although Hrim's is the obvious winner. Tough start but the twin floor room was surprisingly easy due to infighting (always fun to watch).

Minor nitpick: I'd prefer more shells than the abundance of nails. I always try to make do with the trusty DBS before using heavier equipment and here I ran out before the final showdown.

Btw, was the design/theme inspired by fmb100 or something else? 

Well it's only a speedmap but I'm glad anyway that you liked it!

AguirRe: Well The map wasn't inspired of FMB100, at least not on a conscious level, But there are a connection to that map because I used the terrain generator Mike used on FMB100.

I fiddled a lot with the generator last week, and as a matter of fact started another map Tuesday in order to get the speedmap out of the way before Saturday. But after 4 hours I realised that this wouldn't be a speedmap! So I stopped and finished the map the next day after 4 more hours.
I then started a full vis of the map and..... well it's still vising. At the moment it says:

Full: 81.20%, Elapsed: 96h 49 m, Left: 39h 26m, Total:136h 16m, 71%
----- 8-/

Thank you very much for the ability to stop the vis and start it again. I had to stop it Saturday in order to vis the speedmap - that one took around 7 hours.
Oh boy That generator really makes the vis tool work.

About the shells/nails. Well I could say that the theme was tricky so for you the tricky part was to use the nailgun instead of the SSG 8-), but the truth is I just tossed some ammo into the map and that was it! 

if that terrain was handmade or otherwise ...

I'm glad the RVis AutoSave feature helps you, please just remember not to interrupt it when the progress bar has been going for a long time. It's then processing a very slow portal and if you cut it off, it'll have to restart that portal.

If you wish, you can also use the -priority 0 option to put the vis process in the background while doing other things (e.g. vising another map). 

Even if it is called a terrain generator it dosn't auto generate a landscape.
You have to rise or lower the parts of the map by hand. So you sort of sculpt the landscape with the curser, and got to have an idea of what you want in the end.

And yes I sat starring at the progress bar awaiting the right moment to stop the process when a portal was finish. 8-) 

supposed to import a grayscale image of the terrain with white being 100% height and black being 0%... 

It's quite like an ordinary map editor.
But instead of manually selecting the different brushes you want to manipulate, you just point and the editor selects the area you can work on.
In the menu you can select different sizes of the work area, tools for smooting and flattening, rise and lowering, making "noise" if the map is to smoote and other tools.
It's actually wery fun and easy to use.
Try it Mike posted the link in the FMB100 thread. 

SM89
Theme: Decay
When/where: Saturday, November 6th, 2004.
gamesurge.irc.net, #speedq1, 3:00 pm central.

Oi then. 

You got an email address that 100% works Zwiffle? I'm not saying I will have time, but your supplied email address last time did reject my worthless submission.

P.S. Pimped on QuakeTerminus. 

zerglingxx@operamail.com <-- normal address
zerglingxx@ameritech.net<-- normal address 2
sanewton@uwm.edu <-- college address 

:) 

speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm89_zwiffle.zip

I didn't get any emails from anyone yet, so I'll assume that I'm the only one mapping today. So, in any case, here's my map today. 

http://speedq1.spawnpoint.org/files/sm89_zwiffle.zip 

making a speedmap last night, but someone turned off the electricity:( Now I woke up and the electricity is fine, so I think I'll finish it (I think I saved it) 

...where it belongs 

...very nice map.... liked a lot the overall feeling and gameplay... Good theme(ruins and books, nice!), maybe worth developing in a full blown map... it's good to see that someone still cares about good Qsp maps and speedmapping. Keep it up!

Me, on my side, I'm still trying to learn some mapping in my spare time. The results better be kept in the lowest lava pits... 

Well, it's done.
But it doesn't fit the theme good (read 'I think it doesn't fit the theme at all')

But here it is:
http://quakemaps.nm.ru/maps/sm89_pulsar.zip

Also it is mailed to Zwiffle, cuz there may be problems with my site 

Awesome map. I saw you clip-brushed some of the ledge at the start, but you can easily jump across the patio areas. From there it's just avoiding certain death, but I'd like to see some speedruns of that. Sweet job, Pulsar. 

I tryed few times to jump across there, but I didn't reach the another side. Probably I just absolutely suck as a speedrunner ;) 

and good-looking maps. Zwiffle's was too bright and had too little ammo though; I had to slowly axe the shambler or sneak by with 8 health.

PuLSaR's was just spot-on. I also tried to walk the ledges but was clipped off. Jumping across seems possible, but it short-circuits the map so it's pretty pointless except for running.

Keep it up, guys! 

Two small nice maps.
I had the same problem as aguirRe with Zwiffle's map - no ammo! So I gave myself the luxus of 100 nails by cheating!
PuLSaR's map - well what can I say just perfect for a short blast!
It looks like speedmapping is taking off once more. 

http://www.quaketerminus.com/speed/sm89_maps.zip

It's the least I can do. Both maps are a good crack - thanks for making them ;) 

...sm82? 

Theme: Babylon
When: Saturday, November 13th, 2004, at 3:00 PM Central
Where: gamesurge.irc.net, #speedq1 

 

sci fi?