Since I haven't made anything good for a long time, and I got Halo 2, I decided to make this map. Thing is, I couldn't get it to work right in Halo 2, so i'm making it for CE for now.

The map is located in a cave long since forgotten, and it used to be a mining facility for the forerunners. The covenant used it as a base for one of their operations, until the humans learned of it and took it over. It is now used as a training facility for new Spartan recruits.

Everything is subject to change right now, I just wanted to post this to see if anyone's interested in it. If enough people want to, i'll release a beta for game-play testing.

Here's some candy, though not completely sweet, it's good enough to eat:












Textures from Bungie, snow wall shaders/textures by inferno, spike grenades by Sigmaleet, model by me, halo 2 teleporters by lightning, everything else by Bungie.

Betas:
-Beta1
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/ce_maps/St%20Caverns%20Beta1.zip

Edited by ThePlague on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:39 AM
Edited by ThePlague on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:53 AM

awesome

What are the white planes at the very top center?
Other than those it looks really nice.

Those are the lights for the map. Other than using devmode you won't be seeing them at all.

Looks like a fun map. Nice one man.

Thanks. Took a whole two days to make :p

If anyone wants to beta, xfire me at church897. i'll be up for a few hours :)

I have a problem though, for some reason it isn't working on CTF. I have spawn points set but when the map loads it says waiting for space to clear.

Are the spawns too close together?
Do you have spawns for red and blue?
Is there something covering the spawn point?

How close is close?
Yes, and flags for both teams.
Made sure there wasn't.

I'm thinking the level got raised or something, but none of the spawn points have that red circle next to them.

I also just made the race gametype possible so :)

E:

After moving and deleting spawn points, and also moving ctf spawn points, it still does the same thing. I'm stumped :\
Edited by ThePlague on Mar 20, 2010 at 03:13 AM

Looks abit bland. Produce more cover along walls.
Make sure those ontop don't have a camp advantage.

The layout looks interesting.

What Cocaine said. Like Derelict, it seems people on higher levels will dominate. The map looks good, but it lacks cover. If you played Delta Lake, you know what I mean.

Looks ok, I'm hoping the modeling/texturing is just for gameplay testing, right?

Like others said; theres definitely not enough cover and the people on the top are always going to dominate.

I think it looks good and classic. The only advice would be to make it not as barren.

did you set gametypes or all games?

huh... Ai doesn't work in MP

stop. do not trole.

what weapon set is this? custom or classic?

This level in Halo 2 Vista on Legendary always pissed me off.

As far as I'm aware this wasn't a level....?

If you look, and read what he says, you'd know it shall contain the all-mighty default tag set.

I actually added a lot of cover for you, you just need to use what is there to your advantage.

Yes. Everything isn't final.

Barren as in how?

No. This is a multiplayer map, not singleplayer. Once the final is released you can do whatever you want with it.


I tried both with no success.

True. I modeled this with no references or levels in mind.

Also true.
Edited by ThePlague on Mar 20, 2010 at 04:11 PM

PLAGUE
can you upload that song i sent you yesterday to any file site and send a pm with the link
kthxbai

I think it needs SOMETHING on the bottom most floor and on the platform area you are standing on in the pic above.

Looks cool, like a Lockout type map. If this were for something other than H1, I'd totally play it.

Hopefully once I figure more out for Halo 2 it'll be in there.

I got go with master. But I'll will play it. About the Lockout type map of course.

Here's a beta:
http://johnflasser.scifi-frontier.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/ce_maps/St%20Caverns%20Beta1.zip

It works on everything except CTF.

If anyone wants to host a server, xfire me: church897
Edited by ThePlague on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:53 AM

Page cannot be found.

Now you don't :)
Edited by ThePlague on Mar 21, 2010 at 12:53 AM

Ill start a server if you want to play.

Sure. Get on Xfire too :)

do you mean the h1 tagset?
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and dude u need bug testers that are super good at finding glitches. look what Hr3shy found.

That's why I released the beta...

I knew about the UVW error, but not about the getting on top of the level one. nice find.

Tell me if my server is showing please.
Name St Caverns
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 shottiesnoshieldsodball
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 slayer
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 shottiesnoshieldskoth
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 oddball
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 shottiesnoshieldsts
sv_mapcycle_add st_caverns_beta1 team_slayer

I didn't see it.