hey man, feel free to make your own rendition, i definitely wasnt the first and they'res several things that could be improved on. thanks though, glad you like it!
Dude I DL and liked this map the other day meant to get on and post. Anyway just wanted to let you know it's definitely one of the best and most accurate Firefly ships that I've seen. Great interior and exterior. You put a lot of detail and hard work into this map and it shows. Great job.
hey, thanks to both of you. i'm currently in the middle of making my first purely competitive map (well maybe not 'purely' haha), but taking what im learning from that map, i think i can streamline the design on this and make a good, competitive experience for it. i know a couple other people have talked to me about making competative versions, but i havent heard anything about those in a loooong time, so please PM or something if your still making them. looks like im gunna have to end up buying bungie pro after all haha. oh, and FlyingGerman, i agree! it was already used in a small short (without my permission, unfortunately), but its possible that it could show up in another machinima down the line.
My jaw literally dropped when I saw this. I am a massive Firefly/Serenity fan and this was amazing. You may or may not know this but I was watching Serenity with commentary and Joss Whedon claimed that they never built a solid Serenity, it was just different chunks of the ship tossed around a studio. I thought I had a pretty good idea of the ship's layout, I guess I'll find out when I download it. Great job. PS: have you ever considered making a Reaver vs Serentiy crew type of game? It might be fun to think about.
This looks incredible. I have a question for a good aesthetic forger lie you, how can you create a map inside of that beast? Do you create the playfield first? or the ship? I also feel like making a map like this and then give up because its both a lot of work, and its hard to fix the playfield in. So, how do YOU do it, how did you make this map?
I started with the floor plan, and then built the exterior hull around it. Since this ship has many accurate blueprints online, I figured that making the interior correctly would lead to a naturally fitting exterior, and thanks to the attention to detail by the original designers, it paid off. There were only a few conflicts between the exterior and interior, and in some ways it helped, as the hull shaped the floorplan and visa versa. I pretty much started by laying down 5x5s where I thought the floor should go, then switching them out with better fitting pieces as I made the exterior.