Koth_Octothorpe

r13

I've been working on a few maps for TF2 and I've gotten to the point I feel I can share this one.

It's a King of the Hill style map, with trains, a death by train counter, sassy custom signs, a Polycount Greentooth beach ball physics toy, and a train car themed on butter.

- a Traingod death counter installed under the point.
- a custom beachball [so fancy!]
- lots of custom textures, signs and logos
- 2 trains! no waiting!
- Finished spawn rooms!
- cubemaps!
- A Conga themed train car for the easily amused!
- A Butter themed train car for those unimpressed with the Conga car!
- A menu picture preview!

http://bit.ly/koth_octothorpe_b09













Cheers,

r13

And for those that have suggested I share it with TF2maps.net... I have

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?p=301555#post301555

Shock

great one de_train

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Latest Downloads May 17th 2015
koth_octothorpe_b12.zip
koth_octothorpe_b12.bsp.bz2

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Eric Chadwick

I like this map! The trains add a nice urgency, I like the sound cues too.

The sky color is a bit too colorful for my taste. The purple-pink overhead looks wrong.

Some z-fighting behind the punchcards here.


I wish this low wall was jumpable. Currently its an obstacle to flow, but not tall enough to be obviously so. I'd say either add a 2x4 step, or make it slightly shorter.


These crates are missing their collision shapes. I'm inside one.


Same with this tire.


Some random dude jumped into the server, and I saw this bad shadow behind him. Can't see it from your own character though.

r13

Thank yahs

I fixed the collision items and the shadow is an engine thing. I can't fix that as it's a dynamic thing.

r13

oh and the ledge is totally jumpable. i tested it several times tonight.

Eric Chadwick

Chalk it up to my noobness. Thanks for the fixes!

r13

So, I fussed with the ground texture a bit more. I pulled new normals and heightmaps off the skull field i built. I used xNormal and it really did make a difference. The Max ones were 'ok' but the new ones are nicer. The height maps are similar, but it was actually nicer too.

I fussed around with the ssbumps as well. I got it all working but the skulls are just too much for it. the shadows were just a mess. I swapped it back to a 'normal' normal. I even had to remake a normal for the dirt texture as Valve has converted all the old ones into ssbumps.

here's some shots of the texture blending properly in game now.