Hey everyone, for my second map since my hiatus, and in honor of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, I present Awareness. Awareness is a courtyard type map with three levels. I have the current version set up for CTF, Assault, Headhunter, Juggernaut and several more. I don't have the luxury of being able to test with groups of people, so if the screenshots interest you, let me know and i will upload the map.
I couldn't reall glean much from the pictures, an overview maybe will help? I did notice that you used a large amount of objects with glass and a light also, objects with glass and lights are often the main causes of frame rate drops, so you may have found the areas with a lot of glass or the light to have some lag going on. If it is rather bad, you may have to replace some pieces. The layout looks interesting, even though I couldn't really glean much from it. Though depending on some of the settings etc, someone can possibly jetpack or manage a jump onto those diamond shapes and a few ledges, which could be abused, I'd suggest you make soft kill zones near these areas or adjust those ledges to make sure no one can walk on them etc. Again though, you might be not be able to jump on them, so I would double check to be sure. Finally, the rocks in the last picture look a little lazy, Im not being mean or anything, but they just look dumped in that spot. I would suggest you change the positions of the rocks so they look a it more... Natural... Or you can replace them with a single large rock, which can work just as well. If you can put up what sort of list of weapons with clip amounts a d timers that would help, a top down overview of the map would also helpful. Judging by the fact you have set the map up for many game modes, Im guessing the map would support 4v4. How many players were you intending for? I've got a feeling that with some changes to the map, this will play very well. Oh BTW nice to know you did this in Honor of a charity action or awareness week
First, Thank you looking and noticing that it is in fact posted in support of Breast Cancer Awareness. There is actually a limited amount of glass on the map, unless you count the small amounts of it in the building blocks. The light on the other hand is buried within the rocks in the center to enhance the glow of the pink colors in every piece. The rocks are actually precisely placed in that position. I had it set up as one rock, but somehow it didn't look right to me. Placing them so that they are floating in air, looked better to me, and is of the same theme as the new stuff in Halo 4, so we all should get used to the idea. I do not have a weapons list just yet, as i have not placed weapons on it yet. As soon as I do, I will get you a weapon list. The soft kill zones on top of the blocks is a great idea, I will implement this as soon and I edit the map, thanks for the idea.
Glad to put down advice, I never knew you could use rocks to enhance the glow of an light. I was meaning the blocks when it came to the glass, if there is not a large amount of it then there should hopefully be little frame rate. The rocks caught me off guard, It may have been because of the angle of the shot that may have got me thinking about them. I will put it bluntly and say that Im not a big fan of the floating rocks idea, but if that's your Preference, then that's your preference and that is what matters. Anyways, good luck on improving this map and making any more maps!