ive been working on this map a little bit at a time on the side for about 2 weeks now. its still in very early stages right now but its going in game tomorrow hopefully. the pics are too big so here are links:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa303/corndogman939/centrality2.jpg

i am aware that the cliffs look like crap right now, those are being fixed. here is a pic that shows the layout a little better:

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa303/corndogman939/centrality1.jpg

and one more with textures. max wouldn't render properly so i just took a screen shot in perspective view.

http://i199.photobucket.com/albums/aa303/corndogman939/centrality2-1.jpg

bugs/ problems im aware of:
ugly cliffs
bad uv-ing in some areas
crappy modeling in some areas.

things that will be better in the next version:
sexier cliffs
improved bases
better modeling in other places
better textures.

im not sure if this map is going to have standard weapons, or if i will be using arbiters halo 2/3 weapons in it. the only vehicles will be ghosts and mongooses. might put a turret in there somewhere.....

thats about it. any comments/ suggestions/ constructive criticism is appreciated.

i know it needs a lot of work, but i want to do it myself a much as i can. but if i need any help you'll be first on my list.

Hmmm... interesting design you got thar.

I like it, just cliffs are bad but you know, and make the bases not so basic
also me wishes to see some referance models in pic to see how big stuff is
Edited by CLS_GRUNT on Oct 4, 2007 at 11:50 PM

Looks cool. I can only think how many times people are going to be mad when they are killed from above. Maybe make it a slope to the top? Or else you'll get alot of nade whores.

kinda looks like the roman colleseum but instead of stands its got cliffs looks i mean the cliffs arent as bad as some maps but it is looking good i think the halo 2/3 weapons would be a good dash of difference on that map keep up the work

yea the cliffs are bad, and im gonna make better, more intricate bases soon. ill get a reference later but i have to go to school soon. but its about big enough for a mongoose or ghost to fit in the paths. maybe big enough for a hog idk.

thank you for your comments selentic. one thing i forgot to mention is that there may be a h2v release for this when i get the game, which explains why there are 4 bases. I am giong to amp up all the bases soon. and they will not all be the same looking. the two main bases where the flags are will be the same, and the other ones are going to be different. they are not really bases, they are just structures there that will, like you said, house some type of reward like a RL or maybe a Spartan laser. but ill try not to over power anything. im going to change the layout so everything isn't perfectly symmetrical. it could ruin the gameplay a bit. for example a guy could hide with a rocket launcher in one of the bases and as soon as someone comes by on a mongoose they blast them. we don't want any camping or anything like that. the textures are just temporary textures so i can get it looking properly in game.

It looks like weathertop cept there arent cliffs sorrunding it.

also i might make this map snowy, i think it will look cooler. [/pun]

Select all the cliff polygons and give them their own smoothing group. Add more detail to the hallways. Interesting map.

like i said the cliffs and bitmaps are being re-done. im adding more detail to the cliffs and pretty much everything in the map.

multi-flag CTF

yea figured.. probably wont happen anyways. so i'm just gonna work on this and post some updates when i have them. might be slow though because I've got other stuff to work on for HMT.

It's hard to find any good new maps for CE, and by the way it's looking this map will be very fun when you finish it. The only problem I can see gameplay-wise is that the four bases will be very annoying when playing slayer... if someone gets up there with a rocket launcher or something like that then everyone's getting screwed over until he's out of ammo. But, looks like a really good CTF map.

thanks malevolence. i promise that i will pt a lot of thought into the weapon layout and other aspects so that gameplay will still be fair and you wont get owned by a noob with a rocket launcher.