Spring cleaning, happy Easter

[jmartin]

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So here's a few maps I released over the course of the year, after EG contacted me back in April about one of my maps called “Shoppingmall”.

It was right about this time that the Covid-19 emergency hit, and everyone at work was suddenly stuck at home for 2 months.

With not a lot to do I dusted off the editor which I basically hadn't touched in over 10 years and tried to reacquaint myself with a bit of mapping.

The first map DmShoppingMall 2003, I decided was perfect the way it is except there were a few details I had intended to add in the original, but at the time couldn't find the right textures or advertising graphics. I didn't have high speed internet back then, let along Google Images. Finding just the right textures for ANYTHING was a laborious time consuming process.



http://www.mediafire.com/file/xy2e5qcei ... l.zip/file


ShoppingMall 2020 has a few updates, re-configured all Path Nodes, window displays, re-keyed the elevator and made a CTF version because of its symmetry.

The only problem is it triggered some sort of weird, unexplainable shopping infatuation "frenzy", where I felt compelled to embark on even more shopping mall themed maps.

There are about 6 or 7 other shopping mall themed maps out there by other authors, so at least I'm not alone.

DM-ShoppingSpree is a curvy test map, where instead of building each individual store, the graphics are pasted on the walls to make it look like a mall.



http://www.mediafire.com/file/7dscv2n6w ... e.zip/file


DM-Shopaholic is a larger more detailed map.



http://www.mediafire.com/file/f5fp3afy4 ... c.zip/file


DM-Counterfeits is an exterior futuristic Hong Kong shopping district made with all transparent buildings.



https://www.mediafire.com/file/phx1vcp8 ... s.zip/file

More info: http://islandalien.com/unreal/shopping/index.htm


Counterfeit Hills is a smaller jewel box version for 2 or 3 players.



https://www.mediafire.com/file/74vnhq6j ... .zip/file



"It's A Walk Off" based on the movie “Zoolander”. Fans should get a few yuks out of this one.



https://www.mediafire.com/file/pgw1rb3o ... f.zip/file



"The Abandoned Shopping Mall". As a sequel released almost 20 years after the original, its timing coincides perfectly with the recent trend in real life abandoned shopping malls which have been springing up across the country.






https://www.mediafire.com/file/clqzsxin ... l.zip/file

More info: http://islandalien.com/unreal/asm/index.htm


Jurassic Park. A minor update for UT that replaces the missing UT_Lindstradt.u rifle. Couldn't find the damn thing anywhere so I just made a new one. Added a few dynamic audio clips to the control room.



https://www.mediafire.com/file/va70mhml ... 1.zip/file



"Bombardment" aka Dodge Ball. Another remake of the original 2002 version, this one features stone parapets that eventually disintegrate after sustaining enough damage (like in Space Invaders) leaving the opposing team more vulnerable to attack.

Built in about 10 minutes, this is a RIDICULOUSLY fun, brainless, action packed game variant for such a simple map.




http://islandalien.com/unreal/DM-CTF-Bo ... nt2021.zip


Westworld.

This is the third sequel to the originals built in 2002, 2010, and now 2020. This is a self guided tour. There is only 1 player start. Earn your way to “consciousness” by completing the maze. When you reach its center, look for a slight discoloration on the ground.







http://www.mediafire.com/file/at7xdf8c9 ... 0.zip/file

More info: http://islandalien.com/unreal/westworld2020/index.htm



Thanks,
--J

[EvilGrins]

Sweet!

[OjitroC]

"How come the Pulse Rifle is sooo expensive?" asks Konoko

[sektor2111]

"How come the Pulse Rifle is sooo expensive?" asks Konoko

Tell at Konoko that someone needs money for a new keyboard, <underline _> has malfunctions so it was needed usage of a lousy <SPACE> in file-name for causing headaches with redirecting for plain UT . This malfunction also prevented adjusting cylinder and PrePivot for some trees and they have a funky collision response not as it's expected at those dimensions - 2×Normal. No doubt that Covid has visited the Keyboard and Editor . No, I'm not asking for changing these lousy names containing <SPACE> in 2021... I'd rather prefer to remove these from gaming location.
In that CTF etc "MapName_SPACE_2021_SPACE_b" there is no ammo in map, just weapons. I think we can add/have ammo post-pathing for preventing to generate pathing loops and buggers without any headache. Technically a patch plugin running for this map would add ammo successfully without a single issue under a second not during two months (or ten minutes). If it comes at deleting all brushes from map, I think even red template brush builder can be "deleted" (nullified) as well... and more junk data can be removed not only brush type actors...

Edit: By example this one looks suitable for playing with any friends (Bots, Monsters and Human Beings) as it has now a normal LavaZone and decent pathing (over stairs as well - all with 257 reachSpecs) and ammo, and LessTele4 mutator allows playing with everyone without telefragging...

So I don't need that one without ammo or that without a logic bottom kill-zone, both of them can be moved elsewhere.

[Pandemonium]

Nice!

Awesome to see people getting back to oldschool mapping.

Greetz, P

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[jmartin]

"How come the Pulse Rifle is sooo expensive?" asks Konoko
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"Because it's a Versace" replies Moshmond the snooty clerk.

Also because it's a futuristic experimental prototype. (Pentagon price tag).

Most of the others are just ordinary guns. Sorry, no lay away.

Your best value is a Prada grenade launcher for a cool twelve six.

[EvilGrins]

CTF-Shoppingmall is pretty nice, much improved from the original... but, I tested it as I usually do: 2 teams of 4 bots each.

They never go upstairs.

I think some businesses should have appropriate power ups: Shoe stores get jump boots, Starbucks gets power ups, health station gets mega-healths.

Liking it overall, may make a request to edit it later.

[OjitroC]

They never go upstairs.

Only the ground floor is pathed.

[EvilGrins]

DM-Bombardment 2021 is interesting, and yeah there are a lot of maps I know of where no kill-zone was setup below and the fall is even larger than this and still bots survive the fall. It's weird. Also, this map is setup for Team Deathmatch Plus, with a default setting of 4 teams... which is odd for a map with a clear 2-sides motif.

CTF-Bombardment 2021 b is better, keeping that over the other one.

[OjitroC]

DM-Bombardment 2021 is interesting, and yeah there are a lot of maps I know of where no kill-zone was setup below and the fall is even larger than this and still bots survive the fall. It's weird. Also, this map is setup for Team Deathmatch Plus, with a default setting of 4 teams... which is odd for a map with a clear 2-sides motif.

Yeah, DM-Bombardment 2021 doesn't work fully because of the non-fatal fall and bots not spawning in the correct team location, though it is fun for a while until a bot decides to jump over the wall into the 'pit'. It's probably best with humans.

But 4 teams? There's four PlayerStarts - 2 for team 0 and 2 for team 1. Perhaps you have TDM set up for 4 teams?

[EvilGrins]

Yeah, DM-Bombardment 2021 doesn't work fully because of the non-fatal fall and bots not spawning in the correct team location

Sometimes handy these kinds of maps are for LMS... you want to live longest you shoot the transloc over the side and then after a few seconds teleport down, then snipe anybody that follows.

I've a couple maps like this, though the one with the biggest fall is this one:

Spoiler

One of my fave maps, which I've had since shortly after I started playing ut99, is this one:

Despite never having played Quake (waits for sounds of surprise to pass) I do have a few Quake-themed maps, but this is hands down the best to me.

It's unique to me than any other UT map both before or since.

Why?

1) The map is in the sky, WAY high up... but players that fall over the side survive 25% of the time, even though it's a LONG WAY DOWN!
2) It has plenty of sniper points, bounce pads, a hard to get to redeemer, and health vials arced over the center between 2 bounce pads.
3) There's a far off platform, reachable by a couple powerful bounce pads, designed specifically for snipers... but it has no defensible points.

Only issue I've ever had with the map is OpenGL... as it looks like it's filled with BSP errors with that. D3D though... it looks fine:










All the Battle Drones? I've been playing with the Golden Reavers mutator a lot lately.

As setting up kill zones isn't one of my strengths, I usually do a mild edit to such maps where I either put Tentacles on the underside of the map armed with redeemers, they shoot at anything if it falls into the abyss, or just leave a Cyberus or UTDM-monster down there to deal with they who unfortunately were not killed by the fall.

But 4 teams? There's four PlayerStarts - 2 for team 0 and 2 for team 1. Perhaps you have TDM set up for 4 teams?

For the last couple years I've gotten in the habit of not opening UT and just double-clicking on the map files, which I've setup to launch UT... so I see the maps with all their default settings and no mutators; seems the best way to check out new maps. So, no, this map is default set to 4 teams under Team Deathmatch.

[sektor2111]

"CTF-Bombardment_2021" as I renamed it according to stock UT rules (I did not see any stock map having SPACE in file-name) and having brushes out it's now a NORMAL map with damage zone as it should be and paths optimized at minimal needs - including stairs (piece of cake), network compatible - supporting any redirection. Some of these stripped maps are still supporting small geometry hacks for creating these bottom-kills, there is not needed of monsters which are removed in stock games or causing only errors - because game-type specified in LevelInfo it's BotPack.CTFGame not delegated with Bot attitude toward other "pawns".
This is where I did a couple of tests toward extra run-time tweaks - that's another story...

So, no, this map is default set to 4 teams under Team Deathmatch.

Where are these settings ? These are perhaps in your INI files maybe, I don't see anything in map than BotPack.CTFGame (which I'm not using).

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If your UT is screwed by "stuff" used this is not available for everyone. And NO we have 2 Starts for RED TEAM and 2 Starts for BLUE TEAM. There isn't any start for Team 2 and 3, map it's normal at this point, you can check yourself. In other hand perhaps SPACE used does funky calls in your system... I've just click on it and it started stock CTFGame - okay, without mutators I was telefragged...

The rest: As you, boys and girls, can see, we do not have any EngineVersion printed in Editor. But we do have iterations limits at UScript Level .

[OjitroC]

For the last couple years I've gotten in the habit of not opening UT and just double-clicking on the map files, which I've setup to launch UT... so I see the maps with all their default settings and no mutators; seems the best way to check out new maps. So, no, this map is default set to 4 teams under Team Deathmatch.

You don't see maps with their default settings starting UT that way, you see maps with YOUR default settings. The only way to check map 'settings' is in the Editor or UTPT, depending on what you are looking for.

[EvilGrins]

You don't see maps with their default settings starting UT that way, you see maps with YOUR default settings.

That is possible.... but I figured since it was TDM+ that might be different than the norm.

Where are these settings?

Not the CTF, the Deathmatch version.

[sektor2111]

And ? What is changed except Game-type ? Map has the same setup even for CTF.

Good boy, Mr. Garbage... I love it (okay another time)...