Quote: For any of you who are new to the forums and are considering making maps for Halo, or any other game for that matter, I have some advice for you. I mean no disrespect by using the term noobie, but this is some important advise that you should take note of (mentally, that is). As you've seen in the title, my advice to you, the novice, is not to release your first maps. When I say novice, however, I don't mean people who have had modeling experience but are new to Halo. It is perfectly acceptable for someone with experience to release their first few maps. Take it from me, my first map wasn't anything special, but I released it because I felt it was worthy. The question you need to ask yourself is, "is my map worthy?" Because it's your work, do not give yourself too much credit or praise. not only does this create a poor first impression, but you're fooling yourself into believing that you do not need improvement. Everyone needs improvement, because nobody is perfect. Practice doesn't make perfect, practice makes better, which brings me to my next point. The whole point of your first maps is practice. There is no point in releasing practice material. It's like selling a peice of paper with some scribbles on it, where you've tried to learn how a variety of pencil lines look. Nobody will buy it. Never use the excuse that your first released map is poor because you're still a noobie. It doesn't fool us old-timers, you just chose not to practice first. Now, why should you care what we think about your map? There's more to consider than it being a waste of your time to release. It's also a waste of webspace. Poor Dennis at www.halomaps.org has to pay out of his pockey to host your first maps, make them count! So, before you go posting anything other than comments in that release forum, or run off uploading something to halomaps, consider what I've said and ask the question "is my map worthy?" This isn't a rule, just some honest advice I would like to give from observations I've made.

Quote: --- Original message by: shadowslayer123
draco's are very massive and it would be very hard to fly since the top of the level is about 20 feet high, and why should'nt i release this

Quote: --- Original message by: Karrde
Although it may seem that the people here are being a bit harsh, they are right. If you want people's opinion on your first maps, find a few people who are into the kind of map you are trying to make, and share your ideas with them before you start working on it. For example, if you like maps with good gameplay like seige, chiller, sciophobia, etc. then find people who are also into these kinds of maps. Confer with them. Form new ideas, and perfect them. When you and your friends are confident that the idea is ready to be tested, start working on it. When you believe you have made sufficient progress, release a beta to your friends. They can tell you what is good, what is bad, what needs to be fixed. If you don't know how to fix something, ask for help. You'll figure it out eventually. But keep your betas and your tests and your practice work. It doesn't need to be released. It will never be used by thousands of people or hailed as the greatest map of all time. Only a handful of people will download it, and even fewer will actually keep it in their maps folder, because it is incomplete, and is not truly ready to be released. When all the bugs and problems are fixed, then your map is done. Only then should you release it.

Quote: --- Original message by: shadowslayer123

Sidewinder Basemod is my first map varient on halo ce. There will be new bases inside the caves that take you to the red/blue base faster(see pics). the bases will contain all of the original weapons and some vehicles and plenty of gernades.

Pics:

bipeds for target practice

keeps enemies from your base

first look

covenant weapons

human weapons


more pics later

things to expect in the final release:
both bases will have all original covenant and human weapons and mostly all vehicles
weapons and gernades will be more organized
target practice bipeds will be moved to a better place
no stray weapons or vehicles
teleporters to both red and blue base caves, all other teleporters will be desabled and deleted
all gametipes available
flag and oddball will be moved inside new caves
caves being fully blocked off from each other
new skybox
covenant target practice bipeds (maybe)
and anything else i throw in there

i would like to thank yapyap the grunt for the awesome tutorial, gamma 927 and all of the other people who actually helped me in my sapien problems topic on the forums, without their help i would still have a broken sapien and this map would not have existed.

i will keep my updates here, any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. for a early alpha go to: http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4588 (the name is spelled wrong but i dont really mind, and if it is possible can you please correct it.)
UPDATE:


maps for the bases
Edited by shadowslayer123 on May 24, 2009 at 09:00 PM

Quote: --- Original message by: PVT Jenkins

No bipeds don't sync me and, my freind were playing a map that I made and, then I was shooting the bipeds and they didnt die becasue they DON'T SYNC.
Edited by PVT Jenkins on May 25, 2009 at 12:21 AM

Quote: --- Original message by: PVT Jenkins

No bipeds don't sync me and, my freind were playing a map that I made and, then I was shooting the bipeds and they didnt die becasue they DON'T SYNC.
Edited by PVT Jenkins on May 25, 2009 at 12:21 AM

Quote: --- Original message by: UnevenElefant5
Again, DON'T quote all the pics. And bipeds DO sync. AI don't.

Quote: --- Original message by: PVT Jenkins
Ignoring your post you troller.

Quote: --- Original message by: Karrde
You have no idea how incredibly annoying you are.