

The map is NOW at beta however and I've worked extremly hard to get it to this point the download is on my site www.shiftys-bunker.tk could you please remove the version thats on gamersmaps Pleaze????

Surly shouldnt a map being submitted have the approval of its creater?

I'd appreciate it alot if you can help me out here.

Shifty

Heres the link http://gamersmaps.com/pafiledb/pafiledb ... le&id=1025

I was quite angry when i saw this, I don't mind my maps getting advertised but the least they could do was put up the proper version and actually credit the map to me oh and put a decent screenshot up.

Well I hope they fix it I just wanted to let ppl know of this - have a look see if a crappy version of your map is there

[Axion]

That's definitely not cool. I hope they do the right thing and remove your map.

[Random]

In defense of the folks over at gamersmaps i think they are doing one hell of a job. Recently the site was hacked and completely deleted, Ghetto and the boys over there have been working non stop to make sure it is up and running without a hitch.

They provide a wonderful service to the mohaa community that no one else can even come close to. I am honored that they take the time and effort to host my maps.

At the same time i can appreciate a creator wanting to release only the best maps possible. Im sure with the nice email you sent you will get a positive responce.

[Shifty]

Well I got an email back saying it's gonna be sorted as I stated above I don't at all mind maps getting advertised and I think there doing a good job.

Well on to the TERRIBLE NEWS!!!

My PC Just will not load, I keep getting a windows protection error telling me to restart - I do and i get the same thing, so then I restart in safe mode and it just gets to the grey screen with safe around it and stops - when I open task manager it shows nothing loaded.

GOD PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME FORMAT MY PC having to start from scratch on something i'm so proud of and so happy with would rip me apart.

If you have any ideas to get my PC going again please help me....

Shifty

[Jack Ruby]

Thats bad news about your PC. My younger brother knackered his comp a couple of weeks ago, he does not know what he did to it, it wouldn't even give me any bios bleeps, just a dead piece of scrap.

Not sure if this will be at all relevant to your problem but I flashed the bios on his comp, theres a little jumper by the battery on the mobo, you switch the jumper for 10 seconds and amazingly his machine came back to life, still gettting a couple of errors when it boots but it does boot and I didnt have to format it.

Maybe worth a try, though I am no professional so dont totally rely on my advice.

[Shifty]

Cheers jack thats another thing I can try of course I gotta wait about 8 hours till i get home

[tltrude]

Did you try the backup floppy disk? If you never made one, a friend might have one you can use. And, if that works, you can reinstall Windows, or at least copy the important stuff to another drive.