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[Mindf!3ldzX]

What do you guys think?

I think it looks fantastic!

[MadGypsy]

@Chris - thank you! I wish I thought it looked fantastic. It's missing that certain je ne sais quoi that the mapping kings around here seem to capture in all of their maps. It's probably the best I have ever done though, so....

However, your compliment gives me extra drive and this is really hard so, it is definitely appreciated.

edit: I just learned that Je ne sais quoi literally means "I don't know what" lol... wow. That's not what I thought it literally meant, but I used it properly cause, I don't know what the mapping kings capture. They do it well though.

[Mindf!3ldzX]

@Chris - thank you! I wish I thought it looked fantastic. It's missing that certain je ne sais quoi that the mapping kings around here seem to capture in all of their maps. It's probably the best I have ever done though, so....

However, your compliment gives me extra drive and this is really hard so, it is definitely appreciated.

edit: I just learned that Je ne sais quoi literally means "I don't know what" lol... wow. That's not what I thought it literally meant, but I used it properly cause, I don't know what the mapping kings capture. They do it well though.

your modern take on it is a very nice reimagining, when you determine it is 100% complete, making a demo fly-through video of it sounds like something that could be done for a presentation. (not a play through, think Unreal gold fly-through intro).

Honestly, anyone who would take you on as a mapper on their project would be getting an Ace up the sleeve based on what I've seen so far.

an adequate description so far for it in two words : flawless victory.

[MadGypsy]

OMG! It's time for sleep. I just spent like 30 seconds trying to use radiant controls on a fucking picture and getting pissed that the shit was froze! LMMFAO!!!

I was clicking all kinds of shit screaming "what the fuck, happened now! CLICK! CLICK! CLICK!" lmmfaiyfgwjhdsgajhg

oh man I needed that laugh. It wasn't hilarious til after I realized that I'm stupid.

[Syluxguy28O3]

You can scratch shooting a monitor to raise the lift. That ain't gonna happen.

so, what WILL happen? im curious now!

[MadGypsy]

Something that makes sense, like a button. I can live with shooting doors and secret panels but, shooting a tv? Actually, maybe I can't live with shooting things to open/activate them, except for buttons that are out of reach with crosshairs on them. Time to rethink the first room a hair.

I know exactly what to do.

[Bloodshot]

This looks fantastic! Reminds me i need to take a crack at remaking one of my favorite Q1 maps sometime

[MadGypsy]

Thank you, Bloodshot!

[MadGypsy]

I'm taking this in a slightly new direction. I have ideas and I feel like continuing to remake e1m1 is stifling my creativity. Don't misunderstand, what I currently have is not going anywhere. After looking at the second building for e1m1, I hate e1m1. For me to try and remake that will kill my desire to finish this map. It's just ugly and I would have to change it so much to un-ugly it that I might as well completely go my own way. I believe I have better ideas than what a remake locks me into.

[Syluxguy28O3]

I'm taking this in a slightly new direction. I have ideas and I feel like continuing to remake e1m1 is stifling my creativity. Don't misunderstand, what I currently have is not going anywhere. After looking at the second building for e1m1, I hate e1m1. For me to try and remake that will kill my desire to finish this map. It's just ugly and I would have to change it so much to un-ugly it that I might as well completely go my own way. I believe I have better ideas than what a remake locks me into.

Well that doesn't sound like a bad thing. i personally think remaking it to resemble the original map is boring; its been done a few times (red e1m1 comes to mind). I think if you go into left field (pardon the expression) your map will be all the better because of it.

[MadGypsy]

@sylux - yeah, I agree. I may still use the most basic box layout of e1m1 (or maybe a different e & m), just so I don't have to think too hard about how rooms should connect but, beyond that, I intend to go fairly original. That was really the whole point of this exercise, anyway. It's not a matter of whether I have the skills to make pretty brushwork. My Achilles Heel is laying it out into a playable map. I thought by remaking a map I would overcome this but, really, I just need to remake the most basic layout.