2MB Mapping Challenge - Cozmo

[ShadowRunner]

Hehe, 2 x 1 mb maps?

Well the challenger has spoken. 2 meg limit chaps.

[chin.democ.]

Anything new going on with this map Cozzy?

[~][FGS][Nobody~]

Hmmm.. he didn't login for almost two weeks. I guess he's *loving* business within his chambers of mapping creation.

[ShadowRunner]

hmm, he posted his DX3 skins for our project, but we haven't heard from him since, perhaps he's just on holiday?

[Sonny]

Nope he's still around, will tell him to post.
EDIT: He's been locked out of his email account. Message from him. Pming chinny for change of email.

[Cozmo]

Thanks for sorting that out. Don't suppose anyone could do the same over at DeusExMultiplayer.Freeforums? Eh, I'll stop being annoying now.

Thought of a way to make the upper area less unbearable, plus I need to do a proper skybox etc. Will do some more work on the map tonight.

Edit: When you've been in St Albans long enough, you start pronouncing it "snorbans". DXMP_Snorbans?

[[FGS]Kalman]

Oh, a half month left wnd I still don't have a name
Will u post some sshots?

[Cozmo]

Don't think I've seen a lighthouse map in DX before; original name shouldn't be too hard and yeah I'll take some sshots after the next update on the map

[ShadowRunner]

DXMP_Snorbans is funny, get's my vote.

[quote"Cozmo"]Don't suppose anyone could do the same over at DeusExMultiplayer.Freeforums?[/quote]
Just found out about this, will sort it out...

[Cozmo]

Did some more work on it today, added more decoration throughout the map, a skybox etc and it looks a lot better now. Can't really see anything else to do with it atm, so just going to consider it finished. Lighting could be better but I hate messing around with lighting. Uploading...

Sorry for bailing out on screenshots again but I'm just no good at them.

[ShadowRunner]

I think the lighting is one of the stronger elements. Particularly in the upper street. Most people light night scenes too brightly.
Generally I like this map for what it is, a night city map, of which there aren't many good ones in DXMP.

Things I did wonder.
1. Where am I? There is zero signage. The houses don't have numbers. No street signs or building signs of any kind at all.
2. There's no cover in the long lower street other than at the sides. I wonder how this will play, if it's good or bad.
3. 2 ceiling textures, it appears you just used wall texture. It doesn't look bad, but I wondered if this was intentional.
4. There's around 800kb to spare. Things like the camera just sticking to the big wall brush could be given some detail.
5. Forgot to check it for ambient sounds.

Otherwise I like the darkness and architecture of the map and I think this will play well.

[Cozmo]

Really good feedback Shadow - thanks. Brushes for camera, house numbers, some ceiling textures and more ambient sounds are definitely needed. Will work on it again at some point. Signage is a bit trickier with default DX textures though.

[[FGS]Chees]

Nice mapping Cozmo. Looking forward to this

[Sonny]

Just saying, the map is based around this area of SA

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http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=st+albans+maltings&hl=en&ll=51.751275,-0.338739&spn=0.000451,0.001321&sll=51.752221,-0.333345&sspn=0.007213,0.021136&t=h&gl=uk&hq=maltings&hnear=St+Albans,+United+Kingdom&fll=51.751246,-0.338688&fspn=0.000451,0.001321&z=20

[ShadowRunner]

Vaguely reminds me of parts of Cozmo 1 too, the parkour thing near the spawn. As a UK player I like it when these UK mappers draw from their surroundings, you can see it in Facetown too. It's sadly missing from DX, the Berlin and London levels.
Been absolutely all over "Snorbans" for Red Cross / Action for Children etc, training chuggers, funny that I never went inside the Maltings. Seems like a really nice place to live. Seems like if you live in Luton and have a girlfriend, you have to come to "Snorbans" to avoid the beer being thrown over your romantic date, or so I was told. St Albans people were very proud of Offa's Dyke and kept showing it to me.