Finally !

The long awaited map-project "The Loof" has been finished by the revolutionary Design-Group "Awesome Ray"



Download it here (updated version "loof_v2")

Steve Tibbons (GamersHell) wrote:Offering groundbreaking visuals, and revolutionary gameplay, "The Loof" definitely is the next step in FPS-evolution. Just perfect

John Carmack (id Software) wrote:I followed this project from the beginning, but now as it's finished i can't even imagine the impact that "The Loof" will have on the whole gaming industry. Jaw-dropping !

Peter Molyneux (Lionhead Studios) wrote:Why haven't i thought of that ? It's so simple but the most fun i ever had. "Awesome Ray" is definitely the best address for new and exciting Game-Design.

PC Games Online wrote: Stunning !

Strahlemann wrote: Definitely the best thing in ages that happened to mankind

Vermeulen wrote:"The Loof" raised the bar up to the sky, where only astronauts like the "Awesome Ray"-Design group can operate.

its pure madness.
i love it

This map shows you really can have the best of both worlds!

Brilliant item placement and high fps!

A real winner, 10/10 for sure!

This seems to be a most tactical CSS map. Are I able to play it with Nexuiz es well?

I got 1 FPS looking down.

2.3 will have a much better performance. at least i've around 20 fps in worst case and with 2.2.3

OTOH, it won't be able to run with 16 players on 2.3 servers

I needed to disable sv_cullentities_trace (the anti-wallhack) for the map to make it run below 100% CPU load. Too many items...

LOL, now really, it's pure genius, apart from the framerate problem of course.

I've asked this on IRC too but I didn't have much time and at that moment it seems no one had any ideas -- is there a way to reduce view distance? I can't try using fog since it doesn't seem to work for me (if it's gfx card related, well... mine's a GeForce 4 MX 440). I can play if I set r_showsurfaces to 1 but it would be nice to have textures too .

Anyway, I'm looking forward to a match on this one .

[edit]: And I dared to think you'd forget about the 1st of April...

Inspired, just inspired.

Looks a bit like the aimtrain map at the PB servers

but i got there very bad FPS

Looks a bit like the aimtrain map at the PB servers
and plays like that map!
Why is there a RL and a Mortar this weapons are useless at the map?
but i got there very bad FPS

hm haven't played the aimtrap map.
I added the RL because it's fun watching the rockets bounce back on the jumppads.
And i added the mortar to have every weapon available

And there are so many items becuase if there are a lot of players, the items will be takenby the players.
more players => less visible items => higher FPS !!!

Why don't you add some blinkenlights and lower teh ambient illumination?

And make the holes bigger, my head already hurts so dam bad

Blinking there will be !

Holes big enough they are !

Cool map

I lol'd

Just tried it. I'm going to have to gouge my brain out to prevent it from being violated in this way again.

Great map!

i love the music!

I updated the map for better fps.
In fact there are just less items

But no blinking, sorry Urmel...

Download loof_v2 here
(First post has been updated)

Also feel free to play around with the map-source.

HF

Strahlemann wrote:But no blinking, sorry Urmel...

Whoa that's a great FPS increase. Now I can play with textures, thanks .

Yeah a nice funny map, inspired by that 6000km high tower i guess.. its said to take half an hour to fall down there

It just seems to be quite hard to get some of the floating items but its great fun anyway.

I wanted to have some items given to the players by spawning but the way I tried it doesn't seem to work. Haven't had enough time to figure it out.

atm it works this way: I target an item_give with the item_player_deathmatch (aka spawnpoint) and the item_give entity targets a weapon_uzi and some item_bullets entites for example. Should work in q3 but doesn't work in nexuiz.
Or i just missed something

And yeah it's quite hard to get the floating entities, that's why I added so much in the first version...

Strahlemann wrote:atm it works this way: I target an item_give with the item_player_deathmatch (aka spawnpoint) and the item_give entity targets a weapon_uzi and some item_bullets entites for example. Should work in q3 but doesn't work in nexuiz.

There's is no support for that item_give entity in Nexuiz, so the only way to make that work would be to change g_start_weapon_*/g_start_ammo_*/g_balance_health_start/g_balance_armor_start in your mapcfg file (don't forget to reset it with an exitcfg).

meh.
yeah.
forgot about that...
rushed it.

Thanks