KaiStagon's WIP thread :)

by **KaiStagon** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:22 am

Hello! Glad to see the mapping community continues after map craft. This is my (imageheavy) thread for a map I've been working on for a while. I just don't have a lot of free time to do any mapping, so updates may be few and far between.

Robot factory (dalek model by Duke)

hangar (still pretty early) with a redesigned Ebon Hawk

the farm of the future!

control room above the hangar

carbon freeze chamber

artificial environment

council building hall/ cliche

life-size pinball room (never quite made it passed the initial design stage)

Casino

Casino card room with giant roulette

Landing pads (taken from "Bespin Pads," an unfinished map from the ShroomDuck map pack)

Aquarium

by **Acrobat** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 7:51 am

Looks huge.

What happened to the map you were working on with Kahn?

by **mrwonko** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 1:39 pm

Wow, very cool! Just don't ruin it with bad lighting.

Wish I could map stuff that looks that good.

by **Skalli** » Sat Jan 14, 2012 5:51 pm

looks amazing \o/
great to see your still mapping kahn

by **MaceMadunusus** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:34 am

KaiStagon wrote:

This looks very close to this:

I would try to add some more variance to not make it look so similar, I am also fairly certain I recognize the layout of the command center from another UDK WIP. However this one seems different enough to make it alright.

Other than that, looking good.

by **mrwonko** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 1:59 am

MaceMadunusus wrote:This looks very close to this:

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And that's bad because...? I guess that's a MB3 image (looks nice!) and you feel like being copied? Doesn't look too similar to me, but if it's really a copy I can see how its inferior to original content.

by **KaiStagon** » Sun Jan 15, 2012 2:13 am

MaceMadunusus wrote:
KaiStagon wrote:

This looks very close to this:

I would try to add some more variance to not make it look so similar, I am also fairly certain I recognize the layout of the command center from another UDK WIP. However this one seems different enough to make it alright.

Other than that, looking good.

Yes! Where did you find that? A friend sent me an image from that WIP (from a different angle, looks like the same hallway) a year or so ago and I could never track down what it was from. A lot of sci-fi maps really fail at incorporating plants with hard metal, but that WIP really worked for me. I'll be sure to modify what I have so I don't look like a knock-off artist. If I could find out where that WIP came from (and the author's name) I'd also like to cite it in my readme as a reference/inspiration photo. As for the command center, that was actually from a flying saucer design on (I think) a UDK WIP. I'll see if I can track that one down as well.

I should also add that my ebon hawk is tweaked from the prefab available at jk2files: http://jediknight3.filefront.com/file/K ... fab;107755 Apart from the obvious color change, I also stretched out the shaft housing the control deck, widened the ship, and replaced the guns on top and sides. It's a really great prefab that didn't require much work to fix up.

@Acrobat: Khan and I have been on and off working on a "map based on a cartoon show" which I don't think he wants revealed yet. I can say that it's in the final stages of design (not sure how far lighting is) and once we get some errors fixed dealing with brush count, I think we'll be going public with it. I haven't been involved in this for about a year, I'm just getting back to it now.

@MrWonko I probably will ruin it with lighting! I'm no good at it!

by **exonimus** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 1:45 am

Love the greenish touch on the sixth picture.

by **MaceMadunusus** » Tue Jan 17, 2012 4:53 am

I found it on either Deviant Art or a UDK WIP thread. I am not sure where though. I saved it to my computer for inspiration though.

But yeah, lookin good so far.

by **MaceMadunusus** » Thu Jan 19, 2012 2:17 am

Sorry for double posting, but I found it.

http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost ... stcount=15