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okay so i put beta/new because none of these maps i could get to compile. so....

beta: if someone has an idea to get them to compile, then ill be coming out with a final version

New: Probably no more versions of these maps will be released.

lol i did the quickest job of putting this together. i used the lowest quality pictures so they kinda look like crap. also if i missed something, like textures or anything, just let me know.

Teamthicket



Oh boy this map has some history to it. It's the sequal to thicket.bsp
and follows the same format. A jump map that you could play on. But
overall a freestyle jump map. I included some higher platforms hidden
away in the walls that take some mad jumps to get to. You can fly around
this map at mach 10 speed lol. Overall this map will never be seen on pub
servers due to it's massive size. The massive size does however allow
multiple types of freestyle jumps.

Bridge




One day i decided i just wanted to make a bridge. So I made one and then
from there on i just kept adding to it. Eventually it turned into a map
that could be played. But with the terrain built as it is, i could not get
this map to compile.

Tribal




This map was a project i started because i thought it would look cool.
I never aimed for this to be something that you would see in rotation
mainly because most new maps don't make it to rotation anyway.
I just wanted a unique looking water fall. This map overall came out
well dispite the fact that i could not compile it. The textures make up
for lighting (that is if you use the 32-bit textures).




Download them here:
http://myfreefilehosting.com/f/c08ae002fc_13.12MB



but ya if anyone thinks they can get some of these maps to compile let me know.

all of them looks just wonderful especialy teamthicket and tribal too bad you didnt discover how to compile these :/ but gj anyway

my eyes..

SoD wrote:...mainly because most new maps don't make it to rotation anyway.

Which is a fucked up thing

Shitmap voters! Please die so I can piss on your graves.

Well all of these three maps are simply too big. If I remember right there are some limitations for q2 maps of how complex a single map can be. If it has too many solids or whatever the limit was about then it simply won't compile. And these maps would take ages to compile even on new PCs if you could somehow compile them. If I remember that limit right then some modified compile tools might allow you to compile them, I'm not sure. And I trust you are using Q2beaver with modified qvis.exe & qbsp.exe and Arghrad.exe instead of qrad.exe?

The Q2 engine isn't made for these kind of maps which are big and quite open. And it's not because Q2 mappers are lazy or incompetent that we don't see highly detailed maps because when you add details the map slows down quite dramatically (higher r_speeds). Even though the r_speeds would lower a bit when compiled properly, these 3 maps have the highest r_speeds that I've seen so far (worst was something like over 8000 which means under 40fps with 2,4GHz cpu, 1Gb DDR and 7600GT in a 10+ years old game...). Anything higher than 2000 in r_speeds is unacceptable IMO, I'd keep it under 1500 for the most of the map.

never heard of Q2beaver, ill have to check it out. yeah i tried using different bsp/vis compilers on these maps. 1 of em actually finished but then overflowed when it tried to save its process heh. oh well im done with these maps anyway. now im thinking i might be motivated to add the finishing touches on 3 more maps and release em. these 3 should compile problem free. 1 thing i need though to finish them is a color palette to convert the 32-bit textures into .wal format. anyone have one of those? i lost mine

http://jitspoe.planetquake.gamespy.com/ ... ureps.html
There are some instructions and if you don't want to register to fileplanet, here is a link to the wal plugin for Photoshop:
http://www.kolumbus.fi/pauli.idman/aq2/walplugin.zip

sweet ty

If you can't or won't finish your maps, don't release them. Either you throw them away, or you fix the problem and make a quality release.

AQ2 doesn't need more maps, especially not unfinished ones. Even though the maps look fairly interesting and fun, I won't download them. Mainly because of the overall bad presentation of the maps, with poor quaility screenshots and whiny excuses.