Frozen [Update 5: January 2012]

Redon | 2009-04-24 17:50

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Blurb A small DM map with snow, ice and metal constructions

Screenshot Frozen [Update 5: January 2012]

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Detailed description

This is another small deathmatch map with a good flow like memento, this time with a snow theme. Again, the map didnt take too long, but a bit longer than memento. I started it 2 days ago, and now it's done with waypoints. I'd like to hear what you think about it, and if you have any suggestions for improvements, write a comment :)

UPDATE: Removed Deathclip in the Water, removed some snow, changed jumppad texture and improved the ice texture
UPDATE 2: Fixed a clipping error and removed the pistol ammo
UPDATE 3: Changed the snow texture, Changed Jumppad Texture
FINAL UPDATE: Clipped/Noclipped a few things, changed Screenshot and Mapimage

2012 January - UPDATE 5:
- Most importantly: The infamous water pits have been removed. The entire area is now covered with snow and ice, providing the map with a central area for fighting, without getting stuck in the holes.
- Increased width of two hallways, giving the players more space
- Changed the double jumppad gap to a continous path, with a platform on the side to climb up
- Moved teledest to greenarmour spot
- Added healthboost at old teledest location
- Moved greenarmour to new location
- Added stairs in front of yellowarmour for people with walking disabilities
- Added some details in the lower area
The map is currently saved as "frozen2" to avoid conflicts with the current release version. Please try to playtest the map with friends and give me feedback on the changes, any further suggestions are welcome!
Thanks to Suicizer and Misan for the help!

Added Video:

Link to Demonstration Video on XFire

Here are other maps I built or helped on, you should check them out and leave a comment :)

Map file frozen.zip (2.07 MB)

Rating

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(14 votes)

Comments

Redon | 2009-04-24 21:00

I removed the deathclip in the water because the falling into the water itself already slows the player down enough. Thanks viruz for helping me with the ice texture, it looks way better now! :)

dairyking | 2009-04-24 23:30

I fapped to the screenshot, looking pretty sexy my German friend :D

mIscreant | 2009-04-25 01:28

I really like this layout and style, it reminds me a lot of some of the old cube maps. My only suggestions to you were going to be to remove the death material and light the tall jumppad more, but I see that those changes are already in svn.

Good job!

Redon | 2009-04-25 02:56

Thanks for the comments, the map has been added to the new release of Sauerbraten! :)
I posted a link to a little Demonstration Video for those of you who don't have Sauer SVN.

Suicizer | 2009-04-27 12:34

in some way, this map reminds me to old forgotten maps :D!

it seems to have a good flow, nice detail (better then those old forgotten maps ;D), good geometry and cool ligtning!

dont understand me wrong when i give a 5/5 :P!

KI113R | 2009-04-27 22:19

It seem a lot lately that Redons maps are based mostly on flow and game play. This one does exactly that, it gives good game play and great flow, along with a classic kill factory design (with his own little snow feature) All packed into this small map is some amazing geometry as well. The bonus moded textures give a great feel as well. I had a great time in instagib on this map. (28 me - 36 Redon something like that?) any way, there are alot of quick shots and ample amount of strategic gibs moments. As always said, I look forward to seeing more from you.

Your friend,
KI113R

rocknrol | 2009-04-28 05:35

You made some very nice stuff here, really. Not much to say about your map, only negative imho is that it is very small, but that's just a matter of taste. Didn't playtest it yet, and just "explored" it a bit, and had a look at the great details.

4/5 at least, and congrats for inclusion :D

Redon | 2012-01-28 05:54

Update 5: After almost 3 years, I updated the map today to adress some complaints and suggestions. For the changelog, read the node description.

RaZgRiZ | 2012-01-28 06:16

An update? Something i didn't expect to see. this means i'll have to move all the clipping, texturing, geometry, lighting fixes over to your version. Aargh. Hours of work lost.

Redon | 2012-01-28 06:36

Oh! Well that obviously wasn't the intention. If you want, we can look at your improvements together some time and find a good way to merge them with the map. :P

RaZgRiZ | 2012-01-28 07:13

It's mainly fixes as i said. But lots of them. You have a habit of leaving holes everywhere and then copying them all over.

Redon | 2012-01-28 12:08

I'm asking because I'd be willing to take that work from you, but for instance, what are the holes you're talking about? After taking a look around the edges of my map, I wasn't able to find more than about 4 little ones.

Suicizer | 2012-01-28 12:38

As I already suggested when I was helping you with the update, skytexture things which aren't in sight of players. I see you already did outside the map, but don't forget to do just the same on geometry inside walls (like the downside of the grate inside the pillar. Can't be seen from any angle for players, while it still having triangles -> total waste). This looks way more professional and also reduces the triangles a lot (which would make this map have a lot of detail, while still being playable even for people with low graphics (or a high ping).

Also, it's pretty interesting the map has a file-size of 2Mb, while it's previous version only was 600Kb?

RaZgRiZ | 2012-01-28 17:04

previous was about ~940KB. my update raised it to 1.06MB. i will get working on an update for the svn when i get the time.

Suicizer | 2012-01-28 17:20

Untrue, as this screenshot will show.

RaZgRiZ | 2012-01-28 17:51

In SVN:
800 KB (819.871 byte)

My update:
1,08 MB (1.137.912 byte)

Redon | 2012-01-28 18:52

You should know that skytexturing the outside parts has nowhere near that much influence on the filesize. A large part of the filesize comes from the lightmaps. Calculating the lights with lightprecision 64, I ended up getting some weird light bugs in the blue hallway, with 32 it looked okay-ish, and with 16 it looked perfect, so that's what I went with. However, this has a quite dramatic effect on the filesize - to illustrate my point:

Without lightmaps, the map is 174KB.
With lightprecision 64, it's 604KB. - Here, the weird light bugs occur as I mentioned.
With lightprecision 32, it's 993KB. - Still looks odd on a closer look, but much better.
With lightprecision 16, it's 2,1MB - The shadows look perfect, no more weird bugs, but at the cost of twice the filesize. However, it's arguable if 2 MB are really that bad, a lot maps are around that size. Of course, something in between would be an option, like lightprecision 24, which results in a filesize of around 1,4MB.

By the way, I did skytexture the invisible edges of the map.

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