Hello! I've been lurking here since this site launched and finally decided to become a part of the action. I've just began forging full maps, as oppose to just creating things for no reason. As such, I ended up creating a map that I know is not original, but, I guess it's a good vision of where my forging skill is at. If you guys prefer spoiler tags, I apologize in advanced. The map was intended to be a colloseum of sorts. The area of the map ended up being a great deal smaller than I had imagined, although supplies were running short by the time I finished up. It's designed to be a map for fast paced games such as swords, hammerzeit or some kind of oddball game. Hell, I could even make up my own game. So I guess the question is, does simplicity work in cases like this? And would a remake of this with more map space and/or rooms be worth the time? If people would kindly C+C, download and inspect or give me any tips or ideas for a remake, I'd be very pleased. I'd like to get my submissions tip top quality and make people believe that it's a real map and not just some forged Foundry. Couple of questions. Is there any way to sink objects into the floor at an exact angle? I'm trying to make a row of boxes all geo-merged but they either go in at an angle, or I manage to get one perfect then the next one will not go anywhere near the same way. I want the row to be around 3 walls high, but it just does not seem possible via the door method or the holding under the spawning box method. Is there a way to make players spawn at a certain place at the start, then a different place thereafter? My guess is that using start points and spawn points will do this, but I wasn't sure if starting points act as spawns also throughout the game. What ideas are floating around that people have either unable to be done or people just haven't had time to do? My problem with forge is that I have terrible trouble thinking ideas up. I usually just end up making a remake of some Halo 2 map. Or, is there anyone out there who specifically deals with the design of maps that is looking for a forger to put their ideas into reality (figure of speech). Is there any websites around that deal with overviews of maps etc from other games? I'd quite like to make a remake of a map from a different game but haven't been able to find any decent pictures that I can work with from any given map. Any links would be appreciated. Sorry about all the questions, just needed to spill them somewhere. I didn't post this in map submission because I'm not really submitting it, just requesting some help or advice. If anyone with experience could send me a friend request on live, that would be great. I hope to become a major part of this forum as I once was over at High Impact Halo. tl;dr: HELP!
If you want to geo-merge an item a so far down, use the doors and the save&quit method. Check Forging 101 for more info. You never spawn at a starting pointing, except for the start, of course. Check the Spawn Guide in Forging 101 for more help.
I've tried all methods and nothing seems to work consistantly. Maybe I'm doing something different, but the methods I follow seem to be the exact same. I'm kinda new to it so maybe it'll just come to me eventually. I'm a little suprised at the lack of welcome to this fine community. I expected a little more than 1 reply. I guess this community differs from others I visit. Oh well, if anyone actually reads this, some response would be nice. I'm not a bad guy :happy: