http://www.twitch.tv/ionous

Mapping and Black Metal. 

I'll likely do a few small informal streams ... maybe. :)

http://www.twitch.tv/warrenmarshall 

That selection of inspiration images is fucking brilliant.

Anyone who does this: http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme2.jpg i will marry them. 

I wouldn't be able to make a decent map in an hour that's for sure.

Nobody could. That's why it was extended :) 

What about them?

Or better: what's the target engine? 

I should have added something about that to the main post, but I think it is generally assumed that most people use FitzQuake / Quakespasm these days.

I would test all the maps in Quakespasm as that has the most up to date features. 

Also, don't forget ...

http://www.wantonhubris.com/obj-2-map/

If you're so inclined. :) 

Nobody could. That's why it was extended :)

Actually, the switch to 100 minutes came when everyone wanted to do more single player maps. 1 hour deathmatch maps weren't so bad to make, but we added the extra 40 minutes so that single player maps could reasonably be done.

...

Back on topic, I'm planning to do a Rubicon Industrial base on a Lava world. 

I miss those speedmaps, people were experimenting much more, probably because the time investment was so little. 

Is it good if I make a modern city with red sky on its first part and then having its second part filled with lava and brimstone?

Or should I just make a map just like the second part? 

Do whatever you want. It's a map jam. 

The point of jam themes is to give some basic direction to go. Though I might recommend just going for the second half only because 2 weeks is less time than you think! Simple plans work best. 

3:27 AM - negke: haven't thought about anything yet
3:27 AM - negke: i might try to make something though
3:27 AM - Scampie!!: jam6_negke HYPE!!! 

Talking about Jam6DLC, of course! 

Just wanted to say that last night was awesome. Multiple people streaming and everyone chatting it up. Was a lot of fun.

Felt like the old days again, only higher tech. :)

Fun! Love stuff like this that focuses everyone on the same game/goal... 

based off of http://daz.fov120.com/images/jam6/theme2.jpg

http://shoresofnis.com/temp/jam6_terraintest.jpg
max + warren's obj2map. gonna see how far I can take this before it stops compiling...

it's really fun not having to deal with brushes. ^_^ 

that's crazy! 

Chaining Castle of the Dark Ages and 5 Rivers Land would fit perfectly .... 

Might as well use them.

Streaming soon over at:
http://www.twitch.tv/ionous 

necros

REALLY nice. Love how organic it feels. I can't believe that all collides correctly.

Do you take any special steps in Max? Like, making sure everything is triangles and snapped to a grid or anything like that? 

This is going to be so sick! 

Looks Nice, Necros! 

The max obj exporter has an option to export all faces as triangles, which is what I use. Other than that, I'm using basic box modelling techniques, extruding edges and faces and moving vertices around. I'm not paying any particular attention to grid:
http://shoresofnis.com/temp/jam6_terraintest_max.jpg

There are currently a few collision problems (and a few missing faces) but I suspect that is because the map is currently unsealed, so the backs of the spike brushes are still being compiled which I'm sure is causing problems with QBSP.

Once the map is sealed, those problems should hopefully go away, at least mostly, although that really will be the make or break test: if faces are still missing and collision is too broken with a sealed map, we'll know that this method doesn't work. :P 

I've run into problems doing it so you might want to seal sooner rather than later so as to waste as little time as possible if it implodes. :)

Going to be trying some rocky geo tonight myself... 

Lavacity1a.wad is good wad.