Creating maps for TF2 - Hammer vs. Crysis

[Noggin]

This makes me sad to use Hammer...

http://ve3d.ign.com/videos/34588/PC/Far-Cry-2

Imagine doing that with displacements!

Wow.

[DJive]

O.m.f.g...

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[grazr]

Could do with a 3d skybox tbf. Plus, i'd rather create my own buildings than drag and drop prefabs. I don't call that a level editor i call it a terrain editor. Just like Battle Ground 2.

Still.. you can make pretty nice environments, if you try. A shame that because of it's apparent ease people will probably just make box maps etc etc with no real prospects to realism. Just take a look at youtube. 90% of the maps are just buildings placed opposite each other or in a square. Death match arena's. The most uninspired maps in the world.

[TimmerTheTank]

that looks pretty cool. but its a joke if they expect anything to be done that fast with a 360 controller

[Zmathue]

Ya but can you make orange floating dev textures?

[Noggin]

lol, yeah i wonder what the Crysis version is of that.

I dont know why Valve cant even put a simple displacement/terrain editor like Terrain Generator in Hammer.

[Youme]

because the types of maps you make in each editor are completely different, cryengine goes for huge open maps whilst source goes for much more confined 'you go this way or be faced with a wall' type environments

if valve added something like that cliff thing it would only hurt the custom map comunity, adding insult to injury of those damned orange maps

[Jazz]

When the guy added those mountains I almost cried. Then he got cocky and made a river inside them!

[Zmathue]

When the guy added those mountains I almost cried. Then he got cocky and made a river inside them!

Roller coaster tycoon has like the samething.

[Brandished]

This is the dumbed down preview version of the level editor for the 360 version of FarCry2, though. Hopefully they'll keep the PC version at least on par with the original Crysis editor. There's much more informative videos for the original PC version released with Cysis here:

http://www.gametrailers.com/game/2509.html?show=Features#Content

and here:

http://www.binarymoon.co.uk/2007/03/crysis-level-editor/

[R3dRuM]

Forest fires are teh sex

[FaTony]

.......Dammit. But that couldn't be done with the BSP... and it's really bad...

Btw all those are displacements and props...i haven't seen brushes there..... wait a sec! OH F**K Scalable props! Dammit! AHHHHHHH ouch owwwww Look at vid 2 when he's playing with NPC..... oh man

At least TF2 plays better.

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I don't want to look at Hammer any more :(

[samn]

Far Cry 2 and Crysis are being done with different engines and developers, I believe.

[Laz]

the landscape just works with heightmaps, the real nice thing in this is the ability to create brush to paint forests with, where you can add in different trees/plants all in one, and add how random you want the height and orientation of the trees. then just paint your forest :)