Story:

A small squad of allied soldiers are holding a small church in the countryside, miles away from civilization. The commanding officer instructs the squad to hunker down for the night and intercept any enemy forces trying to move east through the area. Initially everything seems quiet but soon, they think they are being ambushed and take positions to counter the attack. It's not until they actually see the enemy they realize they are not being attacked by the living, but by the dead.

Idea:

So this is the idea behind my map. For now it's not going to be too complex and will be quite a small map based inside a church. Zombies will spawn outside the map and will make there way in from the outside. I'm thinking of having some kind of 'ending' but i'm not yet sure.

There will be three levels to the compact map and the whole thing will be set in world war 2.

This is my first official map and only my second map project so bare with me guys, it might not be the most amazing map, but I will do my best to make it as perfect as possible.

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Pretty cool map, looks like it's going to be pretty epic.

Also I was wondering, what is the name of those rails at the top of the screenshot? Are they in the xmodel section?

Hey Thanks guys, yes the railings are simply in the xmodel folder they are called static_berlin_stair_railing. I think they will be staying in the map but there is a good chance the chair will be changed to something else. I have basically put a few things in so I can get a good feel of the flow and the scale of the map from the get go.

Here is a closer look at those posts:

Hey guys, Little update: I have been working on a basement for this map which will be accessible via a buyable door behind the alter. I also have two staircases which lead to the upper balcony level but I wonder if there should be buyable debris there too, it seems like too small a map if there are not at least 3 or 4 buyable areas right? The problem is that both stair cases lead to the same place as you might be able to tell from picture one. I was thinking of having debris on both sides so if you wanted to run a train, you'd have to buy them both.. any suggestions?

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Thought I would share some textured images, Not much has changed other than that but this gives you a better idea of the feel of the map. I will more than likely end up replacing some or all of these textures with either other stock textures or maybe some custom textures. Who knows.





I should probably mention that crazy looking window too hu? Well its not staying. Im going to make either a model or a prefab to go in the wall which will be a stained glass window (to keep with the theme). I was going to make it round like this but this is too big and reall was just placed so I can position my moonlight to cast onto the floor of the church

Pretty cool map, looks like it's going to be pretty epic.

Also I was wondering, what is the name of those rails at the top of the screenshot? Are they in the xmodel section?

tip - keep asset viewer open while your working in radiant

Then you can look through all available models and use the "search" feature at the top to narrow down

tip - keep asset viewer open while your working in radiant

Then you can look through all available models and use the "search" feature at the top to narrow down

Yeah good suggestion, though personally I have been using Tom's XModel Utils since Asset Viewer is rather slow and for some reason not all models show up sometimes. But either will work.

I find Asset Viewer to become and issue when you start adding a lot of models to it, which I know we all do.

Guy, where is the Asset Viewer? I have been using Radiant on for a couple of months and I still haven't been able to find it...

Guy, where is the Asset Viewer? I have been using Radiant on for a couple of months and I still haven't been able to find it...

In Launcher

Yeah good suggestion, though personally I have been using Tom's XModel Utils since Asset Viewer is rather slow and for some reason not all models show up sometimes. But either will work.

I find Asset Viewer to become and issue when you start adding a lot of models to it, which I know we all do.

See i find the opposite, assviewer always works, and pretty fast ( prob just due to my I7 tbf ) but toms thingie always does these random errors for me

* Some models wont load at all, and if i select one, no model will load again until i close and reopen the program
* Most models come up with no textures, not all, but a lot. And i did move the images when i installed it and all that
* The view gets moved some how and refuses to move back? lol hard to explain, but when it does that i cant do anything, i think its to do with my multi monitor display, as seems to happen when i move it from one screen to another, then minimize it

But yea, as you said, either or, whichever you prefer i guess

There is a limit to the amount of models you can see in Asset Viewer, mine goes up to about the letter 'R' now. So anything 'below' that I need to use Xmodelutils to see. It's the same thing as the texture limit in Radiant.

Lets hope the map will be as good as the concept

Thanks, I'm thinking about changing the name slightly however to "The Graveyard Shift", Thoughts?

At the moment I am working on the layout of the map, how the different zones will be accessed and what weapons / perks etc. are laid out in the map and which perks come first and which come later (suggestions welcome on perk order). There is also likely to be an additional room or possibly a small group of rooms which are on the ground floor but still not worked out where or what yet.

At the moment my biggest issue is that this is a small map and it needs to be kept interesting by adding buy-able areas which lead to better weapons and perk machines. The problem I'm facing is that all the areas I can think of to make buy-able come from the main room and therefore can all be accessed from the very start, does anyone have any suggestions about how to get round this? Is it possible to make some doors inaccessible until the power has been activated for example?

Cheers for reading guys

Thanks, I'm thinking about changing the name slightly however to "The Graveyard Shift", Thoughts?

http://ugx-mods.com/forum/index.php/topic,2480.msg23728.html#msg23728

40 keks

Ok Not that name then, thanks for the heads up!