Thanks again to everyone who beta-tested this map and gave me helpful and/or positive tips and comments.
After working on it for quite a while, I am glad to finally being able to upload

Treasure Island Version 1

I release the included map, models and textures under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or any later version. See the included treasureisland.txt file for further information.

The files:
UPDATE: Get the latest version here

Details:
Map Title: Treasure Island
BSP Name: treasureisland_v1r1.bsp
Version: 1.1

Please note: You should remove previous beta versions of Treasure Island from the /data/ (or /dlcache/) folder before playing this version.

Screenshots:



The changes since Beta 4:
- I scaled it by 1.25.
- I changed some parts to prepare the map for the scaling.
- I removed the clips on the roofs and put a trigger hurt field with a damage of 10/second there instead.
- I put in clips to even out issues with the auto-clipping of the rocks.
- I changed some of the textures, and some texturing of the rocks.

I am now concentrating on my next map, but it will probably take a while until I can upload a beta version, as I have lots of other things to do.
Until then, enjoy your trip to Treasure Island...

sev wrote:I removed the clips on the roofs and put a trigger hurt field with a damage of 10/second there instead.

Thanks, this is a very fun map, it has good flow and those things were ruining for me. This is a much better solution.

PLEASE NOTE: You should remove previous beta versions of Treasure Island from the /data/ (or /dlcache/) folder before playing this version.

This is the main reason to use versioning with the bsp files as well as the pk3, so you don't require people to delete old versions from their cache. I've had some people playing this map on my DM server this week. I can't ask them to delete it from their dlcache now.

Anyway, I love this map and I can't wait to try out the final 1.0 version of it.

Spectacular work- I absolutely love it, and can't wait to play some DM games on it. Scaling it really did the trick.

If you ever do another revision, I have 2 things to suggest (only cosmetic things, really).

1) I would love to see the water aspect of it expanded- so the map would have an underwater section as well.

2) The models for the shark might be improved a bit

Anyway, I'm very excited for your next map! Awesome job.

Dokujisan wrote:

PLEASE NOTE: You should remove previous beta versions of Treasure Island from the /data/ (or /dlcache/) folder before playing this version.

This is the main reason to use versioning with the bsp files as well as the pk3, so you don't require people to delete old versions from their cache. I've had some people playing this map on my DM server this week. I can't ask them to delete it from their dlcache now.

I mainly wrote this because of the problem Fisume! reported in the beta 4 thread, the problem is the beta 3 version (which was my very first uploaded mappack), testing with the beta 4 and 1.0 version both in the /data/ folder did not cause any problems.

I am sorry if I caused any inconvenience, I messed it up a bit with the naming of the files/versions. I certainly will not make that mistake again.

torus wrote:If you ever do another revision, I have 3 things to suggest

1) ...

2) ...

o_O

Epic fail. I had 3 things in mind, but I decided not to mention the 3rd -_-.

As I said, I messed up with the file names, sorry again.

After reading the "Map pk3 layout and information about .mapinfo" thread again, I realised that there will be a problem with the automatic download of v1 if the beta4 is in the cache (same bsp name). So I uploaded a new version: v1r1. This is with the same files as v1, just renamed.

I think this is the best solution because it sets things right, and the worst case now is a new download, and not a compatibility problem between v1 and beta4 because they do not have the same scale, as before.

Hey Sev I like your map, just one issue, There's some invisible points in your skybox that the grapple hook can latch onto,they seem like they are randomly scattered about

Any chance you will get a sloshing sound for when the player is walking in the water? It sounds odd having hard footsteps on water.

Anyway great map, keep up the good work

ScottS wrote:There's some invisible points in your skybox that the grapple hook can latch onto,they seem like they are randomly scattered about

I know this problem, but I do not know why the hook can latch onto the sky shader at some places and not at others, because there is 1 brush with the sky shader on and nothing else, and the shader has the surfaceparm noimpact. However, I stopped worrying about that and leave it to the server admins to allow the hook or not, because if allowed, there will always be places to hang with the hook where it was not intended, and there will be players who search for them.

The hook on the sky is a known bug, but no fix is known so far... It will happen on any map.

Excellent job on the map, sev. I'm in the process of tinkering with Radiant myself, so I downloaded Treasure Island to look at a few things. I was a bit amazed, just at the thought of someone not just throwing together a map but actually putting together textures, sounds, models, the works, for a map. It gives it a very nice feel.

Also, I loved the little maps/notes/etc. They reminded me of Myst, which is a very cool thing in my book

Thanks for sharing your work!

Mr. Bougo wrote:The hook on the sky is a known bug, but no fix is known so far... It will happen on any map.

It is fixed in svn.

Bots remain at their position in this map =(

sorry to bump but this map is quite nice

The water walking part makes it look a lot less realistic, but it's still a very nice-looking, original map. By the way, I believe Nexuiz uses GNU GPLv2, not GPLv3. Would you care to relicense?

http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html wrote:Is GPLv3 compatible with GPLv2?
No. Some of the requirements in GPLv3, such as the requirement to provide Installation Information, do not exist in GPLv2. As a result, the licenses are not compatible: if you tried to combine code released under both these licenses, you would violate section 6 of GPLv2.

However, if code is released under GPL “version 2 or later,” that is compatible with GPLv3 because GPLv3 is one of the options it permits.

Treasure Island version 2 will be finished soon, so don't worry . You will get "real" water to swim around in, and a license compatible to Nexuiz, and and and...

I'm stoked. :-]

Nice! I saw the models you were working on, very sexy . I cannot wait