The main [...]]]> As you may have heard, I’ve been working on a Garry’s Mod map called minousoft_postnuclear. As the name implies, the map is designed around a barren radioactive wasteland. My goals for this map are to include interesting features and scenery, and to make the map suitable for both building (sandbox) and roleplay (i.e. DarkRP.)

The main areas of the map will be:

• The vast wasteland.
• A small fenced-off area with a metal bunker and radio tower.
• An underground nuclear fallout shelter, complete with enough food, resources, and equipment to last for hundreds of years.
• A small shack in the middle of nowhere.
• Possibly a small settlement.
• A few subterranean tunnels will be provided for shelter and travel.

Planned features:

• Periodic radiation damage when walking in contaminated areas of the wasteland.
• Physical wind that moves small objects dropped on the ground.
• Good optimization – the whole map currently compiles in around 30 seconds, and I’d like to keep it within5 minutes when I’m done.
• A huge door that seals off the entrance to the underground base.
• A gigantic elevator that transports players to the underground base. The elevator shaft protrudes approximately 0.5km below the Earth’s surface. It takes quite a long time to get from the top to the bottom, even if you jump down in free fall.

Enough with the details – here are some awesome screenshots! Please keep in mind that these are from an early test and will not reflect the quality of the finished map. Several chunks of the map have been cordoned off to reduce load times, so the world ‘cuts off’ suddenly at the edge.

If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions, feel free to post them here – your input on this map is appreciated!

Also, some users have been experiencing problems with the fact that the maps have been BZIP2 compressed. I have realized that only some Source games (i.e. Garry’s Mod) are able to load BZIP2 maps natively. If [...]]]> I neglected to include screenshots in the original TestMapPack post, so I’ve uploaded them at the end of this post.

Also, some users have been experiencing problems with the fact that the maps have been BZIP2 compressed. I have realized that only some Source games (i.e. Garry’s Mod) are able to load BZIP2 maps natively. If this is the case, simply decompress the maps with a tool such as 7zip.

Lately, I’ve been fooling around with Valve Software’s Hammer editor. For those who don’t know, Hammer is a tool included in the Source SDK, which allows you to create maps for popular Source engine games, like Counter-Strike: Source, Garry’s Mod, Half-Life [...]]]> UPDATE: More information (and screenshots!) is available in another post. Click here to go there.

Lately, I’ve been fooling around with Valve Software’s Hammer editor. For those who don’t know, Hammer is a tool included in the Source SDK, which allows you to create maps for popular Source engine games, like Counter-Strike: Source, Garry’s Mod, Half-Life 2: Deathmatch, etc.

Using Hammer, I’ve made a handful of test maps to experiment with. (Download link after the jump)

Most of what I’ve made so far is hardly release material. It’s mostly me testing out different types of entities (documentation for some of Hammer’s features is a bit lacking) but a couple of the maps are more polished, such as prison_1. In prison_1 I used various types of lighting and textures to give a realistic effect, such as the swinging lamp near the pool of water, or the bluish light inside the maintenance duct.

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