Avanti for DoD?

thewz · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 12:26 pm Post subject:

Any mappers here that could make a DoD version of avanti? Then we could have avanti running on all the servers!

Of course the map would have to be a bit different, like maybe a bit darker, and put more cover and a trench or something.

Damn just the thought of avanti for DoD makes me excited...

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Goldom · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 12:33 pm Post subject:

that would be so happy happy i would say HAPYP1

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You'd have to bomb out some of the buildings, and make the doors work, like the ones by CP 1 and 2, and maybe add a tower on top of the death room. Then there is a secondary objective, you have to bomb the other team's base. It could be a Ville signature map, any takers? I'd do it, but I need to figure out how to use Worldcraft first.

Secret Agent Man · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 12:56 pm Post subject:

yeah me too........COOL!

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PyROZen · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 1:11 pm Post subject:

this would be badass. the only problem is that you have to decompile the .bsp into a .map to work with it. Decompiling creates TONS of invalid brushes and it take forever to fix them all. You could do it but it would be a monumental task.

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thewz · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 1:45 pm Post subject:

Instead of having to capture a church, you would have to capture a nazi stronghold. We would need sandbags on the ledges of cp 2 and 3. The buildings around cp3 and 2 would be bombed out, and you could enter them and have a sniper pick off the enemy D. It would be cool if it had the same sort of atmosphere as dod_thunder, dark and stormy.

If I knew how to work worldcraft, I would probably try it, unfortunately, worldcraft is not idiot proof.

bman · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 1:49 pm Post subject:

that would be good but WITHOUT it being dark and stormy like that thunder map. i hate that thunder map . that would be cool, someone make it

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[Wolfpack]Deqlyn Moquei · Registered User Joined: 22 Sep 2001 Posts: 73

Nooooo. You people are sick!LOL. You want to attack uphill play Overlord. Avanti for DoD would be terrible. No offense and I know you guys are avanti crazy but come on. If u want the Saving Private Ryan map play Ramelle.
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thewz · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 5:19 pm Post subject:

What does avanti have to do with saving private ryan? I think avanti would be a fun cqb map for dod...

Vulcan · Registered User Joined: 29 Dec 2001 Posts: 2773

Avanti for TFC is fun, and I would actually like to see the DOD version, but for some people that may be too much work. I haven't done any mapmaking, but I would think a conversion would take a LOT of effort, I may be wrong, if so I wouldn't mind being corrected. I have just gotten DOD so I haven't played it much, but it seems like a good mod.

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PyROZen · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 6:29 pm Post subject:

you are right that converting a map takes alot of work. Also, i don't know if Valve would be to happy if Avanti was converted to another mod. They technically own Avanti, and they might not want it for DOD.

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thewz · Posted: Sat Mar 09, 2002 7:18 pm Post subject:

Valve can eat me if they want.

NerUKierFKeal · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2002 2:07 am Post subject:

i love to see avanti on dod, it would be so cool but the graphic might be a little different

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Ikana · Registered User Joined: 04 Jan 2002 Posts: 90

That actually is a neat idea and somewhat feasible if you guys decided you really wanted to. I mean, other things have been done with avanti like adding the guy in the spawns and stuff, though this would be a much larger undertaking than that.

I've had experience with mapmaking but I prefer the vastly superior Unreal Tournament engine for that stuff. The half life engine needs maps to be compiled and stuff and it takes a very long time and makes editing complicated. If it were a UT map most of the work would just be adding whatever you want to the map and having everyone download it but unfortunately, that's not really possible with the half life engine.

Games are very, very complicated things.

I do think this is possible, though, depending on how many capable mappers there are here. As for making sandbags and such... *shudder* Unless you made your own brushes, even doing that in the UT engine would be a mess of textures and brushes and stuff... Well, not a really bad one, but still unpleasant. Fortunately, though, sandbags are easy brushes to make, unless they are actually .mdl files added to the map, which isn't actually that farfetched, though it does seem rather pointless to bring out the 3d program for something so basic... My guess would be that it's geometry subtracted by the level editor...

Anyway...

Good luck!

I don't know if I'd be able to help in such an undertaking, I'm not really a mapper, more of a 3d guy, and if anyone's noticed, my free time has been greatly diminished recently because of baseball, but it is oh so fulfilling to be able to play a sport and have advanced computer skills simultaneously. I suggest that you all try it.

PyROZen · Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2002 10:42 am Post subject:

Avanti would be cool as a DOD map, but I think that CanalZone2 would make a much better DOD map. It has multiple cap points and both teams go at the same time, not one attacks, one defends. Of course, the majority of players out there can't stand CZ2 even though it's badass. Perhaps a kind Admin could put CZ2 on one of The Ville servers...

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