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Stealing Map Layouts
I haven't started a new thread for a while (if ever) so I though I'd post this.

Have you ever been so lazy/crap that you couldn't be arsed to think up your own layout for a map?
But you knew that if you tried to steal a layout from an existing map somone would recognize it, and people would realise that you're a loser. So what do you do? That's easy...

...You steal the layout of a building or real life structure you know well.

I'm currently using the layout of a night club in Sheffield to make a DM map. Anyone else used real life buildings as map layouts? What kind of buildings work well? Did you learn anything about the buidling by trying to build it in a game? Did anything funny happen while you where building the map or thinking about something vaguely related to this? How funny was it?

Discuss.
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Ahw Shit 
yeah yeah i am a forum retard
i will now leave and shit my pants

bye 
Zippie 
well you picked a decent map to rip off, it was one of my favs for q2. 
Zippie 
I downloaded your geocomp2 map! 
Hehe... 
The result would be a foregone conclusion regardless of the level:

"distrans was gibbed by metlslime"

...repeat ad nauseum... 
Rossignante 
Reply to #16

I thought pirates used "enter" to capture ships, but let me be the horse, who's searching the next bar in a stolen sense. 
Madfox 
nah, you've gone too far now. it's obvious you're doing it deliberately.

there'll only ever be one QMD. 
Never Argue With A German 
As I am only a foreigner, having quiet a ball to understand what is ment, makes it difficult for me to even get into your way of thinking.
Reading these boards gives me a strange habbitude, which draws me from logical information to shall I say boredom.
It is not for me to decide what is wrong or right, as the answers are not coherent to me.
What I only want to say, if someone wants to get to straight point by asking who is stealing map- layouts, I just can't get it being randomized by opinions which are defended by irrational quotes.
You might say my temper is a little hazzardious, but maybe I just can't get used by
the agony a clear answer can minimize the reason of aking.
But go ahead, I will cheque my dictionary and see if there are better words to defend my offspring, still good friends anyway.
But may I know what you mean with QMD, so this Sancho can take it defends, and cut it up in a shorter way. 
There's Nothing New Under The Sun... 
Just reading Gamespy's rather good 25 smartest gaming moments (a counterpoint to the recent, excellent 25 dumbest moments) and it reminded me of this thread:

The year is 1979, and first-year Computer Science student Roy Trubshaw... Then, while tinkering with the university's DEC SYSTEM 10, they discovered a powerful exploit: In effect, several users could access the same database. Suddenly it was possible for several players to play a game together... Eventually he had created a representation of the first house his parents had bought, with several rooms as well as a road and a garden outside. All in text, of course! Players could log into the game and move around from room to room by typing simple verbs...


How come everyone's first attempt at mapping is the house they live in, an environment clearly unsuitable for gaming purposes??

We'll never know! 
I Built My House 
but it looked awesome! 
I Never Did That... 
strange, but true. 
Wrath: 
That's because you live in a dank, grotty hole in the ground, and your meagre mapping skills don't extend to natural terrain. 
Ontranto Stealage 
The mine half is 80% of RCDM10.

The third map is a modified steal of the riverboat map from the Cryptic Passage addon for Blood, available through HOTU. 
using RL (real life) arch as a basis for a map is not a bad idea. but like everything else "all things in moderation"

Rebuilding the quad at your school, or your house, or where you work might be good practice with the editor, but sucks as a complete proj. . .

BUT. . .
there are elements of each that might be cool. Maybe the sidewalk pattern in the quad is cool. maybe the way the deck overlooks the yard is cool. maybe the entry and foyer to your workplace is cool.

the trick is identifying those parts that can successfully make the translation from RL to GL (= 
What About... 
the translation from LG to SNG? 
Metl 
that's different, 'cause then you're working backwards through the inventory 
Kell: 
RL to GL is also backwards through the inventory. 
 
yeah, I realized after I hit Submit :P 
Dranz! 
Release TEH FUCKING REPUBLIC MAP already!! 
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