mapping

[pink monkey #4]

i just wanted to see if their are any other mappers on here, besides myself and #13. post some links to your maps and such…

 

examples of mine can be found at http://www.pinkmonkeymaps.tk tell me what you think

[Renton]

sound cool but not enough patience to dl

[Renton’s Big Bro]

i’ve always been interested… is it like autocad at all, or is there a prog i can do like that? I had full v of autocad a few years back and rocked out some cool *edited* with it. Of course i was in college for engineering at the time… that helped… just gimme some vague ideas of what i’d be gettin into…

[Pink Monkey #16]

renton, I’m not actually a mapper, but as a person who has used autocad a little bit and seen the mapping process, i would say that mapping and CAD is pretty similar. of course with mapping you are using valve hammer editor (which is free with CSS) and you are not only drawing and coming up with textures and models, but also dealing with light, sound, spawns, etc. so its autocad with a layer of complexity.

[Phonetically Phamous (dice]

its not pin k

[Pink Monkey #13]

i’d say it’s similar to ACAD in some respects, but #16 is right about another layer of complexity. it’s quite time consuming. I don’t even make very good maps and it takes forever!

[Falcon]

i looked into it last night to try to optimize some maps for juggernaut rounds (modding the spawn points) but apparently you can’t edit the maps once they turn .bsp

 

i got annoyed and stopped after that.

[Pink Monkey #13]

you can decompile a map and edit the spawnpoints that way. the origional source maps might be tricky tho. here’s a whole page from the source sdk reference documents on decompiling maps, including removing protection from maps and such. check it out:

 

Teh Linkzor

 

^b/c it’s fun to talk like that!

[pink monkey #4]

i would have to second #16’s post in say autocad is somewhat similiar, but not really.

 

i have just come across what appears to be a good .bsp decompiler. here’s the link:

 

http://www.geocities.com/cofrdrbob/vmex.html

 

 

then some other random tools that are mainly used for modeling (which i don’t do but if anyone cares to):

 

http://www.chaosincarnate.net/cannonfodder/cftools.htm

 

 

btw, hammer map editor is downloaded with the source sdk, so if anyone cares to try their hand at mapping…

[fearpi]

I don’t make counter-strike maps, but I used to churn out Quake maps years back. Very recently I started *edited*ing around with Valve Hammer Editor. It’s fun to see how little the process has changed over the years – in fact, Valve Hammer editor happens to be the latest version of Worldcraft, the popular map editor for Quake-based games back in the day. It’s neat to see how much, and really how little it’s changed since it’s been acquired by Valve and seen two or three major revisions.

 

Also, hi. I’m pi. This is my first post.

[Nickname]

#14: your website there would be 100x better if you took some screens of the maps and put them up, that way ppl get an idea of what they are downloading!

[Falcon]

i’ll dig around with mapping over the summer mebbe, but i was just tryin to quick fix some maps, which ya can’t do w/o decompiling

[Pink Monkey #13]

i thought mani had a cvar that could create more spawn points at one time… or were you looking at placing them in particular spots?

[Falcon]

either one… if there was one to just add more spawn points, then we need to tells that to liam for the juggernaut round

[Liam]

Falcon said:

either one… if there was one to just add more spawn points, then we need to tells that to liam for the juggernaut round

 

Don’t think there was, I’ll double-check though.

[Pink Monkey #13]

i found this in the mani_server.cfg today. i think it’s v 1.2o:

 

// *****************************************************************************

// Module : Extra spawnpoints

//

// Desc : Extra spawnpoints can be turned on and off using the following cvar

// *****************************************************************************

 

// 0 = off, 1 = on (will use spawnpoints.txt file)

mani_spawnpoints_mode 0

[Bitey]

We don’t use mani , but at least with that we know its possible.

[pink monkey #4]

fearpi: i also used to use hammer 3.4 (the first version it was called that after worldcraft) fun stuff, but it’s gotten alot easier since then

 

 

nickname: with my basic knowledge of html this may be possible, if i ever find time…

 

 

questions, comments concerns please!!

 

…and has anyone looked any of the maps?

[Pink Monkey #13]

Bitey said:

We don’t use mani , but at least with that we know its possible.

 

i could look into decompiling and adding spawnpoints to maps if you want me to. it may take awhile with all the stuff i’ve got goin on tho. if you gimme a list of maps, i’ll do my best to decompile em, or find a bsp of them on the internets (it can’t be the hard to find one right).

[pink monkey #4]

i found a good .bsp decompiler awhile ago, i have no clue where it was, i’d say i’d look on my computer for it , but it’s very dead at the moment…

[Pink Monkey #13]

pink monkey #4 said:

i found a good .bsp decompiler awhile ago, i have no clue where it was, i’d say i’d look on my computer for it , but it’s very dead at the moment…

 

so ur computer DID crap out after the quasi-lan we had awhile back? what’s the deal with it? have u figured it out yet?

[pink monkey #4]

it actually died this past sunday… i hadn’t been using it for 2 weeks since i was grounded then it just wouldn’t turn back on… since then i have figured out that it was the motherboard. and come to think about it i should really have #16 email me that shipping label…

 

ah well since then i just plugged one of my hard drives into the basement computer to that i could still do use steam

[Pink Monkey #13]

ouch. that sucks man. it really didn’t seem to be terribly healthy at the lan. what were you grounded for?! lol. that hurts man. is ur basement comp good enough to play css?

[Pink Monkey #16]

basement comp = pretty good fr a not gaming machine.

 

core 2 duo

2 gigs ram

250 gig hard drive

8600gt

and the best part windows xp

dvd-rom

dvd burner

gigabit lan

7.1 audio

19-1 media reader

 

newegg rocks!

[Falcon]

 

dude, that like totally pwns my machine like it was a stone age rock

[pink monkey #4]

#13: uhhh… yeah, i kinda got mad at my mom… i haven’t had a break since about christmas so… but as it seems now i only have about a month left…

 

and yes, #16 i have been using the basement comp, i just plugged in my 250 gb harddrive and i have all of my stuff without any downloading… the only source of happiness at the moment.

o and the 7.1 audio hasn’t been helping much me play cs:s, same with the media card reader…

[Pink Monkey #13]

hahaha. ouch. i bet she was pretty happy.

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