New map thema ?
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gregori said:
Of course.
It would work with any period in human history, I guess, and it's always fun to look into the funhouse mirror, so to speak.
IMO the trick with the theme, anyway, is to make it appear obviously alien from a short visual inspection, but make it equally obvious what part of Earth's history is being referenced. Kind of like Na Pali was both fairly alien and pretty strikingly medieval.
And agreed that Gieger has been done to death.
vault said:
Hehe, I always thought that was missing as well. I guess the only thing stopping that is processing power...
ideas
1)my school, so i can blow the s**t out of it, and not be a terrorist
2)some sort of level which may represent forums, such as BUF, etc
3)my house, cause im the 'pwner' of it
4)amusement park, with house of mirrors, haunted house, those spinning rides, where u can be upside down
5)in ren's ass (jk?)
6)in a hotwheels themed map, where everything is huge, like cups, cereal boxes..
7)Marioland like on the old 'nintendo'
8)the beach, like as-beach in ut?, or like saving private ryan
1)my school, so i can blow the s**t out of it, and not be a terrorist
2)some sort of level which may represent forums, such as BUF, etc
3)my house, cause im the 'pwner' of it
4)amusement park, with house of mirrors, haunted house, those spinning rides, where u can be upside down
5)in ren's ass (jk?)
6)in a hotwheels themed map, where everything is huge, like cups, cereal boxes..
7)Marioland like on the old 'nintendo'
8)the beach, like as-beach in ut?, or like saving private ryan
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there are so many movies and specially some decors/stages i d like to jump in. maybe some mappers could find some ideas to develop some maps later when the game is on the shelves:
-1) I have always liked this fantastic final scene with Clint eastwood and Gian Maria Volonte who is hanging over an open grave full of gold in a kind of huge military circular hill graveyard in THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY , if someone knows the movie they know what i mean. Please if anyone make a map of this scene, first make it good and keep the music THE ECTASY OF GOLD of Ennio Morricone
-2) You have this fabulous Dojo in RAN from akura Kurosawa that could provide a nice map thema too.
-3) I d like so much to fire some rockets in the kwik e Mart in SPRINGFIELD
-4) the attack of Akkaba in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA could be a nice epic fragging place
-5) the prisonner camp in the GREAT ESCAPE
-6) all the places seen in DELICATESSEN from CAROT and JEUNET
-7) KILL BILL have many nice places too
-8) the bridge, jungle, camp and river of THE BRIDGE OF KWAI RIVER
-9) The Vella la Cava flight squadron 414 base of Greg Boyington in BAH BAH BLACKSHEEP
-10) the old south in the 30's like it is in O'BROTHER from Joel and Ethan Cohen
-11) Redrum redrum, the whole hotel and park of the SHINING movie from KUBRICK
-12) the village in the final duel in KELLY'S HEROES from Don SIEGEL
-13) the little italy from any of Martin Scorcese's movies:
-14) Alcatraz from ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
-15) ...
-1) I have always liked this fantastic final scene with Clint eastwood and Gian Maria Volonte who is hanging over an open grave full of gold in a kind of huge military circular hill graveyard in THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY , if someone knows the movie they know what i mean. Please if anyone make a map of this scene, first make it good and keep the music THE ECTASY OF GOLD of Ennio Morricone
-2) You have this fabulous Dojo in RAN from akura Kurosawa that could provide a nice map thema too.
-3) I d like so much to fire some rockets in the kwik e Mart in SPRINGFIELD
-4) the attack of Akkaba in LAWRENCE OF ARABIA could be a nice epic fragging place
-5) the prisonner camp in the GREAT ESCAPE
-6) all the places seen in DELICATESSEN from CAROT and JEUNET
-7) KILL BILL have many nice places too
-8) the bridge, jungle, camp and river of THE BRIDGE OF KWAI RIVER
-9) The Vella la Cava flight squadron 414 base of Greg Boyington in BAH BAH BLACKSHEEP
-10) the old south in the 30's like it is in O'BROTHER from Joel and Ethan Cohen
-11) Redrum redrum, the whole hotel and park of the SHINING movie from KUBRICK
-12) the village in the final duel in KELLY'S HEROES from Don SIEGEL
-13) the little italy from any of Martin Scorcese's movies:
-14) Alcatraz from ESCAPE FROM ALCATRAZ
-15) ...
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map based on central London/Paris but in the future, or maybe Constantinople.
Possibly a map based on the architecture of the Taj Mahal exept in space naturally enough.
A ctf map themed on Heaven vs Hell, angels vs demons, were on one side is a swirling apocalyptical vortex with lava, demonic architecture,gargoyles,harsh winds, tornadoes,lightning,voices wispering in you head,
and on the otherside there is of ofcourse, a garden of eden like fortress in the clouds, gentle air, ridiculous amount of white light, waterfalls,peacefull angelic statues and cherubs..........all the usual stuff
Possibly a map based on the architecture of the Taj Mahal exept in space naturally enough.
A ctf map themed on Heaven vs Hell, angels vs demons, were on one side is a swirling apocalyptical vortex with lava, demonic architecture,gargoyles,harsh winds, tornadoes,lightning,voices wispering in you head,
and on the otherside there is of ofcourse, a garden of eden like fortress in the clouds, gentle air, ridiculous amount of white light, waterfalls,peacefull angelic statues and cherubs..........all the usual stuff
Maybe a cloning lab/factory were tournament contestants like malcolm and gorge are created , possibly cloned for the army, also where the skaarj hybrids were created........with added embrionic sacs (matrix style) and amoeba filled testtubes, complete with the obvious genetic accidents, freaks and strange creatures that were created. Have computer displays/holograms modeling/reading out the DNA patterns, laser scanners reading out test subjects DNA , and overhead tubes carrying streams of amino acids, and bio goop.........................maybe it could even be an ancient alien craft found by liandri and so on and so forth!
EL BOURIKO said:
You, sir, are speaking my language. :tup::tup::tup:
That would probably be a really boring DM map to play on, but who cares?
The UT99 mod The Third Reich had a good musician on the team, and the music from one of the maps was a pretty obvious homage to Ennio Morricone. It was 110% badass... the map itself wasn't that great but I always loved playing it because of the tune.
You know, come to think of it, the bridge scene might make a decent CTF map... and the town where No Name and his stinky buddy went after Angel Eyes would probably work OK for DM...
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Discord said:
... and the house/hacienda that Sentenza (L Van Cleef) visit at the beginning of the movie to know the name of Bill Carson would perfectly fit in a DM map... and of course not to forget it, the prisonner camp with the south choral in the background...
Some smart mappers, please!!!!
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no see someone needs to go take some acid and then come up with a map idea now thay could be an awsome map...
I would like to see more maps that are completely original. something other than industrial, gothic and all the overused ones. maybe something like the planet from the treasure planet (the disney movie
that planet looked swwet... but then it blew up.)
I like the space theme of things, but you are always seeing the clean side of it. we need some of the underground places in space... like hideaways or something, something gitty feeling and makes it feel like you are actualy there and can almost connect with the place... perhaps even move you...
I dunno flight of ideas?
now thay could be an awsome map...I would like to see more maps that are completely original. something other than industrial, gothic and all the overused ones. maybe something like the planet from the treasure planet (the disney movie
that planet looked swwet... but then it blew up.)I like the space theme of things, but you are always seeing the clean side of it. we need some of the underground places in space... like hideaways or something, something gitty feeling and makes it feel like you are actualy there and can almost connect with the place... perhaps even move you...
I dunno flight of ideas?
I'd most like to see the Unreal-based themes to return (not just being mentioned in the readme). Unreal-temple textures, statues of Great Tournament Champions of the Past (Gorge, Malcolm), things like that.
Even the tournament itself can be a source of inspiration, like matches in holovision studios, camera's around the levels, posters and banners with the correct display name of the leading player.
And am I the only one who liked the idea of connected levels, like Stalwart and Stalwart-XL?
Even the tournament itself can be a source of inspiration, like matches in holovision studios, camera's around the levels, posters and banners with the correct display name of the leading player.
And am I the only one who liked the idea of connected levels, like Stalwart and Stalwart-XL?
Ooooooh, nice
Maybe not with the "Gray" aliens specifically, but aside from that, that's a pretty sweet idea :tup:
Discord said:OK, here's my wierdest one yet. Get ready.
The arenas in this theme are the ruins of a mysterious, extinct, and highly developed alien civilization... the aliens themselves were humanoid in shape, maybe kind of like the famous Gray aliens you see all over the place. The kicker is, the overall look of the culture is a kind of parody/ distortion of Soviet- style art and architecture.
So you have big, impressive statues of gray aliens posed like Lenin and Stalin, and social- realist posters of the noble proletarian gray alien steadfastly operating his weather control device in the service of The People, etc. etc.
I don't know what that means and don't care to speculate. It just kind of came to me, and I thought it would look cool in a Star Trek/ alternate universe kind of way. Plus I always thought Soviet art was funny.
Maybe not with the "Gray" aliens specifically, but aside from that, that's a pretty sweet idea :tup:
How about a map which is divided in two worlds. Kinda like ctf-catherine for UT.
But this time you don't have to fly through tubes to reach the other side.
This time you jump in.. for example.. a pool, swim down, and when you surface you're on the other side. But up there is the sky, and you'll have to get out of the water again get the idea...
It's as if the world, or you, turned around during your swim to the other side, but you weren't aware of it.
Maybe combat in a human body. Like that Q3 level, open sore. Was a good idea.
I've probably mentioned it already, but combat in a city like the one from "the empire strikes back", the one named "cloud city". Would be nice. There's this huge depth beneath you. But there's no immediate danger of you falling down. You just need to watch your step. A little.
A house level. BUT, there are many hidden (open, secluded) areas. For example, you can open the closet and there's this loooooooong corridor. Filled with say... blue-ish light, and cobwebs. And maybe some skeletons jammed in the walls. Some spooky sounds.
The bath tub is filled with water. It's so dark, you can't see what lies beneath. You grab a rebreather and jump in. ONCE you're down there, the water is "crystal clear". It's so pure, it almost blinds you. There are also well, f.e. crystals down there, and maybe maybe some sort of light sharks.. big fish no idea. Maybe keep them as props, extras.
The yard is a trap. Once you go outside, you see a small yard. The lawn is mowed. There are some bushes all around the garden.
BUT, once you step on the grass, you become quite small. STILL big enough to maintain a certain sense of orientation. It would kinda suck if you'd be so small the grass would be as big as trees. You could go wander around forever before you could find someone.
A space station, but for civilians. There are for example malls, there are living quarters tralala you get the idea. But it's been raided by space pirates. And almost destroyed, from within. It's been floating in space for some decades, and eh... Liandri found it and used it a special deathmatch level.
For those who want stealth combat. Or maybe, they plan on using certain areas for tourneys. Dark areas, no sounds, rubble everywhere.
Maybe for darkmatch games (mutator material).
Maybe a downhill speedmatch. You jump on a hoverbat, turbo sled, whatever and start racing downhill. Say f.e. it's centered around the sunspire.
But, the area's been covered in snow (imagine the scene from spirevillage. This was actually a HUGE level, and it included the spire).
There are obstacles in your path, like skaarj (or krall for that matter) jumping at you, nali you have to avoid. If you run over a nali, they explode redeemer style etc...
And you have to start all over again hehe.
What about combat in a T.v.
You're caught in tv world. One moment you're fighting it out in a western movie, the next you're running around on a football field, tennis court and before you know it you're in the news. Fighting around a battle field in some country...
Etc
But this time you don't have to fly through tubes to reach the other side.
This time you jump in.. for example.. a pool, swim down, and when you surface you're on the other side. But up there is the sky, and you'll have to get out of the water again get the idea...
It's as if the world, or you, turned around during your swim to the other side, but you weren't aware of it.
Maybe combat in a human body. Like that Q3 level, open sore. Was a good idea.
I've probably mentioned it already, but combat in a city like the one from "the empire strikes back", the one named "cloud city". Would be nice. There's this huge depth beneath you. But there's no immediate danger of you falling down. You just need to watch your step. A little.
A house level. BUT, there are many hidden (open, secluded) areas. For example, you can open the closet and there's this loooooooong corridor. Filled with say... blue-ish light, and cobwebs. And maybe some skeletons jammed in the walls. Some spooky sounds.
The bath tub is filled with water. It's so dark, you can't see what lies beneath. You grab a rebreather and jump in. ONCE you're down there, the water is "crystal clear". It's so pure, it almost blinds you. There are also well, f.e. crystals down there, and maybe maybe some sort of light sharks.. big fish no idea. Maybe keep them as props, extras.
The yard is a trap. Once you go outside, you see a small yard. The lawn is mowed. There are some bushes all around the garden.
BUT, once you step on the grass, you become quite small. STILL big enough to maintain a certain sense of orientation. It would kinda suck if you'd be so small the grass would be as big as trees. You could go wander around forever before you could find someone.
A space station, but for civilians. There are for example malls, there are living quarters tralala you get the idea. But it's been raided by space pirates. And almost destroyed, from within. It's been floating in space for some decades, and eh... Liandri found it and used it a special deathmatch level.
For those who want stealth combat. Or maybe, they plan on using certain areas for tourneys. Dark areas, no sounds, rubble everywhere.
Maybe for darkmatch games (mutator material).
Maybe a downhill speedmatch. You jump on a hoverbat, turbo sled, whatever and start racing downhill. Say f.e. it's centered around the sunspire.
But, the area's been covered in snow (imagine the scene from spirevillage. This was actually a HUGE level, and it included the spire).
There are obstacles in your path, like skaarj (or krall for that matter) jumping at you, nali you have to avoid. If you run over a nali, they explode redeemer style etc...
And you have to start all over again hehe.
What about combat in a T.v.
You're caught in tv world. One moment you're fighting it out in a western movie, the next you're running around on a football field, tennis court and before you know it you're in the news. Fighting around a battle field in some country...
Etc
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a ctf map, set on a pair of 10,000 ft cliffs over an ocean. the cliff are set about 12 metres apart and the each base is set in a cave. Each of these rocky natural spires has a swiling spiraling path of tunnels and walkways going down and around it in a non symetrical way.At intervals on nearly every level of these structures are points where one can jump from one spire to the other, making the potential for differernt strategies and paths endless and can change in mid game.
The ocean beneath the spires would be roaring with three dimensional tidal waves crashing against the base of them, because i hate that thing where you get killed on DM Peak and other levels where you get kille when you fall into a static flat plane thats meant to be water, instead of being crushed by a furuiosly roaring animated ocean!
The ocean beneath the spires would be roaring with three dimensional tidal waves crashing against the base of them, because i hate that thing where you get killed on DM Peak and other levels where you get kille when you fall into a static flat plane thats meant to be water, instead of being crushed by a furuiosly roaring animated ocean!
Vault said:
the reason why I play DM and TDM is because they DON T have vehicules.
As to me, I really wish they will keep vehicules away from DM, TDM and of course... CTF!!!
How about back to Unreal roots? Like, Nali villages, Na Pali landscapes, advanced Skaarj technology, Terran vessels/stations. Most anything else to me isn't Unreal anymore.
NeoNite said:
If you've got UT2k4, check out CTF-Skylink from the first flag pack. It doesn't have any outdoor areas, but it's got the stratosphere thing going on... it's got glass floors in some places, it's really cool looking.
Yeah, futuristic ghost town = :tup:
AMmayhem said:
Well, the title of the thread is "new" map thema... but agreed, I'd like to see more Nali- style stuff (and no, DM-Rrajigar doesn't count
). One of the CBP ONS maps made a little gesture in that direction with healing fruit, etc... I'd like to see some more 4- armed crucifixes, though.