I've always wanted to map something using an image from the Venus Project as my reference but most of them are impossible to map but I found a good one and did it.

A solar energy gathering plant in the middle of the ocean. Came out pretty well for 10 minutes of work.

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Carry on..
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Yeah carry on.
That was really good. I also map but mostly shitty stuff. Though I know how to make elevator, trains ect.

But yea it turned out really good.

You can make an elevator and train?

Tell me how, every tutorial I follow is total shit. I'm fine with brushwork and making a map look good but as far as moving things go, I can't figure out shit. I want things like getting NPC's to follow a path, making a train pass over some tracks on a loop every so often and etc.

Cool!! i like it keep it on but what program is it? you can improve the solar panel map something more "Shinny"

I think you should put more effort in something before you post it. :P

is this for some valve game?

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is this for some valve game?

It was built under the Episode 2 Engine so yeah, but I could convert it for any source game.

i can imagine that to be a great ctf map for tf2, or possibly a territorial control one

keep working on it, looks good so far

Elevators are easy as shit, negro.
I made one in the first 3 days when I started mapping...

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Elevators are easy as shit, negro.
I made one in the first 3 days when I started mapping...

What tutorial? I tried, and the tutorial was always shit either because the guys accent was thick, he was moving too fast or it just didn't work. I tried one with a prop elevator and it was on it's side and broken.

Hell just one with closing doors and a moving box of brushes is all I need. I can contruct my own elevator.

Uh, Boi, I don't know about that, but I can make the simple elevators.
func_movelinear.

Alright I'll look into that, thanks.

I need to learn how to make things move and shit. I got awesome ideas and it'd really improve my maps. I also need to learn machinima type things.

Ask evo, he sure knows how to make machinima type stuff.
Also, you can try using the new cinema camera mod in gmod to do shit,

Yeah I tried that out, so awesome and it's better than the 2 other camera STOOLs. Hardest part would be filming, actually creating the scene seems kinda easy.