Call of Duty 5: World at War => Work-In-Progress => Custom Maps, Mods & Tools => Zombie Maps => Topic started by: Soy-Yo on September 16, 2015, 07:16:59 pm
Title: [RELEASED] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 16, 2015, 07:16:59 pm
Here's my new map. I've just started it about a week ago so it isn't very advanced.
The map is based on a movie I like, called "Cube".
Spoiler
A bit of the argument: In this movie, the characters appear inside a room. The room is a cube and they have six doors, one on every face of the cube. Every door takes them to another cube, maybe with another color or maybe not. Some cubes have traps in them and they have to survive and try to escape from this labyrinth. But it isn't that easy, because the cubes move.
- For those of you who has been accepted, I ask you, please, not to upload videos of the map to YouTube yet (you can upload them in private, to show me bugs, for example, or to make it public after the map has been released). - All beta testers will have early access to the map.
Call of Duty Black Ops: STG-44 M14 Olympia Commando Ak-74u PSG-1 Python L96A1 Stoner63 MP5 Stakeout M60 CZ75 MPL Spectre Famas M16A1 HK21 RPK FN FAL MP40 PPSh Thundergun
Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3: Barrett ACR 6.8 USP45 Tact. MP7 Striker
Call of Duty Black Ops 2: M1911 Galil
And one or two special weapons
Perks: If it isn't specified, they have the original effect and cost - Quick Revive: · Solo: cost 500 (infinite uses, but with a raise on its cost); auto-revive. · Co-op: cost 1500 (infinite uses, but with a raise on its cost); revive other players faster and auto-revive (not tested yet); you'll lose all the perks when revived with QR and only two if another player revives you. - Juggernog - Speed Cola - Double Tap 2.0 - Deadshot Daiquiri: with Harry's laser effect and extra points on headshot kills. - Stamin-Up - PHD Flopper (don't try to cheat ::)) - Mule Kick - Electric Cherry - Vulture Aid: cost 5000 (too over-powered in this map (and I still think it's too cheap)); ammo packs give more ammo.
News: - [09/30] Finished making all the perk shaders. I'm not using all of them but I wanted to create all. I'll let you download them when the map is released (or cancelled). Hope you like them. ::)
- [10/17] Doors are working now. Still need some final touches and little fixes. Here's a video of how they work:
Spoiler: click to open...
- [10/24] Cube moves are mostly completed scripted. Here's a video:
Spoiler: click to open...
- [11/20] Made the final cube random and added numbers for the doors. Also learned how to upload 720p videos. :P
Spoiler: click to open...
- [1/1] Created some traps. Here's the electric one:
Spoiler: click to open...
- [1/29] Finished everything of the "Classic" gamemode. Still need to create gamemodes if I can and test the map in coop and fix bugs.
- [4/5] Finished Infection gamemode.
Infection
- Players start with 300 points of health and 3 lives (lives can be changed, health no (for the moment at least, don't know if it's necessary)). - Suddenly, players will become infected and will start losing health throughout the time the infection lasts, but they will never get it back except with cures. All the doors will open then and they will be able to move through the map. - Cures will spawn randomly throughout the map and players have to find them. They will be given some health back. - Timed gameplay only. - Random weapons will be given to the player as in Sharpshooter. - Max Ammo has been replaced with a powerup that upgrades the player's weapon. - Players will get some perks with score streaks. - No perk machines, box or side quest stuff. Only electric trap. - The objective in solo is to survive as much as the player can. In co-op they have to compete for the limited cures and the last player alive wins.
Credits: - BluntStuffy (door anims) - MakeCents (some parts of the door script, thunder scripts, menu screens) - HarryBo21 (perks, tomahawk anims) - PROxFTW (solo scoreboard) - DidUknowiPwn (Tranzit HUD) - shippuden1592 (Ascension zombie models) - rdv (BO knifing) - CFGFactory people · Rorke (weapons) · MrDunlop4 (Nuketown characters) · Sanya (viewhands) - Turbosquid (some models)
Thanks: - BluntStuffy (making the door anims) - MakeCents (helping me with a lot of script stuff) - HarryBo21 (helping me with some problems I had) - Scobalula (helping with the anims) - Bwc66930 (helping with the anims) - codmoddd1234 (helping with the anims) - Rorke (helping me reduce the file size and Infection gamemode idea)
Top escapists: - Soy-yo: 20 rounds
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Koan on September 16, 2015, 07:48:09 pm
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Features: - Moving rooms
How do you plan on doing this? It sounds really interesting but also incredibly difficult to pull off.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Alerion on September 16, 2015, 09:32:47 pm
I like the movies too, the second one was a bit over the top though..
This project seems promising I'm more concerned on how you'll get up to the doors on the sides or even the one on top though.
Now I see why you need so many brushes though :D I hope you'll find a good solution for that.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: DeletedUser on September 16, 2015, 09:42:32 pm
I like the movies too, the second one was a bit over the top though..
This project seems promising I'm more concerned on how you'll get up to the doors on the sides or even the one on top though.
Now I see why you need so many brushes though :D I hope you'll find a good solution for that.
maybe invisible ladders or a teleport script
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: tomikaze on September 16, 2015, 09:42:44 pm
Hey Soy-yo, I had an idea like this years ago where the all the rooms on the map would rearrange every minute or two so that you never knew exactly what room you were about to go into. It would make planing strategies much more difficult and I think that would be exciting to experience. Is that kinda what you were going for?
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Alerion on September 16, 2015, 09:44:53 pm
Hey Soy-yo, I had an idea like this years ago where the all the rooms on the map would rearrange every minute or two so that you never knew exactly what room you were about to go into. It would make planing strategies much more difficult and I think that would be exciting to experience. Is that kinda what you were going for?
With the exception that there would be an exit somewhere. And wasn't there a map like that years ago? where you had four differently colored portals on each room? A real cube version would be awesome to see though.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 16, 2015, 10:33:28 pm
How do you plan on doing this? It sounds really interesting but also incredibly difficult to pull off.
I made a script that finds an empty position and its adjacent cubes, selects one of them and moves it. I tested just the move with two cubes and it work perfectly, but I haven't tested the whole code because I need to finish mapping before. Anyway I've had a few problems that testers may help me with them.
I like the movies too, the second one was a bit over the top though..
This project seems promising I'm more concerned on how you'll get up to the doors on the sides or even the one on top though.
Now I see why you need so many brushes though :D I hope you'll find a good solution for that.
Thanks. :) I didn't like the second one. It was really weird. :D There's a platform at the top so you can get there with ladders. I found impossible to have something like a ladder on the ceiling. And yeah, I reduced the details of the cube and everything should be okay. I have an excel file just to count my script_brushmodels. :D
Hey Soy-yo, I had an idea like this years ago where the all the rooms on the map would rearrange every minute or two so that you never knew exactly what room you were about to go into. It would make planing strategies much more difficult and I think that would be exciting to experience. Is that kinda what you were going for?
Yes. But it's a bit harder because every cube will look exactly the same but the color (and I think there were only five colors in the movie, I have to count them).
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: johndoe on September 16, 2015, 11:32:41 pm
i was about to go batshit thinking this was a box map because of the title. well played kiddo... well played. i hope it turns out great since i had a similar map idea with moving rooms and all. i'm gonna be waiting for this.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: InFInIX on September 17, 2015, 10:19:47 am
With the exception that there would be an exit somewhere. And wasn't there a map like that years ago? where you had four differently colored portals on each room? A real cube version would be awesome to see though.
think this was mr. hankeys box, but this map had diors and no portals :p also i dont know any movie called cube :p
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on September 17, 2015, 03:05:35 pm
I was planning on making a map that moved the rooms either each time you played the map or after you found something or after each round and teleported the players to the beginning again.
My other idea was a cube, and on each side of the cube was four rooms, and they rotated in between rounds, changing the map. Bars would come down over doors and a siren would go off, and the rooms would rotate. The tricky part was zombie pathing and spawning outside the rooms. So I have been thinking of how to do it for a while, lol. If I can help at all, let me know.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 17, 2015, 03:58:34 pm
I think I won't have many problems with zombies. I don't know yet. And maybe I'll need to spam you with lots of bugs when I test the code. :D Hope not lol. ::)
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Ramiabdh on September 17, 2015, 04:28:41 pm
Would love to see your idea becoming reality. Keep up the good work :D
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: RadimaX on September 17, 2015, 07:49:46 pm
Amazing picture, its simply never gonna be enough boxmaps out there, or i mean cube maps! :) But if you REALLY want to set yourself apart there is a movie called SPHERE that i would recommend for your next map.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 20, 2015, 03:58:10 pm
I added the doors to all the cubes and I'm hitting the non dynamic brush models limit. :-\
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Error: Too many non dyn entity brush models. Max is [1023]
I'll be trying to fix it, but it seems difficult because the limit is too low. I've tried to move dynamic brush models by script but I couldn't even get the entity. So I don't know what I'm going to do.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on September 20, 2015, 06:17:22 pm
I added the doors to all the cubes and I'm hitting the non dynamic brush models limit. :-\
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Error: Too many non dyn entity brush models. Max is [1023]
I'll be trying to fix it, but it seems difficult because the limit is too low. I've tried to move dynamic brush models by script but I couldn't even get the entity. So I don't know what I'm going to do.
How are you hitting that? What specifically is causing it? Is it saying you have too many scriptable brushes?
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 20, 2015, 07:10:21 pm
How are you hitting that? What specifically is causing it? Is it saying you have too many scriptable brushes?
I hit that when I added the doors, because every door is made by 4 entities and there are 6 per cube. I think it's because the number of script_brushmodel entities, because I had hit before the 19600 limit of script_brushmodels, but I had like 300 hundred entities. And now I can have 1500 easily. I will try making the doors just by one brush so I'll reduce the number of entities by four but I would like to try other things before because I like the way the doors open.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on September 20, 2015, 07:16:30 pm
I hit that when I added the doors, because every door is made by 4 entities and there are 6 per cube. I think it's because the number of script_brushmodel entities, because I had hit before the 19600 limit of script_brushmodels, but I had like 300 hundred entities. And now I can have 1500 easily. I will try making the doors just by one brush so I'll reduce the number of entities by four but I would like to try other things before because I like the way the doors open.
If the error is scriptable entries, there are a couple ways to get around it. The best one will require help from a animator. Animating the doors will make it one ent for the model and one for the clip. Other things such as a custom door script that doesn't use triggers, or that uses only one trigger for both sides can help too. Custom zombie entry points, and using script structs instead of script origins as much as possible helps.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 20, 2015, 07:32:43 pm
If the error is scriptable entries, there are a couple ways to get around it. The best one will require help from a animator. Animating the doors will make it one ent for the model and one for the clip. Other things such as a custom door script that doesn't use triggers, or that uses only one trigger for both sides can help too. Custom zombie entry points, and using script structs instead of script origins as much as possible helps.
The point is that I am already using a custom door script and I don't have any script structs or origin. I need a script because every single of the 4 parts of the door moves to a different corner at 45 degrees. The trigger will open the door of the cube you are and the door of the next cube. And then, when you get out of the "bridge" that connects the two cubes, the doors close. So if there's any possibility to do something similar but only with one model it'll be great.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on September 20, 2015, 08:14:04 pm
The point is that I am already using a custom door script and I don't have any script structs or origin. I need a script because every single of the 4 parts of the door moves to a different corner at 45 degrees. The trigger will open the door of the cube you are and the door of the next cube. And then, when you get out of the "bridge" that connects the two cubes, the doors close. So if there's any possibility to do something similar but only with one model it'll be great.
Yup, that would be with an animated model. I use a similar door opening method as you with only three pieces, but I use structs to be the destination of the door pieces so I can use the same prefab over and over, with the same script. If I get into trouble with ents, I will ask someone to make two or three models with animations for open and close. I'm not the expert on that so I will design my script however they can animate things, setting model and playing anims as needed. I'll send you a script I tweaked from codmodd that counts things then, so you can keep an eye on things. Not at pc now.
Yup, that would be with an animated model. I use a similar door opening method as you with only three pieces, but I use structs to be the destination of the door pieces so I can use the same prefab over and over, with the same script. If I get into trouble with ents, I will ask someone to make two or three models with animations for open and close. I'm not the expert on that so I will design my script however they can animate things, setting model and playing anims as needed. I'll send you a script I tweaked from codmodd that counts things then, so you can keep an eye on things. Not at pc now.
And I didn't think in structs when I made the doors. It would have made my work much easier and the script would be more simple. :D Anyway, I'm not sure and maybe I'm wrong but I can't do door prefabs because I need to get the next door to open it as well. I believe I only have two options now: make the doors with only one piece and pray to not to hit the limit again or find an animator.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on September 21, 2015, 02:01:14 pm
And I didn't think in structs when I made the doors. It would have made my work much easier and the script would be more simple. :D Anyway, I'm not sure and maybe I'm wrong but I can't do door prefabs because I need to get the next door to open it as well. I believe I only have two options now: make the doors with only one piece and pray to not to hit the limit again or find an animator.
No prob, codmod told me to share with people. I just haven't gotten around to tweaking how I want yet to actually add it to the dl's.
Yeah..., if you are almost done, you might be okay, but if you have much more to do, your ents are pretty high. Usually if I get above 920, I get gspawn in hi rounds. Anything over 1000 usually does it, and zombies can spawn quite a few ents as they explode. 24 zombies * 1 or 3 ents, adds possible 70+ at any given time. I don't know if it means something or if it just usually happens that way, lol.
I do doors differently since I use prefabs. I have another script and it uses a struct in the center of the door. The script gets all the structs for all the doors and associates the closest structs to those doors. When those doors are opened it uses the info I put in that struct to handle everything, like script_flags, sounds, fx, or whatever I want.
I don't know the details of your map or how it works, so I can't direct you very well, but I can try to offer alternate solutions if your running into trouble with something. One other possibility, and this could be a difficult one, is to make the door opening an fx, and one for closing too. Then you can just have one door ent, hide it, and bring it back after it closes. I've never done that one before, but I have added models to fx before. You are prob talking a complete door redesign that way. But animating a model would be the best way prob, and the easiest to incorporate other than just making them one ent brush.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 21, 2015, 04:03:19 pm
But animating a model would be the best way prob, and the easiest to incorporate other than just making them one ent brush.
Ok. I've just tried to do the animation by my own, but then I remembered I have no idea of using Maya. :P So if there is any animator here, please, help. :-[ I'll be very grateful.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Scobalula on September 21, 2015, 04:27:23 pm
Ok. I've just tried to do the animation by my own, but then I remembered I have no idea of using Maya. :P So if there is any animator here, please, help. :-[ I'll be very grateful.
If you have an idea of what you want (in terms of an animation) and have a model I can do the anims for you.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 21, 2015, 04:45:32 pm
If you have an idea of what you want (in terms of an animation) and have a model I can do the anims for you.
Thank you so much! :) I don't have the models, but they are just simple squares. And yes, I have the idea of the animation because I've made the script. It's really simple (I think; for me it is almost impossible :D). I'll PM you the details.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 28, 2015, 05:32:00 pm
Scobalula told me he can't finish the doors. So I need someone that wants to make the doors animation for me. ::) EDIT: Never mind this, I found tutorials and saw it was easier than what I thought. :D
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: TOXICRICHTOFEN on September 29, 2015, 04:42:29 pm
i kinda like the idea of moving rooms since it'll give it a unique twist to the map when playing
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on September 30, 2015, 05:21:56 pm
some book i read ages ago on making art "stand out" in places, suggested using shadowing
like this
around points of interest, obviously whatever colour suits rather than red lol. Maybe that could help?
I did just the opposite then, making the "points of interest" lighter. :D
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 12, 2015, 10:43:05 am
Some news: I have now the door models with the animation and I'm not hitting now the limit I was hitting (can't remember which lol). :D What's the bad part? G-Spawn. Yeeeeaaaah! I can't compile the map now because of G-Spawn. :kidding: I'll be trying to count all the entities and reduce them as much as possible.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on October 12, 2015, 11:20:50 am
Some news: I have now the door models with the animation and I'm not hitting now the limit I was hitting (can't remember which lol). :D What's the bad part? G-Spawn. Yeeeeaaaah! I can't compile the map now because of G-Spawn. :kidding: I'll be trying to count all the entities and reduce them as much as possible.
ah, my favourite
what was up in the end with the anim?
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 12, 2015, 11:32:58 am
Uhm, now you say that, the linker (I think it was that app) didn't stop when I got the G-Spawn. Nothing appeared in the console so I closed it, but maybe it works anyway.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on October 12, 2015, 12:28:15 pm
Uhm, now you say that, the linker (I think it was that app) didn't stop when I got the G-Spawn. Nothing appeared in the console so I closed it, but maybe it works anyway.
eh?
Gspawn is usually a in game crash, you getting it during compile?
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 12, 2015, 12:31:20 pm
Yeah, while it's connecting paths the error appears. But as steviewonder said, it compiles with no problem. Then, when I try to play the map I get the G-Spawn again.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on October 12, 2015, 01:26:02 pm
Yeah, while it's connecting paths the error appears. But as steviewonder said, it compiles with no problem. Then, when I try to play the map I get the G-Spawn again.
that is very strange, ive never seen that. Hope you sort it ;)
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: steviewonder87 on October 12, 2015, 02:16:32 pm
Nah, I removed many things and I don't get it now. Wait a bit I add more things to the map and I'll get it again. :please: But it was the same G-Spawn error you get when playing.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: steviewonder87 on October 12, 2015, 05:37:47 pm
Nah, I removed many things and I don't get it now. Wait a bit I add more things to the map and I'll get it again. :please: But it was the same G-Spawn error you get when playing.
It gave a G-Spawn error in Launcher during compile? Eh? ???
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Scobalula on October 12, 2015, 05:54:07 pm
When I close that console window, the compiler continues working. But then I can't even play the map because I get gspawn, obviously.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on October 12, 2015, 06:14:40 pm
OH SNAP!
I'm pretty sure I have done it before too, I just couldn't remember, I think it comes from working in prefabs a lot. It becomes exponential.
8 per cube, how many cubes? Or how many ents added total since the 400+ you showed me? Were you over 1000 then? I'm just curious cause it hasn't been an exact science for me, but it seemed consistent around 1000 to do it.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 12, 2015, 06:30:37 pm
I'm pretty sure I have done it before too, I just couldn't remember, I think it comes from working in prefabs a lot. It becomes exponential.
8 per cube, how many cubes? Or how many ents added total since the 400+ you showed me? Were you over 1000 then? I'm just curious cause it hasn't been an exact science for me, but it seemed consistent around 1000 to do it.
The number of cubes is secret. :-X But I can tell you that with 4 I didn't get gspawn and with 8 yes. ::) And I didn't add anything after showing you the 400+ ents.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: steviewonder87 on October 12, 2015, 06:54:20 pm
Ok, you made me force gspawn. :please: Here it is. I added 8 script_brushmodels per cube and tried to compile:
(http://i.imgur.com/7LN9SEK.png)
When I close that console window, the compiler continues working. But then I can't even play the map because I get gspawn, obviously.
Weird, I've never seen that before, you must have an insane number of script entities. Have you tried making whatever it is you're doing into models instead of brushes?
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on October 12, 2015, 07:04:15 pm
Weird, I've never seen that before, you must have an insane number of script entities. Have you tried making whatever it is you're doing into models instead of brushes?
I'm pretty sure he is stuck doing it that way, even if he made it a model because he would still need brushes for collision. But if he could make a model that had collision he might be okay to make them models. I know nothing about that though, and the models and stuff. JBird632 does though I think. I assume each cube is made up of at least 6 ents or does it count as one when you make a cube/box an ent and then cut it? So that would eliminate 5 there per cube. But he can also reduce ents with scripting, not using triggers as often, or at all, and modifying perk prefabs and such.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: johndoe on October 12, 2015, 07:17:18 pm
why don't you just convert each room to models and add colmaps to them so that you can make the spawned entites much less than they are now? can't be too hard i think.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on October 12, 2015, 07:24:56 pm
I'm pretty sure I have done it before too, I just couldn't remember, I think it comes from working in prefabs a lot. It becomes exponential.
8 per cube, how many cubes? Or how many ents added total since the 400+ you showed me? Were you over 1000 then? I'm just curious cause it hasn't been an exact science for me, but it seemed consistent around 1000 to do it.
its 1022 ;)
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 12, 2015, 07:31:50 pm
I tried before to convert the cube to a model, but it... Well... I had to sacrifice it. But anyway, each cube is only one entity. And, for example, I converted some brushmodels I was using to make some lights into models and today I had to convert the models into textures to save ents. And for the perks, for example, I won't use any model. They will be just some brushmodels added to a cube entity.
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 17, 2015, 11:14:19 pm
News: I finished the doors (more or less). :D I have to test them in multiplayer and maybe change some script stuff but here's a test of how they work (it may sound easy but it's been harder than you think) :D :
News: I finished the doors (more or less). :D I have to test them in multiplayer and maybe change some script stuff but here's a test of how they work (it may sound easy but it's been harder than you think) :D :
if your hint is a hud elem you need [{+activate}] instead of &&1
Good thing to know. :D
I've taken some snapshots of the map at the moment (textures and that kind of stuff might change and also I want to change zombie models and add some weapons).
Now I'm going to fix some scripting bugs and start testing the cube movements. When I finish this I'll post a video of how it works and then I'll add perks, box and stuff and release first beta.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 24, 2015, 10:14:06 pm
News: Cube moving system seems to work perfectly. I'll need to test some stuff to make sure everything is ok, but for now everything looks fine. They move randomly so every game will be different and makes the map even harder. :D Here's a video of how it works:
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on October 24, 2015, 10:31:41 pm
Looks good man. Coming together.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: DeletedUser on October 26, 2015, 09:13:31 am
so now the boxes move, you can easily access all doors, and zombies can spawn. but how are you planning too do weapons. are they going too randomly spawn, or are you going to have wall buys? or something else entirely?
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 26, 2015, 03:31:28 pm
so now the boxes move, you can easily access all doors, and zombies can spawn. but how are you planning too do weapons. are they going too randomly spawn, or are you going to have wall buys? or something else entirely?
Actually, I didn't think really much of it. I planned to have like two or three non-moving boxes and some wall weapons in some cubes. But I don't know at the moment. Any ideas are welcome, but keep in mind that I have some limitations with entities.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Exofile on October 26, 2015, 04:05:22 pm
Looking great, hyped for release :)+
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on October 26, 2015, 06:54:14 pm
Actually, I didn't think really much of it. I planned to have like two or three non-moving boxes and some wall weapons in some cubes. But I don't know at the moment. Any ideas are welcome, but keep in mind that I have some limitations with entities.
Well wall weapons are ents so it won't matter there what you decide unless you rewrite the script not to need triggers, that would help. Otherwise your looking and linking and unlinking, or just moving it the same as the cube.
You could also spawn weapons in the cubes after it moves, or make it like a game mode... where you get better guns as you kill or get head shots or something.
You could make a wall weapon that randomly went through a list of guns, slowly. Maybe a couple of those around so you only needed one ent for each weapon station there, but could buy many guns from it... Maybe change every round or rotation?
You could only have the box...?
Maybe place weapons on the ground randomly in cubes?
Edit: Maybe have wall weapon stations, and if that cube moves, then the weapon changes, but don't have weapons in every cube? So a cube as to be in a certain position for that weapon to appear.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 26, 2015, 07:13:06 pm
Thanks. Glad you like it. ;) As soon as I finish fixing some stupid scripting bugs, I'll start adding perks, guns and stuff to the cubes and I'll open the beta access, so you will be able to play a bit of the map if you want. But I will "formally" announce it when I open it. :)
Well wall weapons are ents so it won't matter there what you decide unless you rewrite the script not to need triggers, that would help. Otherwise your looking and linking and unlinking, or just moving it the same as the cube.
You could also spawn weapons in the cubes after it moves, or make it like a game mode... where you get better guns as you kill or get head shots or something.
You could make a wall weapon that randomly went through a list of guns, slowly. Maybe a couple of those around so you only needed one ent for each weapon station there, but could buy many guns from it... Maybe change every round or rotation?
You could only have the box...?
Maybe place weapons on the ground randomly in cubes?
Uhm... I really like the idea of spawning weapons. ::) But instead of when the cube moves, after each round spawn a few of weapons randomly, so players will need to move through the map or they'll run out of ammo. And I'll place some custom boxes too, or I'll try at least lol.
Title: Re: [BETA 11/7/15] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on October 30, 2015, 11:39:32 pm
Just open beta access! All the necessary info in the Original Post (not too much, lol). Beta access closed (it's the 5th now in Spain).
Spoiler: click to open...
Just realised I wrote 6 instead of 5 in the Original Post. I'm really sorry. :-[
Title: Re: [BETA 11/7/15] CUBE
Post by: Undeadmetal on November 04, 2015, 06:40:57 pm
Looks Great Glad to see it worked out, this will be an interesting map to play!
Title: Re: CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on November 20, 2015, 07:06:10 pm
Double Post Merge: November 20, 2015, 07:08:14 pmAlso I want to make something that guides you a little bit through the map. It would be a better idea to make it like an Easter Egg or just a perk?
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 04, 2015, 10:02:38 pm
I've already added harry's perks and some weapons; you can see them in the Original Post. And I changed all the textures of the map; now it looks a bit better. I'll add some pictures when I finish other things.
Well, I want to ask if it's possible to create a custom "weapon" like this:
Spoiler: click to open...
In the movie, they threw a boot to check if the cube they were about to get in had a trap. So I'd like to make a "mini easter egg" with the boot: a player finds it and then can use it like the bettys (pressing UP, don't know the key in PC). The question is: is it possible to create a boot weapon with its throwing and getting back anims (and all the stuff needed for a weapon)?
Also I wanted to say I'm having many lightning issues. The main issue is that the doors aren't affected by the lights. But the strange thing is that in another map, with the same prefab, the lights work perfectly. :-\ Also, one day I tried to add a fog at the bottom of the map, and I don't know if it happened because of this, but after that, every time I open a door a color (depending on something in the worldspawn) appears until the door is completely opened. I removed the fog but it continues appearing. It's weird. :P And some light spots that shouldn't be there as well (I think it's because they're going through a brushmodel or something).
I'll keep trying to fix those issues but if you have any idea, PM me or reply here.
I think I'll release another beta when I finish weapon stuff (basically add upgraded weapons and script a new box), because, if I don't forget anything I only have to add some little easter eggs, change some things like menu, music, etc. and script (try it at least) one or two alternative gamemodes.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on December 04, 2015, 10:13:37 pm
Sounds pretty much like a retriever to me, should be able to do that ( although COD usually skips the "catch" anim )
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: MrMcKonz on December 05, 2015, 02:10:23 am
This looks...really weird actually. I like it!
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 05, 2015, 12:02:59 pm
Sounds pretty much like a retriever to me, should be able to do that ( although COD usually skips the "catch" anim )
Well, just with the throwing anim is enough. Then the player can take it back from the floor if the catching anim doesn't work. I'll try to create the weapon (at least the model, maybe then I'll need someone's help for the anims).
Well, just with the throwing anim is enough. Then the player can take it back from the floor if the catching anim doesn't work. I'll try to create the weapon (at least the model, maybe then I'll need someone's help for the anims). That's exactly what I was trying to do. :D
well, you could still have it fling back to the player and vanish like the retriever did, it actually looks ok like that
If you need the throwing anim btw, took me a while to find, as its under "hatchet" but all others are under "tomahawk"
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 09, 2015, 02:43:32 pm
well, you could still have it fling back to the player and vanish like the retriever did, it actually looks ok like that
If you need the throwing anim btw, took me a while to find, as its under "hatchet" but all others are under "tomahawk"
Well, I don't have BO2 in my PC, actually, so it'll be difficult for me to get the retriever's anims unless it's possible to get them from the PS3. :D I'll try to create it anyway, maybe with a grenade anim or something.
I've just reopen beta access. I don't have a release date, but I'll let you know when I finish doing everything I want to do before it. This time I'm going to select more people (maybe max of 16-20, depending on the number of applicants) and I'll ask one or two people to test specific things with me. And I inform you that I'm going to select only people with more than 20 posts because they can send PM's basically. Everyone who applied last time and weren't selected will have preference. Current beta testers don't have to apply again, but if you don't want to play this new beta, please PM me and I'll remove you. And again, everyone in the "Credits" section of the map that apply will be automatically accepted.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on December 09, 2015, 10:46:01 pm
Well, I don't have BO2 in my PC, actually, so it'll be difficult for me to get the retriever's anims unless it's possible to get them from the PS3. :D I'll try to create it anyway, maybe with a grenade anim or something.
I've just reopen beta access. I don't have a release date, but I'll let you know when I finish doing everything I want to do before it. This time I'm going to select more people (maybe max of 16-20, depending on the number of applicants) and I'll ask one or two people to test specific things with me. And I inform you that I'm going to select only people with more than 20 posts because they can send PM's basically. Everyone who applied last time and weren't selected will have preference. Current beta testers don't have to apply again, but if you don't want to play this new beta, please PM me and I'll remove you. And again, everyone in the "Credits" section of the map that apply will be automatically accepted.
You can take mine if you want, it only uses a couple anyway, any other generic tomahawk anims are in the BO1 mod tools ( like the third person ones, or anims to fill in where neccesary to have this as a primary )
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 11, 2015, 11:09:38 pm
Replaced old pictures. I'll be posting more images when I have some time.
The map is "almost" finished. I'm now editing the menus for the beta and then I'll only have to fix the bugs that testers find, add some easter eggs and quests and I'll try to create one or two game modes as well. Maybe it takes me two weeks or two months lol.
Well, glad you like the map and thank you for your support. :) Feel free to tell me any suggestion you have.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Twicore on December 13, 2015, 09:18:29 pm
Looking pretty good so far. Can't wait for a release.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Cold_banana on December 13, 2015, 11:02:59 pm
Maybe instead of so many ladders, you can give players exo suits or double jump and wall run abilities like bo3. Or have a button that when pressed triggers low gravity so you can move from one cube to another more fluidly. Just to make the map fun and fast paced and less annoying
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on December 14, 2015, 11:40:33 am
Maybe instead of so many ladders, you can give players exo suits or double jump and wall run abilities like bo3. Or have a button that when pressed triggers low gravity so you can move from one cube to another more fluidly. Just to make the map fun and fast paced and less annoying
or something they press that "moves" them to the next area. So maybe a button, then the player lifts up and is moved into the next area? something like that
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 14, 2015, 01:28:49 pm
Maybe instead of so many ladders, you can give players exo suits or double jump and wall run abilities like bo3. Or have a button that when pressed triggers low gravity so you can move from one cube to another more fluidly. Just to make the map fun and fast paced and less annoying
or something they press that "moves" them to the next area. So maybe a button, then the player lifts up and is moved into the next area? something like that
I haven't thought before about having double jump or moving them (well, actually I tried to move the players to reach the top door from the top of the lateral ladders and didn't work very well lol). I like the idea because it would be easier for players to go to cubes in the same height, but I will also need ladders to get to the top ones and to reach some important things. Also I wanted it to fit more or less to the movie, and in the movie they were normal people that had to climb ladders. :D By the way, thanks for the ideas. :)
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: shibbygrex on December 19, 2015, 05:52:25 pm
love the movie "The Cube" :D
nice cubes, amazing doors
CANT wait 4 release !!!!
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 21, 2015, 11:14:22 pm
Thanks. I suffered very much with doors, so glad you like them. :D
I'll send the Beta to testers tomorrow if I don't find any important bug before. It's still open the access for everyone who want to test it (test, not play it earlier).
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on December 25, 2015, 10:33:38 pm
I know it's irrelevant and you won't give a f... but I'm happy and just wanted to post this. :D
You might say I cheated but I promise I didn't. I escaped in the beta version. If some of the testers escape, please send me a screenshot and I'll make a leaderboard or something. Please don't cheat. :(
Wow it looks great! Looks really accurate to the movie
Thanks, that's what I'm trying. :)
A little update. Added two little easter eggs I won't tell you related to the movie and planning a little side quest to earn a weapon. Also created two traps, one electric and the other secret (it isn't finished yet). Here's the video for the electric one, hope you like it:
It has nothing to do with the movie, but I wanted to add it.
With this the map is mainly finished except for some little changes I still have to make (move stuff in the map, edit some scripts, add a few sounds and effects and edit some images). I also have to add gamemodes and a tutorial at the beginning (I'm not sure about how to do it yet) and test coop to fix some bugs we've found. This things are what will take me more time I guess.
I'll still be busy for about two weeks but hope I can get everything finished in a month (after the two weeks). I hope only.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Xperience on February 11, 2016, 11:38:38 pm
Love seeing so many unique ideas continue to emerge in the community. Can't wait for this release :) Well done, keep it up!
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: JonasGibson on February 11, 2016, 11:55:00 pm
I like whats going on here Say i looked and it seems no ones doing audio...I could help you with audio :D :cute:
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: arceus on February 12, 2016, 12:06:24 am
please don't keep black kit view hands ;-;. contrary to what weapon tuts say you don't need them ;-;
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on February 12, 2016, 01:40:46 pm
please don't keep black kit view hands ;-;. contrary to what weapon tuts say you don't need them ;-;
Reaally???!!! :o Thank you very much for the info. ;) I'll try to create custom ones then.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Harry Bo21 on February 12, 2016, 03:30:53 pm
they dont say that anyway, rollon just included the model_export in the tutorial so you had one to use "if you didnt have one already"
infact he explicitly says this himself "in" the video....
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on February 12, 2016, 07:48:01 pm
By the way, I'd like to ask you your opinion.
1) I'm already using one special weapon that you have to complete something first to get it. I also have a Thunder in the box. Is it too much or is it ok? May I change the Thunder for a Mark II, keep the Thunder or just remove it? What do you think? Might I create a poll about it?
2) I think next week I'll start scripting game modes. I've already though in two but there's one of them I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it: - Infection. Players are killing zombies like normal. Suddenly they're told they've been infected and that they have to find the cure in the cube. So there's only one cure for every two players, for example, and they have to avoid zombies moving through the cubes to find the cure. They start with extra health (200-250 probably) and they'll be losing it while they're infected. After two minutes they've lost 75-100 of life and stop losing it. When players get the cure they recover part of their life and stop losing it until next infection. The objective in multiplayer is to "kill" the rest of the players and in solo just survive as much as they can. Thanks Rorke for the idea. :)
- Domination. This is the one I don't know if I can do it. The game starts with all the cubes (or most of them) with the color red and the rest with green. Players have to kill enough zombies in the red cubes to make them green. After they've made a cube green they have 30 seconds to find another red cube and kill zombies there. If they end up in a green cube and don't kill enough zombies in a period of time, they'll lose the cube and it'll turn red again. Not sure in this one if I'll be able to change the color of moving cubes with non moving lights. Have to test.
Well, what I'm asking now is your opinion of these gamemodes and if you have any other idea, because I'd like to have at least two or three of them.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Exofile on February 12, 2016, 07:52:20 pm
1) I'm already using one special weapon that you have to complete something first to get it. I also have a Thunder in the box. Is it too much or is it ok? May I change the Thunder for a Mark II, keep the Thunder or just remove it? What do you think? Might I create a poll about it?
2) I think next week I'll start scripting game modes. I've already though in two but there's one of them I'm not sure if I'll be able to do it: - Infection. Players are killing zombies like normal. Suddenly they're told they've been infected and that they have to find the cure in the cube. So there's only one cure for every two players, for example, and they have to avoid zombies moving through the cubes to find the cure. They start with extra health (200-250 probably) and they'll be losing it while they're infected. After two minutes they've lost 75-100 of life and stop losing it. When players get the cure they recover part of their life and stop losing it until next infection. The objective in multiplayer is to "kill" the rest of the players and in solo just survive as much as they can. Thanks Rorke for the idea. :)
- Domination. This is the one I don't know if I can do it. The game starts with all the cubes (or most of them) with the color red and the rest with green. Players have to kill enough zombies in the red cubes to make them green. After they've made a cube green they have 30 seconds to find another red cube and kill zombies there. If they end up in a green cube and don't kill enough zombies in a period of time, they'll lose the cube and it'll turn red again. Not sure in this one if I'll be able to change the color of moving cubes with non moving lights. Have to test.
Well, what I'm asking now is your opinion of these gamemodes and if you have any other idea, because I'd like to have at least two or three of them.
The Special weapon? How OP is it? I'd say, if it's like a thundergun in strength, keep it.
Domination? Sounds really damn cool, would definetly give more replayability. With gamemodes like this and Infection, if it's randomized where they go etc, it won't get too repetitive. ;)
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on February 12, 2016, 08:52:28 pm
The Special weapon? How OP is it? I'd say, if it's like a thundergun in strength, keep it.
Domination? Sounds really damn cool, would definetly give more replayability. With gamemodes like this and Infection, if it's randomized where they go etc, it won't get too repetitive. ;)
The special weapon is a bit worse than the thunder, but in this map it becomes much better than it (in my opinion).
Cool that you like the gamemodes. Hope they look finally like they look in my mind. :D
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: TTheenderr on March 31, 2016, 02:13:20 pm
Can't wait to try this map out! Looks really cool!
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: DeathBringerZen on March 31, 2016, 03:28:43 pm
Really loved the movie Cube and from what I have seen you are doing a grand job replicating it so I am looking forward to seeing more of this. Good luck!
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Dust on March 31, 2016, 05:17:59 pm
The infection game mode sounds pretty fun. Like Exofile said, try to make it so the cure spawns random throughout the map, so its not too predictable where to go to become "uninfected".
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on April 01, 2016, 11:08:09 pm
Really loved the movie Cube and from what I have seen you are doing a grand job replicating it so I am looking forward to seeing more of this. Good luck!
The infection game mode sounds pretty fun. Like Exofile said, try to make it so the cure spawns random throughout the map, so its not too predictable where to go to become "uninfected".
I haven't been working on this for some mainly because the gamemode script wasn't working as it should, I didn't know how to fix it and got bored. Finally fixed it and Infection is almost done, I think (if I'm not forgetting anything). I might upload a little video soon, when I finish it completely. But I don't know what to do, because it takes zombies millenniums to spawn, what makes it too easy to move from one cube to another. And, of course, the cures spawn randomly. Otherwise it wouldn't be fun. :D
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on April 05, 2016, 04:51:27 pm
Ok, still need to test co-op, maybe adjust some timers and fix some bugs but here it is:
Infection - Players start with 300 points of health and 3 lives (lives can be changed, health no (for the moment at least, don't know if it's necessary)). - Suddenly, players will become infected and will start losing health throughout the time the infection lasts, but they will never get it back except with cures. All the doors will open then and they will be able to move through the map. - Cures will spawn randomly throughout the map and players have to find them. They will be given some health back. - Timed gameplay only. - Random weapons will be given to the player as in Sharpshooter. - Max Ammo has been replaced with a powerup that upgrades the player's weapon. - Players will get some perks with score streaks. - No perk machines, box or side quest stuff. Only electric trap. - The objective in solo is to survive as much as the player can. In co-op they have to compete for the limited cures and the last player alive wins.
Known bugs: - First time a player win points, they will be shown as negative ("-100" for example). - Players go to laststand on the last death, even though the game is over. - Timer still running after game over for a few seconds. - Players won't get red screen after losing some max health. If anybody knows how this can happen... Because I have no idea lol. - Not sure but I think that when players are teleported to a cube (they are between two doors when they're about to close, for example), they're always teleported to the starting cube.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on May 03, 2016, 07:42:56 pm
Ok, I think I've already finished everything I wanted to do. The map is almost ready for release, but still needs some testing to make sure everything works and I'm with exams right now, so I don't have a release date at the moment. By the way, I tried to create the Domination gamemode but ran into max var error, and I got bored so it won't be in the release. Maybe if I make an update, I'll try to fix it.
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: AKScorpion75 on May 04, 2016, 12:20:19 am
I really wish i saw this map sooner, i wish i could get a beta, but i was too late, anyways good looking cube!
Spoiler: click to open...
Get it? Cube' good looking cube
Title: Re: [WIP] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on May 25, 2016, 12:01:55 pm
So, finally, the map is ready to be released!!
I'm going to send the map first to people who have helped me with something in the map and on Friday I'm going to release it publicly.
Hope you guys enjoy it. :)
And thank you all for all your support during these months. I really appreciate it. ;)
Title: Re: [RELEASE ON 5/27] CUBE
Post by: MakeCents on May 25, 2016, 12:20:55 pm
Congrats, I look forward to others being as tormented as I was, lol. Definitely a very unique map!
Title: Re: [RELEASE ON 5/27] CUBE
Post by: Ramiabdh on May 25, 2016, 11:01:41 pm
First box maps, and now cube maps. What's next, sphere maps?
Spoiler: click to open...
Congrats for finishing the map, can't wait for release dude! :D
Title: Re: [RELEASE ON 5/27] CUBE
Post by: Soy-Yo on May 26, 2016, 08:56:46 am