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[[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS]

hi there to all my friends at TSGK and those I do not know as well
Over the last month or two, I have been making a completely new map from scratch.
This map will be called dm_killbox_[tsf]_the_octagons. This is primarily a killbox map but it has 2 octagon shaped boxes that are linked together by a short tunnel on the ground level and two walkways about two thirds of the way up. there is a central room that overlooks both boxes with three possible ways to get up into that room.
These are by way of two teleports, one in each of the octagon boxes an a neat little ladder system leading up from the small tunnel on the ground floor . Also at the top of the ladders there is a very small room with a sliding door which is triggered by a player coming up the ladder.
This sliding door is a one way door so you can get into the central room via it but not back out after it has closed.
There are two possible ways out of this central room. either jump out of the windows into one of the boxes or to shoot a sign on the wall and exit using a teleport that is inside the tardis. (police box)

There are many other little things to get your interest in this map such as two gold dalek statues , small tardises to use as physics and even a couple of daleks to throw as well
I will be putting it on the [ TSF ] server (( ip 217.163.27.50:27015)) on thursday afternoon and leaving on for the night at least.


You can view the pictures and coment on this map here
http://www.rtype.com/TSF-Clan/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=215

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Looks very nice LD - well done. Must pop over for a cuppa and exterminate.

[gtamike_TSGK]

Looks good i'll try to be here thursday at night.
I need to get custom textures to work with pakrat.

[[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS]

Thanks diet I am hoping as this is my first totaly original map that players will like it .
As for poping over for a cuppa you are more than welcome any time


GTA I have had no end of problems with pack rat GRRRR. and find it has some good uses but I can never get it to do what I actualy want it to do .PUT THE DAM TEXTURES IN
So thanks to fyck I and a little help from rav I used man for the first time and they all went in first time ... WOHOO .
I will pm it to you in the tsf forum

[The Borg_TSGK]

Always best to have a evening kick off so you get a good lot of players at once for your map test/rollout. Maybe 8pm

Hope to be there LD

[Osiris_TSGK]

[gtamike_TSGK]

Thanks Osiris

I will give pakrat another go

[Ravage]

[Osiris_TSGK]

Yes, be sure that your VMT file is correctly formated especialy the texture path information, if not decals or custom textures will not show up.

Using the lastest pakrat version too is a good idea which is the v0.95.

Also you can find more information concerning the use of VMT if needed to add more properties to it:
http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/VMT

[Knife]

FuckRatPack

This annoying program is bugging me a long time now
I know that MAN is much easier to use. But i messed up my config in Hammer. So If anyone can assist me with man, feel free to PM me.
I gave up al hope on FuckRatPack and it will never be installed on my pc ever again

Map looks nice Lord. I will come and visit to see your work

[Osiris_TSGK]

[gtamike_TSGK]

[Knife]

[[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS]

Thanks for thr responces guys hope to see many of you all there tonight

Thanks osiris for the guidelines on pack rat but kc|rav and i have spent hrs trying to sort it out without any luck.
The actual problem we have is that it adds all our home made textures with out any trouble . But when it comes to the cncro4s and the cncro4sp2 textures which if memory server me right is over 4000 textures, it will add the VTF with no problem but when it comes to the vmt, (the one with the actual picture in it) pack rat adds it the file size of the map goes up but in game no textures. so come out of game use pack rat to re add them it says that the picture files are not there and it wants to add them so do it again and again the file size goes up and again it doesent work in game.

but now i used man it worked first time YAAYYYYYY

[Diet H2O_TSGK]

Nice map - I enjoyed it

[Cannon Foddr]

Very nice map, roomy, nice colours, good weapon layout, some great custom props and secret teleports to finish it off.

Great job Lord !

[Sadist]

very fun map, a great map for physics and mag users alike.

[gtamike_TSGK]

My pc was having RAM problems (not to do with the map)
If your free LORD DAVROS could I check it out?

[[ TSF ] LORD DAVROS]

Thanks for the responce guys this map is now in our map cycle and our map cycle is only 8 maps now so it comes around quite quickly. Feel free to drop in any time.... .

PS.
I am now working on a killbox map and will let you all know when this one is ready to test.
This time as we all love tsgk v8 so much I wanted to create a map that had the same fast game play as v8 but was not just another copy of a great map. It is only in its early stages and is still a way off completion. As I am sure those of you who use hammer will know mapping takes a lot of time to get right, And the octagons map took me at least 2 months, and I am sure that this one will take nearly as long.

[gtamike_TSGK]

Cool, killboxs are fun
yeah making maps in hammer does take sometime if the map has alot of brush work, or a big map, also hard shapes made by the cuting tool takes time.