hey, i was mapping here about a year ago but i joined the airforce well im back now and want to know whats up! well i think ill be starting on a new map my hardrive with my outher map i was working on is well missing my computer kinda got scavange by famley why i was gone so i had to get new think this will handle mapping now?

Motherboard Asus NCCH-DL
CPU Intel Pentium4 Xeon 800 FSB 3.0 GHz... (2) <==(duel cps's)
CPU Cooling Stock Intel Pentium4 Xeon CPU Fan (2)
Ram OCZ PC3200 Premier DC - 2x 512mb (2) <==(2gig's)
Case Thermaltake VA3000BWA Dream Tower
Hard Drive Western Digital SATA 160.0GB WD1600...
Video Card ATI Radeon X800 PRO 256MB DDR
Monitor CTL 7TX - LCD 17 inch
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster Audigy2 ZS
CD / DVD Rom Lite On 16X Dual Layer DVD+RW/-RW B...
Operating System Windows XP Home
Power Supply Sparkle 460W Dual Xeon Power Supply

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so like it heh, well ill post later with any maping stuff i come up with btw Ns:sorce wont be out ant time soon will it? dont want to get map out days befor it comes out

Nice specs, should handle it without any problems at all (only downer is the XP Home edition but that's not anywhere near a major worry).

It's all a bit in the air at the moment. I did write quite a lengthy post somewhere on these forums about why it's best to wait a little bit to map for source but also why it's still worth the effort to continue on the HL engine to keep gaining mapping experience in general.

hello... welcome back and get a Cool map released.

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hey i made up a fast idea tho sence im more build as i go it will mostlikely change lol the idea is the have a crashed ship land on eather a planet or astroide (no outside part so dont wory) will be partly on the ship and have hall breaches leading in the the caves think the name will be like ns_crashed, tho might endup as a infested outpost thay crashed in2

just rember that this was made is a few men mostly just wanted so see my idea =p
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http://img198.echo.cx/my.php?image=nscrashed8vi.png

I did exactly the same thing with Solace, MSPainted myself up a layout with names, pretty colours and the like. What eventually happened was that as I started going through each room and corridor they got much bigger or smaller in size and changed shape quite dramatically. I also found the layout at a second glance to be, well, quite frankly rubbish as far as balance was concerned.

I'd suggest concentrating on the main rooms, getting them themed in terms of function/visuals and then putting in your mind some sort of balance ratio.

Eg: Cargo (Tanith) - Marines:Aliens = 70:30 or something, as it needs to balance out the fact it is a very close res node.

So what I'm saying is, by all means keep the rough layout, but forget about the corridors (except perhaps sketching down on paper some 2D x-sectional concepts), and play around with the RT placement. Then think about this balance ratio, perhaps making it easier for 'rines closer to the MS and easier for the Aliens closer to the Hives (unless of course you have a Cargo example like above).