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Working on this thing is making my head hurt. I just want to box the entire map and say 'fuck it'.
Ah well. Making a push to finish the architecture tonight. We shall see. Architecture mostly done, filling out details, putting in monsters and items, need to orchestrate the final fight and do lighting. Got a few ambient sounds in.
It is an incredibly ugly map, but if I didn't accept that, I'd still be working on the starting area. Leak after leak after leak. I may need to change the way I construct maps, because this is ridiculous.
I'm working on one where the pointfile 'line' starts at open air inside the map to another point in open air, again, inside the playable section of the map.
Gah. I can't look at this shit anymore. I'll try again in a few hours. Pointfiles are a waste of time.
Cover half your map in a brush. QBSP. Cover the half that still leaks in a brush. QBSP. Repeat until you find the leak/bad brush. It sounds onerous, but because you're covering half at a time, it'll always be a fixed amount of recompiles before you find the leak. (mostly).
Never tried that before. Found it; it's a magically disappearing brush. Vanishes in-game, creating the leak. Deleting and rebuilding does not good. Only time it disappears is when I cover the entire problem area with another brush. Might end up doing this, since I don't know how to fix this. We'll see. Off to work. Try again tomorrow.
There's an error-checker. Also in Hammer 3.4 you can load the pointfile and it appears in the 3D viewport, unlike 3.3 . Even if you don't use the editor, you could open the
Thanks to the deadline, I'll probably actually complete this. Working on final fight, maybe adding a few more mini-fights for the mid game, and doing the lighting. Should probably fix that leak too... But yeah. This has been a lot of fun.
About yours more than probably anybody else's (except mfx's of course!). This jam might not have generated as much mapping or hype as the previous two but at least your mapping cherry is finally popped.
Hype level may be lower but I'm super-pleased that you guys went with the Zer theme, and really looking forward to whatever scenarios and bits and experiments and whatever get released for this. I really enjoy the kind of bite-sized Quake anthologies that the jams encourage.
If nothing else, I've really enjoyed watching Daz stream his level design. That's been fun.
I wish MFX would do likewise. :) Would be him putting 100 brushes per minute while this plays in the background.
I strongly suggest that you guys add another week to the project so mappers could finish and polish their babies.
What's the point of rushing out a map, so the players are getting some crap maps ? In the name of Quake, add more time ! Quake1 is a holly game. Please, respect that ! Nomore crap maps ! Look, the point of a jam is getting things done within a time frame. Take away the time frame and you have
It's one of those things
Meh, whatever. It's not my jam so I'll leave it to the powers that be. :) Yeah, you're right.
But then, the deadline is too short. Just a few weeks to blow a map isn't enough, IMHO. But then, what do I know, as a shit fly ? Architecture done, leak kinda fixed. Somewhat.
To do: Repair malfunctioning lifts (fucking things were working yesterday) Fix lighting so play area is actually visible Add monsters, items, weapons. I'll have about eight hours tomorrow to work on this. Not feeling to confident, but we'll see.
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