Well I was going to add support for DOM and ONS but I couldn't be arsed. I also considered just not releasing this but I'm going to anyway otherwise it renders the entire excercise pointless.

Fairly simple open ctf maps people seem to like a lot. So I made one that ruins line of sight with trees so its much harder to see across. Take that, campers!

Used a multitude of textures. Some from opengameart.org, all gpl or public. Made the bumpmaps for the stone textures myself (poorly).

Enjoy. Please inform me asap if there are missing textures/models/gophers.




DOWNLOAD - updated to v1r1

http://omploader.org/vM3d4Mg/Ancient_v1r1.pk3

Can't check it out right now from work. But looks pretty cool

you should do some performance tuning like like caulk everything you dont see and add hint brushes

I should, but caulking doesn't seem to make a great deal of difference. Its supposed to reduce compile time as far as I am aware, but I just let my machine crunch through it. Normally I do caulk everything but I felt lazy today

As to hinting its not something I'm confident to be able to do well.

Hinting probably won't have too much of an effect, since the map is quite open.

What I would suggest is to improve the lights. Especially from the skyshader, since the map does not at all reflect the fact that there is an unobscured sun (for example no real shadows from the trees), and at some places it's completely wrong:

I never noticed. For some reason that seems to be one of the few skyboxes that is lit at all. Normally I used ones from the archive but they never seem to work quite right.

Sepellio, where in shit did you get all this mapper mojo from ?!?!
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Good work sir.
Gold star in post

Wow it looks beautiful. Downloading now.

EDIT

Minor complaint: Bloom and HDR wash the textures out on this map. It looks beautiful when bloom and HDR are disabled though and more importantly it plays well.

Lee_Stricklin wrote:Wow it looks beautiful. Downloading now.

EDIT

Minor complaint: Bloom and HDR wash the textures out on this map. It looks beautiful when bloom and HDR are disabled though and more importantly it plays well.

Cheers.

Yeah I'd expect the ground texture to look washed out its very light. Once the map gets more testing I'll maybe darken and replace it or something. Its not up on any servers yet that I am aware of

this is a great map ill will download it when i get back on my laptop, you did good you should not have even thought of not releasing this map

Sepelio wrote:

Lee_Stricklin wrote:Wow it looks beautiful. Downloading now.

EDIT

Minor complaint: Bloom and HDR wash the textures out on this map. It looks beautiful when bloom and HDR are disabled though and more importantly it plays well.

Cheers.

Yeah I'd expect the ground texture to look washed out its very light. Once the map gets more testing I'll maybe darken and replace it or something. Its not up on any servers yet that I am aware of

Is it possible to just set the map info to keep bloom/hdr from being enabled? If you can do that it seems like that would be an easy way to fix the only flaw I found.

I have absolutely no idea. I'll try and find out.

Why darken the map? Let there be light!

amazing !

It looks great from the screens. I also like how you inhibited camping instead of removing the nex all together. Could someone else possibly be arsed to make this in other gamemodes? It's a shame ctf and (t)dm get all the love.

I plan to do more gamemodes in the next version as well as some optimisations. I just wanted to see how the map went down with people first

Okay then, that's great

you should make lightmaps for the map as well, especially the trees. it would make it look 1000x better.

It does have lightmaps... as far as I was aware anyway lol

sorry, I mean so that the trees cast shadows based on the world lighting. (I don't map, so i don't know what it would be called, XD sorry.)

n1ce work dude

hmm for Die Tunichtguten server it would be cool if the map border walls would be a little bit higher, because of our gravity settings^^ :>

Maybe something like a fence would be cool, that the skybox dont lost the signification because of the mapangle from the player to the skybox :p

or or or

you only make higher walls at the sides where the flags are, because only there the walls are too small :/ i think

NEW VERSION 1r1

Changes:
-Increased the wall height a little for you minsta fellas
-Attempted to increase framerates (I say attempted remember)
-Trees should now be hookable/lit properly
-Added support for onslaught
-Altered the torches in the nex room so they bounce you up to the jet pack, which can then be used to get the quad. At least, for those of you who suck at laser jumping
-Decreased the pk3 size just a tad.

Download:

http://omploader.org/vM3d4Mg/Ancient_v1r1.pk3

Updated the map on MoNastery , your lovely laggy server.

what happened to the download link?

Link dont work anymore .. but i downloaded it from another server, but than it was a deathmatch map :/

Yeah Omploader has went and crapped out on us, so links for LOTS of maps are now buggered.

yeah its great news for me when I just started a server and come looking for maps

this is a map which plays quite nice.

for example the trees prevent easy rocketjumping from one side to another, you most likely end up stuck within the tree tops ^^
also, there is good traversal and lateral action.. the sides are stacked with sniper rifle, the bases have good grenade and launchers and such.

i noticed that the megahealth get ignored by quite a lot of people btw.. ^^

this is a good map, for sure. (maybe enforce the trees)

I'll need to get round to making a new version of this some time for both Nexuiz and Xonotic. Evidently I'll need to modify the big nexuiz N at each base for one game hehe.