Hi,

My name is Ferdinand 'cityy' List and I am going to participate in the competition. *weeeeee*
I am planning to create a duel/TDM map.

E-mail: cityy@gmx.de

Website: http://cityy.explicits.de

I just started

http://cityy.explicits.de/uploads/maps/ct3dm5/week1.jpg

Edit:

After some work it looks like this now:
http://cityy.explicits.de/uploads/maps/ct3dm5/week1_2.jpg

Edit2:

Finished blocking out the basic layout.

http://cityy.explicits.de/uploads/maps/ ... eek1_3.jpg

Edit3:

Temp. texturing and the first ingame shots:

Looking good so far, I don't even have a full layout yet.

Thanks man! I had a day off from school today so I had some time to work on the map.

I had the idea of the room with the whisker text and the rest of the layout was developed today. There is still plenty of time but I really wanted to start!

Things go quickly today. I start to feel comfortable with the textures.

Wow that's looking great for one day. I really like the textures so far. I see a little hall of mirrors though.

Oh, seems like a caulk brush made it's way through there.

New shot:

Quake2!

Made my mind about doorways, trims, item placement and the sponsor images today.

I tried clicking the last image in your latest post, and it timed out. "Unable to connect"

I'm pretty sure his host is down.

looking cool cityy, the quad area is already becoming distinctive. are you familiar with the hot place by sumatra? your shots have a similar feel in the rockwork.

edit: actually, sumatra had another map that used eq2 that was really cool and purple-lit. might want to check that one out too for ideas

Looking really nice. I'm quite excited to see your next map. Good luck!

Thanks, kaz! The rail area in "the hot place" is very simular to mine - Im gonna look into including that fog effect sumatra used.

Thanks Anthem, good to see you signed up aswell. Good luck!

Today's shots:





It took me way too long to build this.. had some problems with gtkradiant 1.5 and the terrain - switched to 1.4 now.

I recently discovered that 1.5 is WAY better for making terrain. Initially I thought it would be impossible because they took out shear dragging, but then I figured out about the rectangle select in vertex mode and man, I am hooked.

Psst, the trick is to break up all your brushes into triangles beforehand. Then it's like working with a patch mesh.