Polished Lake

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  1. SlasheI2

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    Polished Lake
    Created by PolishedLake = SlaheI2
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    Download Polished Lake Here:Bungie.net : Community : Forum Topic Listing : Forum Reply Listing
    Map Description:
    After looking at Shihuru's map, Shihuruville and seeing how it was named after him i thought
    about making a map named after my gamertag. Thus i created Polished Lake. It is a whole lake
    with vacation styled buildings. There is a snack bar, a fountain, picnic tables, a hill,
    a mysterious house, and a dock with a boat. I filled the house with what looked most like
    furniture and included a bed.
    The fireplace hides a way to the 2nd floor which is an armory. I put an armory there because i
    imagined it as my room and i like to collect guns but in real life, i gots no money : ( The armory
    has weapons mounted on walls which is a nice touch and also has a secret roof entrance.
    There are some hidden cool stuff in this map and i hope you'll enjoy the 12+ hours put into this.
    The hill and almost everything is interlocked.
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    The snack bar
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    The fountain ( i would have used shield doors but i run out)
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    The Picnic tables
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    The hill ( all interlocked and made to look rocky)
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    The outhouse/toilet thing
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    The mysterious house
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    the bed inside house
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    Fireplace (secret entrance to 2nd floor)
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    2nd floor
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    armory side 1. (notice the weapons mounted on walls?)
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    armory side 2. Heavy weapons
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    secret roof entrance
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    Row row row your boat: includes a propane engine
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    The Dock
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    Overview of lake
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    I will be posting a hide and seek variant variant of this map soon!
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  2. American10

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    Very nice and very creative ill dl
     
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    What whitelime thinks

    I really like the look of this. i seem to get the feeling of a lake which is good. even though its in the aesthetic section i believe that you could make this into an alright map with like a broken boat sunk in the water for a second base, if you have any materials left. But i really liked the first picture and how you mounted the guns on the walls the hill is also a nice touch.
     
  4. SlasheI2

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    thx for the comments guys, they meant a lot.
    Oh an whitelime, if you make a map from mine just let me know oka but i guess it would be hard from the fact that i had run into the item limit and that i had barely any things left to use.
     
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    Gorgeous looking map you have right here. I can safely say I've never seen a map that looks like this and one that just has that unique feel like this. Love the lake and the house and all the other little bells and whistles to put onto this map. Hope you cook up some more cool maps like this.
     
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    How did you mount the weapons"?? That would come in handy!!
     
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    Good and all but I dont like. Kind of boring but thats my opinion- f41l
     
  8. Pigglez

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    how did u mount the weapons? also, i love the map, very creative... i think i might make Zstrikeport or something lolz... i also love the snack bar, it looks really cool...
     
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    Hey, thats cool. Who needs combat maps? These kind of maps are my favorites. I wonder what would happen if you drove a warthog onto the lake? Hmm.... lots of bouncing...
     
  10. SlasheI2

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    thanks for all the comments guys, they mean a lot.

    Heres a tutorial of how to mount the weapons:
    All you need to do is interlock a weapon holder into the wall and make it sideways. You also need to make the holder face the right way and make it turn a little inside to where you want to put the weapon. Then all you need to do is put the weapon on the wall where the holder is until you feel it "stick" and wallah.
    p.s. if you want to understand more, if you've downloaded the map, then just delete the wall or make it not spawn at the start and you can see it beter.

    oh and BTW, Kad, you should really know that you aren't allowed to directly say fail because its against the rules and to save you time here is the link:
    http://www.forgehub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6933
     
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    good work man, i like it, is there actually a lake in it?, sorry i didn't look around, i was at the bar the whole time lol :p
     
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    This is definatly one of the larger asthetic maps i have seen so many creations. Its great!
     
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    really nice if i ever need a break from matchmaker i just go on this map
     
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    this is like the perfect map definetly a must download 5/5
     
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    Very nice and looks creative. I can see a huge rush for the armoury, which should be interesting. It all looks very neat and the little touches (bed, picnic benches, etc.) all look great.
    Good job!
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  16. SlasheI2

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    thx for all the positive comments guys. when i made the map, i was really trying to give the "summer home" type of feel and i think it turned out great.
    and when you drive a vehicle like a chopper over the water its really funny to bounce
     
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    Wow man, just wow. Every idea you tried to put in here succeeded, and there's quite a few. Let me just mention the boat dock and the fountains, those are great, but so is everything else. I agree that with a bit of modification this could be playable for a few gametypes. You'd just have to spread out the weapons, make the wall a bit higher, and sprinkle in some spawn points. Don't even worry about it though, because as just an aesthetic, it's already very winly.
     
  18. SlasheI2

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    yeh thx man. oh and by the way i am currently working on a hide and seek map variant but have run into the item limit. but because i used the money glitch(it would have obviously been impossible without) you can delete some of the extra stuff. i kept the stuff there for people to edit.

    p.s. heres another random thing to do while you're in the map. i placed some plasma grenades around the lake to act as stones that you can skip across the "water". see how many times it can bounce in one throw
     
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    I have no idea what it is, but it looks nice in a OH MY GOD WHAT IS THAT kind of way.
     
  20. Raw King07

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    First of all - this is a wonderful map. The only slight problem I see is that the lake looked just a little bit bigger than the amount of shield doors you had. I mean it still looks fine, and to change it now would require more materials and effort than necessary. But wow-brilliant.
     

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