The old 'Huge Maps' question

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:00 pm

CheapAlert wrote:Darkplaces can support maps bigger than what a 32-bit processor can handle

OD can support the entire GTK grid

And i thought that was big

Post by **Hipshot** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:23 pm

Q3 also supports the entire GTKgrid, since I just did a map like that and ran accross.

Post by **o'dium** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:25 pm

Hipshot wrote:Q3 also supports the entire GTKgrid, since I just did a map like that and ran accross.

Quake 2 never supported a terrain map the entire grid though

And thats our base engine

Post by **Foo** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 10:42 pm

axbaby wrote:why not splice some well known q3w community made maps together and see what you come up with.

I was considering doing some of the quality Q3 maps and encasing them within the level in their own structure.

Adding an outside building to ztnt1 would be an interesting experiment. Not in terms of gameplay of course, but in adding more depth to the experience.

Post by **seremtan** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 11:40 pm

by far the biggest map i've ever played is ONS-Panalesh, for UT2K4:

http://www.mapraider.com/maps/?fileid=2634

by my estimate, it's about the size of one of those european principalities like leichtenstein or monaco. it's a fucking monster

Post by **roughrider** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:02 pm

axbaby wrote:why not splice some well known q3w community made maps together and see what you come up with.

Interesting idea you have there ax.
A couple maps come to mind that were made here collectively that might work. The problem is finding them, and the actual names of them slip my ever so easily forgettable, mind. :icon26:

Post by **Foo** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:14 pm

seremtan wrote:by far the biggest map i've ever played is ONS-Panalesh, for UT2K4:

http://www.mapraider.com/maps/?fileid=2634

by my estimate, it's about the size of one of those european principalities like leichtenstein or monaco. it's a fucking monster

Haha yeah. I've had a number of proper ONS games on that level, not bad.

The towers work a bit like the final nodes in ONS-ArcticStronghold though - You end up with half the match fighting over just that node.

Post by **Caffeine** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:25 pm

o'dium wrote: OD can support the entire GTK grid And i thought that was big

FFS. GTK is the GUI toolkit. Radiant is the app.

Post by **d3mol!t!on** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 4:30 pm

Caffeine wrote:
o'dium wrote: OD can support the entire GTK grid And i thought that was big
FFS. GTK is the GUI toolkit. Radiant is the app.

Yes, but if we just say Radiant it could be QE too, "GTK" shortens it, and a high amount of the people here will know of what we speak when writing "GTK".

Post by **Caffeine** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 5:02 pm

Fair enough.

Post by **seremtan** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:52 pm

Foo wrote:
seremtan wrote:by far the biggest map i've ever played is ONS-Panalesh, for UT2K4:

http://www.mapraider.com/maps/?fileid=2634

by my estimate, it's about the size of one of those european principalities like leichtenstein or monaco. it's a fucking monster
Haha yeah. I've had a number of proper ONS games on that level, not bad.

The towers work a bit like the final nodes in ONS-ArcticStronghold though - You end up with half the match fighting over just that node.

i play arctic stronghold with an X-shaped node setup (2 paths, crossing in the centre). i hate 'final node' syndrome

but yeah, it takes ages to get to the towers, and they can be attacked from beyond avril range, which is annoying