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t3h Oldschool r0cks! 

Does anyone know any GOOD and preferably up to date resources for RTCW map editing? I have read Nib's, Simland and Tram Design tutorials, and that's all well and good, but I'd really like to see what the community is up to currently. I don't really have a clue as to the standard of the MP and SP maps people are making right now.

I'm just finishing off an old RTCW MP map that's being languishing on my HDD for 2 and a half years now, that's why I'm interested. 

cannot help you more than pointing to planetwolfenstein and other similar sites :( 

There's some RTCW MP stuff still done, but a lot of the mappers shifed to Enemy Territory - what with it being free all, it naturally meant a bigger audience. People ported their old RTCW maps to ET too. Neither ET nor RTCW has ever had a review site up to the standard of something like The Big House though so it's difficult to point at a single site. And even ET mapping seems to be tailing off a bit now as people move onto newer engines.

I'd recommend a rummage around in Splash Damage's forums. 

Are you still waiting for Prey? Cause it's gonna be cool.

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=5249 

Anyone tried this out yet? Worth getting? (Getting it anyways) 

yes, it has better leveldesign and gimmicky gameplay :D 

Now the floodgates are open, I predict a lot of new shooters are going to have their own version of the "Grabber". I'll be absolutely stunned if the next iteration of the UT series doesn't jump on the grabber bandwagon as well. 

I can't fucking wait. :P 

any progress with sm82?

or do you still don't have time for it? 

this thread: http://www.quakesrc.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4841&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0 

Coders! 

Yes, time has been tight for me; especially in the last week. I hope to have more time after this weekend. Maybe I can work some on SM82 then. 

I put up a "website" for myself, it is about 70% Quake2 content and 30% other. It isn't much for style or design, I know little to nothing about the whole web design thing and I do not have the time or energy to learn any more. I used a very basic wysiwyg editor (thus the "iffy" results for some browsers) and got some great help with the script that opens a new window when the thumbnails are clicked (thanks sonneh).

http://www.maricscabinet.com/

This does not have to be news but I knew there was at least .05% interest around here for all things Q2. 

actually, this is a good resource simply for your quake 2 map list. I was always frustrated that there was no place i could go to see all of your maps with screenshots. 

there are hundreds of maps!

/me faints 

That must have taken a long time to setup the site with all those screenshots.

Oh, and I guess it took some time to make all the maps, too. ;) 

finally there's a page for all your maps! Som eof the later ones definitely deserved to be shown off.

A suggestion though, how about displaying your latest stuff first and then moving back to you rearliest. That way you highlight the good stuff first up.

Also, I like the little comments with each map screeen. 

I sent my dead hard drive off to my Dad, who assaulted it with various means of data retrieval, and there's good news. He's managed to restore almost everything on the drive and rescue all my old maps, textures, all of CF, and even LunSP1.

Happy happy joy joy. Remember kids, make regular backups. 

congrats!

lunaran: resurrection of data! 

Awesome!

But, of course, you do realize that your excuses for not finishing LunSP1 have just decreased? 

One of these days. Not before Byzantine, of course, but one of these days. :) 

How do you guys deal with the negative thoughts creeping into your head during the creative process? For example, you're working on something that you're very happy with, and then just to try and get a sense of how you're doing, you ask for opinions. If the opinions aren't necesarily helpful or specific, yet still implicitly negative, how do you stop yourself from questioning your own ability?

(example internal monologue)

"Hmmm I guess it is pretty shitty, but I don't really know where to start to make it better"

For most of you, do you even bother entertaining those thoughts? And if you don't, how do you if people actually enjoy or respect the work you're doing.

I know that's kind of a loaded question, but I am curious. 

I just accept I'm a shit mapper and kill myself. 

Just ask the critic to be a bit more specific about what he didn't like about it - then you can review those areas and decide for yourself whether they could be improved. Vague negative comments which don't actually describe *what* the problem is should not normally be dwelt on as, like you say, you just end up getting paranoid about the whole thing.

Also, it sometimes helps to ask "Ok, what would you do to make it better?" and you can use your own discretion to decide whether or not to take their ideas on board.