Garden

[Higuy]

Hello, welcome to my luxurious Sci-Fi Garden map.
Garden is a medium sized map set above a large sea built into some cliffs.
The map has a theme of black and white, along with some other shades and colors, with nice shaders and textures, along with custom flags as well.
Florescent lights light up the map, along with the big sun. We also have thrown in some amazing lighting into the map.
Enough talk, I want pictures!!!!
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/1-3.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/2-4.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/3-4.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/4-3.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/5-3.jpg
http://i238.photobucket.com/albums/ff260/showbizfluffy/6-2.jpg
(last picture shows the errors im talking about below with the lighting)
Credits:
Higuy - Original design, population, unwrapping, debugging, and almost everything else
avp DRAGON - All of the textures besides the ground and cliff belong to him, he did a nice job.
DEElekgolo - The lighting was done by him. We ran into a few problems with it, but most were fixed. Your probally going to notice a few splotches of black and here and there, we couldn't fix that, and didn't want to miss out on the great lighting.
RealWorlders and TG The Gathering - Thanks to you guys, we had some great fun and a good job on finding errors and testing the map out to a good extent, thanks guys!
Everyone else that someway helped - Thanks, I know im missing some people, but I didn't want to make this too long. Thanks guys!!!

Bugs n stuff -


You may see some black spotches here and there. We couldn't figure out what they were coming from. We though they were the lightmaps, but there not. We fixed most of them, it use to be horrible.
Map has a major clipping issue when you go into flycam and go out of the playing field.



Map IS open sourced. Make any changes you feel necessary, though this IS THE FINAL VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL MAP. Credit goes to _N_ From Beyond Unreal for the original map idea of "Hanging Gardens" For unreal tournament 3. See, I didn't forget you ;]


Download : Halomaps
http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4863
:woop: , tell me what you think!

[SonicXtreme]

Looks great, well done Higuy :3

[DEElekgolo]

http://deelekgolo.wmclan.net/Garden_pano.png

[Higuy]

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4863 (http://www.filefront.com/14460525/Garden_CE.rar)
download!!!

[Sel]

As much as I dig UT music, it just doesn't fit in a halo map.

Remove the music, and use a smaller water cloud. There's no way there's enough water going down that ramp, at a high enough speed, to warrant that cloud.

Otherwise I like it, I still stick with my original statement that it would have been better as a covenant map, but whatever, this works too.

[ThePlague]

Few things I didn't like:
What's the deal with the teleporter that goes no where under the waterfall? Is it just messed up tag wise, or is it supposed to do that?
The teleporters themselves ruin the map's texture detail. The whole map looks great, and the teleporters look terribly basic.

Other then that it's nice.

[Higuy]

All the teleporters work. Dunno what you mean..

[hry]

Wth with the music?

[ThePlague]

The teleporter under the waterfall, not the side ones.

[Ganon]

As much as I dig UT music, it just doesn't fit in a halo map.

I thought it fit well

[Higuy]

The teleporter under the waterfall, not the side ones.

All of the teleporters work for me. Or am I not getting what you said?

[ThePlague]

Okay. So there's two teleporters on each side of the map right? well there's one extra that is under the waterfall and next to the 'secret' billboard that says random stuff. That teleporter leads nowhere. So either it's messed up or you did that on purpose.

[Alwin Roth]

Music is Fine to me... I like it.

[king_nothing_]

http://deelekgolo.wmclan.net/Garden_pano.png
A 6669x1392 PNG......?

May God have mercy on your soul.

[chrisk123999]

I liked it better with halo's lightmaps. These ones make it look bad. Also, whats with the green walls behind the teleporters? It makes them look weird.

[Advancebo]

I liked it better with halo's lightmaps. These ones make it look bad. Also, whats with the green walls behind the teleporters? It makes them look weird.

I believe its meant to be an ambience lighting from the teleporter.

[Lateksi]

This map's the hottest.

[Higuy]

http://hce.halomaps.org/index.cfm?fid=4863
map is now up and ready for download at halomaps.org

[English Mobster]

I have to say, I'm not a fan of the ground texture. While I'm one to talk (I have a similar one going on in my own map), I just don't like it too much.
The rest of the map looks nice, though.

[Siliconmaster]

Woah. Somehow saw the thread but didn't realize it was released.

I love the look: all shiny-like. The architecture is quite nifty, and the music is pretty cool. I can see why some might get bothered by it, but it doesn't bug me. Looks like it would play well too. Nice work!

[EX12693]

If you dont like the music, then turn it off rather than complaining. That's what I did.

[Higuy]

sel is uploading to hcel
should be up in like 10 or 15 minutes
get in there :-3

[Amy]

Slight bump, sorry.

But uh, great map! just downloaded and played through. Are you gonna make any updates to it, or is it final? Because i might have some suggestions... Anyways, heres my review

Textures: awesome, except the teleporters would have been better as the regular teleporter shield.
Map design: basic, yet awesome. Symmetry really improves the gameplay, and i love the side teleporters. The transparent platforms are a wee bit crooked, and are a little odd (a slight fix will fix)
Gameplay: I have not played in a server yet, so i have nothing to say on this part
Suggestions: Make the water fall have more water, because (as mentioned above) the big waterfall cloud doesn't fit right. Also, to add some dynamic effects, maybe make the "river" drop through the map into the ocean below ( might work, might not)

That's my two cents for now.

[Heathen]

Higuy has a fangirl.

[S3anyBoy]

Are you gonna make any updates to it, or is it final? Because i might have some suggestions... Anyways, heres my review


Map IS open sourced. Make any changes you feel necessary, though this IS THE FINAL VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL MAP.

Also, lol
(a slight fix will fix)

On a side note, I'll try getting this map converted to xbawks
edit: sadly on xbox the map freezes randomly, either at loading screen or a few seconds into the game, with no apparent cause. :(

[Heathen]

S3any, I noticed you posting more, and it seems to be related to Amy's posting, so dont mind me making the assumption that you both came here from teh same place. I'm just wondering, what caused the migration?

[S3anyBoy]

Nah brah, I've been here a while, I just decided to become more active a few days ago.

[Futzy]

neh brah, u be trippen

[laghing_rabt]

hah! higuys fan girl was a fake.

[Higuy]

hah! higuys fan girl was a fake.
And I actually try helping people.

:ugh:

[Inferno]

hah! higuys fan girl was a fake.

Incorrect.

Higuys fan girl is a gender confused CMT leader.

[Heathen]

lolololol

[S3anyBoy]

I'm your fan higuy, if you'd prefer I'll dress in a wig and dress and be a fan "girl"

[Inferno]

I'm your fan higuy, if you'd prefer I'll dress in a wig and dress and be a fan "girl"

What? Jay already did that.

[laghing_rabt]

I'm your fan higuy, if you'd prefer I'll dress in a wig and dress and be a fan "girl"
so now theres trannies?