I like this map. It *looks* like what real Mars looks like (or atleast to my knowledge), it plays well with the FPS, it has reasonably good terrain for testing rovers or making screenshots. Good map, even if this is from 10 years ago.

@powerwasher I don't think it references anything as it is just a meteor shower happening on Mars.

The second the map loaded, my entire game just crashed. Didn't freeze, just immediately exited out of GMOD

wrong mod

whats the weird blue thing that goes across the sky, is it a shooting star or is it a doom reference.

I don't mind if it's still beta, it looks pretty much finished, and it's pretty accurate, too! The colour is right, and it's pretty flat, just like Mars!

i'm not doing anything in the source engine atm and I don't think this will ever get finished..

Cheers, will you carry on with this?

nope

Does this have nodes?

I've seen true color images of the surface of Mars. The ones that are common on the internet are actually slightly color-changed. It's just a sandy, barren desert. Lotta storms, too.

I think it's rather sepia when at dawn/dusk and turns more orange the more it turns noon

So yeah, perfect map! :D

Closest to real life map I've seen. Everyone thinks Mars's surface is totally orange and shit. That's false-color images. It's just sand-colored with a hazy atmosphere.

what about a monolith from 2001

Will you add Martian ruins or something?

Actually... No o.o I never even realized it was there either

Did you make the angry face on purpose?
http://i.imgur.com/brz1LyS.png

Well ,i made this steam group or just like a group thing that i lead... I'm trying to make the group name have a meaning in my maps.
Such as some Left 4 dead 2 maps that have a moon laboratory , the organization "Revealers" did built the moon laboratory , etc.
Not much people notice it and no-one knows about it , but i also use it in file names and such. Also for uniqueness (gm_mars sounds official... Don't want to hump and steal those names with my poor stuff).

Also , Rev is more understanding when they call me. Either they called me Dead or Diet (and when they speak Diet it sounds like Diet Coke xD)

just out of curiosity what exactly does the rev stand for or does it mean anything?

no it started freaking out

lol
did it work?

this map is so cool and it inspired me to try to make the curiosity rover

actualy they were quotes from jeff wayne's version of war of the worlds wich is the most accurate to the book version of war of the worlds but close enough

cool those quotes i used were from my memory wich is amazing that i have memorized the quotes so the only referance i used for those quotes was my memory also the reason you probably dont remember those quotes was because those were quotes from the origional story wich i have read and memorized lines from the major parts like the commons and the heat ray, the thunderchild (who dosnt know about that part), the observatory part when the cylinders are first seen

i've seen war of the worlds but it was a very long while ago. I also read about some storys but i don't know much about it.
I can't remember the quotes you have displayed though.

also i am waiting for the inevitable comment of"holy crap who are you?,h.g. welles?" because i was quoting orson welles's the war of the worlds in wich alien tripods come from mars in cylinders in a mission to conquer earth but are defeated by disease

"as i looked there was another jet of gas another of the missiles on its way to earth and thats how it was for the next 10 days" quote from the war of the worlds "the next day there was a crowd at the commons gathered arround the huge cylinder hipnotized by the unscrewing...two feet of shining screw apeared when suddenly the lid fell off...two disklike eyes apeared and a heaving pulsing mass larger than a bear crawled out.. its lipless mouth quivered and slabered. snakelike tentacles projected from its body"

the "materials" folder goes in your game folder. (maps , materials , models , etc)

Do I have to place these files somewhere special?

Here are the materials. Please note that some beta and backup materials are in there so you have to find out some stuff.
http://filesmelt.com/dl/gm_mars_rev_materials.zip

About the textures uhh... I'll upload them and post the link here , please hang on for some minutes.

Oh please...
go see 3kliksphilip on youtube , he has the best tutorials going on.
3D Skyboxes is a bit difficult to tell , non flat = displacements.

How did you make the world non-flat and how to make 3-D skyboxes?

Would you mind shareing the textures with me? I docant find any good ones for mars, but yours were pretty good.

Okay. Hey , good luck. Creating maps isn't simple , let stand learning on learning to create your first map. (if you haven't made any other maps in a different level designing tool)

I havent started yet, finished download yesterday. I will give you updates really soon.

So , Simtexa. How's your mars-map going? Any screenshots i can see on your current work?

You know what? Im gonna go ahead and make my own mars-map with SDK, just have to learn how to first...

And, the rocks ar a bit dark, think you can change em to the color of the other? Great map btw.

Can you ad a mars base?

@Rev_deaddiet cool dude. I made a spaceship crash with smoke and fire and a few dead guys, it would be cool if that could be added

lol i tried to make a sort of an entrance to a catacomb or underground cave but i had problems with it... maybe i could try it again since i learned some new stuff.

It wqould be awesome if you added an underground base with airlocks, or antlion spawing. I love the map btw!