If I wanted to start a mapping team, how would I go about doing it? What do you think?

Make a recruitment thread saying your team name and purpose is, then tell everyone Halo-related on every IM you have about it.
This coming from a person who's all alone in his mapping team...
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Be sure to have a website and it's own forum for you all to have a home. (Free)
Require Xfire. (Free)
Show Renders and or Screenshots of content you've made in the past.
What kind of members you are looking for. (Modeler, animator, tagger, etc.)
Hope people reply.

8/10 of the teams formed on this site never make it. You making a mapping team would be just another useless thread. That may sound me, but you are WAY better off on your own.

Or, you could ask people on your xfire to help you, or work with you, and create a small group. Not a team, but close enough. If you did make a team, I might join, but I can't do much. Oh well.

Edited by vmt on Jan 1, 2009 at 12:13 PM

Edited by Gamma927 on Jan 1, 2009 at 12:09 PM

Did this seriously go offtopic AGAIN? Why the hell would you post that link. It obviously didn't contribute. No, It just made this thread get worse so now we can DEBATE again.....

This is what I've been doing since pretty much are mao highlands even though its only been me and disaster and killer.

yah small groups are good because then they dont always think there the best in the world and if you get annoyed with the crowd its easy just to start anew where with teams seem to get overproud for instance h3mt. I have a mapping team but i only have one because i personaly find it easier to get everything done that way.

vmt, totally agreed.
if you want to represent yourself well, do it like this:

Hi I'm Sargeant Haxor, and I'm looking for people who want to form a mapping team with me! =)
I have alot of experience with HEK and all of it's related tools, and made 26 maps so far.
The clansite i made can be found on http://www.beachparty.nl.tp/ and the new beta layout on http://jvd.bslinxs.com/BP%20V4/intro.html =)
Here are screenshots of my previous projects:





Well this is just an example of how I would do it myself, but I already have a clan (50 people) with alot of modders and 3dsmax people, so don't take my offer seriously lol

O.o your using CMT's sky, and Gman, and HDoans rigged h2 bipeds. Your very awesome.. You also modded H3MT's Narrows map.

dude, its a friggin example, i just got some MACHINIMA screenshots, come with your arsenal of projects if you know better

...you shouldn't have said that....

/thread

Why, because people are actually afraid of NewbKilla? LOL

it says newb killer, im not a noob so.... i lol at it



back ontopic again please, i mean, someone who wants to form a team and can make maps already are the good people, not the people who make a mapping team and then post a thread on how to make one, i seriously lol at those noobs.

No, because this thread went off topic again, and I think it is going to go off topic more...

Er.. How is this ontopic?

trying to get back to the one who wanted to look for buds to mod with

just... nevermind burn me >.<


Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 2, 2009 at 01:50 PM

the sarcasm wasnt needed there. why are you ragging on him for that? he didnt release it. hes just showing stuff hes done

Um ok.

Sorry? The truth hurts. None of that is his. How can he be showing off stuff he hasn't done? I'm simply stating hes done none of that. There is no reason to be afraid of me. I just suggest learning how to create custom stuff before showing off tags that aren't yours. I'm sorry if it sounded like I was in a pissed off mood. I'm not.

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READ THE RULES:
http://forum.halomaps.org/index.cfm%3Fpage=topic&topicID=2979
Edited by Dennis on Jan 2, 2009 at 06:13 PM

http://profile.imageshack.us/user/UnholyKilla13

Thats what I made from scratch.

I'm not trying to be an arse. Your taking his the wrong way. And I'm afraid Dennis will probably step in.

BYpassing the filter makes Dennis a mad guy :P Also almsot eveyrone in this topic can model or do atleast something decently froms crtach.

lol true dat
OMG ITS HDOAN
...I love your h2 models... perfect machinima stuff, i hope to see more of that =P

but back to topic, i hope, starting off with a good website and some friends is a good way to start off

first host the picture on a website like tinypic.com or imageshack.us
Then copy the link to the pic and click on the button next to the world button with the picture of a mountain and the black arrow pointing to it and put the url to the picture in there.

Then post and the picture will show up.

I think you deserve an award, you really do:

Going against what people have said here , but when i started my team , i simply got together with another person i met in a CTF match and talked about the whole concept of map making , and he wanted to try it , and i wanted to , so we started from there , he made the maps , i came up with the concepts , shortly after we expanded after releasing our first map , and kept on expanding until current day.

Some times its not the work thats important , its weather someone likes the concept your trying to make.

same goes for me, but then again, the point here is that someone that tries to join a mapping team and THEN learns to make maps, but whatever..
anyone should start how you started sonic, then the community would be alot cooler, just my opinion

but it's true, better a good concept to start from then a totally lame map thats techinical well made, i'm short on ideas myself since i make maps, before you learned to make maps then you're full of ideas, but now i just ask people if they need a map, like now, since i dont have any ideas yet, i just made a Last Resort remake, but now I'm just bored =P

what im trying to say is, everyone should get a chance, but you have to make some effort yourself too, then you can count on it that the whole community won't be against you



like that...
Edited by BeachParty clan on Jan 4, 2009 at 09:24 AM

No offense, but at least half of the red guys in that clip are going to die, if they all have rocket launchers and fuel rod guns

i should have placed a pic with 10 scarabs against a mongoose... *working on it in sapiens now*

* cough cough * mongoose = win * cough cough *

you still think a mongoose with a single driver would win? I wonder how =P

if the driver was my noobinator biped it will win. in one sec.

Hell yes. The mongoose is faster, and far more maneuverable than the Scarab. The Scarabs would probably end up shooting at themselves.