I've started off with a brand new map, one based in Battle Creek and Blood Gulch.
Download link is:
http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?x3gwzzmyxzq

What I want to know is what I should improve on, because I already know I failed at making
the Blood Gulch part have a great big battle. I will have to completely remake that. But I'm not sure what other people think, so have at it, and once you are done, give me criticism.

By the way, its a single player map. To start up, type in

map_name flooderadicationalphap1

PS: Comments such as "You suck" and "Epic Fail" ARE WELCOME as long as a reason is provided.

Now for some screenshots :)









I think that's enough.
Edited by Gamma927 on Dec 12, 2008 at 09:20 PM

Download doesn't work.

It doesn't? I just attempted to download it, and it works.

Also, going to get screenies now :D.
Edited by Gamma927 on Dec 12, 2008 at 08:55 PM
Edited by Gamma927 on Dec 12, 2008 at 08:56 PM

Nice....wait! You can combine BG and Battle Creek? How can you do that? I mean like place a teleporter to another map?

I like the custom Marine armor. Looks like the map is going to be great. I'll download it as soon as I return from vacation.

YOU FAIL for not giving credit to creators of tags

cmt's smg and icee's pistol. there we go, problem solved

Default maps are boring, mod something else.

You forgot Bungie's Flamethrower, and Leet's pistol animations. :P

My question stiill is unanswered.

Don't forget Bungie's textures and BSPs!

We were talking about weapons. Unless you made the BSP a weapon now...and still walkable on :O

LIES! HE IS USING SENTINEL PHYSICS!

Its not his either. So whats there to argue?

In readme. I don't think I made anything... So I will give credit to everyone again. Sorry, I was away, so I couldn't respond.

Credit goes to HDoan for the marine bipeds
Credit goes to CMT for the brutes, SMG, MA5K
Credit goes to Bungie for the BSPs, flamethrower, and shotgun
Credit goes to Kirby_422 for his random script package
Credit goes to ICEE for the magnum and assault rifle
Credit goes to Leet for making the pistol animations
Credit goes to Advancebo for reminding me to give credit
Credit goes to Hugeass, Extinction, and Coldsnap for providing me with many tags
Credit goes to many other maps for providing me tags (sorry if you didn't want me to rip them)
Credit goes to everyone who answered my questions
Credit goes to everyone who tried to answer my questions
Credit goes to everyone who glanced at my threads
Credit goes to everyone who ignored my threads
Credit goes to... uhh.... EVERYONE!!!

Oh, and Polamee, to answer your question, I put two different scenarios into one. Then I put a teleporter, and a trigger volume around it to teleport the objects within. Add me on Xfire and I'll tell you. Oh, and thanks for your AI tutorial that I read like 5 months ago.



It's not mine. I admit that.
Edited by Gamma927 on Dec 13, 2008 at 12:27 AM

w00t, I made a map right where I put it in BOLD

This map was actually fairly fun. It needs custscenes and a storyline majorly. Also in the first part the tank launcher has to go, as it was a pain because I killed myself with it so much. The difficulty of the first part was not too hard, which is a problem with most SP maps. I only really died on the last part where you fight hunters. Then the bloodgulch part... does need work. The warthog needs to be slowed down a little, as the way it is it flips too easy.

Yea... I need help making cutscenes. The one at the beginning was a pitiful attempt at a cutscene, and the story I will add after I finish the map. I will remove the tank launcher, because I too killed myself a lot. I keep forgetting to slow down the hog, and I am working on it right now. Does anyone have any ideas how to make the BG part?

What tutorial?

Oh, the one I uploaded very long ago. I forgot about that.

I haven't played the map yet, because I'm typing this from a laptop thousands of miles away from my house....

Anyway, I had an idea for a Blood Gulch Sp level, but didn't have to time to create it, so here's the idea:

You start in red base. No vehicles. You have to battle your way through a horde of Covenant and Flood to reach the Blue Base. At Blue Base, you find controls to unlock a previously locked door to the caves, where you are supposed to kill Flood and reach an object that you're supposed to find and complete the level.

Never actually considered what the object was, perhaps an oddball (like in Mission BC).


Anyway, my Xfire is 'polamee'. What's yours?

Oh, the beggining cutscene didn't really play for me or something... Lemme find a link to a nice tutorial... Ok, here is what I found: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=1257 http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=2231. I've only tried the second one before, and it is very good. For the bloodgulch part, maybe you could have it so, instead of just blocking off paths, making you go through the battle multiple times. Maybe a first objective (the second tutorial tells you how to set those objective markers that show in CTF and stuff like that) would be to go to the caves. Then you fight to the open part of the caves, and maybe a boss battle there. Then you continue through the caves to the enemy's base. It would also be a nice place for a boss battle. Then maybe have you go up to the cliffs, and snipe for a bit (you could use the "object_create" script to force the player to snipe, then use "object_delete" to delete the barriers when he is done). You could have a countdown timer to indicate the amount of time you need to snipe (

(hud_set_timer_time minutes seconds)
(hud_set_timer_warning_time minutes seconds)
(hud_set_timer_position 0 0 bottom_right) 
(show_hud_timer true)

. Then maybe a vehicle chase or something that would take up the whole gulch.

Those pistol animations were released a while back.

That's not the point, is it? Oh, and @ Polamee, my xfire is gamma927. I think I already added you. Now, both ideas are really good, but my problem is having a huge amount of people spawn in the middle, at the same time, without lag. So what I was thinking of doing, was having a drive through the Blood Gulch part, from Red base to Blue. Now, however, my idea did not work. I suppose I could combine both ideas, and have this:

Start at Red base, fight your way to Blue base, caves are blocked.
In Blue base, you have to clear out the base, and then head back
to Red base to defend a crashed Pelican dropship. After that is done,
the door blocking the caves is unlocked, and you must go in to
fight some big scary thing, and then take the teleporter to my second
map when it's done.

Sounds good. To get there to be less lag, spawn the AI only when you need them; use the ai_place (or something of that sort) command to spawn an encounter of AI. So, you can spawn the base AI and the cave AI only when you need to. There also is an AI remove command (forgot it at the moment) to remove an AI encounter.

Yes, but I have to spawn all the people in the middle of the map at the same time as everybody else, otherwise the player will see them appearing out of nowhere

You could un-perminatly remove them while the player is in the base, and in the caves. Then, when the walk out of the caves or base, they spawn again.