Below are five shots of the hive bit. As usual, bash them to smitherines! Ho ho ho... as soon as I can fix my plane issue, I shall release Ambeke, which hopefully won't be too much longer.

Without further ado, the shots:






Below are some older shots:

Zeit zooks zery zood!

that looks aweomse :o

I like the cave bit with the fog. And that skybox is nice too.

Let's just hope it doesn't get widowed.

Looking very nice. Send me a copy.

Very nice, awesome skybox, was it you or Mr.Ben that started the glowing-organic-crystals thing?

On another note, I don't like how those fog sprites clip against the wall, creating an abrupt change between "fog background" and "un-fog foreground" Assuming that you're using the light halo entity (whatever it's name is), couldn't you center it on the passageway and make it fit exactly *in*? That would get rid of the clipping.

Looks pretty awesome, but I think you might have gone a bit crazy on the coloured lighting
Excellent brush/texture/ambience work though.
Seeing screenies of some of these great maps in here is kinda inspiring me to finish my own map :/
Yes one day nsmap.rmf will become ns_<can't think of a name>.rar !!!

Up, UP, AND AWAY ... into a official version.
Really hope it does.


I absolutely love the glowy-crystals... i may have to steal the idea for my map. They just tie everything together...

poast

:edit: you already know what i think of it.

Holy **** - Not only does it look good but you get the honorable master and commander Flayra coming out of hiding to see it... I tried for ages to do that! I layed cookies on the ground and even left out a plate of carrots and a glass of milk... He's the santa claus of the modern gaming industry..

So, Ambeke isn't cancelled after all?
Looks great btw.

Looks so Good!
Awsome actually.
Great atmosphere (I think )

When i can see that map ready?

Note: You don't want to know how he hit the planes limit.

wow, that cave or something with the glowing chrystals is awesome

an impressive skybox no doubt, but with a glowing green nebula nearby wouldn't one expect a bit of the ambient light to be tinted green? although i do realize that the artificial lighting of the station would largely drown out the light from outside, it would not be completely gone. i suppose that outdoor and darker areas would show this more. wouldn't this green also be noticeable on the rock faces?
/end c&c

great work as always zazi ~:)

pretty damn good!

Oh my gosh. Those screens look really really awesome. Man if you need a download mirror wrote me an email clem@readyroom.de
We would love to run your map on your Costum Map Server once it's done.
Keep up the good work buddy and if you need something, email me
-catch you later

Looking great, just a single remark on the texture alignement of those pipe textures: it kinda sucks, completely destroying the illusion of a round surface.
If you're a QuArK user, just use "wrap texture around pillar".
If you're a WC/Hammer user, I believe KFS placed a tuturial on curved surfaces a while ago that should help with this, albeit with a lot more effort and poorer results. Basicaly, try to increase the texture size and make it seamlessly stretch across multiple faces sideways.

And do you seriously need 200k per 640x480 jpeg image

Very colourful, I like Though, as someone previously said, the screens are a bit too bright. Imagine you were looking at that late at night. Ouchies.

If I could have it done by tomorrow, I think, it could've been in Beta 4. Onos. I guess I'll settle for the next release.

Looks good, but, I see a really big problem in shot five.


Notice how uneven the floor around the hive is. Thats going to be hell for both sides to build structures.

not so much the aliens, but hell for the marines, and hell for gestating.

Ah, okay, that is a good point.

But gestation still will be a problem, as Swiftspear said.

Not really. You can't gestate on surfaces whose angle is 45 degrees or greater, or where there is a seam of two brushes whose degree is eh... I forgot, but whatever. Point being, I have gestated in every bit of the hive and other infested areas; it is not a problem.

furthermore, you can jump, then gestate. I've found this useful often. did you know you can splatter as an egg?

Yes belg, by jumping and gestating as an egg . I think there is a lesson to be learned here, don't ever do it. Did it once while evolving to fade, then just dieing during the process.

I demand credit for fog and particle systems. ;D ;D

Seriously though, you know I love this level, and I'm really sorry I couldn't make those plane adjustments; your terrain confuses me. I was going to try and rebuild some of in a more optimal fashion, but I was called away and didn't have enough time. My apologies.

Very nice. Cant wait to play. Btw seeing as you said 56k beware how large is the bsp?

shame there'll be no playtests

I dig it Zazi!~
Very slick

wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!!
Zazi for teh win!

oh, and im sure you know what server to put this on for the playtesting *wink wink*

DAMN YOU FOR RAISING THE BAR FOR ALL OF US!!!!!


(srry, but im working on a map, so something this cool really makes me feel inadequate)

btw my map is co_neo

Are you gonna use the sky I made you Zazi or the one in your shots?

Looks awesome, BTW!

~ DarkATi

Zazi, this is beutiful, cannot wait to play

This will go on my server for sure

my guess is that this will go on everyone's server once it's complete...

Sweet, any word from flay about those planes, is it gonna be in a beta?